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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.
A Chronoloelcal Review Shows It to
Have Been Remarkable in Many Respects-War
with Spain Takes Fore
most Place in the Interesting Record
Concise Story of That Victorions
Conflict International anil Internal
Dissensions Anions European Coun
triesDisaster and Death at Home
and Abroad.
To him who is concerned with history
In the making there very rarely conies a
year more heavily laden with important
events than the year 1S98. It has seen
every state in Europe, except peaceful
Scandinavia and the Dutch communities,
face to face with either war or internal
dissolution some of them within meas
urable distance of both. Yet the greatest
effects have not been in Europe; 1808 has
seen the United States forced, not by any
greed of power, but by its humanitarian
ideals, to take its part in European rela
tions. A brief but glorious armed conflict
with Spain has been begun, prosecuted to
its end and settled by a treaty of peace
upon which the ink is scarcely dry. The
inception of great political changes has
been witnessed in China; two European
rulers have come to their death; several
men and women prominent in statecraft,
military affairs, reform, literature and
music, 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
time by scores and caused extensive loss
of property.
The chronological table that follows
gives the most important happenings of
1S98, foremost among which are those of
the war with Spain.
CONFLICr WITH SPAIN.
Events of the War Lately Won by the
United States.
January.
25 TJ. S. battleship Maine, Capt. C. D. Sigs
bee, TJ. S. N., is ordered to Havana,
Cuba.
February.
8 The publication of a letter written by
Seuor Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister
to the United States, speaking dispar
agingly of President McKinley, leads to
- the Minister's resignation of his post
. and the appointment of Senur Luis Polo
y Bernabe.
15 The TJ. S. 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, orders a court
of inquiry Into the loss of the Maine.
19 The request of the Spanish officials in
Havana for a Joint lnvest'gailon into the
loss of the Maine Is declined.
21 The United States Senate orders an In
vestigation into the Maine disaster.
March.
8-9 Congress votes to place $50,000,000 at
the unqualified disposal of President Mc-
r "'"" t va isq"rfia"nv T"n"
16 Spain remoirewrates against the presence
of the United States fleet at Key West
' and against other measures of defense
by our Government.
17 Facts concerning Cuba stated In the
Senate by Senator Proctor, of Vermont,
as the result of personal observation.
28 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 McKinley sends a message to
Congress recommending armed interven
tion In Cuba.
15 Army ordered to mobilize.
16 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 notifica
tion to the nations of intention to block
ade. 21-Mur 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 McKinley cables our ultimatum to
Spain, demanding a reply by April 23. ...
Seaor Polo y Bernabe, Spanish minis
ter, receives his passport and leaves
. Washington.
22 Cruiser New York, Sampson's flagship,
captures Pedro, 2,000 tons, fifteen miles
east of Havana. .. .Cuban ports block
aded by the American squadron.
23 The President Issues his proclamation
calling for 125,000 volunteers.
24 (Sunday) A Spanish decree declaring
war against the United' States was
gazetted at Madrid.
25 Congress passes a resolution declaring
that the state of war existed from
April 21.
26 Recruiting volunteers began in New
York City.
27 United States vessels bombard Matan
zas Seventh New York Regiment de
clines to enlist.
28 Commodore Dewey's fleet sails from
Hongkong for Manila.
.29 Spanish squadron sails from Cape Verde
for the West Indies. .. .New York shells
Cabanas forts.. ..U. S. cruiser Yale
(Paris) arrives In New York.
80 Commodore Dewey's squadron arrives
off Manila. .. .Flagship New York fires
on - Spanish cavalry sharpshooters off
Havana.
'May.. :
1 TJ. S. cru!ser 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 De
partment of the seizure of Cavite..
DCongress thanks Rear Admiral Dewey..
10 The Gussle expedition sailed from
Tampa.
11 Ensign Worth BHgley and four of the
crew of the torpedo-boat Wlnslow killed
by a shell from the Spanish forts at Car
denas 12 Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards
the forts at San Juan, l'orto Rico
The Spanish Cape Verde fleet arrives at
Port de France, Martinique. .. .Gussle
expedition repulsed.
13 Commndore Schley's fleet sails south to
meet the Spanish squadron.
14 Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted off
Curacoa.
15 Rear Admiral Dewey reports on fall of
Manila. .. .S:ignsta's cabinet resigns....
Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror
disabled at Port de France, Martinique.
....Spanish fleet leaves Curacoa. .. .Gen.
Merritt ordered to the Philippines as mil
itary governor Gov. Black authorizes
Be Careful How Ton Sit.
Recently an eminent physician gave
utterance to the opinion that appendi
citis is more common in this country
than in oMiers because of the Yankee
custom that men have and men are
more frequently sufferers from the dis
ease than women of habitually sitting
with one leg thrown over the other.
This habit, the physician was quoted
is saying, restricts the action of the di
gestive appartus, and especially of the
lower intestine, and causes stagnation
oi the contents and the stretching of
reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth 1
Regiment.
Madrid.
18 Ninety thousand troops ordered to mobil
ize in Cbickamauga.
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 San
tiago. 25 Three transports with 2,588 men start
for Manila. .. .President issues a call for
75,000 more volunteers. v
26 Oregon arrives In Key West.. ..One of
Spain's cabinet ministers said the coun
try 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,
29 Commodore Schley reports the trapping
of Cervera In the harbor of Santiago de
Cuba. Cruiser Columbia arrives at
New Ycrk, having been in collision with
the British steamship Foscolia, which
sank.
80 Troops embark at Tampa for Havana.
31 Rear. Admiral Sampson's fleet bombards
forts of Santiago de Cuba.
Jnns.
1 Transports for Manila arrive at Hono
lulu, Hawaii, and the Boys In Blue be
come the guests of the city. .. .Monitor
Monadnock ordered to Manila from San
Francisco.
2 Spain again appeals to the Powers to
Intervene.
8 American squadron bombarded Santiago
de Cuba.
4 Lieut. Hobson sinks cruiser Merrlmac
In the mouth of the harbor of Santiago
de Cuba.
6 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 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 Cal
manera. 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.
20 Transports with Gen. Shafter's troops
arrive off Santiago.
22 Part of Shafter's troops landed.
23 Balance of troops landed without acci
dent. .. .Admiral Camera'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 McKinley recommends thanks of
Coi ,ress for Lieut. Hobson, and that he
be transferred to the line.
28 President proclaims blockade of South
ern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape
Cruz.
29 Gen. Shafter reports he can take San
tiago in forty-eight hours.. ..The Senate
thanks Lieut. Hobson and his men, nam
ing each one personally.
30 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 Shafler renewed the attack upon San
tiago, 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....
Hobson, the hero of the Merrlmac, and
his comrades exchanged for Spanish
prisoners outside Santiago.
7 President signs Hawaiian annexation
resolution. .. .Admiral Dewey took Subig
and 1,300 prisoners.
11 Cruiser St. Louis brings Admiral Cer
vera and 746 prisoners to Poets:
N. -a..., Art'iVral Sampson s
barded Suniiago.
13 Announced that yellow fever has broken
out In Gen. Shafter's army.
14 Gen. Toral and the Spanish army Bur
rendered Santiago at 3 p. m. .
17 "Old Glory" raised over Santiago at
noon.
18 President issues a proclamation provid
ing for the government of Santiago....
Seven American vessels bombard Man
zauillo 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 Nipe and sink the Spanish cruis
er Jorge Juan.. ..Gen. Calixto Garcia,
commander of the Cuban army of East
ern Cnba, owing to discontent because
the American Government has Ignored
- him and his troops in the surrender of
Santiago, withdrew. .. .News reached this
. country that the second expedition to re
enforce Admiral Dewey had arrived at
Cavite.
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 men reach Gnan
lco, Porto Rico, and effect a landing.
26 Secretary Day, M. Cambon, French am
bassador, and his first secretary, M.
Thlebaut, confer with President McKin
ley In regard to terms of peace.
27 The port of Ponce, Porto Rico, surrend
ers to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie.
30 News of Gen. Merritt's arrival at Cavite
received at Washington Dewey In
forms the President that Aguinaldo, the
Philippine insurgent chief, assumed a
defiant attitude.
31 The Spanish forces at Cavite made a
sortie during a fierce storm on the Amer
ican troops in the Malate trenches. They
were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten of
Gen. Merritt's men were killed and forty-eight
wounded.
Auzust.
2 President McKinley makes public the
terms of peace offered to Spain by the
United States.
4 The monitor Monterey and its consort
Brutus, arrive at Manila Gen. Shaf
ter and his subordinates ask that the
fever-stricken army at Santiago de Cuba
be removed north.
5 Formal orders issued for the removal of
Gen. Shafter's army to this country.
6 Spain accepts the terms of peace offered
by the United Spates. . . .Guayamo, Porto
Rico, captured by Gen. Haines' forces.
Three Americans cornered.
8 Spain accepts President McKInley's
peace terms. Certain representations
were made regarding Cnba which were
not accepted, however. .. .Spaniards at
Guantanamo lay down their arms and
surrender to Brig. Gen. Ewers. .
9 Gen. Ernst's brigade captured Coamo,
Porto Rico, after a lively fight, 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 upon
by M. Cambon, representing Spain, and
President McKinley. .. .Gen. Schwan's
forces defeat Spanish troops at Maya
guez. Porto Rico. Loss on our side two
killed and one wounded.
11 Spain's cabinet formally approved Pres
ident McKInley's peace protocol and a
cablegram was sent to M. Cambon au
thorizing 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. Merritt leaves Manila for Paris to
aid the Feace Commission.
feptember.
5 Spanish Cortes convenes to consider
peace proposals.
9 Gen. Otis. United States commander at
the opening of the vermiform appendix,
making it possible for obstructions to
reach the latter, and thus giving rise to
appendicitis. There is no other dis
ease, if we may judge from the atten
tion given u it by current publica
tions, in which the general public
takes so much interest as in this one,
which ft comparatively new to medi
cal practice.' Probably much of the
popular interest is due to the fact that
only within a few years what may be
called the literature of appendicitis has
I reached the reading community. Les
, lie's Weekly.
i
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 Chambersof Deputies adopts the
peace protocol.
16 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 any 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 Spain.
December.
10 Treaty of peace with Spain signed at
Paris. .
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Fast Tear.
January.
1 Officers of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn in.
2 Six persons burned to death at Jersey
City, N. J.
8 Thirty persons killed by collapse- of
floor in city hall at London, Ont.
7 Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at
St. (juentin prison, California.
8 Six nun killed by explosion of an Ohio
River towboat near Glenfield, 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 Jlaj. 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.
19 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 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 Are.
27 January wheat sells for $1.05 In 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....
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
Brlggs 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 Sera ri ton, Pa.
4 Seven killed in railroad wreck at Glas
gow, Scotland.
6 $50,000 fire at Albany, Ind. .. .Holland
American steamer Veendam wrecked In
mid-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 ont by fall
lug walls at Pittsburg.
11 Nassau Chambers In New York burned;
loss, SoCO.OOO French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 87 lives
lost.
lii-Fire damp explosion In a colliery at
inrly. Prussia, kills 50 persons. . . .
Legislator burned fit sea.
18 Death of Miss Frances E. Wlllard In
5ew York City Large fire at Pitts
burg. ,
20 New wharf and custom house at Tam
pico, 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 fire
at Charleston, S. " C Seven persons
killed at Blue Island, 111., by the collis
ion of a train and an omnibus. .. .Ten
persons killed and five Injured by an
explosion and fire in Hail Bros.' labora
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
27 Death of Win. M. Slngerly, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
2 Six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewton, Ala.
8 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, 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 m a nre St zio
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 Almy off San Francisco.
25 Death of James Payn, English novel
ist Death of Truman P. Handy, of
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker in United
States.... Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged $100,000
by fire.
23 Forty-eight sealers of steamer Green
land perished on ice 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 Shawnee
town, 111.
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,
000 fire. -
12 Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa.,
burned; .oss, $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 Bus. on; 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. 23 Secretary of State John Sherman re
signs. 26 Wm. R. Day appointed to fill the va
cancy. .. .Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
a $750,000 fire.... Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal., blown up, causing loss of
eleven lives.
28 Atlantic Powder Co.'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. r
2 Thirteen persons killed by tbrnado at
Jerlco, Mo.
8 Schooner Crown wrecked off St. Johns,
N. F., and 11 men drowned.
6 $125,000 fire loss at Cleveland.
7 Three hnndred persons killed In a riot
at Milan, Italy.
8 Duluth, Minn., suffers a $100,000 fire.
11 Wool warehouse burns at Ballardvllle,
Mass.; loss. $T.00.000.
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12 Burning of Armour's elevator D an!
several lumber yards causes $1,000,010
Iobs in Chicago.
14 Thousands killed by cyclone on Suni
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. .. .Ed
ward 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, $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 firs
at Zollern, Prussia; 45 miners perish.
28 Italian cabinet resigns.
31 New cabinet formed In Italy.
Ju-e. .
1 Death of tragedian Thos. W. Keene....
Transmissippl exposition opens at
Omaha.
4 Death of Capt. Chas. V. Gridley, 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 mfiiistry.
28 First party cabinet formed in Japan.
20 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 Sacrasta mlnls'ry 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 lives lost.
30 Death of Prince Bismarck.
August.
1 Martin Thorn executed at Sing Sing,
N. Y.
8 Bismarck, N. D., destroyed by Are
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 railway collision
at Sharon, Mass.
22 Eight laborers killed by collapse of a
wall In Carnegie tunnel. Pa Carter-
vllle. 111., visited by a $250,000 fire 300
miners drowned at Nience, Silesia....
Death of King Malletoa of Samoa.
23 Destructive fire at Logansport, La.
25 Ex-Gov. Claude Matthews stricken by
nnralvsis at Meharry's Grove, Ind.
28 Death of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews of
Indiana.
30 Small pox breaks out at Put-In-Bay Isl
and, Lake Erie.
31 Wllbelmlna becomes Queen of Holland.
....Confession and suicide of Col. Henry,
principal witness against Capt. Dreyfus,
at Paris.
Feptember.
2 President Wllford Woodruff, of the Mor
mon church, died at San Francisco....
The British captured Omdurman oppo
site Knartonm, in tne souuan.
4 British troops occupied Khartoum. .. .M.
. Cavalguac, French Minister of War, re
signs. 5 Twenty-eight people killed In collision
,-of train with trolley car at Cohoes. N. Y.
....Gen. Zurllnden 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. 10 Assassination of Elizabeth, Empress of
Austria, by an Italian anarchist at
Geneva, Switzerland $200,000 fire at
Livermore Falls, Me.
11 i'lre 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 per
sons and destroyed much property.
14 Lorenzo Snow choaeu head of the Mor
mon church.
18 Death of Dr. John Hall. .Death of
Miss Winnie Davis.
20 Tei, persons burned to death in an ele--
vator-fire-fa-Toledes r
22 Thirty-six men Jilt-owned by sinking of
French boat Ville de Fecamp off Fecamp.
23 Fifty miners entombed in coal shaft at
Brownsville, Pa.
24 Several persons killed and much prop
erty destroyed by windstorm at Lima, O.
26 Tornado destroys property at Tonawan
da, N. Y., and kills five at Merrilton, Ont.
Death of Miss Fanny Davenport.
27 Claremont, Minn., destroyed by fire.
28 Death of ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bay
ard.. '.. Riot at Pana, 111. .
29 Death of Queen Louise of Denmark.
30 Hundreds of lives" lost by floodar In
Japan.
October.
1 Great fire 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 wounded.
8 Great Are in Sidney, N. S. 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 Har
persvllle, Miss.
24 Fire on the Brooklyn, N. Y., water front;
loss, $475,000.
25 French cabinet resigns.
81 New French cabinet formed. .. .Japan
ese cabinet resigns.
November.
6 Eleven men killed by collapse of new
Wonderland theater at Detroit. .. .Seven
men crushed to death In a mine near
Wilkesbarre, 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 Cnban re
public resign. -
11 Bank at Kirksville, Mo., robbed of
$32,000.
17 British ship Atalanta sinks off Oregon
coast; 26 lives lost.
18 Death of John W. Keely, the inventor.
....Twelve laborers killed by train at
Hackensack 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....Slx
persons killed by boiler explosion near
Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal.
28 Dynamite explosion in Havana kills 15
persons and Injures 25 others.
December.
5 Opening of Congressional session.
10 Death of William Black, novelist.
11 Death of Gen. Calixto Garcia at Wash
ington. 15 Death of ex-Senator Calvin S. Brice....
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.
Hartstein's Sons burned at Milwaukee;
loss, $90,000.
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.
And now a Boston man claims the cen
ter of the stage long enough to advise
that, so far as the annexation of the Phil
ippines is concerned, "celerity should be
contempered with cunctation."
Li Hung Chang has been sent to watch
the overflow of the Yellow, river. This,
we take it, is the polite Chinese equiva
lent for saying that he has been sent up
Salt River.
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Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham.
Mrs. Jons Williams, Englishtown,
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Mrs. Joseph Peterson, 513 East St.,
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"Dear Mrs Pinkham: I have suf
fered with womb trouble over fifteen
years. I had inflammation, enlarge
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I had the backache constantly, also
headache, and was so dizzy. 1 had
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heart was in my throat at times chok
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I could not lie down, for then my heart
would beat so fast I would feel as
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Transparent leather is made in
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I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con
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The woman of 20 asks, "Who is he?"
the woman of 80, "What is he?" the
woman past 30, "Where is he?"
HeMthyn&ppyGhrls
often. fTom no apparent
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of their womanhood They
drag along always ti-red,
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and with & palpitating
heart after slight exercise
so that merely to walk
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" Sometimes & Vnott.dTyt cough
leads to the Fear that they
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They are anaemic, doc
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MoTe anaemic people have been made stTong, hungTy.
eneTgtic men and women by the use of Dt. Williams'
Pink Pills foi Pale People
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Miss Lulu Stevens, of Gasport, Niagara Co., N. Y., had been a very
healthy girl until about a year ago, when she grew weak and pale. She
lost her appetite, was as tired in the morning as on retiring, and lost flesh
until she became so emaciated that her friends hardly knew her. The doc
tors declared the disease anaemia, and gave her up to die. A physician
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ICR Rollins, M.D., of Grass Valley, Or., voluntarily make the following statement:
After having mv teeth extracted I have had five sets made at intervals of about nine months,
three in Portland, one in San Francisco and one in Stoka..e. With neither of these have I been
:h r, meal', victuals or even an apple or ripe peach. On December 10, 1898, 1 had my
Ixth sef m .dc fbw Dr'sVryter? LO. O. F. Temple, FUVand Alder, Portland I Or ..and within
twentv minutes after the time they were put into my mouth I was able to eat a common hard
winter apple and a piece of dried Venison, and at this time. December 13th, have eaten every
me"l since with thegreatest comfort and with no trouble at all. ThejF Ql flanii
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in winter it is so white that the ani
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The damp autumn nights and mors
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