The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-12-31
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Month of May Most Conspicuous by
Its List of Appalling Disasters and
Natural Catastrophes by Land and
Sea-Record of Fires aud Crimes.
A Back ward Glance.

| "A b1tE Waru SiaNCcs
Following is chronological record o
the most important events of the pas
twelve months: May. 1896. will be re
membered as a month of disaster. O
the Sd twelve persons were killed by a
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10Th, ~
| by a cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, 81 b.
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; ol
the 18th, Al by cyclone in Nebraska
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma
on the 22d, ) by cyclone in Missouri
on the 24th. 40 by a cyclone in Iowa; oil
the 25th, sc by cyclones in Michigan an:
Oklahoma and 40 by a cloudburst at Nc
Gregor, Iowa; and on the 26th, II by
storm at Cairo and between 10 and 1O(
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, B. c
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
dinary..
| January.
|. President names Venezuelan commits
sion. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
| ed on Vancouver Island; Il men perish.
! =. Six members of Hibbard family die by
| fire at Columbus. Ohio. -Four killed, B.
| hurt, by exploding fireworks ut st. Louis, Mo
-. British force under DR.. Jameson at
| tempts izure of territory in Transvaal
| South Africa. and is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Beers; British Government dis
| uNOWS HIS lUNdSIOH. III "
sia destroys village of Jaujabad and kills
| 300 people.
4. Cubans invest the city of Havana.
| United States insists on indemnity IRON
Turkey for plundered missions. six Killed
| in wreck near Chillicothe, Ohio. Utah a
State.
5. Carlisle offers S1Oa, a,OOO. 900 popular loan
| -. Second Persian earthquake destroys city
| of Col and kills 500 people.
@. Report that Havana is fallen; not con-
| firmed. Four miners killed in G Shamokin,
Pa, shaft. Tremendous prairie fires In
Western Kansas,
9. WaT fever high in Englapu .Irans-
vaal demands independence and indemnity
for Jameson's raid. Report OF alliance OF
Germany, France and Russia against Eng
land to sustain the Beers
II. Peter Hoagaard, of Chicago, Kills MS
wife. five children aud himself by asphyxia-
ton.
13. Sultan forbds Red Cross Society to en-
ter his domains.
IA. Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio
Is. Government victorious In Manitoba
elections. Severe fighting about Havana
-. Allison chosen Senator from Iowa. %.
Bond syndicate disSolves; popular loan as
sured.
16. Chicago gets Chicago Rational Demo
cratic Convention.
IL. Announcement of HarrisOn-Dimmick
engagement. .Cafnpos relieved OF Spanish
command In Cuba. :. Death of Frank Law
Ter. of Chicago.
81. Five 1remen killed ty falling walls
at st. Louis; three people killed by gas eX-
plOsion at New Haven, Conn.,; two at heu-
key, lad. :. Death of Gen. Tom Ewing at
New York. =. Red Cross delegation starts
%. American Liner st. Paul ashore at
Long Branch.
26. Cuban filitustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; 53 lost.
%. Fifty-four Welsh miners killed by ex-
plosinn. =. ,Feud at Palon, owa, ends in two
deaths.
80 Five killed, 20 hurt, by exploding
boiler at Holldaysburg, Pa.
81. Salisbury comedies Justice of Monroe
doctrine and declares England's inability to
suppress Armenian outrages. au.urr of
Pearl BryaE -: rv.. .nomas, Ky.
February.
l. Senate passes silver bond bill.
q S2.O00,OOc fire loss IN Philadelphia.
Tremendous snOwstOrm In Northwest.
s. Richard Elatke kills his father, mother.
wife. three children and himself at Chicago;
desuondent. :. Bond bids aggregate $685.
900, 900. at figure exceeding 40.
g. Three killed in Poish-Hungarian riot
at whiting. Ind. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlsntic coast; Morristown. n. j.. inundated
by lursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by
doOa and lire: many lives lost, immense
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol,
Coma, swep; away, drowning eleven work
men.
Z. Death Of W. H. English at indianapolis.
8. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispatch,
sentenced 10 TWO NetTS anu " pay TS.oOO
for circulating obscene matter.
8. Ten sailors drown of Newburyport,
Mdss
II. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan,
III.
II. Twenty die in factory fire at Troy,
Is. sis;y miners killed at Newcastle,
Colo. :. .Ea,n of mud in Chicago.
10. Elm r;ye stricken by paralysis. Mer
cury below zero all day at Chicago; three
&c 81 exposure. Clothing cutters at Chi
csgo strike. Dynamite at Johannesburg,
South Africa. Kills scores; fire at masked
bali II bi.bon, Portugal. kills fifty attend
ants.
Il. FitzSimnons whips Maher in 1 minute
35 Seconds. :. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
ton D.,oth removed from command Of Saliva
tion Army In America.
%. Death Of ''Bill" Nye.
%. Ballinston Booth revolts against his
retirement IA Salvation Army. :. Seven peo-
pie die In a Baltimore fire.
~ New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Du,.eaven.
% Senate passes resolution to recognize
Cu;.a
20. s1,OOO.OOO fire in Halifax. :. Riots in
Spain. upon receipt of news Of
action Of Congress; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
1. Great foods in New England.
q It?me iu a rage because of slaughter of
B 900 Italiap soldiers in battle in Abyssinia.
1. Renewed anti-Amerlcan demonstration
In Madrid. .All Italy in an uproar over
town, Pa.
IL Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, ILL.,
1e. Frankfort. KY, under martial law.
II. Five killed. by powder explosion at
23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois, Pa,
by explosion. :. Death of Thomas Hughes,
luthor, at London. Riot at Holland,
Mich, over horsewhiPping of sensational
2s. 100000 fire at Louisville. Ky. .Illi-
aois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment
sentence Of Bankers Meadowcroft.
30. Unknown man kills Alvin Nj. Stone
and wife, and wounds three daughters, near
Akron, Ohio; cause unknown. -Four die by |
ire in New York.
81. Storms In the Northwest . Report of |
by garrote of five Cubans at Ha- |
7ana. =. Opening Of lake navigation.
April.
1. Ten die by fire in Brooklyn tenement |
. TRAINS on b. & o. and Frisco roads held |
,p. . .Cubans capture Santa Clara.
6. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs. |
Dimmick. |
Z. Chicago elections retire Il Doodle alder |
men.
10 S. B. Minchell kills W. b. o. Sands, |
,is own wife and three children, and him |
;elf at pentwater, Mich. |
13 SIX killed by falling trestle at Bed |
ord. Iud. Z. . President Cleveland appoints |
Lee Consul General TO Cuba. -.
;reater New York bill vetoed. :. Democrats |
observe jefferson Day.
IA J. w. Lehman, of Chicago, kills him.
;elf ana three children. 81 100000 fire at |
Sew York .$250,000 fire at Fairbury, Ill. |
10 FIRST fatal sunstrOke of the year at |
ohiladel phia. :. Phenomenal hot wave pre- |
'ails.
49, Baseball season opens. Temporal |
ure rea hes SO degrees at Chicago, breaking |
III records for April.
10 Nine sailors drown Off Long sland.
81 Baron Hrsch, millionaire Jewish phil |
dies ut KOmorn. Germany.
con Say. distinguished French political !
dies at Paris.
,S AT Rockviie, Ind, Albert Egbert kills |
.,de: his sick sister dies from shock.
Il 900. .On) incendiary fire loss at Cripple |
;reek, Colo. :. Ten killed and twenty hurt |
n Kansas. and three killed in Virginia, by |
,ycOneS.
21. Fatal storms in South Dakota. =. Beers |
PASS sentence of death upon leaders of the |
rransva,l insurrection; President Kruger |
sentence.
90 Second fire at Cripple Creek, Colo. |
loes 81 ,s00,0 damage and wipes out the |
own.
30 Illinois Republican convention declares
'or Mckinley.
May.
3. Fearful loss of life by explosion of n |
yas generator at Cincinnati; nearly fifty |
lurt
). Street car strike in Milwaukee.
G. Cleveland's sweeping civil service order |
~ Ill