Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-03


13 people perish. =. $500, 600 fire at Belle
Piaine, and $1,000 ut brooklyn. Ia. 80.
Drouth In Illinois and Iowa broken.
30-Half million fire loss In Minneapolis.
31-Japanese sink China's finest warship,
capture two cruisers and kills 1000 men. ;: :.
Continuation Of fearful heat and drouth In
In Northwest.
AUGUST.
1-S2, 50O. 900 fire In Chicago lumber dis
Holt, famous jurIst and Buchanan's secre-
tary Of War, at Washington.
2-Two fires In Chicago do $357, 600 damage.
3-Japs defeat Chinese with 1000 slaugn-
tered. CARROTS assassin sentenced to
death at Paris.
saEs.Gov Blair, Sf Michigan, ss,:s dies Rail
7-Panic on Chicago Board Of Trade
caused by drought; corn reaches 90 cents.
oyyerselling wheat, Centennial a6 OF Wayne's
e-Fourteen lives lost In wreck on Rock
Island near Lincoln, Neb. Vaccination
riot at Milwaukee. Corn crop OUTLOOK
13-House adopts Senate's tariff schedule
80. Corn still shows remarkable hrmness In
STop a yons FTanee
1S-News of battle from the Orient; Chinese
defeated. 1000 slain. Crop prospects I'M
:ai-$4o6, 600 fre in Cincinnati. :. .slxty-slx
houses burned In Beeville, Tex. Eight
men drowned In a yacht race at st. Johns,
n. B.. Coy. Altgeld asks public aid for
2ETRlrty-seven miners killed near Frank
lin, Wash; two at Ashland. Pa; four at
25-Chase and capture Of Gordon and Lake.
Chicago train robbers and murderers. j 900
people perish In cyclone on east shore Oh Sea
26-John Newell, president l.. s. & NJ; g..
Ry., dies at Youngstown, o.. Lake navlga-
tion greatly hindered by smoke from Michi-
27-New tariff becomes a law without Presi-
dent Cleyeland's signature. :. Many lake
vessels stranded because OF smoke from
2s-Congress adjourns universal rejoicing
-. Enormous customs receipts throughout
the country because Of 0wer narsb aaI in
at Hong Kong. Many people killed az
Uvalde, Texas, by cloudburst and earth
quake.
SEPTEMBER.
lover 700 people perish. six towns de-
stroyed, In Northern Minnesota, by forest
fres; property loss several millions. :. Six
negroes lynched In Tennessee Tor Darn-
burning.
dous rain fall In Chicago Labor day gen.
IFires renewed in northern pine woods
-. st. Paul raises $4,000, Duluth $1,000
and other cities various smaller amounts Tor
forest fire sufferers; Actor Irving, OF Eng
land, cables $500 for same purpose.
6-Robert j. PAGES mile at Indianapolis In
2:0215; three heats average 2'O3 2-3; both rec
ord-breakers.
1O-Maine gives 3I,OOO hepuDllcan maJorl-
i1-G. A. r. encampment at Pittsburg
15-Owens defeats .Breckinridge In Ash
land, KY, district
I7-News of Japan's success In decisive
battle at Ping Yang, Corea. .. Destructive
cyclone in Oklahoma.
at Gorin, Mo-; one robber fatally hurt, one
captured. New York Republicans nomi-
nate Morton. Chinese and Japs sink three
IRR"kIix trots in 2:o3A mt GaIesbure.
21-Over so lives lost in cyclone In Iowa
anil Minnesota. Madame Fursch- Mahdi,
renowned singer, dies at Warrenyllle, n. j.
23-S1 ,500,0 600 fire in Portland, O'e.
26-Steamer Ohio and schooner 1ronton
collide Off Presque Isle, Mich, aud sink; five
OF schooner VIM. Home off Manistique.
HllI.
OCTOBER.
2-Little Rock wrecked by cyclone. ...
'?seeIDe ?soDeath of Prof. David swing of Chicago
:. FURRY of snow In Chicago.
5-Six men killed in a fire at Detroit.
7-Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes Of
Massachusetts,, and Ex-Gov. A. G. Curtin.
of Pennsy lyania.
1oGTerrific storm on the Atlantic coast !:
over $50 lives lost. Nine killed by falling
12HTrain robbers in California and vir-
ginia get 100000
1.-Two Killed, ten wounded by militia re-
pelling attempt at lynching at Washington
2oNDeath Of Historian James Anthony
24~Four Nebraska counties swept by fire {;
many lives lost and thousands Of cattle per-
HD Al; CHRoN
27-siHteen perish in boarding house fire
loss Three In Rfed Sv se
in a boarding house at Laurel Run, Pa. q.
Three killed at Lima, o., and three at Cory
and and 1i2 lives lost off New Zealand.
3O-Seven perish by fire at New York.
NOVEMBER.
1-Czar of Russia dies.
2-EarthQuake destroys New Hebrides
8-Something dropped in political circles.
Six killed Of In MEe s key e. wreck fsmou. hall
i8~Tremendous storms on lakes and In
i ii0Deat6 Of Rufus Ramsey. Treasurer Of
'ii22@sSoo,Ooo fire at New Orleans. ;. !.
the outlaw. and another alleged murderer. at
fiGy fiissae sue of $50. 900. 900 u s. bonds order
ries his ward, Dora Richardson, aged Is, at
Lexington, ky. :. Death of Charles q.
Strong, general manager Chicago Newspaper
l4-News Of slaughter Of io.oca Armenians
By Turks
of Princeton College. .Itobt. q. Winthrop
D'fs isHiyes i defeats schaeser at billiards. u.
Turks slaughter 1000 Iiore Armenlans In
their religious war. :. Earthquake In Italy
2o-Seven killed by explosion In a West
Virginia mine. Death OF Ru6ensteln. @ the
ure at Portland. Ore.
22-ChIna makes oyertures of peace to
Japan; Port Arthur falls; Gen. Booth, OF
Anew ssts p
$50, ,0o6, 900 bond issue.
Of robbery OF shss ss,o sHS @
e" ... Yale wins wins at football from Harvard.
Ann Arbor from Cornell.
-CEaT NiGholas and PRINCESS ss,... Als mar: mar;
2S--$5Q0, 900 fire at Toledo, o.. 800, 900
loss BY burning of coal shaft at Spring. VAL
ley, Ill. :. Tremendous sensation In China,
caused caused by petition to impeach Ii Hung
2e-xnn Arbor wins at football from Chi
cago University.
DECEMBER
3IOongress re-assembles. :. .Kolb has him.
self sworn in as Governor Of Alabama; no
Iy27S.oco nre in New York, $4,000 in
eIBandits secure 100000 in Texas Pa
7NHorribIe murder Of Alfred d. Barnes in
>. .Elopement Of Rev. Haney and Mrs.
DssDSs SSeath Il sf kObt. Louis Stevenson in
iowCapture in Chicago of seeley, the. New
hurt in a. Chicago street railway tun-
mer near Hamilton, Mo-, kills. his wife.
three children and himself while insane.