Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-12-31

COmmuteS sentence.
does s.. 900 damage and wipes out the
town.
May.
8. Fearful loss of life BY explosion Of q
gas generator 1t Cincinnati; nearly afty
5. Street car strike in Milwaukee.
9. Cleveland's sweeping civil service order
protects 10000 ofice-holders.
8. Many points record temperature Of 30
8. L'Anse. MICH. has $4,000 IRE. ;. Ash
land, Wis. loses half million by fre....'
Continued excessive heat.
II. Eleven killed by explosion Of boiler Of
rafting steamer Harry Brown. ut vicksbuFg..
i sea bank ..os,sssy .t Bus,s Il r.;
tire Bishops Foster and Bowman.
Is. Eighty killed. BY cyclone at Sherman.
II. Grea. loss Of life and property BY cy.
clones in Kansas. Five sallofs drown on
sweps :. 500 coo a. Ore 1 .s Atlanta. ca. Ia
IS. Nebraska cyclone kills ~
q. Oklahoma cyclone kills ten.
%. Missouri cyclone kills ave.
"a. Four Of Otto Mains family die ~
gasoline fire at Chicago. Cyclone In Polk
people and does. tremendous damage; Chi
cago and suburbs also suffer.
Is. Over 100 killed by cyclone In Michigan
=. Forty die at McGresor, Iowa. In cloud
20. One hundred killed In street-car disas-
ter at Victoria, b. G.. James Durham muir
ders six people at San Jose. Cal. Gear OF
Russia crowned. Cairo. ILL.,. storm Kills
p. St. Louis, East st. Louis and several
Missouri towns swept BY one OF the most de-
structive cyclones in the worlds history;
30. Two thousand Russians killed in .
panic at Moscow. (. Eighteen people die In
a cyclone at Seneca. Mo.
june.
6. Anarchist bomb In Barcelona kills
and wounds 4.
Is. Death Of ex,Gov. Fetch Of Michigan.
18. Earthquake In Japan kills thousands
-. Republican convention In st. Louis. -.
Steamer Drummond and 24O lives lost on
Is. Ten thousand lives lost BY earthquake
mated at st. Louis. :. Silver men bolt the
soes IT ;. Ten sa, k,'lsr exploding yacht
San Francisco. =. Death Of B. n, Bristow,
ex-Secretary Of the Treasury. at New York.
%. One hundred miners buried at Pitts
TIL %i:. Pa e Six drown in sh'"'n' Lake
/. Death Of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Z. Democratic convention at Chicago. -.
10. Chicago convention dominates Bryan.
IL. Twenty eight killed in wreck at Lo-
gan, Iowa. .$1,75o hold-up at noon In Chi
cago.. $500, 600 fire at Nashville. Tenn:
II. Five killed In week ut Chicago. -Four
drowned at Lawrence. Kan.
ID. Half million fire loss at st. Louis. ..-
Intense heat at Chicago.
u: Hot wave sweeps the country; % de-
Is. Temperature drops SO degrees at Chi
cago. .Twenty-eight drowned at Cleveland,
Is. Three lives and half million in prop
erty lost by fire at Chicago car barns. -.
Malvern, Ark, razed by incendiary flre.
"a. Twenty-six drowned by cloudburst In
Colorado. Serious floods In Ohio ana
Is. Populists at ST. Louis nominate Bryan
and Watson.
q. Eleven die in a Pennsylvania cloud
IS. Indiana gas belt swept by noods three
killed at Anderson.
30. Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer.
sey City, n. J.
August.
T. Failure Of Moore Bros, Chicago, Dia-
mond Match brokers, for 81, 600, 600. Phe-i
nomenal heat In Western. Central and Mid
die Northern States.
s. 6, Z. Continuance Of killing heat. >. i
Conference Of National Democratic party at
indianapolis.
g. Furious heat increases; Y deaths from
sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn; 10 at
Chicago; similar reports from all quarters. !
Seven killed by trolley accident at Colum-l
bia, Pa.
TO- One hundred and eighty people die Of
heat In New York and Brooklyn; 20 at CHI
=: Cool wave. :. Thirty die in Pennsyl-I
vania cloudburst. Seven killed by boiler
explosion near Alliance, Ohio.
l6 Undertakers and and, cemeteries CEMETERIES i In New
Of funerals postponed; heat the cause.
II. Death Of Abigail Dodge Gail Hamil.
toni at Hamilton, Mass.
Is. Whitney-vanderbilt wedding: ON.
tonagon. Mich. destroyed by fire. Nation
al Democratic State Convention OF Illinois
dominates John G. Black for Governor.
September.
1. Twelve killed by powder-house explosion
8. Gold Democrats at Indianapolis nomin-
ate Palmer and Buckner. :. Slight frost In
8. Eleven nremen killed at Benton Har-
Dor. Mich. Two men lynched at Glencoe.
s. Six Of a coaching party killed near
Warsaw. Ind. Family Of four killed 1T
crossing at Oshkosh, Wis. 49, 49,
British troops capture Dongola ana rout
dervi:hes In Egypt. Riot In Leadviiie;
FL Mount Holyoke College burns at South
o. Many Southern cities wrecked BY
storm; great life and property loss in Flor
ida. Georgia and Pennsylvania.
October.
i, H. Iowa eeml-centennlal JuDllee.
8. Death Of Du Maurier. the novelist.
8. Chicago Day celebration.
10. Two bank robbers killed at Sher-
bourne, MINI.
IA. Meeker, Col, citizens kill three bank
robbers, and hold q celebration over It.
Is. Flight Of w. I. Rambusch, from IN.
neau, Wis.,, after embezxling over $4,000
during long term Of years.
10. First snow In Northern Wisconsin. h
II. First snow In Chicago. 600 mn
la Death Of Henry e. Abbey. theatrical
manager, at New York.
Is. Eight killed, 20 hurt, In wreck ct &c.
Louis. :. six drown while boating ut Dem
yer.
90 81 200 900 elevator hre at Chicago.
%, -. Mercury at Chicago reaches 20 d
gress. =. Cyclones In the South and Okla
homa.
November.
3. Mckinley elected President.
5. Storm Of sleet and snow IN Northwest
and Middle States.
Q. Schooner Waukesha and six men lost
OF Muskegon, Mich.
is. Mercury registered 20 degrees at Chi
cago.
10. Death Of Mrs. Eiddons at Paris.
y. Death Of Campanini, the tenor. At
Parma, italy. !. Nabley & CO., Detroit, 1ell
| e. Worst November blizzard ever knoWu
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