Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1903 — Terrible Disaster at Martinique the Most Appalling Calamity. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Disaster at Martinique the Most Appalling Calamity.

kinds to this conntry during ne as reported : Fires I.s4o|Mlnea 848 Drowning 2.008] Cyclones and Explosions 626) storms 481 Falling Build- j Lightning 206 tags, etc. 419|.Eleetrlcity 131 Trusts Formed During the Year. New trusts, with a total capital of almost *4.000,000,000, were formed during 1902. Of this vast capital over seveneighths, or approximately *3,708,000,000, ww the capita) of the combines formed in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maine. The other companies were scattered over all the other states. The total' fs only about *200,008,000 below the incorporations of J9Ol, when the billion dollar steel trust and the *400,000,000 Northern Securities Company were formed. King Edward’s Coronation. What was expected to have been the most gorgeous spectacle of modern times was the coronation of King Edward VII. of England at Westminster Abbey on June 26. In anticipation of the event the British Empire bad been preparing be-

Legislation of Importance Dealt With by Congress—Shadow > Cast by the Venezuelan Embroglio About to Be Lifted— End of Boer War. vvwws for* 1903 began and the end of the Boer ZELX-tIT- more welcome; because It Ed ward to don his crown in a . ?£ * >e . rfe s t peace. As the days drew . Ambassadors from the farthest ®"ds of the earth came to London, alland! °Th« CrOWd e cl by vlaitor ß from all all the cer en»onles, retaining nearly . lne diaeval were carePlanned and minutely rehearsed, while the publlo rushed eagerly to buy the^h'im'* 1 , al ° ng the “PeT march and *il the realm concerned them. . Tiil w Uh the ceremony in the Abbey... i"?," 1 “S came up to London in very 111 . his w ° n 4he 24411 o' June he took to.', the ° r \ the following day a co- , or th ® ™ ost eminent physicians and surgeons of the realm determined that an operation was necessary to save him from-. ailment closely resembling • appendicitis. On the 25th Sir Frederick i reves performed the operation, and fop “ any days the King hovered between life cafl*- Coronation gayety gave place . to gloom, thousands of visitors, including some of the ambassadors, returned home,Hundreds of tradesmen who had anticipated large profits found themselves imDrevlfiilf d t'h. and v. an expectant sadness-, prevailed throughout the empire. Slowly, however, the King began to improve, and , on August 9 the ceremony took place. Religious Movements in 1902.2. ™? re bas been Perhaps nothing swt, striking In the religious history of the«, year Just closed than the disposition of..' religious bodies of different names - to , get together” in the practical pros ecu-,, tion of their work. Nothing decisive has yet come of the movement for a union i of the Methodist churches North' and, South, nor of the Northern and Southern:, Presbyterians, but progress has been:: made. The project for bringing togetherthe Congregationalists, the Methodist; Protestants and the United Brethren has. made hopeful advance. Finally, the year has been one. of. gen--erous giving. The most remarkable single-, instance is found in-, th®,. Methodist: church. Three years ago, on,, “watch, « ». th ® re went out from a, Springfield church a call for,-a twenty-ml-Uion—-dollar fund for the,development of Meth-t----odist religious. and. educational work;, uec. 31, in the same,church,, to the-peo--ple assembled to watch: out :the Old Year.was made the official announcement- of' the completion of this noble fund. It- Is, a great achievement. which): fittingly,crowns the-closing,-year; The November Elections; The-general elections -of November 4.- re-, suited in the election of . the Fifty-eighth. Congress as follows.: Republicans, 208; Democrats, 178. November r 4.i—-Of, the states in, which, United States Senators - are. tp, be- chosen, the following elected Republican, legislatures: California, Connecticut, Delaware;. Idaho,. Illinois,,. Indiana. Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, Now York, North, Dakota. Pennsylvania, South. Dakota. Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. Democratic legislatures, were- chosen. In. Colorado, Florida,. Missouri. Nevada; North Carolina and. South, Carolina. The following, state governors, wer» elected: Alabama,. William Di. Jeiks* (Dem.);. California, Dr, George e. Pardee (Rep,); Colorado, James H,. Peabody (Rep.); Connecticut, Abiraro, Ct&amberlaln (Rep.); Idaho, John T. Morrison (Rep.); Kansas, wmia J. Bailey (Rep.); Massachusetts, John L, Bates (Rep.); Michigan, Aaron. T.. Bliss* (Rep.); Minnesota Samuel. R. Yan San.t* (Rep,); Nebraska, John. H, Mickey (Rep.); Nevada, John Sparks, (Dem. Silver),;. New Hampshire, Nahum J. B&chelder (Rep.); New York. Benjamin B. Odell. Jr.* (Rep.); North Dakotas Frank. White* (Rep.); Pennsylvania, Samuel W. Pennypacker (Rep.); Rhode Island,. Dr. L. F. C. Garvin (Dem.); South Carolina, Duncan C, ; Heyward (Dem.); South Dakota, Charles N. Herreid* (Rep.),; Tennessee, James B. Frazier (Dent.); Texas, Samuel W. T, Lanhanj (Dem.); Wisconsin. Robert M, LaFoll.ett.e* (Rep.); Wyoming. De Forest Richards* (Rep,). •Re-elected. New York City gave a Democratic plurality of 121.000. Prince Henry’s Visit. Four days later .and on the same day Mrs. Stone was released, February 23, Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Kaiser William of Germany, landed In New York, and as the nation’s guest was accorded a grander welcome than ever given a foreign visitor. He came to represent his brother at the launching of his yacht, the Meteor, built by an American firm and christened by Miss Allcs Roosevelt At Shooter’s Island. New York. February 25. On the 27th the Prince, hi« suite and the diplomatic corps at Washington attended a session of both. Houses of Congress In the Senate Chamber at which Secretary of State Hay delivered his memorial address in eulogy of ths late President McKinley. During the remainder of his visit -the Prince’s special train bore him westward, as far as St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, south as far as Chattanooga, where a hrtef but enthusiastic welcome awaited him at every stop. He sailed for home on March 11, leaving a pleasant Impression of himself behind and bearing with hint a favorable Idea of America. Troubles in China. To the story of 1901 belongs the bloody “Boxer" outrages and the retrlbutory occupation of Tlen-Tsin and Peking by the allied forces of Russia, England Germany. France, Austria. United States’ Italy and Japan. The flight of the Empress Dowager with her grandson tha Emperor, and the rest of the Chinese court and the tedious negotiations attending the settlement occurred in tht preceding year, but it was not until January 7 that the remarkable woman who dominates the government of China returned to Peking. With all show of gr£ ciousness and reassuring messages to the diplomatic court reassembled within the/Forbldden City, arrangement were made for the payment of the indemr‘l Ie ! t 0 J he P?, wers and a withdrawal of the allied soldiers was discussed. This evacuation was delayed because of feat coated by Russia’s atUtud* In llnnetuf