The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-01-04
oseo ana Erie. Vast prairie fires in Nebraska

country swept by violent storms: much dam
States. -. BLACK Jack Yattaw died at Chicago
-. Negro lynched At Salina. kas:
q. Strikers at Hull, England, fire the docks:
- Failure Of Loan and Trust Company of
Sioux City. Burning Of First Regiment
AImory at Chicago: two ives s. ioss oa mage
&c. sixty-two killed by cyclones in Oklaho-
" g. 3: Naval parade At New York. src-test in
the history OF the world: Death Of w. c.
Cloudy, Of Chic.so: Pork advances over Il
Duke Of Veragua aud President Cleveland.
.eS fi &c Injured Tss by cyclone; 50
50. Six perish in fire at Burlington, Ia
!. Opening OF Worlds Fair by President
= Heavy property loss in Miami Valley by
j. Lewiston, o.. reservoir, second largest in
the country breaks: great property damage. no
4. Panic in Wall street; i've firms fail: re-
ceiver appointed for the Cordage Trust.
s. s. V. White. New York broker. fails again.
German army hil defeated Reichs a, = dis
:. Ten killed in wreck at Lafayette. Ind.
Six boiled to death by escaping steam on
: First electric illumination Of Worlds
Fair. Chemical National Bank: Chicago.
steam ' disasssr Carlyle " Harris exe
cuted at Sing Sing.
commission s. Baount appointed Minister
IL. Break in levees below Memphis: vast
damage :. Columbian Bank fails at Chicago.
II. 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 days II hours
and 40 minutes
Is. Plankinton Bank Of Milwaukee success
fully meets big run.
Il. Lynchins at Bedford, Ind lien miners
killed at Calumet, Mich
Is. Lynching at Brownstown Ind.
IT, Murderer Amy hanged at CoGoo,d
H iHa1 ena oRe censenes ss chicago
90. Many lives lost by Hood in Ohio and Penn
sylvania >. .Nine sailors perish 1T Conneaut
and 3 At Ashtabula. Ohio. In marine disaster.
go Four life savers drown at Cleveland.
II. Resignation Of Italian Ministry. Span
o. Sl.6ooooo fire loss at Saginaw. Mich. -.
forest rest, IRE in Missaukee County. Mich. '' "
r. Cruiser New York makes A.os knots an
hour. fastest time recorded for : war ship:
90. -Four killed by windstorm at Cleveland.
~. Queen VictoEias birthday.
%. Failure Of Chas. Foster; ex-secretary Of
the Treasury. at FOstoria. Ohio. for $6CO. 600;
many concerns involved.
%. Failure of Weaver Getz & Co.. coal deal
ers, Chicago, for $4,000.
of F. H. Milburn, son OF the Chaplain of Con-
gress. :. Burning of Baltimore sugar refinery.
$40 1900. Exposition flyer from New York
for chicago runs $50 miles in twenty hours.
%. News Of loss of British steamer Ger
mania. with seventy-four persons.
80. General observance Of Memorial day.
June.
2. Steamer Corsica sinks unknown schooner
3. Schaeffner & Co, bankers Chicago, fail
for over million: Schaefner commits suicide.
persons perish in burning New York tene-
ment. Lynchin9 at Decatur, Ill. Twenty
six Mexican miners perish In q burning mine
at Fuente.
4. Meadowcroft Bros. Chicago bankers. fail
5: Run on eight big Chicago banks; two small
failures. .Bentonyllle, Ark. bank robbed Of
6. Infanta Enlalia Of Spain visits Chicago.
=. Death of Edwin Booth. 81, 100000 fire at
Fargo.
s. a train robbery of $4,000 near Forest
Lawn, Ill Wheat touches 81 cents-lowest
record for Chicago. Gov. Mckinley Ienomin-
ated. Injunction to close Worlds Fair Sun
days.
0. Collapse OF Ford Theater building at
Washington; p pension clerks Killed Riot
on ChicagO's drainage canal: killed.
10. Chief Justice Fuller stays Worlds Fair
closing injunction.
-. Capture Of sontag. California bandit. y. i.
Demonstration hostile to Col. Ainsworth at
Ford Theater inquest:
IL. Start of :he Chadron- Chicago cowboy
race.
IA. First fatal accident at the Fair, on the
Ii. United States Court of Appeals sustains
H. Mining one Mesa6a range destroyed
BY fire Adams Block. Chicago. burns; loss
20. Ten killed. &c injured, on Long Island
railroad. Lizzie Borden acquitted at New
81 Seventeen killed by storms in Eastern
lad 90 p;, lob
at Rin9ling's circus. River Falls. Wis =. Four
perish In Duluth fire. One hundred and
ninety deaths by cholera st Mecca.
ere at Chicago. Attendance at Fair reaches
l27, 90 without special attraction.
q: Sinking OF H n: s: Victoria and loss of
p. Boundless wins the American Derby At
CHICAGO in 1885.
schwab. Chicago anarchists. ~ '>'>
~. John Berry. OF Black Hills country, wins
the l.oto-mile cowboy race. Chs'Ion. Neb.. to
Chi in IL days ,a as hours India suspends
~. Silver drops to g. and wheat to e2As: both
marks lowest known
July.
2 Dedication Of New York States monu-
). Ftsh, Joseph s Co. fire at Chicago. $500.
1. 274ooo people at Worlds Fair 4th celebra.
S. Paris under guard: several rioters killed.
s. Scores killed by cyclone in Western
Iowa
:. Death Of Associate Justice Blstchford.
....LynohinG and burning Of s. J. Miller, Z
negro, At Bardwell, Ky. Arrival Of tho cara
s. Riot 1t Christian Endeavor convention
At Montreal.
9. Montreal riot continued.
10. Twenty-one 6remen and Columbian
guards perish by the burning Of the Cold
Storage Building at Worlds Fair; money loss
$25O.Un0.
Il. Viking ship arrives At Chicago Prince
| ton Ind. swept by fire .Ottumwa, Ia. pack.
ing house burned; $3.50 600.
Is. German army bill passed
l6. Heroes Day at Worlds Fair.
Il. Four killed. many hurt. in . Chicago
grade crossing accident. :. 500 COO fire in Lon.
| don.
! is. Six Denver banks fail.
| 20. Riot ut Wier City. Kan. miners strike.
| Il. Richard Shoemaker. OF Metropolis Ill
| kills Richard and George Lukens and himself
-. Lee Walker. q negro lynched and burned
/ 1t Memphis for four assaults.
q. Pauldng. O.. swept by FIRE: loss $50 900,
| Worlds Fair closed Sundays.
| -. Fra-ce gives notice Of intended blockade
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