Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-05
The Year 1898.
4 Glance a, Some of it. Leading Events.

i "I"h'c al some oil ITS Leading HN'h'''
JuiuniH- THE revolution in Hawaii.
Disastrous earthquake on island of
Iante. Greece
The month is notable for its death list of
distinguished men--Bishop Phillips Brooks,
Gen. BENJAMIN f. Butler. eX-Presideut
HAYES. James G.. Blaine.
fe"'"'J'Lf orly-loul iiyes IosI III ln-
sane "s!I hre at lover y; II;
iulhai me steamer Ne" Aork transfer
req 10 the American ha5 under The name
Ten men crushed to death in a West
RutlauJ. VI. quarry.
Death Of Gen. Beaurerard. Confederate
veteran
Death of Dr. Noryin Green. presid eut
Western Union telegraph company.
three men killed: 30 injured: loss -. 800.
coo: fremont Tcmple burned
Death of Gen. Thomas REYNOLDS In
ion veteran. in CHICAGO. Jnjes Farr, in
Paris.
HPr.-lnternatlonal naval review at
Ne" lorh.
800 600.
Fifteen people burned to death AT Rrad-
ford and Sbamokin. Pa.
Eleven men drowned in the wreckinr Of
the Milwaukee tunnel under lake Michi-
gan.
Town of Cisco. Tex. DESTROYED by a cy-
/ clone: over 100 lives lost in Oklahoma
cyclone.
/ Zante again visited NV an eartbouake
/ the city and many VILLAGES destroved
/ Frank w. Roll and Thomas Pallister.
/ condemned murderers. escaped from Sing
SliS'
MG,L-Openinr of the Worlds Fair
/ Chicago.
Wife of Chauncev NJ. Denew died
| Ex-Secretary of tbe Treasury Foster as
| sipned. liabilities nearly Il OO6 OOO
Death at Martinsburo w. va of Col
w. II. Lamon, Lincoln's private secretary,
.J,De.-Acouittal of Lizzie Rorden Fall
River.
Collapse of Ford's old onera house
WASHINGTON. the scene of Tincoln's assas.
sination. - killed. over 40 iniured
British battlesbip Victoria SINK in the
Mediterranean seai over 900 lives lost
Edwin Booth died in Nov YorL,
Jaiy Eighteen persons killed and 1G
injured at tlre in the cold storage ware
house, Worlds Fair
resnItinq IN i0S jeatbs y " WI '''''0'
The Falcon. with Tieut Pearv,s exnlor-
inc Marty ON hoord stortod Co.. ~ -,
regions W N''>
Three hundred and 6ftv tbonsord En-.
olisb coal miners Want 80, l., stntI-o
MANY hank and bnsiness failures and
the great financial danrassio,, nf ~ ,,oar
haoan 70 10 sa,,o.ol,, fpit VI '"0 cal
1uguSt.-Congress met in extra session
West India hurricane devastated the
South Carolina and Georgia coasts.
twenty killed and many injured by the
collapse of bridge on the Boston & AL
bany road near Chester.
George Makepeace Towle, historian anC
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eptember.-Centennia anniversary o
the laying of the corner stone of the cap
itol celebrated at Washington.
EX-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish
died at Garrison's, n. Y.
Rebel warships bombarded the govern
ment forts at Rio Janerio.
Six million acres in the Cherokee strip
opened to settlers.
Roanoke Va. and were fred mon 6v tbe
militia Civ Liiad n,a,,. ,ou ui0" ~ 'i''
October.-The American yacht Nigilant
defeats the English yacht Nalkyrie.
Terrible storm on the Gulf coast; over
1000 lives lost, damage several millions.
Lucy Stone Blackwell, the woman suf
fragst, died at Dorchester.
Disastrous storm on the great lakes
propeller Dean Richmond lost at Van Rn
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