The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-01-03
LOOKING BACKWARD
Review of the Year That Is
Past.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Enitome of the General News
of the World.


C-hrouOlo1ical Recital of All the Inn
portant Events in Legislative, Judi
cial and Commercial C~ircles-Start-
Inns Deeds of Crime-Stirring Incl
dents in Military Mattcrs-Record of
Disasters on Land and Sea-Devasta-
ton by Fire and Pesti1cnce-The
Year of o Made History Rapidly.
T, -
Below will be found a concise recital of
all the events at home and abroad which
go to make up the history of 1894. In
America, as in Europe, there has been ex-
perienced a period of severe financial de-
preston. The year was marked by the
most stupendous disturbance of labor cir
cles in the history of the country, neces-
stating the employment of government
forces for it's suppression. Political con-
tests have been nearly as stirring as a
national election. The world has been
thrilled by tales of horror from devastat-
ing forest fires. and death has claimed
many illustrious men. The year will be
long remembered as one of the most nota-
wv " Nv NLtdls hDlohus IHC Cut
Of news has been principally in the Orient.
There is at present raging the war be-
tween Japan and China, and to the aston
ishment of all civilized nations the island
kingdom has worsted its mighty foe in
every contest of note. Fort after fort
has fallen before Japan's forces, and
three separate armies are marching upon
the capital of the Flowery Kingdom. The
IbipnSn nvnpira &c not fo1lap Il, h,nhloI
and has already taken initiatory steps to
sue for peace. Continental Europe has
been at peace, and Russia mourns the
death of her Gar.
JANUARY.
l-Opening of Manchester. Eng. ship canal.
-. Globe Theater. Boston, burns; 81, On 900.
2-Six killed in Rock Island wreck at Lin
killed. troops summoned.
3-$l, 10000 fire at Toledo: $500 900 at De-
troit. Franklin Grove. H.. Bank robbed
S-S1, 100000 fire at Worlds Fair grounds.
Coy. Mckinley lnaugurated at Column
9-Two Senates claim existence in New
Jersey. John /" Sullivan's wife sluss him
with IN Indian club.
1l-Jackson inaugurated Governor at Des
NIoincs, Ia: =. Sherman Wagner, wife muir
derer, %lynched near Mitchell. Ind.
12-Nin killed by collapsed bridge at
Brooklyn....S Six drowned in Baltimore har-
13-Three men lynched at Russell, Kan.
for murder. -. .Schacfer beats Ives at bill
lizards by one point.
14-SiX sailors from Dutch steamer Am
s~terdaln perish In vain attempt to rescue
grew of wrecked fishing schooner Maggie
, Y. Wells. in the Atlantic Ocean.
fioDoken, rear end collision. Gear nomi-
mated for Senator in Iowa. .Hornblower's
nomination for Supreme bench rejected by
!7-John Buchner. colored. lynchcd at Val
.ey Park, No, for assault.
ls-k. G., st. j. x &. b. train held up at
Roy's Branch. Mo; big booty secured. -.
Secretary Carlisle calls for bids at 177.22
for 3o.0Oo,000 . per cent. bonds.
D-Ernest LoCore hanged at Joliet, H.;
Baumherger hanged at Cando,. n. D..
23-Scvere cold and storms in northwest
80. Banker Koetting convicted at Milwau-
zee: Boone County. Ia, insane asylum
24-Severest cold of the season general.
23-corbett defeats Mitchell in the prize
26-George II. Fainter hanged at Chicago
for murder of Alice Martin; rope broke.
double hanging necessary. Public recon-
citation Of Kaiser and Bismarck; IN
27-San Francisco Mid-winter Fair opened.
29-liosina Vokes, actress, dies In Eng
30-Admiral Benham COWS the rebels at
Rio.
31-Rioting Pittsburg miners forced to eat
dogs.
FEBRUARY.
Geo. w. Childs dies at Philadelphia. -.
4-Vaillant, the Anarchist, is guillotlned at
Paris.
5~-Attempted l~yncliing at Lebanon. Ind.
1-Senatc repeats Federal elections law.
S-Wreck of old corvette Kearsarge on
Roncador reef; crew rescued.
9-BlizZard over whole northwest.
u-Terrible blizzard In southwest; many
12-Chicago literally snow-bound by fercest
storm ever known; wind reaches "a miles per
hour; storm widespread. . .Lincoln's birth
day. Another bomb thrown In a Paris cafe.
13-Yon Bulow. the pianist. dies at Cairo,
14-Death Of Mrs. Myra Bradwell at CHI
18-Murderer Stone, slayer of 'Wrattan
family at Washington, Ind, hanged at JEFF
fersonville: . Bandits wreck and rob a
men killed, and large booty secured from the
Wells-Fargo Express Co.. Senate rejects
Peckham's nomination to Supreme bench
berg at Kiel; kills 80.
Ex-senator White. Of Louisiana. appointed
$3.50, 900 80. Death Of JOS. Keppler, Puck
slx years Is Sing sing:..:Goy Rich. Of Mich,
!. $~MSshlnstoh's. Birthday. ..Guatemala
-s23~Fonr Michigan state oficiafs Indicted
ding. r."
-,25-steel Mackaye, dramatist,' dies on a
Santa Fe trd1n. Terrific snow storm In the
South.
28-interstate law decided void
~, Fierce storms In the East.
27-Dopble ,lynehing at Mountain Home,
Ark. Boy lyAched for murder of a sher-
2S-News of drowning of 10 Cape Ann.
Mass; 'hshsfhleiA u an "E12. n. Murder and
'purglnry'iTsds xese = HAS4ship Monroe q2yn.
fy,,Mieh:s, Minors, ,riot AZ Eagle "'.A'a:'
o0ps'shH .tsa..,'"
H.. MARCH," : sFa.-.
Hands bill to coin the selgniorage
passed. - ~ So.
2-Gtadstona. recommends Roseberry. for
Premier. ,..Generai Jubal A. Early dies
at Lynchburg.
3.Giadstohe formally retires from the
British Premiership.
4-Death Of ed Williamson. the famous