--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hull, Thomas collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 2 number: 2 published: 1898-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Thomas Hull, "Events of the Month", *Improvement Era* 2, no. 2 (December 1898): 159–160.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera22unse start_page: 159 end_page: 160 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22unse publication_year: 1898 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Events of the Month EVENTS OF THE MONTH. BY THOMAS HULL, SECRETARY OP THE GENERAL BOARD OF Y, M. M. L A. October I'&th: The United States takes formal possession of the island of Porto Rico. The following dispatch is received at the war department from General Brooke: San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. 18, 1898. Secretary of War, Washington: Flags have been raised on public buildings and and saluted with national salutes. forts in this city The occupation of the island is now complete. Brooke. 20th: Utah day at Trans-Mississippi Exposition. A speech of welcome is made by the president of the Exposition and responses by Governor Wells, and by Lorenzo Snow, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith, Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 22nd: An outbreak of bubonic plague resulting from experiments with the plague bacillus in a bacteriological establishment causes a panic in Vienna, Austria. 23rd: Serious race trouble occurs in the eastern part of Tennessee resulting from an attempt to arrest a negro who had had trouble with his employer, a white man. One white deputy and nine negroes have been killed. * * * ^ peace jubilee opens in Philadelphia, Pa. 24th: The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a decision in which the railway trust known as the Joint Traffic Association is held to be an illegal organization. * * * The Second Volunteer Cavalry, Torrey's Rough Riders, is mustered out of service. * * * General Wesley Merritt, United States army, and Miss Williams, of Chicago, are married in London, England. 25th: The time limit for the evacuation of Cuba is extended until January 1st, 1899. * * * The French ministry resigns. 29th: The first annual meeting of the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers is held at Prove, Utah. * * * Col. George E. Waring dies in New York City of yellow fever. He returned October 25th from Havana, Cuba, where he had been sent by the United States government as special commissioner to ascertain the exact sanitary condition of the city. * * * The French court of cassation decides to grant a revision of the Dreyfus case and give Dreyfus a new trial. 31st: The United States peace commissioners at Paris present to the Spanish commissioners their decision to retain the Philippines and reimburse Spain for expenditures for the betterment of the island. November 4th: The Spanish peace commissioners refuse to accept the proposition of the Americans in relation to the Philippines. 5th: By the collapse of a theatre building in course of erection in Detroit, Michigan, fifteen workmen are killed and many injured. * * * Word is received at the Navy department that the crusier Infanta Maria Teresa which was one of Cervera's squadron and which had been raised by Naval Constructor Hobson, was lost on November first in a heavy gale about thirty miles north of San Salvador, while on her way to New York. 6th: An explosion of gas followed by fire in the National Capitol at Washington does great damage to the central eastern portion of the building. * * * ^ f^^e breaks out in the great snow sheds of the Southern Pacific Railway in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and several thousand feet of sheds are destroyed. Great delay will be occasioned thereby to the traffic over that portion of the road. 8th: B. H. Roberts is elected as Utah's representative to Congress, and Robert N. Baskin is elected to the Utah Supreme bench. * * * ijj^q Theodore Roosevelt is elected governor of New York. * * * wrecking company which had the contract in hand for raising the Maria Teresa receives word that she is ashore at Cat Island about thirty miles south-west of where she was supposed to have foundered. 10th: Serious trouble occurs between negroes and whites in Wilmington, N. C, over an editorial derogatory of white women, published by a negro newspaper. The publishing house is destroyed and eight negroes killed and others wounded. 11th: The National W. C. T. U. Convention begins in St. Paul, Minn. 14th: Word reaches Skaguay, Alaska, that on October 16th, Dawson City, in the Klondike country, was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $500,000. 15th: Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, of Maine, is elected president of the W. C. T. U. '