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'.,"3M 'M' S Events Crowded tlxe Past Twelve Months. , MUCH HISTORY MADE. lk« Year ISM Will Be Remembered as a Cf Most Notable One. !"', J| Cl»roaolo*lcal Herlew Shows It to - Hare Been Remarkable in Many Ke* ' apecta--War with Spain Take* Fore- ; mo»t Flace in the Interesting Record | ';V--Concise Story of That Victorious j-^ Conflict--International and Internal DiMemion* Anong Kuropean Coun­ tries--Disaster and Death at Home ;- >and Abroad. V - < To him who Is eoneernied urttfc history la the making t,here very rarely comes a "\ jfear more heavily laden with important #vents than the year 18&8, It has seen •very state in Europe, except peaceful _ jBcandinavia and the Dutch communities, face to face with either war or internal flissolution--some of them within meas­ urable distance of both. Yet the greatest effects have not been in Europe; 1898 has •een the United States forced, not by any greed of power,<58>ut by its humanitarian -ideals, to take its part in European rela­ tions. A brief bnt glorious armed conflict With Spain has been begun, prosecuted to Its end and settled by a treaty of peace «pon which the ink is scarcely dry. The Inception of great political changes has !(een witnessed in China; two European fillers hare come to their death; several men and women prominent in statecraft, military affairs, reform, literature and mnsic, have passed away; the year has been marked by some terrible marine dis­ asters, causing great loss of life; and fire, flood and storm have numbered their vic- tiiwe by scores and caused extensive loss of property. The war between the United Stages and Spain was the foremost event or series of events in the year's history. It,"was the sixth war waged by the American people Against foreigners, was declared April 25, 1698, and continued until Aug, 12, about ' four months. The United Stages employ­ ed over 200 warships, of all glasses, and 260,000 regulars and volunteers, nearly 200,000 of whom, however, did not see •ctive service against the Spaniards. The ~ United States forces won all the battles Of the war; the most notable engagements being Admiral Dewey's destruction of the Spanish Eastern fleet at Manila bay, Admiral Sampson's destruction of the Spanish Cape de Verde squadron at San­ tiago, and Gen. Shatter's capture of San­ tiago. The American naval forces lost not a vessel, and but IT killed and 67 wounded; but the army lost 216 killed and 1,437 wounded. The Spanish navy lost 85. warships valued at $36,500,000, more than 1,000 sailors in killed alone; and the army lost nearly 3,000 in killed, besides , Wounded. Spain was obliged to relin­ quish Cuba and to cede all its remaining West Indian possessions to the United ^States; also the island of Guam, one of the Lndrones, and lost sovereignty over practically all the Philippines. The Unit­ ed States expended about $300,000,000 in prosecuting the war. Spain was com- . jjletely bankrupted. ^ The chronological table that follows gives the most important happenings of --4SS§, foremost among which are those of the irar with Spain. CONFLICT "WITH SPAIN. BTcntaof the War Lately Won by the United States. January. J»-U. S. battleship Maine, Capt. C. D. Slgs- bee, U. 8. N., Is ordered to Havana, Cnba. February. 8--The publication of a letter written by Senor Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister to the United States, speaking dispar­ agingly of President McKlnley, leads to the Minister's resignation of his post and the appointment of Senor Luis Polo y Bernabe. 16--The U. B. battleship Maine, lying In the harbor of Havana, Is destroyed and sunk by an explosion between 0 and 10 o'clock p. m. 17--Rear Admiral Slcard, Commanding the North Atlantic squadron, orderB a court of Inquiry Into the loss of the Maine. The request of the Spanish officials In Havana for n joint Investigation Into tire loss of the Maine Is declined. fi'--The United States Senate orders an In­ vestigation Into the Maine disaster. March. 8-9-^-Congrees votes to place $50,000,000 at the unqualified disposal of President Mc­ Klnley as an emergency fund. XA--Spain remonstrates agnlnst the presence of the United States fleet at Key West and against other measures of defense by our Government. V -- Facts concerning Cuba stated In the Senate by Senator Proctor, of Vermont, as the result of personal observation. Court of Inquiry's report on the Maine sent to Congress. April. 6--Consul General Lee recalled. 10--Consul General Lee leaves Cuba. 11--President McKlnley sends a message to Congress recommending armed interven­ tion In Cuba. 15--Army ordered to mobilise. 10--Senate belligerency resolutions passed. 18--Congress votes against Cuban recogni­ tion. 19--Congress passes resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Spain from Cuba. 20--Queen opens Cortes with war speech. Government announces its opposition to privateering. President signs notiiica- tlon to the nations of intention to block­ ade. 21--Our minister at Madrid, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, informed by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs that diplo­ matic relations between Spain and the United States are terminated Presi­ dent McKlnley cables our ultimatum to Spain, demanding a reply by April 23.... Senor Polo y Bernabe. Spanish minis­ ter, receives his passport and leaves Washington. 32--Cruiser New York, Sampson's flagship, captures Pedro, 2,000 tons, fifteen miles east of Havana.. .Cuban ports block­ aded by the Amerlcnn squadron. S3--The President Issues his proclamation calling for 125,000 volunteers. (Bunday)--A Spanish decree declaring war against the United State* was Id. : ' • • . --Congress passes a resolution declaring ' A that the state of war existed from April 21. S6--Recruiting volunteers began In New York City. ST--United 8tatea vessels bombard Matan- p . ' aas Seventh New York Regiment de- f ^ cllnes to enlist. -• t8--Commodore Dewey's fleet sails from I ; Hongkong for Manila. pfc--jHI&--Spanish squadron sails from Cape Verde for the West Indies... .New York shells Cabanas forts U. 8. cruiser Yale (Paris' arrives In New York. SO--Commodore Dewey's squadron arrives Off Manila... .Flagship New York fires on Spanish cavalry sharpshooters off Havana. May. 1--U. S. cruiser Topeka arrives at New York from Falmouth Commodore Dewey's squadron destroys the Spanish fleet at Manila. 2--Cable from Manila to< Hongkong cut by f *\ Commodore Dewey. 4--Battleship Oregon and gunboat Marietta ? sail from Rio Janeiro. §SfW'iT--Commodore Dewey informs 8tate De- partment ot the selsura of Cavlte. pltr'ft--Congress thanks Rear Admiral Dewey. to--The Gusale expedition sailed from 11--Bnalgn Worth Bagley and four of the crew of the torpedo-boat Wlnslow killed by a shell from the 8panlsh forts at Car­ denas 12-- Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards the forts at Sap Juan. Porto Rico.... The Spanish Cape Verde fleet arrives at Port de France, Martinique... .Gussle expedition repulsed. * 13--Commodore Schley's fleet sails south to meet the Spanish squadron. 14-- Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted off Curacoa. 1&£ Rear Admiral Dewey reports on fall of ^ • Manila... .Sagasta's cabinet resigns.... Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror disabled at Port de France, Martinique. Spanish fleet leaves Curacoa... .Gen. Merrltt ordered to the Philippines as mil* ltary governor... .Gov. Black authorizes reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth Regiment. 17--Sagasta'e new cabinet announced at Madrid. 18--Ninety thousand troops ordered to mobil­ ize in Chlckamauga. 20--Spanish fleet arrives at Santiago de Cuba. 23--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 San­ tiago 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 coun* try was willing to accept "an honorable t peace."... .Commodore Schley Is la touch 'with the Insurgent leaders... .Florida expedition landed without opposition near Guantanamo, Cuba. 27--Spanish scout ships chased by African warships near Key West. 29--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, Jnne. 1--Transports for Manila arrive at Hono­ lulu, Hawaii, and the Boys In Bine be­ come 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. ft-- Fortifications of Santiago de Cuba re­ duced. 7--American squadron bombards and si­ lences batteries at Santiago... .Monitor Monterey and collier Brutus sail for Manila. 8--Assault on fortifications of Guantanamo Bay. 9--House agrees on war revenue conference report. 10-- Admiral Sampson reports he has held Guantanamo harbor 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 iShafter's troops sail for Santiago... .President McKlnley signs the war tax bill. 14--Two Americans and several hundred Spaniards killed In a battle at CaJU manors. 15--Second expedition sailed from San Fran­ cisco for Manila Great destruction results to Santiago forts through the use of the dynamite guns on the Vesuvius. 17--Spanish squadron sailed from Cadis and passed Gibraltar. 20--Transports with Gen. Shatter's troops arrive oft Santiago. 22--Part of Shafter's troops landed. 26--Balance of troops landed without acci­ dent Admiral Camara's Cadiz fleet arrives at Island of Pantellarla. 24--Sixteen American soldiers killed and forty wounded In driving back Spanish soldiers at Santiago. 27--Commodore Watson to command fleet to attack Spanish home territory.... Presi­ dent McKlnley recommends thanks of Congress for Lieut. Hobson, and that he be transferred to the line. 28-- President proclaims blockade of South­ ern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape Crnz. 2&--Gen. Shatter reports he can take San­ tiago in forty-eight hours....The 8enate thanks Lieut. Hobson and his men, nam­ ing each one personally. 30-- Egyptian Government refused to Jet Camara coal his fleet at Port Said. JnlT. 1--Shafter's army began the assault upon Santiago de Cuba, capturing the enemy's outer works. 2--Shafter renewed the attack upon San-, tlago, losing about 1,000 In killed and wounded, and making 2,000 Spanish prisoners. The Spanish casualties prob­ ably 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.... Hobsou, the hero of the Merrimac, and his comrades exchanged for Spanish prisoners outside Santiago. 7--President signs Hawaiian annexation resolution... .Admiral Dewey took Sublg and 1,300 prisoners. 11--Cruiser St. Louis brings Admiral Cer­ vera and 746 prisoners to Portsmouth, N. H....Admiral Sampson's fleet bom­ barded Santiago. 13--Announced that yellow fever has broken out In Gen. Shafter's army. 14--Gen. Toral and the Spanish army sur­ rendered Santiago at 3 p. m. 17_"01d Glory" raised over Santiago at noon. 18--President issues a proclamation provid­ ing for the government of Santiago Seven American vessels bombard Man- sanllio and destroy seven Spanish ships. 21--Gen. Miles, with 3,415 men on trans­ ports, -convoyed by warships, starts to take Porto Rico American gunboats capture Nlpe and sink the Spanish cruis­ er Jorge Juan....Gen. Callxto Garcia, commander of the Cuban army of East­ ern Cnba, owing to discontent because the American Government has Ignored him aud his troops In the surrender of Santiago, withdrew... .News reached this country that the second expedition to re- enforce Admiral Dewey had arrived.at Cavlte. 22--Aguinaldo declared himself dictator of the Philippines. 23--Another expedition for the Philippine Islands sailed from San Francisco. 25--Gen .Miles and 3,500 m^n reach Guan- Ico, Porto Rico, and effect a landing. 26--Secretary Day, M. Cambon, French am­ bassador, and his first secretary. M? Thlebaut. confer with President McKln­ ley In regard to terms of peace. 27--The port «>f I'once, Porto Rico, surrend­ ers to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie. 30--News of Gen. Merritt's arrival at Cavlte received at Washington... .Dewey in­ forms the President that Aguinaldo, the Philippine Insurgent chief, assumed a defiant attitude. 31--The Spanish forces at Catlte made a sortie during a fierce storm.on the Amer­ ican troops In the Malate trenchee. They were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten of Gen. Merritt's men were killed and for­ ty-eight. wounded. . A usrust. 2--President McKlnley makes public the terms of peace offered to Spain by the United States. * 4--The monitor Monterey and Its consort Brntus, arrive at Manila Gen. Shaf­ ter and his subordinates ask that the fever-stricken army at Santiago de Cnba be removed north. 5--Formal orders issued for the removal of Gen. Shafter's army to this country. 6--Spain accepts the terms of pence offered by the United States... .Guayamo. Porto Rico, captured by Gen. Haines' forces. Three Americans cornered. 8--Spain accepts President McKlnley's peace terms. Certain representations^ were made regarding Cuba which were not accepted, however... .Spaniards at. Gasnisnsaio toy- down their arms and- surrender to Brl»r. Gen. Ewers. 9--Gen. Ernst's brigade captured Coamo, Porto Rico, after a lively tight. In Which seven Pennsylvania volunteers were wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were taken prisoners Spaniards attempt to retake the lighthouse at Cape San Juan, but are repulsed with heavy loss. 10--A protocol covering the peace terms of the United States has been agreed opon by M. Cambon. representing Spain, and President McKlnley Gen. Schwnna forces defeat Spanish troops at Maya- gues; Porto Rico. Loss on our side two killed and one wounded. 11--Spain's cabinet formally approved Pres­ ident McKlnley's peace protocol and a cablegram was sent to M. Cambon au­ thorising him to sign in behalf of Spain. 12--M. Cambon, French ambassador to the United States, signs the protocol and a cessation of hostilities is ordered. 13--Surrender of the city of Manila, after stiff bombardment by Dewey. 30--Gen. Mferrltt leaves Manila for Paris to atd the Pea ce Commission. , September. g--Spanish Cortes convenes to consider peace proposals. fc--Geu. Otis, United States commander at Manila, demanded the removal of the Insurgents from that city. 10--Spanish Senate adopts the peace proto­ col. 12--The situation at Manila reported crit­ ical. ~ ' 13--Spanish Chambers of Depatles adopts the peace protocol. 19--Spanish Peace -Commission appointed, with Senor Rios, President of the Sen­ ate, 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." 1--American and Spanish Peace Commis­ sioners 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 as­ sume a°y portion of Cuban debt. 24--Gen. Ortega, with the last of the Span­ ish 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-assumption of Cu­ ban debt by United States. November. 28--Terms of peace accepted by Spats. December, 10--Treaty of peace with Spain signed at Paris. GKNERAL CHRONOLOGY. Record of Events that Have Occurred During; the Past Year. January. 1--Officers of the Cuban provisional gov­ ernment sworn In. 2--Six persons burned to death at Jersey City, N. J. 3--Thirty persona killed by collapse of floor In city hall at London, Ont. 7--Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at St. Quentin prison, California. 8--Six m^n killed by explosion of an Ohio River towboat near Glenfleld» Pa.... Fifteen men drowned off Bauduc by foundering of a French steamer... .Six lives lost In a mine explosion near Pitts­ burg, Kan....Death of Maj. Moses P. Handy. 12--Forty lives and $1,000,000 worth of prop­ erty destroyed by a tornado at Fort Smith, Ark. 16--Death of Hon. BenJ. Butterworth, Uni­ ted States Commissioner of Patents, at Thomasville, Ga. l&_Brend riots at Ancona, Italy. , 20-- Fire loss of $600,000 at East Grand Forks. Minn. 22--Marriage of Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage and Mrs. Col. Collier Destructive storm over the West and South. 25--Many persons burned to death In a con­ flagration at Spokane, Wash $1,500,- 000 worth of property at East St. Louis, 111., Including Union elevator and- Bur­ lington freight depot, destroyed by fire. 27--January wheat sells for"$1.05 4n Chi­ cago Steamer City of Duluth lost off St. Joseph, Mich. 29--Several persons killed In a smash-up on the Maine Central Railway at Orono.\j.. Ten men killed by caving In of North­ west land tunnel In Chicago. February. 1--Six lives lost by burning of the Alvord House, Gloversvllle, N. Y.... Schooner Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant aud 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 Scrauton, Pa. 4-- Seven killed In railroad wreck at Glas­ gow, Scotland. v 6-450,000 fire at Albany, Ind... .Holland- American steamer Veendam wrecked In tnld-ocean. 9--Adolph L. Leutgert sentenced to life Im­ prisonment for wife murder In Chi­ cago. .. .Assassination of President Bar­ rios of Guatemala $250,000 fire loss at Fort Worth, Texas. 10--Thirty-eight lives crushed out by fsll- Ing 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.... $100,000 fire at Plttsfleld, Mass Brit­ ish steamer Legislator burned at sea. 18--Death of Miss Frances E. Wlllard In New York City... .Large fire at Pitts­ burg. 20--New wharf and custom house at Tam- pico, Mexico, burned; ioss, $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 fire at Charleston, 8. C. .. .Seven persons killed at Blue Island, 111., by the collis­ ion of a tralp and an omnibus... .Ten persons killed and five Injured by an explosion and fire in Hall Bros.' labora­ tory at Kalamazoo, Mich. 27--Death of Wm. M. Slngerly, proprietor of the Philadelphia Record. March. 2--Six men killed by boiler explosion near Brewtou, Ala. 3--Nln# 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, Phil­ ippine Islands. 11--Death of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. 13--Eleven men burned to death In Bowery 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 lire at Butte, Mont. 22-- Forty lives lost b.v sinking of bark Helen Almy off San Francisco. 25--Death of James I'ayn, English novel­ ist....Death of Trnman P. Handy, of Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker In United States... .Wisconsin Industrial School for Roys at Waukesha damaged $100,000 by lire. 23--Forty-eight sealers of steamer Green­ land perished on. las floes. ,26--Seven persons burned to death at Kent, Minn. 27--Death of Congressman Slmpklna^ of Massachusetts. April. 3-- Fifty lives lost in flood at Shawnee- town. III. 4--Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow­ der near San Vicente, Mexico. 7--Sudden death of Margaret Mather, the tragedienne. 11--Oxford Junction, Iowa, visited by $100,- WM) Arc. 12--Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa., burned; ioss, $750,000. 15--Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt, Mont., suffers $250,000 fire loss. 17--Fire, following a dust explosion, de­ stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss, $600,000. 19--Death of George Parsons Lathrop. 21--Postmaster General Gary resigns and Is succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.... Death of Senator Walthall, of Missis­ sippi. 25--Secretary of State John Sherman re­ signs. 26--Wm. R. Day appointed to fill the va­ cancy Glasgow, Scotland, visited by a $750,000 lire.... Powder mill at Santa Cruz, Cal., blown up, causing loss of eleven lives. 28--Atlantic Powder Oo.'s works at Dover, N. J., wrecked by an explosion. 30--Heavy damage done by tornadoes in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da­ kota. . May, 2--Thirteen persons 'killed by tornado at Jer!•••>. Mo. • - - r ft-^Schoouer Crown wrecked off. St. Johns, N. F., and 11 men drowned. 6^-$125,000 fire loss at Cleveland. 7--Three hundred persons killed In a «ot at Milan, Italy. 8-- Duluth, Minn., suffers a $100,000 fire. 11--Wool warehouse burns at Ballardville, Mass.; loss. $500,000. 12--Burning of Armour's elevator D and several lumber yards causes $1,000,000 loss In Chicago. 14--Thousands killed by cyclone on 8um- bawa Island, Malay Archipelago Ed­ ward Remenyi, violinist, falls dead In a San Francisco theater Ball Bros." glass works burned at Muncle, Ind.; loss, $285,000. 16-- Flint mill of Mining & Mill Co., at East Liverpool, Ohio, burned; loss, $100,000. 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 Iowa, Kansas, Illinois and Wisconsin. 19--Death of William E. Gladstone. 22--Death of Edward Bellamy... .Mine Are St Zollern. Prussia; 45 miners perish. Italian cabinet resigns. 31--New cabinet formed in Italy. June. 1--Death of tragedian Thos. W. Keen*.... Transmlssippl exposition opens at Onieha. 4--Death of Capt. Chas. V. Grldley, of the cruiser Olympla 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 Letter's wheat deaL 15--Resignation of the French ministry. 28--First party cabinet formed In Japan. 29--Formation of the l'eiloux cabinet !• Italy. July. 2--Strike of stereotypers causes Chlcaga 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 op by a Chinaman and seven lives lost. 90--Death at Prince Bismarck. August. 1--Martin Thorn executed at Sing Sing, N. Y. 8--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 Haw­ kins County, Ky. 15--Resignation of ministry at Lisbon. 20--French steamer La Coquette sunk off Newfoundland by the Norge; 16 lives lost. 21--Seven persons killed In rsllway collision st Sharon, Mass. 22--Eight laborers killed by collapse of a wall In Carneale tunnel. Pa Carter- Wie„ 11!.. visited by a $250,000 fire 300 miners drowned at Nlence, Silesia.... > ..wreath of King Maltetoa of Samoa. 23--Destructive Are at Logansport, La. 25-- Ex-Gov. Claude Matthews stricken hjr paralysis at Meharry's Grove, lnd. 28--Death of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews of Indiana. 30-- Small pox breaks ont at Pnt-Ia-iVay Isl­ and, Lake Erie. 31--Wilhelmlna becomes Qeeen of Holland. ... .Confession and suicide of Col. Henry, • principal witness against Capt Dreyfus, at Paris. September. 2--President Wllford Woodruff, of the Mor^ mon church, died at San Francisco.... The British captured Omdurman, oppo­ site Kharto,uin, in the Soudan. 4--British troops occupied Khartoum M. Cavalgnac, French Minister of War, re­ signs. 5--Twenty-eight people killed in collision of train with trolley car at Cohoes. N. Y. ....Gen. Zurlinden appointed French Minister of War. 6--Wilhelmlna 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 Cin­ cinnati. K>--Assassination of Elisabeth, Empress of / Austria, by an Italian anarchist at Geneva, Switzerland... .$200,000 fire at Llverinore Falls, Me. 11--Fire wiped out New Westminster, B. C., and Jerome, Arls. 12--Death of Judge Thos. M. Cooley at Ann Arbor, Mich... .Hurricane on Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, killed 300 per­ sons and destroyed much property. 14--Lorenzo Snow choseu head of the Mor­ mon church. 18-- Death of Dr. John Hall... .Death of Miss Winnie Davis. 20--Ten persons burned to death In an ele­ vator fire in Toledo. 22--Thirty-six men drowned by sinking of French boat Vllle de Fecamp off Fecamp. 23--Fifty miners entombed In coal shaft at Brownsville, Pa. 24--Several persons killed and mach prop­ erty destroyed by windstorm at Lima, O. 26--Tornado destroys property at Tonawan- da, N. Y., and kills five at Merrtlton, Out. Death of Miss Fanny Davenport. 27--Ctaremont, Minn., destroyed by fire. 28--Death of e*-Secretary Thomas F. Bay­ ard .... Klot at Pana, III. 29--Death of Queen Louise of Denmark. 80--Hundreds of lives los' by floods la Jspan. October. 1--Great flre In Colorado Springs, Colo. 2--Fierce gale on South Atlantic coast. 5--In attempting to quell the rebellion Of the Indians at Bear Lake, Minn., several soldiers were killed and wouuded. 5-^Great fire In Sidney, N. S. W. 6--$200,000 flre at Atlantic City, N. J. 16--Great flre at Dawsou 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 Har- persvllle. Miss, 24-- Flre on the Brooklyn, N. Y., water front; loss, $475,000. 25--French cabinet resigns. 31--New French cabinet formed,... .Japan­ ese cabinet resigns. November. 5-- Eleven men killed by collapse .of new Wonderland theater at Detroit... .Seven men crushed to death la a mine near Wllkesbarre, Pa. 6--Capitol at Washington 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. 10^-New ministry formed In Greece... .Pres­ ident Masso and secretaries of Cubsn re­ public resign. 11--Bank at Klrksvllle, Mo., robbed of $32,000. 17--British ship Atalanta sinks off Oregon const; 26 lives lost. 18--Death of John W. Koely, the Inventor. ^..Twelve laborers killed by train at Hackeusack Meadows. N. J. 19--Death of Gen. D. C. BuelL 23--Burning of the Baldwin hotel and the­ ater In San Francisco. 24-26--Great storm sweeps over the coun­ try; many lives lost at sea. 27--Death of Actor C. W. Couldock SI* persons killed by boiler explosion near Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal, 28--Dynamite explosion In Havana Ittla Iff persons and-injures 25 others. Decern ber. 5--Opening of Congressional session. 10--Death of William Hlack, novelist. 11--Death of Gen. Calls to Garcia at Wash­ ington. 15--Death of ex-Senator Calvin S. Brlce.... Six persons killed In railway wreck at Madison, Fla. 16--Six persons killed by a train at Allen- wood, N. J Department store of G. Hartsteln's Sons burned at Milwaukee; loss, $00,000. 17--Death of Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild In London... .Twenty lives lost In steamship collision In the North Sea. 19--$1,000,000 fire at Terre Haute, Ind. OCCURRENCES DURINQ 4XE PAST WEEK. PpstofHce Robbers Under Arrsat 4a Chicagro-Ianpoeafble to Kill a Peoria Brafceman--Two Men Hanged--Fires in Illinois Towns. It was in the army. The boys had a meal of beef that had been corned by a bath in a salt-horse barrel. They alJ thought it a treat until one of the party remarked: "A little mustard wouldn't go bad." "That reminds me," said an­ other; "you just wait a few minutes." A quarter of an hour later he returned, and. producing a screw of paper, he said: "Oh, yes; here's that mustard." "Where did you get it".'" said the others, in chorus. "Up at the surgeon's. The sick-call, you remember, sounded as we were talking about the mustard. It occurred to me that a little mustard for my lame back would be just the thing." "But yon haven't got any lame back." "But I have got the mustard." A soldier who entered Santiago witL General Shafter tells this story In the New Orleans Times-Democrat: "A few days after the place was surrendered I went into a small shop-to get some to­ bacco. The proprietor was a fat chap, all bows and smiles. 'C»ot any 'baccy?* I asked. 'Si, senor,' he said! 'yes, sare; ver' fine tobac. Hot time in ze ol' town to­ night. senor.' I took a paper of fine-cut and the fat rascal charged me one dollar. When I made a modest kick at such high­ way robbery he humped up his shoulders and spread out hte hands. 'Well, senor,' he said, 'you mug' remember the-- Maine*.'" Through the efforts of postofllce in­ spectors and Chicago detectives four men, said to have constituted an Organized gang which has robbed a number of post- offices throughout Illinois, have been ar­ rested and are n< v locked up at Chicago. The prisoners confessed to Lieut. George Perry and Postoffice Inspector Guy T. Gould that they had perpetrated six burg­ laries in postoffices in the vicinity of Chi­ cago durihg the last few months and that the proceeds of the depredations would amount to several thousand dollars. The inen under arrest are Harry Muldoog, alias Meyers, Charles Masters, Thomas Sheehan and Joseph King, alias Kes- einger. All are ex-convicts, and accord­ ing to the officers who effected their cap­ ture have long police records. Chief of Detectives Coileran, who took an active part in the capture of the men, says he has evidence which shows that the pris­ oners were responsible for a number of burglaries and petty robberies in Chi­ cago. The TObbcries which the prisoners have confessed to are: Postoffice at Ham­ mond. Ind., West Chicago jwstollice, Mor­ gan Park postoffice. Danforth (111.) post- office. West Pullman postoffice and Wh»- netka postoffice. All of these robberies have been committed during the last six months; Twice Run Over bnt Nat Hnrt. George Carson, a brakeman in the em­ ploy of the Peoria and Pekin Union Rail­ way Company of Peoria, is a puzzle to the physicians. Less than a year ago he fell under a train of cars and two empty freight cars passed over his legs, but when he was taken out it was discovered that beyond a bruised feeling he had suf­ fered no injury. The skin was not even broken and his bones were not damaged. He resumed work the following day and has been steadily employed ever since up to a few days ago, when he again fell under « train of cars. This time the train was backing, and six loaded cars tossed him about and rolled him over the ties. Just as the firebox of the engine caught his body he made ah extra effort and came tumbling out to the side of the track. His horrified companions dreaded to go near the bundle of torn clothing, fearing the awful sight, but while they were hesi­ tating, CarsoA sat up and asked for a drink of water. He was carried home, as everybody supposed in a dying condition, but the physicians, after a careful exam­ ination, announced that his only injury was a bruise on the forehead. He re­ mained in the house two days and is again at work. Both accidents happened near the same spot. Two Men Banted for Murder. Two murderers were hanged in this State the other day, and a third was snatched from the gallows by a reprieve issued by Lieutenant Governor Northcott. At Charleston Carter Martin, who killed Albert Buser while trying to rob Buser and his brother, Oct. 3 last, was ushered into eternity with no confession of his awful deed. He refused to talk on the scaffold. His neck was broken by the fall. In Champaign County jailr Richard Collier paid the extreme penalty for the murder of a wandering chicken buyer. His brother first informed on him, and later Richard confessed his crime, but set up a plea .of self-defense. Thrfmas Pinnex. alias ^Tohn Johnson, who was to Mve been hanged for the murder of Bal­ lard Johnson, was granted a reprieve al­ most at the last moment. Baildlnor* Born at Winchester. Fire at Winchester destroyed four two- story brick buildings and contents. The buildings were owned by William Wain- wriglit, Jesse Estes, J. II. Coats and E. Lawson, and were valued at about $2,- 000 each. The lower rooms were occu­ pied by James A. Dawson, stoves and fur­ niture. loss $1,200, insurance $800; Estes' harness shop, loss $2,000, partly covered by insurance; W. T. Old, grocery, loss $1,500, covered by insurance; G. A. R. aud Knights of Honor, furniture, books and papers lost; G. H. Palmer, tailor, loss $100. By hard work Prost & Hubbard's bank, G. C. Smith's block and the D. Smith Building were saved, but they were badly damager. Alton Business Blocks Bnrn. The business part of Alton suffered by fire to the extent of $02,000, three stores being damaged. The fire started in the Pierson & Carr Dry Goods Company store, which is a total loss, estimated at $40,000. The H. J. Bowman Copipaqy, dry goods, adjoining on the west, suffered damage to the stock of $15,000. The loss to B. Pfeiffer's shoe store on the east was $7,000. - Victim of Vlrden Battle Dies. William H. Clarkson died at the Spring­ field city hospital of two bullet wounds in the head. Clarkson was the sixteenth vic­ tim of the battle at Virden on Oct. 12 last between the miners and the guards of the negro miners from Alabama and the guards at the coal company's stockades, he being a guard on the train bearing the negroes to Virden. Brief State Happening* Louis Meisuer, aged 63 years, a wealthy citizen of Breese, is dead. Henry Upp, a farmer living near Gales- burg, was kicked to death by a horse. While hunting near Keyesport Jacob Knott was fatally injured by the prema­ ture discharge of his gun. Oqp side of his face was torn gway. Mrs. George W. Curtiss, of Stockton, who went to Preeport to spend the winter, is dead. She was the wife of George W. Curtiss, ex-member of the Legislature, and until recently a member of the State Board of Charities. There have been two more deaths in the Ninth Illinois regiment at Savannah. Pri­ vate Alexander M. Winnett of Company L and Corporal Allen V. Burkett of Com­ pany F. The bodies of both soldiers were embalmed v^nd sent to Illinois. The case of Saiuuei Richolson against M. T. Moloney, late attorney general of Illinois, to recover fees alleged to be due him, ended in the Circuit Court of Illi­ nois at Ottawaiin a verdict of no cause for action. Mr. Richolson sought to prove that Mr. Moloney had drawn from the State for his fees, but did not succeed in doing so. Ezekiel Miller died at Champaign. He was born in New Jersey in 1818 and came West in an early day. He had conducted a dry goods store at Champaign for many years and was always recognized as a man of the highest integrity. He leaves two sons, Albert and Henry, who suc­ ceeded to the business left by their father. The annual report of the Galesburg Board of Education shows that during the past four years the bonded indebtedness has been reduced $15,000, and in addition $50,300 has been put into permanent im­ provements. The debt will be reduced by the present tav levy to $5,000. The en­ rollment has increased 24 per cent la the four years. A beet sugar factory Is to be located In South Peoria. Nanvoo will soon hav« • public fight and steam plant. Decatur has twenty-five miles of paved streets. About three and one-half miles were put down last summer. Henry Seip, who lived in Chicago and was 45 years old, was killed almost in­ stantly by a Halsted street car. At Peoria, ground has been broken for the new Great Eastern distillery to be erected by Jacob Woolner. The contract la let. Edward H. Moore, negro, a waiter, was stabbed to death by his 20-year-old son, Edwin J. Moore, attheir home in Chicago. Congressman-elect B. F. Caldwell has tendered, his resignation as president of the board of directors of the Farmers' Na­ tional Bank of Springfield. Since the first of the year 7o|m Gribble, a Schuyler County farmer, ha&jnarketed 2,500 pounds of chickens, 590 dozfen eggs and 2,497 pounds of butter. Mrs. William Goldsmith, a well-known lady of Ivewanee, was burned to death. Her dress caught fire from an over-heated stove, near which she was sleeping. W. B. Conkey was re-elected president of the Illinois Manufacturers'.Association at the second annual banquet of the or­ ganization at the Palmer House, Chicago. Fire in the Johnson Chair Company's factory at Chicago caused a loss of $58,* 500. The trig building is divided into sec­ tions, each one being separated by fiw? walls, and this prevented the destruction of the entire building. The Illinois Valley Association held a meeting at Peoria to prepare for actiop in the event that Chicago attempts to se­ cure any amendments to the present laws relating to the drainage canal that will tend to take oif any restrictions now plac­ ed about the work. All the river cities were well represented. The meeting lasted several hours and the subject was thor­ oughly discussed. It was decided to ap­ point a strong lobby to watch movements at Springfield during the legislative ses­ sion and to guard against any attempt to amend the laws for the protection of the valley. After four years «f repeated trials, jail terms and delay the case of Ida Johnson, charged with the murder of her husband, ex-Alderman C. F. Johnson, in December, 1894, has been disposed of at Galesburg. The woman was found insane in the Cir- cit Court and taken to the asylum at Wat- ertown. Mrs. Johnson has been twice convicted of her husband's murder and sentenced to the penitentiary, but new trials were granted in both instances, the last time by order of the {Supreme Court. Since her last trial a yepr ago she has been in jail and is now a mental and phy­ sical wreck. Her trial for insanity was ordered by Judge Glenn and evidence all proves this. The Illinois State Grange has been in session at Springfield, and resolutions were adopted favoring the use of uniform text books in the public schools, to be fur­ nished by the State at cost, and recom­ mending that convict labor be employed in their manufacture; condemning the State Board of Agriculture for allowing gambling devices and immoral shows on the fair grounds; favoring a law prohibit­ ing the killing of quails and partridges for a term of five years, and restricting the hunting season from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1; demanding the enforcement of the exist­ ing butterine laws; demanding that the bounty for killing sparrows be paid throughout the entire year. Mrs. George Tanner, wife of the hotel keeper who recently killed himself at Cairo, ended her own life with a dose of poison. In a letter written after taking the poison the woman says she could not live without her husband. On Nov. 25, 1892, Mrs. Tanner, whose maiden name was Kitty May Sams, shot and killed Captain Ransom Sampson, a riverman in the Planters' House, Cairo. She put two bullets into his bride of but a few weeks, and then attempted suicide with the same pistol. She and the bride, who came from Hickman, recovered. Miss Sams was tried and acquitted on the charge of der. Her plea was that Captain Samp­ son had promised to marry her, but threw her over for the Kentucky girl. Mrs. T. J. Morgan of Chicago saluted a burglar who entered her flat with a stove poker which lay near by apd chased him i«to the alley. The noise of the chase and the cries of the woman attracted a number of neighbors, but the man made his escape. Mrs. Morgan was busy in the kitchen when she heard some one open a door. Thinking it was her husband, she felt no apprehension, but went on with her work. The next thing she heard was a gruff voice demanding that she keep quiet and tell where her money was. The woman replied by striking the stranger on the head with a poker which Bhe had in her hand. With a cry of pain he turned and made his escape, followed by Mrs. Morgan and-her two small dogs, who grabbed savagely at the fleeing man. The Globe Savings Bank litigation, which has been before the court since the failure of the institution in the spring of 1897, has been decided in a lengthy opin­ ion rendered by Judge Tuley in Chicago. The claim of the University of lllinpis to $18,000 worth of its endowment bonds, held by the receiver under the court's order allowing the seizure of all valuables found in the private boxes of Charles W. Spalding, is sustained by the finding! Judge Tuley overruled the claim set up for the Btockhohters and the receiver that the bank had an equitable lien on the bonds by reason of the alleged negligence of the State -officials in permitting the bank to continue' in business when its af­ fairs were in a precarious condition. Orig­ inally $124,000 worth of the college en­ dowment bonds were in the hands of the receiver, but of those $106,000 have al­ ready been returned to the university. The petition of the university that its lien be established on stocks and bonds to the amount of $244,560 found in the as­ sets of the bank by the receiver, on the ground that the money of the college was used in securing them, was dismissed by Judge Tuley for want of equity. While in Washington Maj. Blunt, com­ mandant of,th§xRock Island arsenal, re­ ceived assurances that sufficient funds would be forthcoming so that the arsenal would not be closed Jan. 1. About 1,600 men are now employed there. W. A. Campbell, general manager for the Chicago City Tower Company, has announced that contracts for the erection of a new coliseum building and tower on the lake front bad been awarded. The new structure, according to the plans, will be at the foot of Superior street. The cost is put at $500,000 and it is expected to have the structure completed in 1900. An epidemic of a disease resembling meningitis is prevailing in a portion ot Fulton County. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Black recently died of it within twenty-aine hours. Announcement has been made at Quincy of the consolidation of the First National Bank with the State Savings, Loan and Trust Company under the name and charter of the latter. The First Na- UmmiI 5>ank goes into voluntary liquida­ tion and William S. Warfield, its presi­ dent, becomes president of the new organ­ ization. The First National takes one- third of the whole capital stock and will have four members of the directorate. The total assets will exceed $3,000,000. Many letters and telegrams are being t received by Senators and members ot £ Congress inquiring whpn the bodies of the dead soldiers who lost their lives in battle in Cuba, or as the result of disease, will ^ be sent to their late homes. It is the J , intention of the War Department to bring N home the body of every American soldier, including those who died of yellow fever ; and other contagious .diseases. Hermet- f) ically sealed caskets are being contracted . for and sent to Cuba as rapidly as possi- J ble, but the bodies will not be disinterred 'f until souie time in February, when it is considered they can be brought here with - perfect safety. The bodies Of the soldiers • having relatives will be turned OVer to them, but in instances where there are none the body will be interred at Arliug- * ton, the^ national cemetery, a few miles west of Washington, and the (raves will be appropriately marked. : The Morgan bill for the coustrtr^fort of1' the Nicaragua canal is a measure which will be pushed through Congress this ses­ sion if it can be done. It provides for $100,000,000 backing for the enterprise. This amount will be paid for the stock of a canal company, the subscription being taken at par. The Government will^r^- tain $70,000,000 of the stock, the remain­ der being distributed to the Central Amer­ ican governments and to the Maritime Canal Company to reimburse it for money it has actually expended for prosecution of work on the canal. The Government will, therefore, be the controlling stock­ holder in the corporation. It will escape the technical responsibility of direct con­ struction, while the terms of the conces­ sion, which stipulate that its right and privileges shall not be transferred to a Government or nation, will not be vio­ lated. The funeral of Gen. Garcia posing pageant. Among the participants were high officers of the Government, both civil and military, and the minister­ ing clergymen were eminent prelates of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Ireland, Bishop O'Gorman of the diocese of Da­ kota arid others. The President was rep­ resented at the funeral. Mrs. McKlnley sent a floral tribute; a military escort was provided by the Secretary of War, and r every possible evidence of respect and demonstration of honor was made by the United States to the hero of the Cuban revolution. The remains will be sent to Cuba on a man-of-war, with full military ^ honors, to impress the Cubans and the ' Spaniards with the respect and confidence which the United States Government felt for Gen. Garcia. > There is unquestioned • . ion among Republicans as to the advisa- v bility of acquiring the Philippines, and while there is Democratic support to the; proposition, the great mass of Democrats and Populists can be classed with the op­ position.' Some Republicans who are not; openly against that feature ef the treaty, and who frill vote for the ratification of any treaty which may be submitted, w o u l d h a v e b e e n m i g h t i l y p l e a s e d i f - events had taken such shape that the United States could have kept out of the orient. If the discussion of the treaty should develop the fact that the opposi- 7 tion is sufficiently strong to prevent ratifi­ cation at the short session a vote will be staved off and the matter be brought up' after the 4th of March. If there is any one question which hi asked more than any other in Washington it is, "Wllat hour does the legislative day of March 3 end?" This question is pro­ pounded because the life of a Congress ex­ pires at that hour once every two years. That question was settled forty-seven : years ago, and this was the way it hap­ pened: March 3, 1851, at midnight, Sen- f ator Mason of Virginia, whose term ex- ̂ pired that day and whose credentials for % another term were on file, asked to have w the oath administered to him, upon the ; ground that his right to sit under his old credentials expired at that hour. The ; Senate refused to allow his request and by resolution declared that the session did : not expire until 12 o'clock meridian the 4th. V The Vice-President says he is a direct gainer financially by the late war and the reason he gives is a decidedly novel one. From his coming to Washington up to the outbreak of the war an average of 100 babies a month were named after him, or nt least their fond parents so informed 5 |iim by letter. In this particular direction |iis value has fallen off considerably, for i the youngsters nowadays whose parents • want to start them off under the halo of Homebody else's name are christened Dewey, Schley, Roosevelt, Hobson and all ; the rest of the recent heroes of land and l»ea. J The President left Wednesday after- / noon for a journey of seven days through the South, intending to visit Atlanta, An- jrusta. Savannah, Macon, Montgomery and spend a day with Booker Washing­ ton at the industrial school for colored people at Tuskegee, Ala. This is the first journey the President has made through I he South since the winter of 1896, before Lhe nominating convention.. A little girl who had to leave the Senate gallery the other day cried bitterly. Af­ ter the big doors were closed the guardtan of the star-chamber secrets asked her why she was so opposed to leaving. "Be­ cause," she stammered between sobs, "be- Suse Christmas is coming and Santa aus was in there; and 1 wanted him to see me." She had been looking at Sw ator Stewart of Nevada. Veterans of the civil war enter com­ plaint that the army bit! which is being, framed in the House discriminates against them. They grumble loudest at the age limitations fixed in the bill and grow indignant when they talk about the disposition on the part of the new genera­ tion of Congressmen to crowd the old he­ roes into the background to make way for younger men. _«i •li -4 J '/ X U * -| ; m -.4 . -p 11 ' • , 'S3 "SV"* » - ' Senator Proctor introduced a re«wintk» providing for the appointment of a select Committee, to consist of five Senators, which will visit the West Indies at the expense of the Government to inquire into the military requirements, and another junketing party is in prospect which will in all probability spend the winter moatlMI in Cuba and Porto Rico. Washington is suffering from a perfect riot of newspaper faking. More canards have been sprung under Washington date lines on the press of the country during the last six or eight months than in any time for many years. The practice is net confined alone to the yellow journals. Staid and respectable newspapers have caught the Lr/ection. ^ M .: M * m -'~4 Ml |