Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-12-31
rr.nsva.l insurrectiOn; President Kruessr

| Transvaal insurrection; President Kruger
70. Second nre at Cripple Greek. Colo.
| does $l.500.O00 damage and wipes out the
town.
8. Fearful loss Of life by explosion Of q
gas generator ut Cincinnati; nearly nifty
5. Street car strike In Milwaukee.
o. Cleveland's sweeping civil service order
| protects $4,000 ofice-holders.
8. Many points record temperature OF 90
o. L'Anse. Mich, has s75o.ooo nre. ;. ASH
| land. Wis, loses half a million by fire.
| Continued excessive heat.
II. Eleven killed by explosion Of boiler OF
rafting steamer Harry Brown, at Vicksburg,
Miss.
IA Bold bank robbery at Buffalo. N. Y....
Big windstorm at Chicago. .Methodists re-
| tire Bishops Foster and Bowman.
15. Eighty killed by cyclone at Sherman,
Texas.
| II. Great loss OF life and property by cy-
clones In Kansas. Five sailors drown on
Crosse Point; III. J. Blue Island, III, fire.
1S. Nebraska cyclone kills A.
81. Oklahoma cyclone kills ten.
| 22. Missouri cyclone kills Ave.
"a. Four OF Otto Mains family die BY
and Jasper Counties. Iowa, kills score OF
people and does tremendous damage; CHI
| cago and suburbs also suffer.
%. Over 100 killed by cyclone In Michigan
-. Forty die at McGregor, Iowa, In cloud
burst
20. One hundred killed In street-car dIsas-
| ter at Victoria, B. @. james Durham MUIR
ders six people at San Jose. Cal. =. Car OF
Russia crowned. Cairo, Ill, storm Kills
| twelve.
81. St. Louis, East st. Louis and several
Missouri towns swept by one OF the most de-
structive cyclones In the worlds history;
i,000 reported dead.
30: Two thousand Russians killed In a
panic at Moscow. :. Eighteen people die In
| cyclone at Seneca, No.
June.
8. Anarchist bomb In Barcelona kills
and wounds 4.
13. Death of ex-Gov. Felch OF Michigan.
10. Earthquake I'm Japan kills thousands
-. Republican convention in St. Louis.
Steamer Drummond and $40 lives lost on
France
IS. Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake
mated at st. Louis. Silver men bolt the
| convention. 80 Ten killed by exploding yacht
boiler at Little Falls, n. Y.
%. Five killed by colapsng building at
| San Francisco. -. Death OF b. II. Bristow,
| ex-Secretary of the Treasury. at New York.
2S. One hundred miners buried at Pitts
ton. Pa. Six drown In Shawano Lake.
Wis.
July.
I. Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Z. Democratic convention at Chicago. -.
Yale beaten at Henley.
10. Chicago convention nominates Bryan
gam Iowa. 81 $50 hold-up at noon In CHI
cago. $500. 600 fire at Nashville, Tenn.
II. Five killed In week at Chicago. =. -Four
drowned at Lawrence, Kan.
13. Half million fire loss at st. Louis.
Intense heat at Chicago.
! IA. Hot wave sweeps the country; "a de-
grees at Chicago.
Is. Temperature drops 80 degrees at Chi
Ohio.
IS. Three lives and half million In prop
.NN. InaN lx- I'm
Malvern, Ark. razed by incendiary fire.
"a. Twenty-slx drowned by cloudburst In
Colorado. Serious floods in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
25. Popullsts at st. Louis nominate Bryan
and Watson.
q. Eleven. die in Pennsylvania cloud
burst, near Pittsburg
%. Indiana gas belt swept by floods; three
killed at Anderson.
30. Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer-
sey City, y. j.
August.
4. Failure of Moore Bros, Chicago, Dia-
mond Match brokers. for 81, 600, 600. .Phe-
nOrnenal heat In Western, Central and Mid
die Northern States.
3, o, z. Continuance OF killing heat.
Conference Of National Democratic party at
indianapolis.
o. Furious heat increases; 70 deaths from
sunstroke I'm New York and Brooklyn; 10 at
Chicago similar reports from an quarters.
Seven killed by trolley accident ut Colum-
bia, Pa.
10. One hundred and eighty people die of
heat In New York and Brooklyn; 10 at Chi
,cago; II at st. Louis.
i2 Cool wave. Thirty die In a Pennsyl-
vania cloudburst. Seven killed by boiler
explosion near Alliance, Ohio.
16 Undertakers and cemeteries In New
York overwhelmed with business; hundreds
OF funerals postponed; heat the cause.
IL. Death Of Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamil-
tom at Hamilton. Mass
25. Whitney-yanderbilt wedding: On
tonagon. Mich, destroyed by fire. Nation
al Democratic State Convention OF Illinois
neminates John c. Black for Governor.
September.
L. Twelve killed by powder-bouse explosion
8 Gold Democrats at indianapolis nomin-
ate Palmer and Buckner. Slight frost In
Northwest.
O. Eleven frcmen killed at Benton Har.
bcr. Mich. Two men lynched at Glencoe,
MINI.
g Six of coaching party killed near
Warsaw, Ind :. Family OF four killed at
crossing at Oshkosh. Wis.
10. Tremendous storm in the East. -.
British troops capture DongC,a and rout
dervishes In Egypt. Riot al Leadyille;
"a. Mount Holyoke College burns at South
Hadley, Mass.
20. Many Southern cities wrecked by
storm great life and property loss in Flor
ida. Georgia and Pennsylvania.
October.
!, s. Iowa seml-centennial jubilee,
g. Death of Du Maurier. the no,<list.
Q, Chicago Day celebration.
10. Two bank robbers killed at Sher.
bourne. MINI.
IA. Meeker, Col, citizens kill three bank
robbers. and hold a celebration over II.
IL. Flight OF w. II: Rambusch, from Ju-
neau. Wis, after embezzling over 100000
during long term OF years.
16 First snow In Northern Wisconsin.
II. First snow In Chicago. :. $500 fire
at Holland, Mich.
49, Death of Henry E. Abbey, theatrical
manager. at New York.
% Eight killed, 20 hurt. In wreck at st. |
Louis. :. Six drown while boating at Den
2e 81, 900 elevator fire at Chicago.
%. 20. Mercury at Chicago reaches rs de.
grees. Cyclones In the South and Okla
homa. /
November.
3. Mckinley elected President
3. Storm Of sleet and snow In Northwest |
Z. Schooner waukesha and six men lost |
on Muskegon, Mich.
10. Mercury registered 30 degrees at Chi |
cago.
10. Death OF Mrs. siddons at Paris.
%. Death OF Campanini. the tenor, at /
Parma. Italy. :. .Mabley 4 Co, Detroit, fall |
20. Worst November blizzard ever known /
In Northwest; roads blocked and much stock /
weyler's rout in Cuba, with loss OF 5000 |
men.
27. 2s. ~, 90 Continued severe cold in
West and North.
December.
2, 3. 4. Alarming Ice gorge In Chippewa
9. Strong indications that Cuban insur.
gents will be successful; weyler falls in his |
campaign In Pnar del Rio. :. Five killed In
collision at Waelder, Texas.
4. Congress in session. :. Reported death
OF Maceo, the Cnban insurgent general.
o. Loss OF North German Lloyd steamer