Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-01-01
CHRONOLOGY OF 1890.
RAW MATERIAL FOR HISTORY
RECORD OF A YEAR.

dents of Each Month.
The year 1890 opened inauspiciously as far as
accidents were concerned, and the national adj
larly unfortunate carly in the winter. At the
beginning of the social season In Washington
life the wife of the President suffered an afiic-
tion In the lots OF her sister. Then came the
death OF Walker Blaine, the eldest son of the
chief member of the Cabinet. Within fort
night Mr.. Blaine mourned tho loss of his eldest
daughter, Mrs. Coppinger, AID then came the
terrible calamity that betell the family OF Sec
wtary Tracy. From the standpoint OF the
at snI sensS sb s T
empts anybody from the ills OF human life.
It is estimated that the railroads Of the
slides, 50. 00O 600 by hoods, Il. .C0o0O by IRE, and
q, 100000 bycollisions.
Important occurrences follow. with dates;
JANUARY.
2. Several horses killed at st. Louis, Mo-, and
many small fres started by electric wires
which were broken by storm.
Q. Announcement male OF the discovery OF Cleo
patra'n tomb in Egypt
III. Fire at Lexington, KY, cremated thirty-hve
valuable horses, among them the trotter
Bell Boy, for which S51, coo had been paid,
aud whose owner had once refused $780,
COO for him total loss, S350,00O.
II. Number Of cases OF influenza Tor ia grippeD
In Berlin to da.e, estimated at 100000;
number OF deaths due to the disease, $50.
Drunkenness greatly IL creased at Paris.
because physicians prescribed alcoholic
Is. The Pops issued an order thai in countries
where the government is opposed to Ca
tholcism Catholics must obey the state
where such n course does not entail dis
obedience to the divine laws also, they
must not tie the church to any political
party. The South Dakota Legislature
passed its first bill-to provide for refund
Ing the indebtedness OF the State.
II. About thousand fishing boats wrecked of
the Posnu coast, japan nearly all ON
board, between 500 and 3.000 perished.
~. Incoming steamers at New York reported
the worst weather ever before known on
the Atlantic Ocean.
27. Andrew Charter (coiored), aged years, re-
ceived at the Nashville penitentiary, to
serve one year or larceny.
%. Near Cascade, Cal, the tracks of the Central
Pacific Road were covered by snow to a
depth Of fifty feet trains in the Sierras
were snow-bound and passengers lived on
canned goods for a fortnight.
FEBRUARY
8. Burning Of the residences Of Secretary of the
Navy Tracy at Washington Mrs. Tracy,
her daughter Mary, and French maid,
Josephine Morrell, lose their lives.
4. Celebration at New York Of the centennial Of
the United States Supreme Bench; ad-
dresses made by ex-President Cleveland
Associate Justice Field, and others.
G. Explosion in Abasycham colliery, near New
Tort, Wales; ITO lives lost.
10. In the municipal election at Salt Lake City
the Gentiles were successful by over 800
majority, the event being considered the
virtual overthrow OF Mormon rule In
Utah.
10. Deadlock in Iowa House Of Representatives
ended by compromise, having lasted over
nvo weeks.
%. Sixty persons drowned by the giving way of
great reservoir at Prescott Arizona.
25. seventy bodies Of murdered infants found
on the premises of "a midwife named Sko-
bfskt, whose house was burned at War
saw, Poland.
%. Loss of the steamer Quetta in Australian
waters lib persons drowned.
MARCH.
s. Near Chapel Hill, Texas. hailfall to the
depth Of eighteen inches to two feet was
reported,
10. Explosion in the Morsa colliery Glamorgan-
shire, Wales 80 miners perished.
IL. Prince Bismarck, Chancellor of the German
Empire. rendered his resignation and re-
tired TO private life.
27. Louisville, KY, swept by a cyclone: 103 per-
sons killed. Along the line OF the storm
in kentucky, outside Louisville, $50 per-
sons were killed at Clay the dead num-
bered twenty three.
30 Strikes reported spreading in Europe;
throughout Catalonia, in Spain, 10000 fac
tory employees and 21,OOO shoemakers In
at St. Eio. France, demanded an
advance in wages...... .Devees along
the Mississippi River broke. and
vast amount OF damage resulted; the
town OF skipwith, near vicksburg was
huge crevasse, and In Desha County, Ar
kansas. section OF land 10000 acres In
extent was covered by the flood, the set
tiers living on the tops OF houses aud in
trees and suffering for food.
NAY.
g. At Laurel Fork, w. Va, James sevate, aged
101, and Mrs. Terence, aged 80, were mar
ried; the groomsman was 81 and the
bridesmaid 7S 80. Hermit, the winner Of
66 TO / was bet against him, died of old
age; he was the property OF Henry Chap
lin, Minister of Agriculture OF England,
who won a fortune on him.
6. Fire in Tongue Pointe Lunatic Asylum, near
Montreal, Quebec; over $50 lives lost...
Burning OF the singer sewing machine fac
tory at Elizabethport, N. j.; loss, S.
100000.
10. Powder explosion at Havana, Cuba, results
in loss OF thirty-four lives.
81. Ellis Island, New York harbor. turned over
landing place for Immigrants. Report
that New York lawyers entered into an
OF census enumerstors touching acute or
chronic diseases, or defects OF mind or
body.
JUNE
3. Bradshaw. a Nebraska town, laid in ruins
by q cyclone.
IL. Democrats of the Fourth District OF In
gressman William s HoIman-the nine
teenth timo he has been s.milarly honored
by his party.
ID. Cholera mado its appearance at Valencia
and Malaga, In Spain.
10. Explosion OF nre-damp in a coal mine at
Dunbar. PA. thirty-four killed.
%. The lower house OF the Louisiana Legis-
lature passed bill extending the fran
chiso of the lottery company twenty-five
years the company Is to pay into the
match race at sheepshead Bay, Long ISL
and the four-year-old colt Salvador es-
tablished record that is likely TO remain
mile and quarter In 2:05.
JULY.
4. The President signed the bill admitting
Idaho to tho Union. and the forty-thild
star on the American Gag was added
2. Discovery Of gold the richest "strike" on rec
ord, reported near Tin cvp. Colo; Far;
60, North Dakota, swept by q cyclone, al
most laying the town In ruins.
g Seven hundred persons killed By cyclone
~ , IN Muscat. a province Of Arabia;
mission of Wyoming TO the Federal Union
...... State Senator J. Fisher Smith, of
houisisns i died lied soon SOC after the passage o, Of
had been ailing, but was carried to his
seat, as his vote was necessary to over
ride the Governors veto.
ii. Explosion OF gas the steamer Tioga in
the Chicago River; forty stevedores and
longshoremen hurled TO instant death,
ID. Lake City; Mimi, swept by acyclone which
capsized the steamer Sea Wing on Lake
Pepin, the latter being crowded with ex-
cursionists; 100 lives lost The same
storm swept on its wsy through the
Minnesota adding scores more OF victims
20 fits fury, besides wounding great mum
Der and destroying much valuable prop
10. white Star steamer Teutonic made the
passage from Queenstown to New York In
days IS hours-best on record.
20. Explosion OF hre-dsmp in coal-pit at st.
Euenne, France; 12o miners reported
AUGUST.
4. Railway accident near Innsbruck, In the
Is Bridget Doody died al Mineral Point wis.
land. and the parish record shows the
date OF her birth.
1S. Explosion in government powder mill At
Canton, China 200 houses destroyed and
10. WilkeebaTe. Pa, and vicinity visited by q
terrible cyclone loss Of lifo I'm devastated