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EVENTS IN 1899. 



Richmond, Va.: A memorial unveiled in honor 

 of Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson 

 Davis, President of the late Confederate States. 



11. Pennsylvania: An encounter between po- 

 lice officers 'and robbers at Titusville results in 

 the killing of two men and the wounding of sev- 

 eral others. New Mexico: An attempt to arrest 

 an Indian malefactor results in a fight, in which 

 six Indians and one white man are killed. Cuba: 

 Gov.-Gen. Brooke issues the first Cuban thanks- 

 giving proclamation. 



1"). Washington: Secretary Gage announces the 

 intended purchase of $25,000,000 in 5-per-cent. 

 Government bonds. 



16. It is announced that two of the great 

 women's temperance unions have decided to unite 

 under one organization. 



17. Egypt: A monument to De Lesseps, the 

 engineer *of the Suez Canal, dedicated at Port 

 Said. Colombia, South America: Sharp fighting 

 U'tween Government troops and rebels, the Gov- 

 ernment having apparently the best of the cam- 

 paign. Columbus, Ohio: At the congress of the 

 National Municipal League a programme for gen- 

 eral legislation was adopted. 



1!>. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Resignation of the Rev. 

 Richard S. Storrs, pastor for fifty-three years of 

 the Church of the Pilgrims. 



22. Egypt: Decisive battle between the Anglo- 

 Egyptian troops and the dervishes on the upper 

 Nile, apparently destroying the dervish power; 

 their leader, the Khalifa, is slain. 



23. The general assembly of the Knights of 

 Labor passes resolutions denouncing President 

 McKinley. 



25. Great Britain officially notifies the nations 

 that a state of war exists in South Africa. 



27. Washington: Agreement of the United 

 States with the partition of the Samoan Islands 

 as arranged between Great Britain and Germany. 

 Pennsylvania: An anonymous benefactor gives 

 the university of the State $250,000 to erect a 

 laboratory of physics. 



30. Columbia, S. C.: Dedication of a State home 

 for negro boys and girls. 



The war in South Africa is still in its prelimi- 

 nary stage. Great Britain is making every ex- 

 ertion to press fonvard re-enforcements and sup- 

 plies, but her resources are not equal to the 

 emergency, and the Dutch allies have not only 

 carried the war into British territory, but hold 

 all that they have taken, and threaten to advance 

 still farther toward the principal towns in the 

 British possessions. The situation at the end 

 of the month is so critical that the financial 

 markets of the world are notably affected thereby. 



December 4. Washington: Congress organizes, 

 with David B. Henderson as Speaker of the House. 

 The Supreme Court in the Addystone Pipe case 

 renders an antitrust decision. 



5. The President's annual message is read to 

 both houses of Congress. Chicago : Consolidation 

 of the Pullman and Wagner Palace Car Com- 

 panies. United States and Guatemala: A par- 

 cels post treaty signed. 



6. Army: Brig.-Gen. Leonard A. Wood, who 

 has rendered distinguished services of a civil char- 

 acter as governor of Santiago province in Cuba, 

 is promoted major general, and a few days later 

 is made Governor General of Cuba. 



7. Philadelphia: It is announced that Peter 

 . Widener has purchased a site on which 



will bo erected a school and hospital for crippled 

 children. 



ft. Lease announced of the Tehuantepec Rail- 

 road to a firm of British contractors. 



. Michigan: Opening of the fifteenth annual 



EXPOSITION, NATIONAL EXPORT. 



convention of the American Federation of Labor 

 at Detroit. New Jersey: Arrest at Newark of 

 representatives of numerous bogus corporations 

 operating under the State laws, and charged with 

 fraudulent use of the mails. 



14. The one hundredth anniversary of the death 

 of George Washington is appropriately celebrated 

 in various parts of the United States. The Presi- 

 dent delivers an address at Mount Vernon. 



17. England: The appointment is announced of 

 Gen. Lord Roberts to the chief command of Brit- 

 ish forces in South Africa, with Gen. Lord Kitch- 

 ener as his chief of staff. 



18. New York: A notable decline takes place in 

 the money market, and several important fail- 

 ures are announced. The banks come to the relief 

 of the financial situation. England: Volunteers 

 for the Transvaal war come forward in great 

 numbers. 



19. Philippine Islands: Major-Gen. Henry W. 

 Lawton, U. S. A., killed in action near San Mateo. 



24. Rome: The Pope performs the ceremony of 

 opening the Holy Door at St. Peter's. 



28. Washington: The bodies of the men who 

 perished in the Maine disaster, having been 

 brought from Cuba, are buried in the Arlington 

 Cemetery with full military honors. 



30. Seizures of German and American ships and 

 goods by the British as contraband of war cause 

 protests on the pprt of owners. 



31. Philippine Islands: A native plot to throw 

 bombs and inaugurate an uprising among the na- 

 tives in Manila on the occasion of Gen. Lawton's 

 funeral is discovered and frustrated by the mili- 

 tary authorities. 



The year ends with the Filipino forces so ef- 

 fectually dispersed that the whereabouts of their 

 leader, Aguinaldo, is unknown, while his most 

 trusted officers, and even his own family, are held 

 as prisoners. Nevertheless, a formidable guer- 

 rilla warfare continues, necessitating the constant 

 employment of troops for arduous service. In 

 South Africa, at the end of December, the Dutch 

 allies held all that they had gained in the British 

 colonial possessions, and still successfully defied 

 all attempts of the British to relieve the three 

 beleaguered garrisons at Lady smith, Kimberley, 

 and Mafeking. The British losses to date from the 

 beginning of the war, in October, were 1,027 killed, 

 3,675 wounded, and 2,511 missing or taken pris- 

 oners; total, 7,213. The losses of the Dutch allies 

 are not known. 



EXPOSITION, NATIONAL EXPORT. 

 This exposition, the first of its kind ever held 

 in this country, was opened in Philadelphia Sept. 

 14, and continued until Dec. 2, 1899. 



Origin. Several years ago representative men 

 of the business interests of Philadelphia organ- 

 ized a Commercial Museum, which has been in 

 active operation since 1897. Its objects are to 

 foster and promote, by practical and systematic 

 efforts, and by new, original, and effective meth- 

 ods, the foreign trade of America. Through the 

 heads of its various departments it is in constant 

 communication with more than 20,000 corre- 

 spondents abroad, through whom it keeps in 

 touch with every phase of international com- 

 merce. The museum contains collections con- 

 sisting of, first, manufactured articles arranged 

 in lines of manufacture; and, second, raw prod- 

 ucts, which are displayed so as to show the geo- 

 graphical distribution and the development of the 

 subject. It is possible from these collections to 

 show the consuming capacity of any country by 

 the exhibition of the goods that are most sal- 

 able there, and also to show its producing ca- 

 pacity. A pan-American commercial congress 



