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THE YERA 1899 IN THE WORLD AT LARGE
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.
JANUARY.
6-The president's proclamation to the
Philippines distributed among the
natives.
FEBRUARY.
4-Aguinaldo proclaims war against
the United States.-Filipinos attack
Americans at Manila, but are driv
en back with terrible slaughter.
5-Agoncillo, the Filipino envoy, flees
from Washington to Canada.
6-The treaty of peace with Spain, in
cluding the clause ceding the Phil
ippine islands to the United States,
ratified by the senate.-Americans
take Paranaque.
7-Caloocan shelled by Admiral Dew
ey's fleet and stormed by troops.
8-Agulnaldo's request for suspension
of hostilities ignored by General
Otis.
10-Filipinos again driven from Caioo
can after a battle,-The Spanish
treaty signed by President McKin
ley.
11-Americans take Iloillo.-Insurgents
routed between Caloocan and Mal
abon.
14-McEnery's disclaimer resolution
passed by the senate.
16-The president before the Home
Market club of Boston explains his
Philippine policy.
17-The Spanish government orders the
release of Filipino prisoners held by
Spain.
18-The iphabitants of Negros island
drive out Filipino insurgents and
hoist the stars and stripes.
30-The $20,000,000 Philippine purchase
appropriation bill passed by the
.house.
21-News of a Filipino order of a mas
sacre in Manila cabled by General
Otis to Washington.
2--Insurgents within the city set fire
to Manila.
2--Admiral Dewey requests the battle
ship Oregon "for political reasons."
-Tlhe navy takes possession of
Cebu island.
MARCH.
1--rThe senate passes ,the $20,000,000 ap
propriation for the payment for the
Philippine islands.
4-The Bennington shells San Jose
village and other suburbs of Mala
bon, killing many rebels.
6-Filipinos repulsed in an attempt to
capture Manila water works.
9-General Lawton reaches Manila.
I$-Pasig captured by Americans.
14-Americans burn Pateros and ad
vance as far as Taguig.-Insur
gents burn Pasig.
15-The insurgent army again routed
at Pasig.
16-Americans take Cainti.-Rebels re
pulsed near Santa Barbere and
near Iloilo.
01-The battles south of Malolos begin;
a bloody victory won at Polo.
26-Americans cross Tuliahan river,
take Malinta and bombard Mala
bon.
27-Rebels repulsed at Marilao and de
feated at Balacan.
29-The American advance fights its
way to within three and one-half
miles of Malolos, the rebel capital.
81-Malolos falls.
APRIL
1--The Ctarleston bombards Dagupan.
4-The Schurmann Philippine coinmis
sion issues a proclamation to the
natives.
10-Lawton's expedition captures San
ta Crus.
l--Ratifications of the Spanish peace
treaty exchanged and peace with
Spain formally proclaimed.-Insur
gents repulsed in an attack upon
Minnesota volunteers at Bocave.
12-Pennsylpania and Oregon troops
drive insurgents from Santa Maria.
I3-Lawton's expedition captures Paete.
23-Filipinos defeated at Quengua.
25--Americans figh: their way. to the
outer works of Calumpit.
27-Insurgents defeated and driven out
of Apalit.
28--Aguinaldo sends an enpoy to lGen
eral Otis to sue for peace.
29--Spain paid $20,000,000 for the Phil
ippine islands.
MAY.
1-General Lawton routs insurgents at
San Rafael.
2-Atkinson's anti-imperialist pam
phlets intended for shipment :o the
Philippines ordered to be intercept
ed from the Pacific mails.-Col.
Frederick Funston of Kansas pro
moted to be brigadier general.
4-Americans take San Tomas; Filipi
nos also defeated at Masand and
near San Fernando.
0-San Fernando taken without re
sistance.
8-Rear Admiral W'atson ordered to
report to Admiral Dewey to relieve
the latter of the command of the
Asiatic fleet.
1S-Lawton drives Filipinos from San
Ildefonso.
16-Lawton captures the new insur
gent capital, San Isidro.
20-Admiral Dewey sails from Manila
to Hong Kong on his way home.
Aguinaldo's envoys confer with
General Otis, who refuses their re
quest for an armistice.
22-The Schurmann commission offers
terms to the Filipinos.
24-Insurgents repulsed at San Fernan
do.-The Spanish garrison evacu
ates Zamboanga, Mindanao island,
and fights a battle with Filipinos.
29-Philippine courts re-established by
General Otis.-Captain Tilly mur
dered by insurgents.
30-Americans blockade the port of
Sulu.
JUNE.
8-Filipinos burn Macabebe.
4-Americans sweep Morong peninsu
la, win two battles and take the
towns of Morong and Ant;polo.
8-General Luna assassinated by
Aguinaldo's guard.
O--Rebels driven from the isthmus
south of Pasig river as far south
as Paranaque. which town is bom
barded and captured.-A flanking
'party of Filipinos near Taguil
mowed down by the gunboat Napi
dan.
13-General Lawton routs the insur
gents at Los Pines with great
slaughter.-Rebels attack Cavite
navy yard with artillery; their po
sitions shelled by the Americatn
fleet.
14-Americans take Bacocr.-Oregon
troops sail from Manila for San
Francisco. the first of the volun
teer regiments to depart.
15-Insurgents evacuate Imus.
16-A rebel attack upon Americans at
San Fernando repulsed.
19-An American reconnoitering expe
dition attacked by Filipinos near
Peree das Marinas; rebels repulsed
with slaughter.
20-Admiral Watson arrives in Manila
and raises his flag over the cruio.r
Baltimore.-American forces enter
Peres das Marinas.
22-Filoiinos sentence Peace Envoy Ar
guelles to 12 years' imprisonment.
2--Filipinos at Mantiulup: shelled by
the gunboat Napidan and driven
away by cavah y.
JULY.
1-California soldle. s attacked while
embarking from Negros island.
6-The first order for enlistment of vol
unteers for the Philippine war pub
lished.--Cabatuan, assassin of
General Luna, acquitted by the Fil
ipino court-martial.
12-General Bates sent to Jolo to treat
with the sultan of the Sulu islands.
19-Americans surprise and rout Ba
baylones at Bobong, Panay island.
26-General Otis proclaims a provision
al government for Negros island.
27-General Hall captures and garrisons
Calamba; an attempt by the Fill
pinos to retake the place repulsed.
28-Americans attack and rout insur
gents in Cebu island.
30-Insurgents again repulsed in an at
tempt to retake Calamba.
AUGUST.
8.-Aguinaldo appeals to the Eurupean
powers for recognition of Philippine
independence or belligerency.
9--General MacArthur attacks and de
feats rebels beyond San Fernando.
11-A reconnoitering party sent out by
MacArthur takes Angeles.
12-General Young's reconnoissance de
feats rebels and takes San Mateo.
14-Insurgents defeated between Buseos
and Qulngua.
17-Rebels driven from intrenchments
before Calulet after a hard battle.
Filipinos make an unsuccessful at
tempt to retake Angeles.-President
McKinley calls for 10 more volun
teer regiments.
20-A Filipino entrenched force routed
north of Angeles.
26-Insurgents defeated m Zamboanga
island by Dato Mundi, a native
chief.
26--Troops in Cebu island sally into the
hills and punish natives who had
ambushed four soldiers.
31-The native bandit stronghold of
Argegula, near Iloilo, destroyed by
troops.
SEPTEMBER.
13-The gunboat Paragua destroys a
Filipino s hooner after a sharp en
gagement at Balemao.
14-The gunboat Paragua disperses In
surgents at San Fabian, on the
northern coast of Luzon.
17-The Charleston bombards a rebel
fort on Subig bay.
18-A British steamer fired upon by the
United States gunboat Pampange,
in its quest for fllibusters.-The Chi
nese government pritests against
General Otis' exclusion order in the
Philippines.
22-Insurgents ditch a train and fire
upon soldiers in the cars, but are
forced to flee.-General Snyder
takes seven insurgent forts in Cebu.
23-The gunboat Urdaneta grounds in
the Oran river, where she is looted
and her crew captured by insur
gents.
24-Four warships bombard Claranga
po, Subig bay, and capture a heavy
Krupp gun.
28-McArthur assaults and takes Porac.
30-Filipinos deliver 14 American pris
oners.
OCTOBER.
1-General Otis refuses to receive Fili
pino commissioners.
2-A Filipino attack upon Bacoor re
pulsed.
4-Insurgents reoccupy Porac.-Two
rebel attacks upon Calambia re
pulsed.
6-General Grant drives insurgents
from the west bank of Imus river.
8-Americans take Cavite, Viejo and
Novaleta after sharp fighting.
9-An insurgent attack at Laloma re
pulsed.
10--General Schwan's column enters
San Francisco de Malabon unop
posed.-Small parties of rebels rout
ed in three engagements.
11-Rebels defeated by a reconnoitering
party south of San Francisco de
Malabon.
12-General Young takes Arayat.
13-General Schwan's command reoccu
pies Imus. scattering the insurgents
there.
16-Filipinos unsurces fully attack An
geles, using artlilery.
17-Colonel Bell's regiment drives rebels
out of Porac.
1S--Gneral Otis receives an offer rur.
porting to come from Plo del P:lr.
"Offerlng to surrender Aguinaldo ,,nd
the Filipino army for $500.000.--Mac
abehes disperse rebels at San Ma
19-General Young occupies San Isidro
after a hard fight at San Fernando.
22-Insurgents repulsed at Calamba.
26-General Young's column defeats
rebels at Tuboatin river.
27-Ruperto Santiago arrested at Ilo
ilo charged with plotting an insur
rection.-Captain Slmons defeats
and disperses Tulisanes bandits
near San Carlos. Negros island.
28-General Young takes Santa Rosa.
30-Cabanatuan captured by MIajor Bal
lance's battalion.
NOVEMBER.
2-The preliminary report of the Phil
ippine commission made public.
Major Bell drives rebel cavalry out
of Porac after a sharp fight.-Ag
uinaldo issuesanothe. proclamation.
4-Chase's and Rivers' cavalry capture
Bongbong.
5--General Wheaton's expeditirn
leaves Manila from the north coast
of Luzon.-General McArthur's di
vision takes Magalanga.
6-First autonomous government in
the Philippines established on
Negros island.
7-Wheaton's force lands at San Fa
bian against desperate Filipino op
position.
8-General Young takes San Jose.
General MacArthur occupies Mbaba
lacat.
10-Rebel trenches at Jaro, Pany isl
and, captured by Americans.
11-General MacArthur captures Lam
ban.
12-Insurgents routed by General
Wheaton in a hard-fought battle at
San Jacinto; Maior John A. Logan
killed while leading a charge.--Col
onel Bell takes Tarlac, the rebel
capital and stronghold, without op
position.-Araneta,. rebel leader in
Panay island, made prisoner.
17--Americans meet with strong oppo
.ition at Pozorrubio.
19--A!ntrican troops occupy Dagupan.
-- O1,hTs resume the ofensive south
of Manila: Americans scatter thor:n
near Imus, but the enemy, being
reinforol,, force the troops hack.
18-Zarhnoi inga province surrenders to
Americans.
:~20-Colonel t':rpenter advances from
Jaro to santa Barbara, carrying
trench af',or trench in small en
gagements.
21-Filipinos f,,rrod tl retreat after a
battle north of Ilc.lo.
23-T-hie president of the Filipino con
gress and part of his cabinet sur
reoner to th.- Americana; rebels
scatter in small bands and wage a
guerrilla warfare.
24-Insurgents O.ake a feint upon Imus.
but suffer loss.
25--General Lawton releases from Fill
pilnos many Spanish ; risoners at
Tayug and captures $75,000 in in
surgent money.
26-The enemy driven westward from
Mangataran-The navy takes the
port of V'ian.--Tnsurgents defeat
ed at Pavia, Panay island.
I--Colonel Bell route and scatters 2,000
insurgents on a mountain top west
of Mangataran.
DECEMBER.
1-The Filipino General, Conon, sur
renders Bayambang with 800 men
to 50 American scouts under Aeu
tenant Monroe.
4-General Young takes Tagudin with
out opposition.
5-Insurgents suffer a bloody repulse
in a night attack upon the garri
son of Vigan.
6-General Young routs insurgents at
Narbacan.-The insurgent General
Greggorlo del Pilar killed.
9-The small escort of a wagon train
repulses an insurgent attack near
Balinag.-General Grant's column
occupies Olangapa. on Subig bay.
10-The army and navy take Leoag.
11-The rebel General Concepcion sur
renders.-The province of COavagan
surrenders to Captain McCalla.
12-The rebel General Tino's army in
northern Lubon broken up by Col
onel Howse.-General MaoArthur
captures Aguinaldo's counselor.
Mabint.
13-Americans capture the mountain
stronghold of Bicanabato.
19-General Lawton killed in battle be
fore San Mateo; rebels driven into
the mountains.
GENERAL EVENTS.
JANUARY.
1-The United States assumes sover
eignty over all Cuba.-The Boston
terminal railroad station, the larg
est in the world, opened for public
use.
2-Tax rots break out in Sicily.
3-Organization of the United States
Sixteen-to-One Money League be
gun in Denver.
5-The foundation stone of Gordon
Memorial college laid in Khartoum.
6-Lord Curzon installed c, viceroy of
India.-Southern capitaleits secure
control of the Seaboard Air line.
7-A mountain falls into Fraser river,
B. C., changing the course of a
river and inundating a farming re
gion.-City Treasurer Blevins of
New Castle, Pa., murdered and his
office robbed.
9-Two Lehigh Valley passenger trains
collide at West Dunnellen, N. J.,
killing 16 people.
10-The alleged tomb of Romulus dis
covered in Rome.-Charlemagne
Tower nominated ambassador to
Russia and Addison C. Harris min
ister to Austro-Hungary.
11-Joseph H. Choate nomi"ated am
bassador to the court of St. James.
12-Commissary General Eagan makes
a ferocious attack upon General
Miles in a statement before the
war investigation commission.-An
drew Carnegie offers $250,000 toward
a free library in Washington.
13-The American St-el and Wire com
pany incorporated.
14-The steamship Oceanic, the largest
ever built, launched at Newcastle.
England.-The submarine torpedo
boat Gustavezede successfully test
ed at Toulon, France.-The British
slip Andalina founders at Tacoma,
Wash.; 19 lives lost.
15-A drunken Indian mob repulsed in
an attack upon Juneau, Alaska;
four of their number killed.
17-The last hostile Dervish force sur
renders to Anglo-Egyptlionit-Will
lam Rhodes, a Philadelphia 'builder.
found to have absconded owing
$1.o000,000.
18-Depew elected United States sen
ator from New York and Bever
Idge from Indiana.
19-The Cuban evacuation commission
dissolves.-An investigation by sci
entists at Keely's workshops proves
that the alleged motor was a de
lusion.
21-The senate passes the Nicaragua
canal bill.
22-Several villages in the Greek Pel
oponnessus destroyed by an earth
quake.
23-The heaviest day's business ever
transacted on the Now York stock
exchange.-The South Jersey glass
strike begins.
24-King Oscar of Sweden provision
ally retires in favor of Crown Prince
Gustav.
27-General Eagan convicted by court
martial.-Foreclosure suit of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad ordered.
31-The house passes the Hull army
hbill.-Sixty Kentucky distilleries
consolidated.
FEBRUARY.
1-The South Dakota legislature final
ly passes a law requiring one year's
residence to obtain a divorce.-The
American Potteries company or
ganized.-The Creek Indian treaty
signed.
2-General Gomez consents to Presi
dent M Kinley's proposition relat
ing to payment of Cuban troops.
Australian premiers agree upon a
federation plan.-The Naval and
Military Order of the Spanish-Amer
ican War organized.-Professor
Brasbear of Pittsburg completes
the largest rock salt prism ever
made for Professor Langley of the
Smithsonian institute, Washington.
4-The Philippine war breaks out.
Mrs. Botkin, the Califorrla poison
er, sentenced to life imprisonment.
6-The Spanish peace treaty ratified
by the senate.-The Cambria Steel
company of Johnstown, Pa., in
creases wages.
7-The sentence upon General Eagan
commuted to six months' susnen
P0on from rank and duty.-The
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad sold
8-The National Steel company char
tered.-The Crebore-Pquire Tele
graph company of Cleveland, using
the "sign wave" system. incorpor
ated.-The state of siege in Spain
raised.
9-The war investigation commission
reports to the president.-A court
of inquiry to investigate General
Milos' army beef ciarces ordered.
10-The S -anish pea-e treaty signed by
President MeKinley.
12-The South Dakota state insane asy
lum at Yankion burns: 17 inmates
cremated.--Twelve Italians killed
by a snowslide at Silver Plime.
Colo.-The steamer Moravia wreck
ed off Sable island and her crew of
30 lost.
13-A great blizzard prevails all over
the Union east of the Rocky moun
tains: many people in Texas frozen
to death.-Judge D'llnhauah of
Cleveland convitctre of malfeasane,'
in ofltce.-Four p-r-ors found dead
and three stunefied in a house at
M.rlbhro. 7Mass.
14-Northwestern flour mills combine.
-McEnery's Philippine disclaimer
rosolution passed by the senate.
15-The first anniversary of the de
struction of the Maine observed.
Fire at the Brooklyn navy yard de
stroys property valued at $1,500.000.
16--The Isthmus of Panama strike
compromised.
18-Emile Lothbet elected president of
France. vice Faure. deceased.-Rus
slans and Chinese fisht a battle at
Talien-Wan.--Professor Stevens
found guilt:y at Easton. Pa., of set
ting fire to Lafayette college.
20-The theateaplione successfully test
ed in Chicago.
21-Professor R. ,W. Wood of the Unl
versary of Wisconsin thaws frozen
water piped with electricity.
22-Germany informally requests of the
United States the r moval of Chief
Justice Chambers of Samoa.
28-The pope, in a letter to Cardinal
Gibbons, condemns "Americanism"
as a church movement.
T--The senate passes the army reor
ganization bill with the Gorman
amendment.-Roland R. Molineux
arrested on the charge of murder
ing by poison Mrs. Adams in New
York.
28-Borchgrevink's expedition lands on
the Antarctic continent.
MARCH.
1-The house passes the compromise
army reorganization bill.--Te
Spanish ministry resign.-Edison
claims to have discovered a meth
od of hardening steel plates.-The
Chicago & Alton railroad sold to
the Harrison syndicate.-A general
advance of wages takes place in the
iron and steel industries.
2-President McKinley signs the $20,
000,000 Spanish appropriation and
admiral bills.-Italy demands from
China railroad concessions and the
lease of San Mun bay.-General To
ral arrested in Madrid.
3-Dewey promoted to be admiral of
the United States navy.-S:lvela be
comes premier of Spain.-Bailey re
signs the democratic leadership in
the house of representatives.
Three German lieutenants make the
fastest balloon trip on record, go
ing from Berlin across the Austrian
frontier at the rate of 68 miles an
hour.
4-Congress adjourns.-Fifty-one peO
ple killed by a gunpowder explosion
at Toulon, France.
6-Prof. Wood of the University of
Wisconsin announces the discovery
of a new method of color pho
tography.
9-Mrs. Margaret Cody convicted at
Albany of attempting to blackmail
the Jay Gould heirs.
11-The last Spanish troops, except the
sick in hospitals, evacuate Cuba.
The Cuban assembly "removes"
General Gomez from authority.
General James A. Wa'1"r shoots
and mortally wounds /.orney W.
S. Hamilton in a street combat.
13-Representatives of the United
States, Great Britain and Germany
reach.a new agreement concerning
15-American and British cruisers bom- 2
bard Samoan villages.
16-Four negroes shot dead in jail at
Palmetto, Ga.-Six men killed at l
Hot Springs, Ark., in a riot be
tween political mobs.
17-The Hotel Windsor in New York
burns; about 50 lives lost.
18-A new satellite of Saturn discov
ered by Prof. Pickering of Harvard
university.-Tornadoes kill over a
score of people in Alabama, Missis
stippi and Arkansas. 2
20---Martha Place, the New York mur
deress, the first woman to suffer
electrocution.
21-The republican party of Porto Rico
organized.
23-Railroads of the Central states. in
conjunction -:ith the interstate
commerce commission, reach a tar
iff agreement.-Tanumailli Malietoa
crowned king of Samoa.-A mob In
Little River coupty, Ark., lynches
a gang of seven negroes.-Thr e
colored men lynched near Silver
City, Miss.
24-The American Independent Tele
phone company organized.
25-The Port Arthur, Tex., ship canal
opened.-Great Britain annexes the
Tonga islands.-Paul and John
Zeltner kill Lawyer Westenhaver in
a court room at Haytsville, 0.; and
also two farmerselwhile besieged in
their house by cit.zens; troops
called out; the brothers surrender
next day.
28-Messages exchanged over the En
glish channel by Marconi's system
of wireless telegraphy.
31-The United States, Great Britain
and Germany reach an agreement
for a joint high commission to set
tle 'the Samoa question.-The excur
sion steamer Stella runs upon a
rock in the Fnglish channel and
founders; 70 lives lost.
APRIL.
1-Over 400 lives wiped out by a hur
ricane in Queensland, Australia.
4-The Cuban assembly dissolves and
the native army disbands.-The
Gerlach Antarctic expedition re
turns to the Patagonian coast after
a successful cruise.-The steamer
Ch:lkat capsises at Eureka, Cal.; 10
people drowned.
6-The president appoints commission
ers to represent the United States
at The Hague peace conference.
7-The burning of two New York
mansions results in 'the loss of 14
lives.
8-Yellowstone river floods in Montana
destroy 12 lives.
10-Seven people killed in a strike riot
at Pana, Ill.
11-Ratifications of the Spanish peace
treaty exchanged and peace formal
ly proclaimed.-Bolivlan revolution
ists led by Pando overthrow :he
government.
11-Dr. Nancy Guilford sentenced to 10
years in the Connecticut state pris
on for her connection with the
death of Emma Gill.
15-The Duke of Arcos appointed Span
ish minister to Washington.-Two
ancient statues, one the largest of
alabaster ever discovered, un
earthed at Karnak, Egypt.
17-Minlsterialists win Spanish elec
tions.
18-Incendiary fires at Pointe Pitre,
Guadaloupe island, W. I., wipe out
31 lives and 400 houses, rendering
2.000 people homeless.
19-Counterfeiters of the "Monroe
head" $100 silver certificates arrest
ed in Philadelphia and Lancaster,
Pa.; ex-United States District At
torney Newitt also arrested in Phil
adelphia on the charge of bribery
in the case.
20---Ex-Senator Quay acquitted of con
sp:racy in the People's bank case
in Philadelphia.
21-Governor Stone of Pennsylvania
appoints Quay United States sona
tor. the legislature having failed to
23-Sam iHose, negro murderer, burnd
at the stake and hif tody carved to
pieces at Newman. Ga.: Preacher
Strickler lynched next day.
24--The German government protee.s
against remarks made by Captain
Coghlan of the U.. S. S. Raleigh tn
a speech made at New York -The
British ship Loch Sloy wrecked on
Kangaroo island: 30 people
drowned.
25-President McKinley con.ents to the
laying of a cable from Germany to
the United States.
26-Three :hundred houses of C,!'a
Hungary, burn; 12 lives lost.-The
bu-iness section of Dawson CIty
burns; loss $3 500.000.
27-Tornadoes at Kirksville and New
town, Mo., kill 50 people.-Coprer
and flour trusts chartered.-The
controlling interest in the Monon
railroad system snld to J. P. Mor
gan & Co.-A APrlnceton chair of
general politics anonymously en
dowed.-Miss Sart .'is unveils in
Philadelphia the statue of her
grandfather. Gen. IT. S. Grant.
28-M-Irs. Ge--ge acquitted at Canton,
0., of the murder of Saxton.-The
new Wheeling & Lake Erle Rail
road company Incorporated -One
hundred and twenty eorts of
Iard Kitchener's expedItion to Dar
fur massacred in Africa.
---The United States pays Spain $20,
000,000 for the Philippine !slands.
The report of the Wade court of
inquiry on army beef submitted to
the presldent.-The National Car
negie Steel company organized in
New York.-An inrush of water at
the Kischnar gold mine, near
Trolzk, Russia, collapses, killing 62
miners.--Strikers at Wardner. Ida
ho, capture and blow up two mines
and take possession of a railroad.
30-The Anti-Imperialist League of,
America organized in Chicago.
MAY.
8-Professor Cervello of Italy invents
formalina gas, which he claims as
a consumption cure.
6-M. de Freycinet, French minister of
war, resigns.-The United States
Plate Glass company incorporated.
8-The mummy of Thothmes I., Phar
aoh of Egypt, discovered by the di
rector of the Egyptian museum.
10-Cholera breaks out at SB.de, India.
11-A model of Langley's aerodrome
tested at Quantico, Va., but not
very successfully.-The Duke of Ab
ruzzl's polar expedition leaves Italy.
-A tornado in Sabinas valley, Mex
ico, kills 22 people.-At Howard
City, Mich., Jasper Harvey kills
his wife, child, uncle, grandmother,
father-In-law and himself.
12-David Henderson, the New York
theatrical manager, files a petition
in bankruptcy.-An excursion train
runs into an express train at Exe
ter, Pa.; 28 lives lost.
14-Rev. Charles H. Briggs ordained a
priest of the Protestant Episcopal
church.
15-Baron Heyl su Herrenshein of Ger
many gives $3,000,000 toward the tu
berculosis asv!um movement.
Judge Goff, at Baltimore, authorizes
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad com
pany to issue reorganization bonds.
16-Eight former British army officers
arrested in Johannesburg, charged
with plotting treason against the
Transvaal republic.-The jaint Sa
moan commissioners begin their
sessions in Apia.
18-The peace conference assembles at
The Hague.
19-Seventeen automobile companies in
corporated in as many states.
20-The American liner Paris runs
aground off Lown:and's Point, Eng
land.-Three thousand peofple made
homeless by fire at Parosow, Rus
sia; 12 lives lost.
22-The Buffalo grain shovelers' strike
ended.
23-The Chicago Women's Athletic club
house, the only one of the kind in
the world, opened.
24-Queen Victoria's 80th birthday cel
ebrated.
25--Arthur T. Hadley elected president
of Yale university.-J. E. Moss
murders his family of four and com
mits suicide in a tent at Joplin, Mo.
-James Humphries and his two
sons, white, lynched at Aley, Tex.,
for assisting a murderer to escape.
26-Arthur Winton arrives at New York
city hall from Cleveland on his au
tomobile, having averaged 17.6
miles an hour.-Two hundred build
ings in Coney Island, N. Y., burn;
lose. $1,000,000.
27-The tuberculosis congress assem
bles in Berlin.-Payment of Cuban
soldiers begins.
28-Mgr. Casanova, president of the
Catholic plenary council of the
Latin American states, enthroned
in Rome.
29-President McKinley issues an order
releasing over 4,000 federal officials
from the classified clvili.ervice list.
30-The Spanish minister, the Duke of
Arcoa. lands in Ne v York.-Major
Marchand arrives in Paris and is
made a popular hero.-The "Re
public of Amazonas," at the head
quarters of the Amazon, proclaim
ed.
31-Mrs. Leland Stanford gives her en
tire fortune of some $38,000,000, to
Stanford university, Cal.-The Nic
aragua canal commission submits
its report to the president.-Infor
mations filed at Harrisburg, Pa.,
against alleged legislative bribers,
and warrants for arrest issued.
JUNE.
1-Marion Clark, the kidnaped New
York baby, recovered and her ab
ductors arrested.
2-The Spanish cession to Germany of
the Caroline, Marianne and Palao
islands announced.
3-The French court of cassation or
ders a new court martial for Cap
tain Dreyfus.-The Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company raises
wages.
4--Preseldent Loubet of France mob
bed by royalists at the Auteuil race
tract.
6-Sir Alfred Milner's conference with
President Kruger of the Transvaal
republic fails of results.-General
Gomez issues to Cubans his fare
well manifesto.
7-Twenty-five people drowned by a
cloudburst in the Colorado River
valley, Tex.-Professor Dewar an
nounces that he has liquefied hy
drogen.
9-A. J. Cassett elected president of
the Pennsylvania railroad.-Ten
thousand Central Pennsylvania
coal miners strike.-Organization of
the National Glass company begun.
-A wind storm in the Spanish prov
ince of Valladolid destroys 150
houses and many lives.
10-Bedouins attack an Egyptian con
voy and capture the holy carpet.
-The first Cleveland street railway
strike begfns.-Murderer Tom Bak
er, while in the sheriff's custody at
Manchester, Ky., shot dead from a
window.
12-A tornado sweeps over parts of
Wisconsin and Minnesota, wiping
out many. lives, including 122 at
New Richmond. Wis.-Dr. William
R. Harper selvrs his co-nection
The National League of R.publican
Workers orran'zed in Washington.
-Dupuy's French mini-try resign.
13-The Samoan kingship eb lis',d and
a provisional government establish
ed by the three protecting powers.
Herman, Neb., leveled by a tor
nado.
15 -The Venezuela bnnndary arbitra
tion begins in Paris.-A German
workingrran invents artificial coal.
-Non-union street car men in
Clevelard mobbea.
11-The first reciprocity treaty under
the Dingley law. that negotinat .
with Great Britain for Barbadnes,
signed in Washington.-The Stand
ard Oil company increases its can
ital stock to $110,000 000.-Explosions
in the Calednia mine near Glare
bay, C. B., killed 11 men.-Thirty
people drowned by the collision of
two steamers in the river Oder,
Germany.
19-The Pope appoints bhishops for Por
to Rico and Santiago de Cuba and
also creates several cardinals.
20-The proposed state constitution re
ject'.l by Rhode Island voters.
21-Several non-union colored miners
shot from ambush near Evansville,
--Thil, Metropolitan National bank of
. ,;ttoor ebbed of iO0.100.-Wa!
deck-Rosseau forms a French cabi
10t.
23-The first Cleveland railway strike
settled.
24-The first annual reunion of the
Rough Riders held at Las Vegas,
N. M.; Governor Roosevelt the
guest of honor.
26-The American Isthmian Ship Canal
conlpany incorporated.
27-Negroes ambushed at Corona, Ala.,
and three killed.
28-Dr.Oscar Loew claims to have dis
covered a ferment treatment (en
zymes) for germ diseases.-Rioting
over the Belgian government's
electoral bill breaks out in Brus
sels.
29-Pingree & Smith's shoe factory em
ployes in Detroit strike.-The steam
barge Margaret founders ti Lake
Erie; 11 drowned.-Mayor Balbir
nie of Muskegon, . Mich., assassi
nated by J. W. Taylor, an office
seeker.
I.-The Boston & Albany railroad
leased by" the New York Central.
-The Baltimore & Ohio railroad
leased from the receivership.-Non
union miners raid and burn Union
City, Ill.-A flood on the Brazos
river, Tex., drowns 88 people;
$6,000,000 worth of property de
stroyed.
JULY.
1-The cinematograph utilized in
surgery at Kiel university.
8-Photograph of the Interior of a liv
ing mah's stomach taken in Chi
cago with Roentgen rays.-Elias
Hatfield shoots dead Deputy Sher
iff Ellis at Williamson, W. Va.
-The Michigan street railway pur
chase law annulled by the state
supreme court.
6--Ex-King Milan shat dead in Bel
grade.-In London, May Wright Se
well elected president of the Inter
national Council of Women.
7-The Spanish court-martial acquits
Admiral Cervera and other officers
for the Santiago defeat.
8-Angus M. Cannon arrested in
Utah for polygamy and pleads
guilty.-George F. Bell, claiming to
be the secret service agent who
stole the Carranza letter, charges
that Chief Wilkie substituted a
forged document for the real one.
10-The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse breaks the record for time
between New York and Cherbourg,
France, five days and 20 hours and
55 minutes.
11-The Isham dynainite shell, the
Sims-Dudley dynamite gun and
thorite successfully tested at Sandy
Hook, N. J.-Governor Atkinson in
person arrests Elias Hatfield at
Warneliffe, W. Va.
12-The Central Pennsylvania mine
strike settled.
14-The Middlesex County bank at
Perth Amboy, N. J., closed on ac
count of the defalcation of Cash
ier Edward M. Valentine, who is
arrested and confesses.-Lieuten
ant Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant
Meunier killed by orders of Cap
tain Voulet of the French expedi
titon in West Africa.
15-Negotiations in Detroit for muni
cipal purchase of street railways
broken off.
16-The Brooklyn traction strike be
gins.
17-The Clevelapd street car strike re
sumed.-Five men killed in a feud
in Clay county, Ky.-Japan's new
foreign treaties go into effect.
18-The Transvaal Volkeraad passes
seven-year franchise bill as a com
promise with Great Britain's de
mands.
19-Alger resigns as secretary of war.
-An attempt made to blow up an
elevated railroad structure in
Brooklyn.
20-Six Italians lynched' at Tellulah,
La.
21-First attempt to dynamite a car
made by Cleveland sympathizers.
22-Elihu Root accepts the war port
folio; sworn in August 1.
23-Several negro assailants of Mrs.
J. E. Ogletree, Bainbridge, Ga.,
lynched.
24-Delegates to The Hague peace con
ference sign the conventions.-The
France-American reciprocity treaty
signed.
26-The Pingree & Smith strike in De
troit settled in favor of the firm.
The British Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company form
ed.-President Heurepx of San
Domingo assassinated.
27-Property of the Ruskin colony in
Tennessee sold at auction.
29-The Hague peace conference dis
solves.-The Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railroad reorganized
as the Cincinnati, Portsmouth &
Parkersburg railroad.
30-Thirty cases of yellow fever de
velop at Hampton Soldiers' Home,
Virginia.
31-Yaquis in Mexico take the warpath.
-The Pennsylvania railroad de
cides to pension superannuated em
ployes.-The Archbishop pf Canter
bury forbids the use of incense and
candles in English established
churches.
AUGUST.
1-Famine kills 40,000 natives of East
Africa.-Several Florida towns
partly swept away by floods; a
number of lives lost.-A financial
panic precipitated in Moetreal by
two bank failures.-The Belgian
ministry resign.
2-A revolution In favor of Jiminez
breaks out in San Domingo.-The
Central Anti-Imperialist league or
ganized in Chicago.
6-Twenty-nine trolley passengers
killed by the fall of a car through
a bridge near Bridgeport, Conn.
The collapse of a terry gangplank
near Bar Harbor, Me., kills 20 peo
ple.
7-The Dreyfus court martial begins
at Rennes, France.-Jim Baker, the
Kentucky vendetta leader, ac
quitted of murder.
9-A hurricane sn eeps the West In
dies, killing 2,000 people in Porto
Rico and 300 in the Bahamas.
12-Paul Deroulehde and several otner
anti-Dreyfusiles arrested in France.
13--Maitre Labori, counsel for Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
14-The Erie railroad begins cutting
passenger rates.
16-Bubonic plague discovered in Opor
to, Portugal.-A Chilean train falls
into a river near Santiago; 59 peo
ple drowned.-A Venezuela rebel
lion crushed in a bloody battle in
the state of Los Andes.
17-Walter Wellman's Arctic expeli
tion returns to Tromsoe, Norway.
19--The German reichstag rejects the
canal b.1.
20--Revolutionary anarchists In Paris
start a riot, wrek$oing a church; 380
wounded .and 150 arrested.
21-Th;e British malarial expedition to
Sierra Leone, Atrica, discovers the
malarial mosquito.-The German
ministry res:gn.-The Transvaal
government practically relects
(treat Britain's joint commission
proposal--The business center of
Victor, Colo.. burns; loss $2,000,000.
22-Ex-Speaker Reed resigns his seat
in congress.
28--,ew copper companies chartered.
Six hundred lives lost by tile floo:l
ing of a copper mine at Beseh',
Japan.-The collapse of steel arches
for the Chicago coliseum kills 12
workmen.
29-Street car rioting resumed in Cleve
land.
30-Thie insular commlss:on reports to
Secretary Root recommendations o.
a code of laws for Porto Rico.
John R. McLean chosen chairman
of the democratic national ways
and means committee on the same
day as his nominat:nn for governor
of Ohio.-San Domingo revolution
ists set up a government.-A Mor
mon meeting at Pine Bluff, Tenn..
bombarded by a mob; Miss May
Harden killed while trying to pro
tect the elders, ana Burton Vinson.
her unintentional slayer, commits
suicide.
81-.Organization of the Amnerioah
cycle company completed.-Pre
dent 'iguero of San Domingo
signs.-The Belgian chamber
deputies rejects the motion for
Vision of the constitution.
SEPTEMySaR.
1-A Japanese typhoon destroys 8,000
lives.
3-Duting an earthquake in Alaska a\
tidal wave is swallowed up by a
chasm.
"'-The G. A. R. pensions committee
reports 'o the national encampment
criticialana rules followed in the ad
ministration of the pension office.
The National Naval Veterans' asso
cleation splits over the proposition
to admit Spanish war particpants.
-The American Banking assoclae
tion takes the initial step toward
establishing a bankers' institute on
the London plan.-Union glass
workers of New Jersey win their
strlke.-The Victoria (Australia)
legislative council rejects the wo
man suffrage bill.
7-First electrograph made in Wash
ington by Prof. Elmer Gates.-Ths
Astronomical and Astro-Physical
Society of America organized at
Yerkes observatory.
8-The Association of Spanish War
.Veterans organized.
9-Dreyfus found guilty and sentenced
to 10 years' imprisonment-A Nor
wegian cutter captain claims tc
have found a buoy marked and left
by Andree, the polar aeronaut.
Prof. Campbell at Lick observatory
discovers that the North star is a
,triple system.
11-The Hatfield "fort" near William
son, W. Va., captured, with three
of the outlaw family.
12-Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa
sends his resignation to President
McKinley.
13- ae Civic Federation's conference
on trusts assembles in Chicago.
Thirty-two people killed during a.
fiiL panic in a synagogue at Ka
lisch, Russian Poland.
14-The national export exposition
in Philadelphia opens.-The will of
Judge Prendergast of Chicago pro
vides for the founding of a rest
cure home for nervous and insom
nia invalids.
18-Elias Hatfield convicted at Will
iamson, W. Va., of second degree
murder.
murder.
17-Eight negroes killed in a mine riot
at Cartersville, Ill.
18-The French senate begins the trial
of 22 politicians on charges of con
spiracy against the government.
19-Dreyfus pardoned.
20-Governor Sayers' anti-trust confer
ence assembles in St. Louls.-Guer
in, the besieged Parisian agitator,
surrenders.-Discovery of the Nich
olas II. range of mountains in Abys
sinia by a Russian expedition an
nognced.-Over 2,000 New River, W.
Va., miners strike for higher wages.
-An earthquake in Asia Minor de
stroys two villages, 2,000 houses and
1,000 lives.-Cashier Filbert of the
Palatine, Ill., bank mortally wound
ed by Walton Lawton, who was sus
pected of intention to rob the bank;
the culprit fatally hurt and a farm
er injured in the melee.-Nine per
sons wounded during an anti-Semit
Ic riot in Algiers.
21-The steamship Scotsman strikes a
rock and founders in the straits ot
Belle Isle; 12 women drowned;
wrecked passengers robbed by the
crew,
22,-Organization of the Tripler Liquid
Air company completed in New
York.-Adam Kessler, a miser, his
hired man, his housekeeper and a
child murdered and the house rob.
bed and burned at Kessler's Curve,
Md.
23-A maniac in the Kankakee, Ill., asy
lum cured by goat lymph.
24-Earthquake, flood ana . landslde
near Darjeeling, India, destroy 340
lives.-A pro-Boer meeting In Tra
falgar square, London, turned into
an enthusiastic war demonstration.
25-Admiral Dewey, on the Olympia. ar
rives in New York bay.-The United
States and Havana Cigar company
incorporated.
27-The Young People's Christian Tem
perance union organizes in Chicago.
28-Caracas invested by Venezuelan in
surgents.-The steamer Montoya
burns in Magdalena river, Colom
bia; 30 lives lost.
29-The celebration of Dewey's return
begins in New York with a naval
parade; land parade next day.-A
flurry in the New Orleans cotton
market, caused by false London re
ports, reaches its culmination.
30-Captain Carter, U. .. A., sentenced
to five years' imprisonment and
fined $5,000 for malfeasance in of
flce.-Count Clary becomes premier
of Austria.
OCTOBER.
2-Lieutenant Guise and his German
expedition massacred by rebellious
natives near Old Calabar river,
Southwest Africa.-Fifty lives lost
in a theater fire in Canton, China.
3-The Transvaal government takes
possession of a treasure train en
route from Johannesburg to Cape
Town.-The court of arbitration de
cision on the Venezuela boundary a
compromise. - The international
geographical congress takes steps to
organize a seismological society and
a seismic research commission.-F.
J. Miller, ex-lieutenant governor of
Idaho, shoots dead Chief Engineer
O'Melveney of the Oregon Short
Line at Salt Lake, Utah.
4-General Greeley ascends in Siegs
field's kite balloon in Paris.-Admlr
al Schley installed as commandel
of the Loyal Legion.
10--The Transvaal government presents
an ultimatum to Great Britain de
manding withdrawal of troops from
the border.
11-Orange Free State burghers invade
Natal, beginning the South African
war.-About 4,000 people killed by
an earthquake on Cernam island.
East Indies.
12-The international commercial con
gress opens in Philadelphia.
13-King Oscar signs the separate Nor
wegian flag bill under protest.-A
British armored train south of
Mafeking wrecked by B-ers; 15 sol
diers killed; .first bloodsh-d of the
war.-One would-be robber killed,
another wounded and captured and
the third commits suioide at bay
after an unsuccessful attempt to rob
the bank at Sevierville, Tenn.
14-The steamer Nutmeg State burns in
Long Islan,l sound; 10 lives lost.
15-A German punitive expedition in
the Cameroons, West Africa, kills
200 cannibals.
18-Boers ,'eelt a bloody repulse at
Mafeking.-An anti-expansion con
ference meets in Chicago.-Several
men perish in a Montana blizzard.
Bubonic piague breaks out at San
tos, Brazil.-Near Redwood Falls
Minn.. Frank E. Babcock kills his
wife, three cons and himself.
19-Joe Letlore. colored, burn I at the
stake at St. Anne, Tens., for . re
mating a family.
20-liners routed by the British et Ta
lana hill, Gitencoe. - Ex-United
States District Attorney Ingham at
Philadelplua and his ass'st'nt. Nw.v
itt. convicted at Philad.'lphta of
conspiracy in the Jscobs-Kendlg
counterfeiting case.
21-An insurrection breaks out in C1
lombia.-At Doniphan, Kan., rob
bers kill two men, wound ,,thers and
loot a store.
23-The Universalist convention adopts
a new creed.-Creep', the re'.elu
tionist, elected president of Vene-