Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-30

cago nnd Erie Vast prairie fires in Nebraska !
and South Dakota
ID. Death OF Manuel Gonzalez, ex-Presideut
of Mexico at City of Mexico.
II. Cyclones in Missouri valley; many lives
lost and vast property loss Colliery disas-
ter in Wales; upward OF 100 lives lost.
IL. Ypsilanti, Mich. nearly wiped out by
cyclone; many lives lost in Mississippi and
Missouri by storms.
IL. News of lowering of American flag in
Hawaii by Commissioner Blount.
IA Senate adlourns sine die.
Is Financial furry at Lansing. Mich.
49, Edwin Booth stricken with paralysis -.
Tremendous snowstorm in Minnesota. An
other earthquake in Lante.
20. Fourteen perish at Milwaukee in the
water works crib curing storm. The whole
country swept by violent storms; much dam
ge in Michigan loss OF life only in southern
States Black Jack Yattaw died at Chicago.
-. Negro lynched at Salnl kas;
%. Strikers at Hull, England, fire the docks;
rs. Failure of loan and Trust Company of
Sioux city. Burning Of First Regiment
Armory at Chicago; two lives lost; damage,
500 O0i Men-of-war leave Hampton Roads
for New York.
%. sixty-two killed by cyclones in oklaho-
ma Terrific storms sweep the lakes
81 Navel parade at New York, greatest in
the history of the world Death of W. G.
Goudy, OF Chicago Pork advances over ii
per barrel Anniversary OF Grant blrth
~ Liberty Bel arrives in Chicago, with
Duke of Neragua aud President Cleveland
20 Cisco. Tex. devastated by cyclone; 30
killed, 800 injured.
May.
l. Opening of Worlds Fair by President
/ y HEAVY property loss in Miami Valley by
! s. Lewiston. o.. reservoir, second largest in
! the country, breaks; great property damage, no
/ fatalities Panic IN stocks in New York
4. Panic in Wall street; five firms fail;
ceiver appointed for the Cordage Trust.
5. s. V. White New York broker, fails again.
6. German army bill defeated, Reichsteg dis
solved. Herbert Tarnney lynched at Noun
| tain Lion, Mimi.
:. Ten killed in wreck at Lafayette, Ind.
. Six boiled to death by escaping steam on
/ an Ohio River boat
/ s First electric illumination of Worlds
/ Fair. Chemical National Bank, chicago.
/ fails Six more die from the river
/ steamer disaster. o.. Carlyle ". Harrls exc
] cuted at Sing Sing,
! o. Commissioner Blount appointed Minister
! to Hawaii vice Stevens. resigned.
! H. Break in levees below Memphis; vast
| damage Columbian Bank fails at Chicago.
=. Dynamite outrage at Muscatine Iowa
L. Failure of many banks in Indiana, Michi-
gan Illinois and Ohio. branches of the col
lapsed Columbia National at Chicago. Cam
! pania crosses the Atlantic in 5 days IA hours
! and 40 minutes.
IS. Plankinton Bank of Milwaukee success
| fully meets big run.
IA, Lynching at Bedford Ind Ten miners
| killed at Calumet, Mich
! l5 Lynching at Brownstown Ind.
i6. Murderer Amy hanged at Concord, n H.
-. Fair Directory vote to return Government
! loan and open sundays. National Editorial
| Association convenes at Chicago.
II. Seven killed by explosion at Geneva, Ill.
=. Many lives lost by food in Ohio and Penn
| sylvania Nine sailors perish at Conneaut
| and at Ashtabua, ohio, in marine disaster.
| - Four life savers drown at Cleveland.
49, Resignation of Italian Ministry SPAN
| ish Infanta Eulalia received at Washington.
20. 81, $4,000 fire loss at Saginaw, Mich.
81 OCO at Amigo, Wis Ten men perish in
forest fire in Missaukce County, Mich.
-. Cruiser New York makes li.09 knots an
hour fastest time recorded for war ship
- VIM. Sullivan lynched at Corunna, Mich.
. -Four killed by a windstorm at Cleveland.
a. Queen Victoria birthday.
gG Failure OF Chas. Foster, ex-Secretary OF
the Treasury at FOstoria Ohio, for 100000;
many concerns involved.
n. Failure of Weaver. Getz & Co, coal deal
( ers Chicago, for 0lOt0.
=. Worlds Fair open on Sunday Suicide
/ of +. H. SIilburn, son OF the Chaplain or Con
gress Burning OF Baltimore sugar refinery
| SlfOa.O0O Exposition flyer from New 1ork
for Chicago runs $50 miles in twenty hours,
~ News of loss OF British steamer Ger
} mania with seyenty-four persons
, 80. General observance OF Memorial day.
June.
. Steamer Corsica sinks unknown schooner
and crew in Lake Huron
}. Schaeffner A. Co, bankers, Chicago, fai
! for over million; Schaeffrer commits suicide
Cloudburst and fatal fire at Omaha. Five
persons perish in a burning New York tene
ment lLynchfng at Decatur, III Twenty
: six Mexican miners perish in burning mint
at Fuente. =
5 Run on eight big Chicago banks; two small
failures Bentonville Ark, bank robbed o
$1,000: one man killed.
s. Infanta EuIaIia of spain visits Chicago.
/ :. Death Of Edwin Booth. $1,000 900 fire a
Fargo
i Lawn. III Wheat touches s. cents-lowes
record for Chicago. o.. Gov. Mckinley renomln
: ated Injunction to close Worlds Fair sun
= days.
: Washington; p pension clerks billed Rio
on Chicago's drainage canal; killed.
= 10. Chief Justice Fuller stays Worlds RAJ
= II. Capture Of sontag, California bandit i.
{ Demonstration hostile to Col. Ainsworth a
lord Theater inquest.
Il Is. Start of the ChadrOn-Chtcago cowbo
= H. First fatal accident at the Fair, on tn
/ sliding railway
! H. United States Court of Appeals sustain
Sunday opening of the Fair.
IS II. Mining towns on Mesaba range destroye
by fire. Adams Block, Chicago, burns los
- On, Ten killed. 26 injured on Long Islam
le railroad Lizzie Borden acquitted at Me-
Bedford, Mass.
a 9I. Seventeen killed by storms in Easter
Kansas Seven killed. 81 injured by ltghtn1n
er at Ringling's circus. River Tails, Wis Fou
Y perish in a Duluth fire. One hundred an
ninety deaths by chOlera at Mecca
j. y. CommemoratiOn OF Fort Dear corn massi
ere at Chicago attendance at Fair reache
e I27,lO0 without special attraction.
n % Sinking Of III NJ >. Victoria, and loss
over 900 seamen of Tripoli.
l. a. Bouudless wins the American Derby Z
Chicago in 2:ji.
26 Gov Altged pardous Neebe. Fielden al
Schwab Chicago anarchists.
o. ~ John Berry of Black Hills country, VIII
in the .OCO-mile cowboy race, Cha ron, Neb.,
Chicago. in - days Is hours india suspend
at Tree coinage Oh silver.
-. silver drops to o. and wheat 70 G295; bo
he marks lowest known.
80 Cleveland calls extra session OF Congress
OF July
.. Dedication Of New Yo.k States mon
Ie- ment at gettysburg.
3. Fish. Joseph X Co fire at Chicago, $50
1. 27lOo0 people at Worlds Fair 9Th celebI
NJ t0n
- 8. Parts under guard; several rioters kile
8. Scores killed by cyclone in Neste
is Iowa
Lvnching aud burning Of >. j. Miller,
hi- negro. at Bardwell ny Arrival VI the cal
wells at Chicago.
s. Riot az Christian Eudeayor conyenti
Pa az Montreal.
D. Montreal riot continued
tlc 1U Twenty-one ttemen and Colum1i
in guards perish by the burning OF the &C
no Storage Building az y or.ds Fair money Ia
fg viking ship arrives az Chicago Prin
r. ffH. FHHf Ia "a