Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-16
RECORD OF 1889.
Summary Of the Important Happenings
Of an Eventful Year.
Reflection Of the Floods, Storms, Earth
quakes, Crimes, Accidents, ConHagra-
lions. Political Changes and Other Con.
JANUARY.


Sugar Refining Company, because Of its
entrance into the Sugar Trust, has forfeited
its charter; a cyclone blows down a silk
mill in Reading, Pa, a nail mill in Sun.
bury, Pa, and wrecks many buildings in
Pittsburg.
IA. Collision near Tallmadge, O., eigh,
persons being killed and seven injured
10. The Delaware Legislature chooses
Anthony Higgins United States Senator,
he being the first Republican Of the state
ever accorded that honor.
49, A wreck on the Northwestern rail
road near Elmwood, Mich, kills three per
sons and wounds five.
% Ives and Stayner "Napoleons Of
Finance arrested in New York for de-
frauding the Railroad company.
%. Gen. Boulanger elected to the Cham
Der of Deputies from Paris.
80 Street car railway strike in New
York and Brooklyn, 1000 persons being
out.
FEBRUARY.
.. Fire IN Buffalo, N. Y, destroys ST..
100000 worth of property.
4. Collision of the steamer Glencoe with
bark, ffty-two persons being drowned
twenty-four lives lost in collision be-
tween the steamer Neried and q sailing
vessel
9. Civil Service Commissioner A. p.
EdgertoL removed by President Cleveland
and Hugh S. Thompson nominated in his
place.
II. Norman j. Colmau nominated by
the President to fill the newly created
Cabinet post of Secretary of Agriculture.
13. Congress counts the electoral vote
and declares Benjamin Harrison and Levi
p. Morton duly chosen President and Vice
President respectively.
Is. The explosion Of boiler wrecks
and burns the Central Hotel Hartford,
Conn, killing twenty one persons and in.
juring twenty-five.
q. W. T. Woodward sells siXty-one
horses for $4,000 at auction at Lexington,
Ky.
q? The bill admitting Montana, North
and South Dakota and Washington to state
hood signed by President Cleveland.
Is. Explosion in a cartridge factory in
Plymouth, Pa, kills eleven persons.
%, Announcement that Piggott had con-
fessed the forgery Of the letters on which
the London Times based its charges against
Parnell.
q, The St Louis express drops through
bridge near st. Georges, Ont, killing
seven persons and injuring thirty.
MARCH.
], Piggott, the forger of the Parncll lot
tiers, kills himself in Madrid
4. Grover Cleveland steps out of the
White House and Benjamin Harrison steps
in.
6, King Milan of Servia abdcates in
favor of son Alexander.
IA. Explosion of boilers in Pittsburg kills
Eve persons and wounds thirteen,
l6. The American and German fleets
wrecked off Samoa in storm, and l46 lives
lost
26. The Spanish mail steamer Mindaway
sunk in collision and thirty persons lost.
IS. An unknown thief holds up'' the
President of the First National Bank at
Denver and compels him to deliver 81, 900
80. The senate rejects the nomination of
Murat Halstead for Minister to Germany.
30 Boiler explosion in the English Chan.
mel kills fourteen persons.
APRII.
Z. Great storm, high tide and loss OF life
on the Atlantic coast.
10. Collision on the Chicago Santa Fe
llsN
kills five persons.
L.. Intelligence received Of the abandon.
ment In mid-ocean Of the Danish steamer
Danmark with 726 people on board, who
were taken off by the steamer Missouri,
Capt. Murrell, and saved
10. Fire along the Hudson River docks in
New York destroys $?,000,0JO worth of
property.
q, Oklahoma, by presidential proclama-
ton, opened to settlers; Massachus etts
polls $1,000 majority against proposed
prohibition constitutional amendment
IS. Wreck on the Grand Trunk Railroad,
near Hamilton, Ont, seventeen persons be-
ing killed or burned to death.
20. Centennial of Washington's first in
augurstion as president of the United
States.
4. DR.. p. II. Cronin lured from his resi-
dcnce in Chicago and murdered.
). Opening of the Exposition in Paris.
S. Many lives lost by cyclone in Pratt
Ind Rice counties, Kan.
II. Maj. j. w. Wham, Paymaster United
States Army, robbed of $4,000 by bandits,
near Cedar Springs, Ariz.
IA. William KemmIer convicted at Buff
galo, N. Y, Of murder, is sentenced to
death by electricity.
Is. Fire destroys 100 houses in su burb
of Quebec.
81. At the Berlin Conference Germany
agrees to restore Malietoa to his post as
King of Samoa.
%, The corpse OF DR.. Crontn discovered
In sewer in Chicago.
%. Retirement on account Of age OF r.
e. Drum, Adjutant General of the army
the first private soldier who reached the
rank of Brigadier General.
81 Breaking Of the dam at Johrstown
Pa, 1000 or 5000 lives being lost and SIS,
100000 worth of property destroyed.
JUNE.
.. Great floods in the Chan Ping ant
Ping Yuen districts in China, and 600
lives lost.
&. Fire at Seattle, Wash, 5000, 90
worth of property being destroyed.
~ Calvin S. Brice elected Chairman 0
the Democratic National Committee
H. The Samoan Commissioners a
Berlin agree upon a treaty.
Is A proposed constitutional amend
ment defeated in Pennsylvania by nearly
10000 majority.
10. Martin Bourk, Daniel Coughlin
Frank Woodruff and p. O'Sullivan in
dicted at Chicago for the murder of DR.
Cronin.
&c Collision on the Pennsylvania Rail
road near Latrobe, Pa, kills twevle per.
sons and Injuries as many more.
JULY.
l. The "Angelus," picture by Millet,
sold at auction at Paris for $4,000
O. Wreck near Thaxton's, Va. and thirty
lives lost.
B. Explosion OF fire damp entombs 800
miners in colliery at ST. Etienne, France
4. A s2,0O0,0OO fire at Ellensburg, Wash
S. John l.. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain.
in prize fight at Richburg, Miss.
H. Centennial Of the downfall Of the bas-
tile celebrated in France.
l6. t. ID. Hogan ascends from Williams
burg, n. " in an airship and is never af-
forwards heard Of.
TO- Big floods and loss Of life and prop
crty in West Virginia
~ Marriage Of the Princess Louise cid
est daughter OF the Prince of Wales.
2s. The Boulangist movement receives
bad set. back in the elections in France
AUGUST