Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — RECORD OF A YEAR. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF A YEAR.

Important Events Crowded the Past Twelve*Months. MUCH HISTORY MADE. the Year 1898 Will Be Remembered as a Most Notable One. JL Chronological Review Shows It to Have Been Remarkable in Many Re-spects-War with Spain Takes Foremost Place in the Interesting Record —Concise Story of That Victorious Conflict—lnternational and Internal Dissensions Among European Countries—Disaster and Death at Home and Abroad. I To him who is concerned with history the making there very rarely comes a year more heavily laden with important •vents than the year IS9B. It has seen •very state in Europe, except peaceful Bcandinavia and the Dutch communities, face to face with either war or internal dissolution —some of them within measurable distance of both. Yet the greatest affects have not been in Europe; 1898 has aeen the United States forced, not by any greed of power, but by its humanitarian Ideals, to take its part in European relations. A brief but glorious armed conflict Eth Spain has been begun, prosecuted to end and settled by a treaty of peace Vpon which the ink is scarcely dry. The Inception of great political changes has witnessed in China; two European Culers have come to their death; several men and women prominent in statecraft, military affairs, reform, literature and Music, have passed away; the year has keen marked by some terrible marine dis-1 asters, causing great loss of life; and fire, Mood and storm have numbered their vicfime by scores and caused extensive loss gs property. The chronological table that follows gives the most important happenings of 1898, foremost among which are those of the war with Spain. CONFLICT WITH SPAIN. ■vents of the War Lately Won by the United States. January. 85— U. S. battleship Maine, Capt. C. D. Slgsbee, U. S. N., Is ordered to Havana, Cuba. February. •—The publication of a letter written by Senor Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister to the United States, speaking disparagingly of President McKinley, leads to the Minister's resignation of bls post and the appointment of Senor Luis Polo y Bernabe. BB— The U. 8. battleship Maine, lying In the harbor of Havana, Is destroyed and sunk by an explosion between I) and 10 o’clock p. tn. IT— Rear Admiral Slcard, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, orders a court of Inquiry into the loss of the Maine. 86— The request of the Spanish officials In Havana for a Joint investigation Into the loss of the Maine Is declined. tl-Tbe United States Senate orders an Investigation Into the Maine disaster. March. ••—Congress votes to place $50,000,000 at the unqualified disposal of President McKinley as an emergency fund. „ 16— Spain remonstrates against the presence of the United Slates fleet at Key West xand against other measures of defense ' our Government. ■*l7— Facts concerning Cuba stated In the Senate by Senator Proctor, of Vermont, as the result of personal observation. ■JB— Court of inquiry’s report on the Maine csent to Congress. ApriL •—Consul General Lee recalled. 16— Consul General Lee leaves Cuba, 11— President McKfnley sends a message to Congress recommending armed intervention In Cuba. $6- Army ordered to mobilize. 16— Senate belligerency resolutions passed. 18— Congress votes against Cuban recognition. 18— Congress passes resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Spain from Cuba. •o—Queen opens Cortes with war speech. Government announces Its opposition to privateering. President signs notification to the nations of intention to blockade. Jtl—Our minister at Madrid, Gon. Stewart L Woodford, Informed by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs that diplomatic relations between Spain and the United States are terminated... .President McKinley cables our ultimatum to j :Spaln, demanding a reply by April 23.... Seuor Polo y Bernabe. Spanish minister, receives his passport and leaves Washington. •2-- Cruiser New York, Sampson's flagship, captures Pedro, 2,000 tons, fifteen miles east of Havana... .Cuban ports blockaded by the American squadron. 38—The President Issues his proclamation calling for 125,000 volunteers. X (Sunday)—A Spanish decree declaring war against the United States was gazetted nt Madrid. •ft—Congress passes a resolution declaring that the state of war existed from April 21. •6— Recruiting volunteers began In New York City. K— United States vessels bombard Matanzas... .Seventh New York Regiment declines to enlist. •■—Commodore Dewey's fleet sails from Hongkong for Manila. •ft—Spanish squadron sails from Cape Terde for the West Indies. .. .New York shells Cabanas forts. ...U. 8. cruiser' Yule (Paris) arrives In New York. .60— Commodore Dewey's squadron arrives off Manila... .Kingship New York Art's on Spanish cavalry sharpshooters off ' .Havana. May. I— U. S. cruiser Topeka arrives at New Yoik from Falmouth... .Commodore Dewey’s squadron destroys the Spanish fleet at Manila. 2— Cable from Manila to Hongkong cut by Commodore Dewey. ■4— Battleship Oregon and gunboat Marietta sail from Rio Janeiro. 7 — Commodore Dewey Informs State Department of the seizure of t’nvlte. *—Cougreas thanks Rear Admiral Dewey, lid-The Gussle expedition sailed from Tam pa. 11- Ensign Worth Bagley and four of the crew of the torpedo boat Winslow killed by a shell from the Spanish forts at Cardenas 12— Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards the forts at San Juan, Porto Rico.... The Spanish Cape Verde fleet arrive* at Port de Frnnee, Martinique... .Gussle expedition repulsed. 18- Commodore Schley’s fleet sails south to meet the Spanish squadron. 14—Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted off Curacoa. Ift- Rear Admiral Dewey reports on fall of • Manila... .Bsgaata's cabinet resigns.... Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror disabled at Port de Frnnee. Martinique. ... .Spanish fleet leaves Curacon.. .Gen. Merritt ordered to the Philippines n* mil Jtary governor.Blaek authorizes

reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth Regiment. 1 17— Sagasta’s new cabinet announced at Madrid. 18— Ninety thousand troops ordered to mobilize in Chickamauga. 20— Spanish fleet arrives at Santiago de Cuba. 22 Cruiser Charleston sails for Manila. 23 Troops A and C arrive at Camp Alger, Falls Church, Va. 24 The Spanish fleet Is bottled up at Santiago. 25 Three transports with 2,588 men start for Manila... .President Issues a call for 75,000 more volunteers. 26 Oregon arrives in Key West.... One of Spain's cabinet ministers said the country was willing to accept “an honorable peace.”... .Commodore Schley Is In touch with the Insurgent leaders... .Florida expedition landed without opposition near Guantanamo, Cuba. 27 — Spanish scout ships chased by American warships near Key West. 20—Commodore Schley reports the trapping of Cervera In the harbor of Santiago de Cuba... .Cruiser Columbia arrives at New York, having been In collision with the British steamship Foscolla, which sank. 30— Troops embark at Tampa for Havana. 31— Rear Admiral Sampson's fleet bombards forts of Santiago de Cuba. June. • 1— Transports for Manila arrive at Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Boys In Blue become the guests Of the city... .Monitor Monadnock ordered to Manila from San Francisco. 2 Spain again appeals to the Powers to Intervene. 3 American squadron bombarded Santiago de Cuba. 4 Lieut. Hobson sinks cruiser Merrimac In the mouth of the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. 6 Fortifications of Santiago de Cuba reduced. 7 American squadron bombards nnd silences batteries at Santiago. .. .Monitor Monterey and collier Brutus sail for Manila. 8— Assault on fortifications of Guantanamo Bny. 9 House agrees on war revenue conference report. 10— Admiral Sampson reports he has held Guantanamo hnrbor since the 7th.... Senate agrees on conference report on war revenue bill. 11 — Four Americans at Calmanera are killed in a fight with the Spaniards. 13— Thirty-two transports with Shafter's troops sail for Santiago... .President McKinley signs the war tax bill. 14— Two Americans and several hundred Spaniards killed In a battle at Calmanera.

15—Second expedition sailed from San Francisco for Manila... .Great destruction results to Santiago forts through the use . of the dynamite guns on the Vesuvius. 17—Spanish squadron sailed from Cadiz and passed Gibraltar. 26 Transports with Gen. Shafter's troops arrive off Santiago. 22 Part of Shafter’s troops landed. 23 Balance of troops landed without accident. .’. .Admiral Camara’s Cadiz fleet arrives at Island of Pantellarla. 24 Sixteen American soldiers killed and forty wounded in driving back Spanish solfliers at Santiago. 27 Commodore Watson to command fleet to attack Spanish home territory... .President McKinley recommends thanks of Congress for Lieut. Hobson, and that he be transferred to the line. 28— President proclaims blockade of Southern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape Cruz. 29 Gen. Shafter reports he can take Santiago In forty-eight hours.... The Senate thanks Lieut. Hobson and his men, naming each one personally. 36—Egyptian Government refused to let Camara coal his fleet at Port Said. July. 1— Shafter's army began the assault upon Santiago de Cuba, capturing the enemy’s outer works. 2 Shafter renewed the attack upon Santiago, losing about 1,000 in killed and wounded, and making 2,000 Spanish prisoners. The Spanish casualties probably exceeded those of the Americans. 3 Cervera’s fleet destroyed at Santiago, with great loss of life. 6 Spanish transport Alfonso XII. blown up off Muriel by American gunboats.... Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, and his comrades exchanged for Spanish prisoners outside Santiago. 7 President signs Hawaiian annexation resolution... .Admiral Dewey took Subig and 1,300 prisoner?. 11—Cruiser St. Louis brings Admiral Cervera and 74(1 prisoners to Portsmouth, N. H.... Admiral Sampson’s fleet bombarded Santiago. 13— Announced that yellow fever has broken out In Gen. Shafter's army. 14— Gen. Toral and the Spanish army surrendered Santiago at 3 p. m. 17— “Old Glory” raised over Santiago at noon. 18- President Issues a proclamation providing for the government of Santiago.... Seven American vessels bombard Manzanillo and destroy seven Spanish ships. 21— Gen. Mlles, with 3,415 men on transports, convoyed by warships, starts to take Porto Rico... .American gunboats capture Nlpe nnd sink the Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan.... Gen. Callxto Garcia, commander of the Cuban army of Eastern Cuba, owing to discontent because the American Government has Ignored hint and hla troops In the surrender of Santiago, withdrew... .News reached this country that the second expedition to reenforce Admiral Dewey had arrived ut Cavite. 22 Agulnaldo declared himself dictator of the Philippines. 23 Another expedition for the Philippine Islands sailed from San Francisco. 23—Gen .Mlles and 3,500 mon roach Guanleo, Porto Rico, nnd effect a landing. 26 -Secretary Day, M. Cambon, French amtmssador, and his first secretary, M. Thlebnut. confer with President McKinley In regard to terms of peace. 27—The port of Ponce. Porto Hico, surrenders to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie. 30— News of Gen. Merritt's arrival at Cavite received at Washington... .Dewey Informs the President that Agulnaldo, the Philippine Insurgent chief, assumed a defiant attitude. 31— The Spanish forces at Cavite made a sortie during a fierce storm on the American troops In the Malate trenches. They were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten of Gen. Merritt's mon were killed nnd soss tyelgbt wounded.

August. 2—President MeKlnley makes public the terms of peace offered to Spain by the United States. 4- The monitor Monterey and Its consort Brutus, arrive nt Manila... .Gen. Shafter and Ills subordinates ask that the fewr stricken army at Santiago de Cuba be removed north. ft—Formal orders Issued for the removal of Gen. Shafter's army to this country. 6- Spain accept* the terms of peace offered by the United States... .Guaynmo, Porto Rico, captures! by Gon. Haines' forces. Three Americans cornered. 8 Spain accept* President McKinley's peace terms. Certain representations were made regarding Cuba which were not accepted, however... .Spaniards at Guantanamo lay down their arms nnd surrender to Bria. Gon. Ewers. a Gen. Ernst's brigade captured Coamo, Porto Rico, after a lively fight. In which seven Penney Ivatdtt volunteer* were wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were taken prisoner*... .Spaniard* attempt to retake the ligb.’bousr nt Cape San Juan, but nre reunited with heavy lea*. X>- A protocol covering the peace terms of the United State* has been agreed upon by M. Gamboa. representing Spain, nnd President McKinley... .Gen. Schwnn’s force* defeat Spanish troops ut Mayagiiezr Porto Rico. Loss on our aide two kllled-a.nd our wounded. 11—Spain’s cabinet ftwmnlly approved President McKinley's peace protocol and a cablegram wee sent to M. Cambon authorising bhn to sign In behalf of Spain. 12 M. Cambon, Freuch ambassador to the United State*, sign* the protocol und a cessation of beet 111 ties Is ordered. 13—Surrender es rhe city of Manila, after stiff IsmibsrAmem by Dewey. 30—Gen. Merritt leaves Manila for Paris to aid the Peace Commission. Fcpteniber. 5 Spanish Cortes totivenes to consider peace proposals. 6-Gou. Otis, United Stats* commander at

Manila, demanded the removal of the Insurgents from that city. 10—Spanish Senate adopts the peace protocol. 12— The situation at Manila reported critical. 13— Spanish Chambers of Deputies adopts the peace protocol. -16—Spanish Peace Commission appointed, with Senor Rios, President of the Senate, as President. 17— The Peace Commission of the United States sails for Paris. 19— Spanish Government Issues an order for all troops In the West Indies to return home. 20— The evacuation of the outlying positions In Porto Rico begun by the Spanish. 29—American and. Spanish Commissioners meet in Paris. October. I—American and Spanish Peace Commissioners hold their first session. 4—American Peace Commission receives the report of Gen. Merritt In Paris. 18— Formal ceremony of raising the United States flag over San Juan takes place.... American Commissioners refuse to assume any portion of Cuban debt. 24—Gen. Ortega, with the last of the Spanish soldiers, sails from Porto Rico for Spain. 26 Spanish soldiers captured at Manila during the war are released by United States. 27 Spanish Peace Commissioners accept . condition of the non-assumptlon of Cuban debt by United States. November. 28— Terms of peace accepted by Spain. December. 10—Treaty of peace with Spain signed at Paris.

GENERAL CHRONOLOGY. Record of Event* that Have Occurred During the Past Year. January. 1— Officers of the Cuban provisional government sworn in. 2 Six persons burned to death at JerseyCity, N. J. 3 Thirty persons killed by collapse of floor In city hall at London, Ont. 7 Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at St. Quentin prison, California. 8— Six man killed by explosion of an Ohio River towboat near Glenfield, Pa.... Fifteen men drowned off Bauduc by foundering of a French steamer... .Six Ilves lost In a mine explosion near Pittsburg, Kan.... Death of Maj. Moses P. Handy. 12— Forty lives and $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed by a tornado at Fort Smith, Auk. 16—Death of Hon. BenJ. Butterworth, United States Commissioner of Patents, at Thomasville, Ga. 16— Bread riots at Ancona, Italy. 20—Fire loss of $600,000 at East Grand Forks. Minn. 22—Marriage of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage and Mrs. Col. Collier... .Destructive storm over the West and South. 25—Many persons burned to death In a conflagration at Spokane, Wash... .$1,500,000 worth of property at East St. Louis, 111., including Union elevator and Burlington freight depot, destroyed by fire. 27—January wheat sells for $1.05 In Chicago... .Steamer City of Duluth lost off St. Joseph, Mich. 29—Several persons killed In a smash-up on the Maine Central Railway at 0r0n0.... Ten men killed by cnvlng In* of Northwest land tunnel In Chicago. February. 1— Six Ilves lost by burning of the Alvord House, Gloversville, N, Y.... Schooner Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant and eight lives lost. 2 $500,000 fire loss In Winnipeg. Manitoba. 3 Six persons killed in railway collision near Boston... .Fire destroys $225,000 worth of property at Scranton, Pa. 4 Seven killed in railroad wreck at Glasgow, Scotland. 6—550,000 fire at Albany, Ind... .HollandAmerican steamer Veendam wrecked in mid-ocean. , 6 Adolph L. Leptgert sentenced to life Imprisonment for wife murder In Chicago... .Assassination of President Barrios of Guatemala... .$250,000 fire loss at Fort Worth. Texas. 10— Thirty-eight lives crushed out by falling walls at Pittsburg. 11 — Nassau Chambers In New York burned; loss, $500,000... .French ship Flachat goes down off Canary Islands; 87 lives lost. 17 — Fire damp explosion In a colliery at Hammeerly, Prussia, kills 50 persons... .- SIOO,OOO fire at Pittsfield, Mass British steamer Legislator burned at sea. 18— Death of Miss Frances E. Willard in New York City... .Large fire at Pittsburg. 20 — New wharf and custom house at Tampico, Mexico, burned: loss, $2,000,000. 25 National Tobacco Company’s works at Louisville, Ky., burned; loss, $2,000,000. 26 Nine lives lost in a tenement house Are at Charleston, S. C..,.Seven persons killed at Blue Island. 111., by the collision of a train and an omnibus... .Ten persons killed and five Injured by an explosion and Are In Hall Bros.’ laboratory at Kalamazoo. Mich. 27 Death of Wm. M. Slngerly, proprietor of the Philadelphia Record. March. 2 Six men killed by boiler explosion near Brewton, Ala. 3 Nine drowned by the foundering of the schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast. 7 Fire causes $150,000 loss In Brownell & Field Co.'s building at Providence, R. I. . <•.$5,000,000 fire loss at Manila, Philippine Islands. 11—Death of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. 13— Eleven men burned to death In Bowcry Mission, New York. 16— Death of Aubrey Beardsley, the artist. ....Many persons killed In a fire at 215 Wabash avenue. Chicago. 17— Death of Blanche K. Bruce, Register of the Treasury. 19— Six convicts killed In a mine at Pratt City. Ala. 21— Several persons killed In a hotel fire at Butte, Mont. 22 Forty lives lost by sinking of bark Helen Ahuy off San Francisco. 25 Death of James I’ayn, English novelist.... Death of Truman P. Handy, of Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker in United States... .Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys at Waukesha damaged SIOO,OOO by fire. 23 Forty-eight sealers of steamer Greenland perished on lee floes. 26 Seven persons burned to death at Kent, Minn. 27 Death of Congressman Simpkins, of Massachusetts. April. 3 Fifty lives lost In flood at Shawneetown, 111. 4 Fifteen men killed by explosion es powder near San Vicente, Mexico. 7—Sudden death of Margaret Mather, the tragedienne. 11— Oxford Junction, lowa, visited by SIOO,<MM» fire. 12— Penn glass works nt North Irwin, Pa., . burned; ioss, $730,000. 15 -Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Bolt, Mont , sfiffers $250,000 fire loss. 17—Fire, following a dust explosion, destroys grain elevator at Boston; loss, $600,000. 19—Death of George Parsons Lathrop. 21—Postmaster General Gary resigns and la succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.... Death of Senator Walthall, of Mississippi. 25 Secretary of State John Sherman resigns. 26 — Wm. R. Day appointed to fill the vacancy... .Glasgow, Scotland, visited by n $750,000 fire.... Powder mill at Santa Cruz, Cal., blown up. causing loss of eleven live*. 28— Atlantic Powder Co.'s works at Dover, N. J., wrecked by an explosion. 30 -Heavy damage done by tornadoes In Nebraska, Kansas, lowa nnd South Da-' a. kota. May. 2- Thirteen persons killed by tornado at Jerlco, Mo. 3 Schooner Crown wrecked off St. John*, N. F., nnd 11 men drowned. 0 -$125,000 fire loss at Cleveland. 7 Three hundred persons killed in a riot nt Milan, Italy. 8— Duluth, Minn., suffers a SIOO,OOO fire. 11—Woo) warehouse burns at Ballardvllle, Mass.; loss,

13— Burning of Armoar’s elevator D and several lumber yards causes $1,000,000 loss in Chicago. 14— Thousands killed by cyclone on Sumbawa Island, Malay Archipelago... .Edward Remenyl, violinist, falls dead In a San Francisco theater... .Ball Bros.’ glass works burned at Muncie, Ind.; loss, $285,000. 16— Flint mill of Mining & Mill Co., at East Liverpool, Ohio, burned: loss, SIOO,OOO. 17 — Great damage done and many people hurt by cyclone in Nebraska. 18— Business section of Attleboro, Mass., destroyed by fire..-. .Destructive cyclone sweeps through lowa, Kansas, Illinois and Wisconsin. 19— Death of William E. Gladstone. 22—Death of Edward Bellamy... .Mine Are at Zollern, Prussia; 45 miners perish. 28—Italian cabinet resigns. 31—New cabinel'formed in Italy. June. 1— Death of tragedian Thos. W. Keene.... Transmlssippi exposition opens at Omaha. 4— Death of Capt. Chas. V. Gridley, of the cruiser Olympia at Manila. 7 Plant of Burgess Steel Co., Portsmouth, Ohio, burned; loss, $400,000. 11—Case Power Building In Detroit burned. 13—Collapse of Joseph Leiter’s-wheat deal. 15— Resignation of the French ministry.’ 28— First party cabinet formed In Japan. 29 Formation of the Pelloux cabinet in Italy. July. 2 Strike of stereotypers causes Chicago papers to suspend for four days. 4—French liner La Bourgogne goes down off Sable Island with 553 passengers. 6—Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the Senate. 8— Steelville, Mo., almost obliterated by a waterspout... .Congress adjourns sine die. 11— Sagasta ministry In Spain resigns.... Eleven men killed in water tunnel at Cleveland, Ohio. 19— Powder mill at Oakland, Cal., blown up by a Chinaman and seven Ilves lost. 36—Death of Prince Bismarck. August. 1— Martin Thorn executed at Sing Sing, N. Y. B—Bismarck, N. D., destroyed by fire.... Death of Georg M. Ebers, Egyptologist and novelist. 12— United States flag officially hoisted over Hawaii. 13— Twenty lives lost by cloudburst In Hawkins County, Ky. 15— Resignation of ministry at Lisbon. 20— French steamer La Coquette sunk off Newfoundland by the Norge; 16 lives lost. 21— Seyen persons killed In railway collision at Sharon, Mass. 22 Eight laborers killed by collapse of a wall In Carnegie tunnel, Pa... .Carterville, 111., visited by a $250,000 fire.... 300 miners drowned at Nlence, Silesia.... Death of King Malletoa of Samoa. 23 Destructive fire at Logansport, La. 25 — Ex-Gov. Claude Matthews stricken by paralysis at Meharry's Grove, Ind. 28—Death of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews of Indiana. 30— Small pox breaks out at Put-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie. 31— Wilhelmina becomes Queen of Holland ... .Confession and suicide of Col. Henry, principal witness against Capt. Dreyfus, at Paris. September. 2 President Wllford Woodruff, of the Mormon church, died at San Francisco.... The British captured Omdurman, opposite Khartoum, In the Soudan. 4 British troops occupied Khartoum... .M. Cavalgnac, French Minister of War, resigns. 5 Twenty-eight people killed In collision of train with trolley car at Cohoes. N. Y. ....Gen. Zurllnden appointed French Minister of War. 6 Wilhelmina crowned Queen of Holland at Amsterdam... .Thirty men killed by falling of a bridge over St. Lawrence River, near St. Regis Indian village.... Many killed In riots in Crete... .Opening of G. A. R. national encampment at Cincinnati. 10— Assassination of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, by an Italian anarchist at Geneva, Switzerland... .$200,000 fire at Livermore Falls, Me. 11— Fire wiped out New Westminster, B. C., and Jerome, Ariz. 12— Death of Judge Thos. M. Cooley at Ann Arbor, Mich... .Hurricane on Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, killed 300 persons and destroyed much property. 14 — Lorenzo Snow chosen head of the Mormon church. 18—Death of Dr. John Ha 11.... Death of Miss Winnie Davie. 20—Ten persons burned to death In an elevator fire In Toledo. 22 Thirty-six men drowned by sinking of French boat Ville de Fecamp off Feeamp. 23 Fifty miners entombed In coal shaft at Brownsville, Pa. . 24 — Several persons killed and much property destroyed by windstorm at Lima, O. 26 Tornado destroys property at Tonawanda, N. Y., and kills five at Merrllton, Ont. ... .Death of Miss Fanny Davenport. 27 — Claremont, Minn., destroyed by fire. 28— Death of ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard.... Riot at Pana. 111. 26—Death of Queen Louise of Denmark. 30— Hundreds of lives lost by floods kJ Japan. October. 1— Great fire in Colorado Springs, Colo. 2 Fierce gale on South Atlantic eoast. s—ln attempting to quell the rebellion, of the Indians at Bear Lake, Minn., several soldiers were killed and wounded. 8— Great fire in Sidney, N. 8. W. 9 $200,000 fire at Atlantic City. N. J. 16— Great fire at Dawson City, Alaska. 20—Seven men killed by boiler explosion on torpedo boat Davis near Astoria, Ore. 23 Ten men killed In a race war at Harpersville, Miss. 24 — Fire on the Brooklyn, N. Y., water front; loss, $475,000. 23—French cabinet resigns. 31— New French cabinet formed... .Japanese cabinet resigns. November.

5 Eleven men killed by collapse of new Wonderland theater at Detroit.... Seven men crushed to death in a mine near Wllkesbarre, Pa. 6 Capitol at Wimhlngton wrecked by gas explosion... .Death of David A. Wells, economic writer. 7 Resignation of the Greek ministry. 8— General election. 9 Organization of Japan’s new ministry completed. 16— New ministry formed In Greece... .President Masso and secretaries of Cuban republic resign. 11—Bank at Kirksville, Mo., robbed of $32,000. 17— British ship Atalanta sinks off Oregon const; 26 lives lost. 18— Death of John W. Keely, the Inventor. ....Twelve laborers killed by train at Hackensack Mtstdowa, N. J. 16— Dentil of Gen. D. C. Buell. 23—Burning of the Baldwin hotel and theater In San Francisco. 84-26—Great storm sweeps over the country: many Ilves lost at sea. 27 Death of Actor XI. W. Couldock... .Six persons killed by boiler explosion near Fourteen Mlle Slough. Cal. 28— Dynamite explosion lu Havana kills 15 persons and Injures 25 others. Decern ber. s—Opening of Congressional session. 10— Death of William Black, novelist. 11— Death of Gen. Callxto' Gnrcla at Washington. 15— Death of cx-Benator Calvin S. Brice.... Six persons killed In railway wreck at Madison. Fla. 16— Six persons killed by a train nt Allenwood. N. J Department store of G. Hartsteln's Sous burned at Milwaukee; loss. SOO,OOO. 17— Death of Barpn Ferdinand James de Rothschild In London.... Twenty Ilves lost In steamship collision In the North Sea. 16 $1,000,000 fire nt Terre Haute, Ind. And now a Boston man claims the center of the stage long enough to advise that, so fat ns the annexation of the Philippines is concerned, "celerity should be conteinpered with cunctation.” Li Hung Chang hns been sent to watch the overflow of the Yellow river. This, we take it, is the polite Chinese equivalent for saying that he has been sent up Salt Rlvw.