The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-29
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.


THE papal encyclical condemns Sc
cret societies and confirms Mgr.
Satollfs authority; Captain Dreifus,
having been convicted Of treason
to France in revealing military Sc
crets publicly degraded.
"a steamship boiler explosion at Rio
Janeiro causes 40 excursionists TO
lose their lives; rebellion breaks out
in Hawaii.
s-william W. Taylor, retiring treas
urer of South Dakota, absconds ana
is found to be a defaulter.
9Carlisle's substitute currency Dill
killed in the house; the Congo Free
State annexed by Belgium.
11-Baron Banffy becomes premier or
Hungary.
l2-Bin Cook captured; a Burlington
express train robbed near Ottumwa,
Ia.
1.-THE schooner Maud and Alice sinks
in Deception pass. Wash. Is drown
ed; the Brooklyn trolley car strike
begins.
I5-President Casimir- Perier of France
resigns; a powder explosion and IRE
at Butte, Mont, kills 20 people.
17-Felix Faure elected president OF
France; Olney's arbitration bill
introduced in the house; Par
isian earthquake destroys hun
dreds Of lives.
1s-The Lexow committee report sub
mitted to the New York legisla-
ture; the Southern Ballot Rights
league organized; troops called out
to suppress the trolley strike riots
in Brooklyn.
19-A foreclosure suit brought by first
mortgage bondholders against the
main line of the Union Pacific rail-
road.
21-The Merchants bank. Binghamton,
N. Y, suspends.
22-President Pena Of Argentine re-
signs.
3-wreckage Of the steamer Chicora
found in Lake Michigan; rs lives
lost.
Manufacturers organize a national
association; a Cotton Belt train
robbed near O'Neill, Neb.
25-Gold exports for the week aggre-
gated s7.0O0.0 900. breaking all pre-
vious records; the senate passes
the Nicaragua canal bill.
26-Twenty-six lives lost in shipwrecks
on the New Jersey and New En-
gland coasts
2s-Cleveland sends a message to con- |
gress advocating the issue of gold |
bonds in small denominations.
29-The whiskey trust placed under a |
receivership.
so-The senate ratifies the Japanese |
treaty; Japanese capture Wei-Hai- |
Wei; the steamship Elbe sunk by a
collision near the Needles. En- |
gland; 1872 lives lost; a Southern |
Pacific train held up near Wilcox.
Ariz.
FEBRUARY.
Reorganization of the Protestant
knights of America completed; the
national woman's suffrage conven-
ton re-elects Susan b. Anthony
president.
4-President Greenhut ousted from
the whisky trust; a Santa Fe pas
senger train robbed near Hutchin-
son, Kan.
5-Japanese capture or destroy almost
the entire Chinese fleet at Wei |
Hai-Wei.
both the administration and the
Reed currency bills killed in the |
house.
s-The president contracts with for
eign bankers for 100000 ounces of |
gold; tidal wave on the New
England and Nova Scotia coasts |
washes away many houses.
"a mail coach near Newkirk. Okla. |
held up; one robber killed and the |
other captured. |
1o-Eighteen lives lost in the wreck of |
the Gloucester fishing schooner.
1s-The first aluminium burial casket |
made.
1.-THE Wilson bond bill defeated in |
the house; the Independent Order /
Of knights of Labor organized.
1.-THE largest spectroscope in the /
world completed at Pittsburg by /
Professor Brashear. and shipped to /
Dublin.
1e-The German reichstag decides to /
call an international monetary con-
ference; a fleet of rs coasting ves-
sells given up at New York as lost; |
the Brooklyn car strike called OF.
17-Actress Madge Yorke murdered at /
philadelphia by Actor Richard
Gentry.
1s-The National woman's Council as
sembles in Washington; a mine ex-
plosion near Mahoney Plane, Pa,
destroys 10 lives.
20-The German reichstag passes the Il
bill to repeal the anti-Jesuit law.
2@Captain Howgate. disbursing off,
Ger OF the signal service. acquitted
OF embezzlement
26-The lecture of ex-Priest Slattery
In Savannah provokes a riot be-
tween the military and a mob; the
captain general OF Cuba suspends
constitutional guarantees; the /
house passes the arbitration bill
z-Bissell resigns as postmaster-gen-
eral; twenty-seven miners killed L
by a gas explosion near Cherillos,
N. M; Houston & Texas Central
train held up near Dallas, Tex;
Blacksmith Allard OF Quebec pro- |
duces aluminium as tough as iron |
2S-An Inter-Oceanic train plunges
down a mountain in Mexico; lO4 |
killed; Morgan, the Virginia train
robber, convicted.
MARCH.
4ECongress adjourns: the Japanese
take New Chwang
SThe japanese emperor signs the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS treaty.
6-Crawford and Williams rob the
Abel. Ia, bank and shoot seven |
citizens; Crawford captured and
Williams rilled.
THE recall OF Consul General WILL
Jams demanded by the captain
general of Cuba.
S-The United States ship Alliance |
fired upon by a Spanish gunboat:
Harry Hayward convicted OF the
murder OF Catherine Cling.