GENERAL CHRONOLOGY OF 1901-NOVEMBER-Continued. 20. The Manufacturers' National Reciprocity Convention resolves in favor of protection and of a department of commerce and industries, and recommends a bureau of reciprocity under that department.-The burning of a house at the mouth of a tunnel at Telluride, Col., asphyxiates 25 men. 21. Seven persons killed in Athens in rioting against translation of gospels. 22. Eight Pocahontas mine officials perish in the burning mine. 24. Theotokis' Greek Ministry. 26. Carl H. Hoffman, stenographer of the Isthimian Canal Commission, arrested for peddling state secrets.-A factory boiler explosion in Detroit kills 29 persons. 27. Seventy-five lives lost in collision between two Wabash trains near Seneca, Mich. 28. Colon surrendered to government forces. December. 2. The South Carolina and West Indian exposition opens at Charleston.-The Fifty-seventh Congress assembles.-The United States Supreme Court decides the two remaining insular cases, the Philippines held to be domestic territory and the Foraker Porto Rico act upheld.-Denmark and the United States government reach an agreement for 5. The Peruvian Congress adopts the gold standard.-Twenty-five negroes imprisoned at Andalusia, Ala., charged with a double murder. 8. Andrew Carnegie offers $10,000,000 to endow a proposed national post graduate university at Washington. 9. Mrs. Leland Stanford conveys to Stanford University, Cal., $30.000,000 worth of propertyBy protocol Nicaragua agrees to lease to th United States perpetually a canal strip.-Cash + H. J. Fleischman of the Farmers' and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, Cal., disappears, leaving an apparent shortage of $100,000. 11. President Cassatt announces the intention of the Pennsylvania R. R. to tunnel under New York City and its two rivers.-The University of Wooster, O., burns. 13. The Schley naval court of inquiry submits its report.-Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine acquitted at Washington of the murder of Pension Clerk Ayres. 14. Marconi at St. John, N. F., receives wireless electric wave signals from Cornwall, England. COMPARATIVE SCHOOL STATISTICS FOR NEW YORK STATE. School districts Value of school property Aggregate days attendance.. Children in private schools.... 10,741 970 11,711 11,916 949 11.740 29 949 11,931 15 10.791 10 982 $16,916,688 $70,375.726 $87,292,414 $16,304.584 $65,463,911 $81,768,495 +$5,523,919 1,621,087 505,018 1,064,635 1,569,653 + 51,434 1,242 416 454,215 755,359 1,209,574) + 873.157 305,800 551,688 857.488 + 497,270 1,123.817 328 641 893, + 76 (normal school diplomas 3,979 2,678 training class or sch'l cer [local officers... Average salary of teachers.. $329 *$976 *$662 Volumes in school libraries women (state certificates Property,furniture,repairs,etc 904,098 761.728 1,665,826 $322 $879 $604 + *857 853,418 707,440! 1,560.858 + 104,968 $5,183,630 $16,320,989 $21,501,619 $5,052,084 $14,166,808 $19,218 892 +$2,285,76 $971,531 $7,414,827 $8.386,358 $1,030,393 $7,518,250 $8,548,643 $162,284 $82,078 $58,805 $140.883 $83,732 $58,426 $142,158 $1,274 $7,678,120 $28.717,148 $36,395.269 $7,523,899 $25,897,592 $33,421,491 +$2,973,778 *Average annual salary of teachers in cities exclusive of New York is $592 65; increase over last year, $5.66. For State, exclusive of New York City, average annual salary $399.47; increase over last year, $6 96; average annual salary in New York City, $1,176.03; increase over last year, $141.15. As New York City employs one-third of teaching force of State, the large increase in salaries is confined largely to that city. Total expenditures... METRIC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. METRIC WEIGHTS. Milligram (.0001 gram) equals 0.0154 grain. Decagram (10 grams) equals 0.3527 ounce. METRIC DRY MEASURE. Decaliter (10 liters) equals 9.08 quarts. METRIC LIQUID MEASURE. Milliliter (.0001 liter) equals 0.0388 fluid ounce. Liter equals 1.0567 quarts. Decaliter (10 liters) equals 2.6418 gallons. Decameter (10 meters) equals 393.7 inches. Myrimeter (10,000 meters) equals 6.2137 miles. METRIC SURFACE MEASURE. GENERAL NECROLOGY OF 1901. January. 1. Ignatius Donnelly, author and Populist politician, Minneapolis.-Charles L. Carson, Eng. dramatic critic.-Bishop Ignatius Mrak, Catholic, Marquette, Mich. 3. Bishop W. X. Ninde, Methodist, Detroit, Mich. 4. Gen. Richard A. Batchelder, former quartermaster-genl. U. S. A., Washington. 5. Ex-Gov. Curtis H. Brogden, N. Carolina.Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar.John Bardsley, embezzling banker, Philadelphia. 6. Philip D. Armour, pork packer, Chicago. Bishop Winand M. Wigger, Catholic, Newark, N. J.-Ex-U. S. Sen. James W. Bradbury, Maine. 7. Samuel G. Clarke, Congressman, Peterboro, N. H. 10. Rear Admiral Thos. F. Phelps. U. S. N., New York.-David G. Adee, novelist, Washington. 11. William L. Trenholm, Treasury, New York. ex-Comptroller 12. John G. Fee, founder of Berea College, Ky. 13. Lord Lionel Cecil, London. of artist. 19. Duke of Broglie, French statesman.-Thomas Shaw, inventor, Philadelphia. 20. John Leisenring, mine owner and ex-Congressman, Upper Lehigh, Pa. 21. Prof. Elisha Gray, telephone inventor, Newton, Mass. 22. Queen Victoria, of Great Britain and Ireland. -Baron Wilhelm von Rothschild, banker, Frankfort, Germany.-Simon Hassler, musical director, Philadelphia. 26. Guiseppe Verdi, Italian composer. 28. Viscount Henry de Bornier, French dramatist. 29. Count Gourko, Russian field marshal.-W. De Witt Wallace, author, jurist and soldier, Lafayette, Ind. February. 6. Rev. Jonathan Weaver, United Brethren Bishop emeritus, Dayton, O. 7. The Earl of Galloway, England. 9. Gen. Jas. M. Ruggles, who drafted the first Republican platform, Springfield, Mass.-Rear Admiral Peter A. Rearick. Washington. 10. Albert D. Shaw, Congressman and ex-Commander-in-Chief of G. A. R., Watertown, N. Y. 11. Milan, ex-King of Servia, in Vienna.-Henry J. Ellicott, sculptor, Washington. 12. Don Ramon de Capoamar, Spanish poet, philosopher and statesman 14. Marshall S. Pike, poet, singer and actor, Upton, Mass. 15. Maurice Thompson, novelist, Crawfordsville, Ind.-Gilbert A. Pierce, ex-Senator from North Dakota and ex-Governor of Dakota Ter., Chicago. -Jus. A de la Harpe, scenic artist, New York. 16. Prof. C. C. Coles, editor of Storms and Signs, Kingston, Pa. 17. Ethelbert Nevin. musician and composer, New Haven.-Sir Francis Cooke, London. 19. Dr. Wm. H. Egle, historian, Harrisburg, Pa. 22. Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bessones, Catholic, Indianapolis. 27. Rev. Robert Alexander, editor of the Presbyterian, Philadelphia. 28. Wm. M. Evarts, lawyer, New York. March. 3. John R. Beecroft, hymn writer, New York. 5. Dr. Richard J. Dunglison, editor and medical author, Philadelphia. 6. Rev. Canon William Bright, English theologian.-Walter Ford, song writer, New York.— Carl Carrington, story writer, San Francisco. 7. Lyman D. Morse, head of advertising agency, New York. 8. John S. Hittell, historian. San Francisco. 12 Caesar C. Moreno, diplomat and adventurer, Washington. 13. Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of the United States, Indianapolis. 15. M. Bogoliepoff, Russian Minister of Education. 16. Mariott Brosius, Congressman, Lancaster, Pa. 17. Rev. Elijah Kellogg, author and preacher, Harpswell, Me. 18. Patrick Donahoe, publisher of Boston Pilot.Joseph Rider, inventor of Remington rifle, Newark, O. 19. Phillippe F. Gille, French journalist and playwright.-Sophie Croizette, French actress. 20. Rev. Arthur Edward, editor Northwestern Christian Advocate, Chicago. 21. Rev. Frederick A. Muhlenberg, first President of Muhlenberg College, Reading, Pa. 24. Leon Blodgett, economist, Philadelphia.Charlotte M. Yonge, English novelist. 25. David Clark, inventor. Hazelton, Pa. 27. M. Gazin. French landscape painter. 28. Dr. Bernard Goldman, Polish revolutionist. 29. James Stephens, Irish Fenian leader. 30. Roland Reed, comedian, New York.-Rev. John Jasper, colored preacher, Richmond, Va. April. 1. Sir John Stainer, English church music composer.-Dr. Schlichter, German-African geographer. ence Monthly, New York. 10. Dr. William J. Youmans, editor Popular Sei 12. Geo. Q. Cannon, Mormon church apostle, Monterey, Cal. 15. Gen. A. C. McClurg, publisher, Chicago. 16. Bishop J. J. Esher, Evangelical, Chicago.—Prof. Henry A. Rowland, astronomer, Baltimore. 22. R. Rev. Wm. Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, Eng. 23. Dr. Horatio Guzman, Sec. Bureau of American Republics, Washington. 24. Count David Posse, ex-Premier of Sweden. 26. Col. Benjamin Wilson, ex-Congressman and one of the organizers of the State of W. Virginia, Clarksburg, W. Va. 28. Jas. D. Reid, "father of telegraphy," N. Y. May. 1. Rosseau B. Crump, Congressman, West Bay City, Mich. 3. Dr. Irving C. Rosse, medical author, Washington. 4. Archbishop Lewis of Ontario. 5. Sir Dinshaw Manockjee, Parsee philanthropist. 6. Mariano I. Prado, ex-President of Peru, Paris, -George D. Germon, actor, New York. 7. Rev. Henry Scadding, Canadian historian and antiquarian.-Prof. David S. Holman, microscopic inventor, Bangor, Me. 14. Harvey B. Young, landscape painter, Colorado Springs, Col.-Count Eugene Mitkiewics, Asbury Park, N. J. 17. Edwin F. Uhl. ex-Ambassador to Germany. Grand Rapids, Mich.-Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, Washington. 19. Weston Howland, first petroleum refiner, Fair Haven, Mass. 21. Gen. Fitz John Porter. Morristown, N. J.Ex-Congressman Charles A. Boutelle, Bangor, Me. -Sir Edward Commerell, English admiral, 23. John R. Tanner, ex-Governor of Illinois, Springfield. 30. Count Wm. Bismarck, Germany. 31. Brig.-Gen. Thomas Wilson. U. tired, New York.-Rev. Alexander S. Vaughan, theologian, Malvern, Ark. 7. Mrs. Mary A. Townsend ("Xariffa"), poet, Galveston, Tex. 9. Major Wm. H. Daly, volunteer army surgeon, Pittsburg (by suicide). 10. Walter Besant, English novelist.-Robert W. Buchanan, English poet and prose writer.-Robert J. Lloyd-Lindsay, first Baron of Wantage, England.-Edwin Moran, landscape painter, New York, 13. David Rea. Congressman, St. Joseph, Mo. 18. Hazen S. Pingree, ex-Governor of Michigan, in Paris.-P. C. Cheney, ex-Governor, Manchester. N. H. 22. Adelbert Hay, ex-Consul to Pretoria, New Haven, Conn. (by accident). 24. Charles K. Saloman, English composer. 25. Rev. Jos. Cook, author and lecturer, Ticonderoga, N. Y. GENERAL NECROLOGY OF 1901-Continued. 26. B. F. Meek, inventor of fishing reel, Frankfort, Ky. 27. Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City, Plattsburg, N. Y. 28. U. S. Judge Wm. A. Wood, Indianapolis. 29. Col. David R. Paige, financier and ex-Congressman, Cleveland.-Rev. Byron Sunderland, Washington.--Sir Thomas Galt, Canadian jurist.Edward Walsh, Sr., glass manufacturer, St. Louis. July. 1. Jas. H. Kyle, U. S. Senator, Aberdeen, S. D. 2. Albert Johnson, traction capitalist, Cleveland. -J. S. Rogers, locomotive manufacturer, Paterson, N. J.-Rev. Newland Maynard, Episcopal clergyman and lecturer, New York.--Paul Neumann, Hawaiian statesman. 4. Prof. Franklin W. Fisk, ex-President of Chicago Theological Seminary.-Prof. John Fiske, philosopher and historian, Cambridge, Mass.-Prof. Peter G. Tait, Scotch physicist. 5. Julian Scott, military painter, Plainfield, N. J. 6. Prince von Hohenlohe, ex-Chancellor of Germany.-Edward Parker Deacon, Boston.-Prof. Jos. Leconte, University of California.-Prof. Johannes Schmidt, Indo-German scholar, Berlin 7. Pierre Lorillard, capitalist, New York. 12. R. H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr'), humorist, New York.--Federio Errazuriz, President of Chile. -Richard B. Hubbard, ex-Governor of Texas. 22. Simon Sterne, municipal reformer, New York. 24. Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, ex-Congressman from Ohio and senior counsel for Admiral Schley. Washington.-Rev. Geo. T. Purves, New York. 26. John G. Nicolay, private secretary and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Washington. 30. Count Greppi, Italian Minister to Chile. October. 3. Henry W. Cramp, shipbuilder, Philadelphia. 4. The Ameer of Afghanistan. 7. William Rodgers, father of the sheet tin industry in America, Wheeling. 8. Rt. Rev. Alexander Burgess Episcopal bishop of Quincy, Ill. 9. Dr. H. P. Tuttle, inventor of thorite, Seattle, Wash.-Prof. William Robinson, musical director, Ogden, Utah. 10. Lorenzo Snow, Pres. of the Mormon Church, Salt Lake. 11. Joshua T. Brooks, 2d Vice-Pres. of Pennsylvania R. R., Salem, O. 12. Rev. George S. Mott, Pres. of the American Sabbath Union, East Orange, N. J. 15. The Duke of Alba, Spanish grandee, in New York. 16. Ariel Barney, theatrical manager, New York. 18. John S. Pillsbury, flour merchant and exGovernor, Minneapolis. 19. Rear-Admiral Francis M. Bunce, U. S. N., retired, Hartford.-Gen. Walter S. Payne, ex-Com 17. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 19. Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, English entomolo-mander-in-Chief of Sons of Veterans, Fostoria, 0. gist.-Dr. Wm. H. Gobrecht, surgical author, Washington. 22. Henri Lacasse-Dathiers, French zoologist.Peter Jackson, colored pugilist, in Australla. 25. George K. Lawton, astronomer, Washington. 28. Rear Admiral John Irwin, U. S. N.. retired. Washington.-W. H. Johnson, inventor, Louisville. -Rt. Rev. Brooke F. Westcott, Bishop of Durham, England. 29. Rev. Adam Miller, "father of German Methodism in America, Chicago.-Paul Alexis, French novelist, 31. Prof. Chas. A. Schott, physicist, Washington. August. 1. Dr. Julius R. Bosse, German statesman. 2 Hans L. Forshell, Swedish financier. 3. Rt. Rev. Abram N. Littlejohn, Episcopal Bishop of Long Island. 5 Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany. 6. Judge Wm. C. Price, ex-United States Treas urer, Chicago. 7. Maj.-Gen. James S. Negley, Plainfield, N. J. 8. Wm. A. Newell, ex-Governor, Allentown, N J.-C. H. Cox, water color painter, Boulder, Col. 9. Prince Henry of Orleans, in Cochin-China. 11. Francesco Crispi, ex-Premier of Italy.-Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel, Roanoke, Va. 14. Sir Wm. Laird, Scotch ironmaster.-Domenico Morelli, Italian painter. 15. Beaumont Smith, playwright and actor, Denver.-W. J. Chamberlain, war correspondent, New York. 20. C. M. Vicuna, Chilean Minister to U. S., at Buffalo. 23. Gunnar Wennerberg, Swedish poet and composer. James W. Lyell, inventor, New York. 24. P. T. Woodfin, Governor of the National Soldiers' Home, Hampton, Va. 29. Chas. A. Busiel, ex-Governor. Laconia, N, H. 30. Brig.-Gen. Wm. Ludlow, Convent, N. J. September. 3. Dr. Samuel Porter, educator of deaf mutes, Farmington, Conn. 6. Justice Murphy of the Irish Supreme Court. 7 Geo. O. Tearle, English actor. 8 H. O. Armour, pork packer, Chicago. 9. Geo. E. Wright, journalist and author, Chicago. J. Gordon Coegler, poet, Columbia, S. C. 12. Eugene Diaz. composer, London. 14. William McKinley, President of the United States, at Buffalo.-Gen. E. H. Hobson, President Mexican War Veterans' Association, Cleveland. 16. Rt. Rev. Henry B. Whipple, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of St. Paul. 17. Rev. Dr. Orville M. Hartshorn, founder of Mount Union College, Alliance, O.-Calderon Carlisle, lawyer, Washington. 18. Jas. G. Batterson, granite-cutting inventor. Hartford, Conn. 20. Chas. C. Delmonico, restauranteur, Colorado Springs, Col. -M. Tietjen, Danish premier. 20. Gen. James Walker, ex-Confederate and exCongressman, Richmond, Va.-Augusta De Forest, actress, New York. 22 Frederick Archer, organist. Pittsburg. 26. Deacon William A. Holland, philanthropist. Boston. 31. Rev. Cornelius Van Santvord, author, Kingston, N. Y. November. 4. Joel P. Bishop, author of legal text books, Cambridge, Mass. 6. Josiah M. Reed, cooking range inventor, Everett, Mass.-James G. Peakes, singer, New York. 7. Li Hung Chang, Chinese statesman.-Henry Hart, capitalist. New York.-Adolph F. Kraus, sculptor, Hyde Park, Mass. 8. Miss Kate Greenaway, English book illustrator. 12. Lady Catherine Jane Carew, England. 13. Rollin M. Daggett, journalist and ex-Congressman from Nevada, San Francisco. 14. Col. Henry W. Mapleson, English operatic manager.-Brig.-Gen. Henry L. Robinson, retired New York. 15. Wm. McMillan, Pres. of American Car and Foundry Co. 18. Dr. Wm. F. Norris, oculist and medical writer, Philadelphia. 19. Thomas Meehan, botanist, Philadelphia. 21. John H. Burke, hymn writer, Wheaton, Ill. 22. Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenberg, German diplomat. 24. A. J. Streeter, former Union labor nominee for President, New Windsor, Ill. 27. Clem Studebaker, wagon manufacturer and ex-Congressman, Indiana.-David Waite, ex-Governor of Colorado. 30. Dr. Herman Strecker, scupltor and entomologist, Reading, Pa. |