Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-02

cial Achievements, and Interna.
Turks in Armenia the Most Shock
ing Page in Modern History-Pow-
ers of Europe Unite in Demanding
Reform-Cuban Revolution Next in
Public Interest.
With but two exceptions, the nature of
the events which go to make up the his
tory of the past year is not startling.
The butchery of thousands of Armenians
by Turks has aroused the European
powers, and at the close of the year active
preparations were in progress which sug-
gested the probable ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
the Ottoman empire. The revolt of
Cubans against Spanish rule was the
next most important affair. and that, too,
was in full sway ut the close of the year.
Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every
energy toward its suppression. Popular
sympathy is largely with the Cubans, and
their success seems not improbable. In
American politics the year has been ex-
citing, and one of the great parties has
suffered such reverses as to leave the
chief executive unsupported in political
Congress. A chronological record of
events follows:
January.
1. Michigans first public installation of
State officers. :. Gov. Morton, of New York
sworn in. Belgium bars American beef. :.
Tom Blair lynched at Mount Sterling Ky...
Five perish In an incendiary fire at Lancas-
ter, Ky.
=. Death of Col. Edward NJ. Heyl. inspec-
tor general Department. of the Missouri, at
Chicago. .Carnegie's Homestead men strike
against reduction of wages
3. Fires: $4,000 at Springfield. Ohio; sl05.-
600 at Coffeyvlle, Kan; S160,0O0 at Cleve-
land; 100000 at the Southern Illinois In
sane Asylum, ut Anna. Cleveland enter
tains Hill at a Cabinet dinner
4. Scores OF villages and cities unite In
....S10OOO0 fire In Milwaukee.
8. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army,
publicly degraded for selling war secrets.
.. S1,0o0,0O0 fire at Toronto; two lives lost
Z. Explosion ON steamer In Rio harbor kills
100. High water In Ohio River towns
3. Starving men pillage stores at st. Johns.
n. +.
.. W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer Of South
Dakota, embezzles $3.50, 900; his bank ut Red
field closes.
10. Two lives lost in Toronto fire; prop
erty loss, 5000, 900
IL. Coolest day of the season In Chicago;
IL below. Storms in the East.
II. Train held up near Ottumwa, Iowa.
13. One hundred fremen frost-btten at
vessels lost on Englands coast; fifteen sail
ors drown.
IA Hundred miners trapped by rising wa
ter In North Stafordshire. Eng; 20 drowned.
ID Giant powder horror at Butte, Mont; +;
90 people killed, 100 hurt. French Presi-
dent resigns; Royalists awake.
IL. NJ. Felix Faure elected President Of
49, News of rebellion In Hawaii. . Death
Of Mary. Vice President Stevenson's daugh-
ter. Militia ordered out to protect Brook
49, Body Of Barrett Scott, the o'Neill.
Neb., defaulter found In the river with rope
around his neck. Sinking of steamer
State Of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives
lost.
81 Chicago has a thunder and rain storm.
with temperature of "a degrees and a spring
breeze. followed by hurricane blowing GA
miles an hour, temperature falling to 10 de-
grees above zero; many people hurt by fall
Ing timbers blown from new buildings.
soS;n steamer Mn Nhisora S am ana 70 people lost on on
London.
explosion. Guatemala comedies Mexico's
boundary claim. Fearful wind and snow
storm In the West.
20. Thirteen sailors drowned or Point Ju-
dith, Conn.
~. Mercury below zero all day in Chicago
-. Snow blockades many Western roads,
%, One killed. 43 hurt in vandalia wreck
at COatsville, Ind. :. President Cleyeland's s
currency message sent to Congress.
20. Receivers named for the whisky trust.
~; steamer Ebe sunk In collision with the
81. Death Of Ward McAllister, leader Of
New iork's society.
February.
3. News Of kldnaping of officers from Uni
ted States gunbOat Concord, by Chinese, for
accidental shooting of native. Chicago
temperature 13 below.
4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car
running into an open draw. Thirty French
tam
peratdre ~ below. Queen LII abdicates
HawaIl's throne.
Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gas
cogDe.
I. Whole country suffers extreme cold: 20
below at Chicago. Nine men lost In open
boats at Milwaukee. :. Report of annihiia-
tion of Chinese feet at wel-Hai-Wei. Ad-
ministIation's currency measure and Reed
and Cox substitutes defeated In the House.
3. President announces the sale of $62,-
100000 In bonds. Coolest day Of the year
In Chicago.
10. Schooner Clara and 10 men lost OF Liy-
erpool. N. 3.
IL La Gascogne, eight days overdue,
makes New York harbor with disabled ma
chinery; great rejoicing.
II. 500, street-car barn fire at Chicago
l3. Five firemen killed. 10 hurt, at Lynn.
10. Death of Isaac p. Gray. Minister to
snow.
70. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored
orator, at washington. Quick sale of late
bond ISSUE
20. Riot at Savannah, Ca, because Of ex-
Priest slattery's lecture; troops called.
Halifax. Scores of miners killed in New
Mexico. Postmaster General BisseII re-
signs.
March.
I. Mexican train wreck costs 1O4 lives.
Five killed. 10 hurt, by falling walls at New
York. Rebellion gains ground In Cuba
2. S1,0OO,OOO hre In Toronto; x350OOO at
g. Chicago Times Issues its last number
before consolidation with the Herald. :. Ter
rife snowst0rm In Northwest
a. Fifty-third Congress adtourns.
5. Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt divorced at New
York
O. One robber killed. one captured, and
four citizens woanded during raid on the
Odell Iowd, bank.
3. Harry Hayward convicted of numbering
Catherine Cling at Minneapolis. Steamer
LongfelIow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve
drowned.
10. Spanish war vessel Reina Regente
founders; 400 lost.
IL. six men killed I'm New Orleans riots.
II. Seven Italians lynched by miners for
murder In Colorado.
1s. Western Newspaper Union plant burns
at Kansas City Two more ltalians lynch
ed In Colorado.
i6. Five killed In round-house fre at To-
iedo; KcIlogg ready print plant at Cleveland
sinking Of American schooner and crew OF
16 by Spanish guDboat.
20. Nine explosion In Wyoming kills 60
ninora f1OOOOO 0re In peoria Ill