COMPILED BY GEO. E. PLUMBE, A. B., LL. B. FIFTEENTH YEAR. ISSUED BY THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS COMPANY. THE CHICAGO QUARTERLY OF THE CHICAGO RECORD and THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AT CHICAGO, ILL., BY THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS Co. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER ANNUM. ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND PREFACE. The year 1898 was one of the most interesting and important in the history of the United States and of the world. It was the year that witnessed the war between this country and Spain, in which the achievements of our army and navy astonished the entire world; the destruction of Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies; the loss to Spain of her colonial power in the Pacific; the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States; the first steps in a movement for the dismemberment of China; the rapid growth of a sentiment among the Jews looking to their return to Palestine; the initial act having for its object the disarmament of Europe; the disastrous culmination of the most gigantic wheat speculation in the history of commerce; the almost total absorption of the continent of Africa by the European powers; the obliteration of the last remnant of sectional feeling between the northern and southern portions of this country; the election of a new congress, and many other less important events that will be lasting in their bearing on our national history. THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC for 1899 has made every effort to cover all these various subjects and to deal with the facts involved in a fair and wholly impartial manner. The articles on the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Mariana islands and Hawaii are prepared with the purpose of giving the reader a concise and accurate view of their people, products, trade and commerce that will show their present and prospective importance. The section devoted to the war with Spain deals exclusively with the facts as they have been established, leaving to general history the speculations and opinions that have grown out of it. Much important and valuable statistical matter has been added to the departments of agriculture, education and finance, while the army and navy have been given an enlarged space devoted to the increased importance of these branches of the national government. The election returns are full, accurate and complete, showing the trend of political preferences in each of the states and territories, and no pains have been spared to make THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC for 1899 of permanent value to its possessors. January 1, 1899. 1899. NOTE.-The time given in this Almanac is local mean time, except when otherwise indicated. ECLIPSES. In the year 1899 there will be five eclipses, three of the Sun and two of the Moon. I.-A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, January 11. Invisible here. Visible to the extreme Northwestern portion of Alaska. and to the greater portion of the North Pacific Ocean. II-A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, June 8. Not visible here; but visible to Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and all the Polar Regions. III-A Total Eclipse of the Moon, June 22-23. Invisible here; but visible generally: the beginning, in the eastern portions of Asia and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and the western portions of North America; and the end, in Asia, the middle and western Pacific Ocean, and the eastern portions of Africa. IV.-An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, December 2. Not visible here. Visible to a portion of New Zealand, the extreme Southwestern part of Australia, and to a great portion of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. The line of Annulus passes almost exactly through the South Pole. V.-A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, December 16, occurring as follows: First contact of shadow 66 degrees from North point of the PACIFIC 16d. 2h. 33m. A. 16d. 3h. 45m A. 16d. 5h. 26m. A. 16d. 7h. 7m. A. 16d. 8h. 19m. A. Moon's limb toward the East. .1.0.) MERCURY will be Morning Star about January 11, May 10, September 5 and December 25; and Evening Star about March 24 July 22 and November 16. VENUS will be Morning Star until September 16; and then Evening Star the rest of the year. JUPITER begins as Morning Star and continues as such till April 25, after which he appears as Evening Star until November 13, and then as Morning Star to the end of the year. |