St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-02
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Summary of the Important
Happenings Of an Event
full Year.
Fay 81 the Date Of the Great
est Disaster in the Coun-
try's History.
Reflection Of Floods, Storms,
Earthquakes, Crimes,
Accidents,
The CONGREGATIONS. Political
Changes and Other Feat
ures Of the Year.
JANUARY.

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on the Pacific coast: destruction of the
Richardson Drug company's store in
st. Louis by fire, resulting in loss of
S25O.O00.
4. The c., B. and Q. strike declared
off; R ,d-Nosed Nike" the murderer,
arrested; the electric sugar" frauds
exposed in New York.
8. Judge Barrett, of the New York SUI
preme court, decides that the North
River Sugar Refining company, because
of its entrance into the sugar trust, has
forfeited its charter: a cyclone blows
down silk mill in Reading, Pa, nail
mill in Sunbury, Pa. and wrecks many
buildings in Pittsburg, killing 10 per-
sons and wounding l04 In Reading, kill
ing and wounding S in Sunbury, and
killing q and injuging 81 i'll Pittsburg.
IA. Collision between a passenger
and freight train on the New York,
PENNSYLVANIA Il Ohio railroad near Tall
madge, o., eight persons being killed
and seven injured.
Is. The Delaware legislature chooses
Anthony Higgins United States sena-
tor, he being the first Republican of
that state ever accorded that honor.
10. A wreck on the Northwestern
railroad near Eimwood, Mich, kills
three persons and wounds FIVE.
"a. A 100000 defalcation by Joseph
A. Moore, financial correspondent at
indianapolis of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance company, comes to light.
%. Ives and Stayner, ''NapOleons of
finance" arrested in New York for de-
frauding the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad company.
%. Gen. Boulanger elected to the
chamber of deputies from Paris by
$4,000 majority.
%. Street car railway strike in New
York and Brooklyn. 5000 persons being
out.
FEBRUARY.
9. Fire in Buffalo, N. Y, destroys
H.000.000 worth of property.
4. Collision of the steamer Glencoe
with a bark Off Beachy head, fifty-two
persons being drowned; twenty-four
lives lost in a collision between the
steamer Nereld and sailing vessel off
Dungeness.
6. Slight earthquake shock in South
Carolina.
8. Civil Service Commissioner A. p.
Edgerton removed by President Cleve-
land and Hugh S. Thompson nominated
in his place.
IL. Norman J. COlman nominated by
the president to fill the newly created
cabinet post Of secretary of agricul-
turr.
13. Congress counts the electoral
vote and declares Benjamin Harrison
and Levi p. Morton duly chosen presi-
dent and vice president respectively.
"A. An adverse vote overthrowS the
FlOquet ministry in France.
Is. A locomotive dasheS into street
car at Chester, Pa, injuring six persons.
IS. The explosion OF boiler wrecks
and burns the Central hotel, Hartford,
Conn, killing twenty-one persons and
injuring twenty-five.
10. A 100000 fire in Philadelphia.
20. The Georgetown ID. c. nniver-
sity celebrates its centennial.
81. W. L. Woodward sells sixty-one
horses for $l4263O at auction at Lex
ingtOn, Ky: Nj. Trad forms a French
ministry.
%. The bill admitting Montana.
North and South Dakota and Washing
ton to statehood signed by President
Cleveland.
%. The bark Josie Troop sunk of
Hatteras Shoals, and the captain and
ten men drowned.
%. Explosion in cartridge factory in
plymouth, Pa, kills eleven persons.
26. Announcement that Piggott had
confessed 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 iniuring
thirty.
l. PiggOtt, the fOrger of the Parnell
letters kills himself in Madrid.
s. Earthquake shocks in Ecuador.
4. Grover Cleveland steps out of the
White house and Benjamin Harrison
steps in.
4. King Milan of Servia abdicates in
favor of his son Alexander.
8. Earthquake shocks in Pennsylva-
MIA, Delaware and Maryland.
II. Strike of 5000 weavers in Fall
River, Mass.
IA. Explosion of boilers in Pittsburg
Kills five persons and wounds thirteen.
10. Thomas B. Kerr. treasurer of the
broadway surface railrOaid in New
YORK, acquitted of the charge of having
bribed aldermen.
Ii. The American and German fleets
wrecked off Samoa in storm, and 146
lives lost.
20. The Spanish mail steamer Mind
away sunk in collision near Manila,
and thirty persons lost.
y. An unknown thief 'holds up"
the presidentof the First National bank
at Denver, and compelS him to deliver
$21.0O0.
%. Interstate Commerce Commits
Sloner Aldace +. Walker resigns; the
senate rejects the nomination of Murat
Halstead for minister to Germany.
Oh. Boiler explosion on the steamer
countess. of Flanders. in the English
channel, Kills fourteen persons.
APRIL.
z. Great storm, high tide and loss of
life on the Atlantic coast.
10. Collision on the Chicago. Santa
Fe Il California railroad near Lorenzo.
ILL.,, kills five persons; twenty-five lives
lost in coal mine explosion at Castrop,
New South Wales.
II. Intelligence received of the aban-
dOnment in mid-ocean of the Danish
steamer Danmark, with 725 people on
board. who were taken off by the
steamer Missouri, Capt. Murrell, and
saved.
IS. Suicide of John Jackson, president
OF the st. Louis Elevator company.
10. Fire along the Hudson river docks
IN New DIRK destroys S2,000,000 worth
of property and kills one man and in
lures six.
%. Oklahoma, by presidential procla-
nation, opened 10 settlers; Masschu-
sets polls $4,000 majority against pro-
posed prohibitory constitutional amend
ment.
2s. Wreck on the Grand Trunk rail.
road near Hamilton, Ont, seventeen
persons being killed or burned to death.
80. Centennial of Washington's first
Inauguration as president of the United
States.
MAY.
s. A train crashes into wagon at
Philadelphia, killing three persons and
fnjuring FIVE.
4. DR.. p. H. Cronin lured from his
residence in Chicago and murdered.
8. Opening of the exposition in Paris
80 commemorate the centennial of the
beginning Of the French Revolution.
s. Many lives lost by a cyclone in
Pratt and Rice counties, Kan.; the
steamer City of Paris arrives in New
York. breaking the ocean record by a