Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-02
MICHIGAN, THURSDAY. JANUARY 2 1896.
October.
I. Destructive gales ON British coast. 80.
Cuba declares her Independence.
y TIE sas npeciaI Legislafure prohibits pu-

?; Teas special Legislature prohibits pu-
3. Million dollar tire at Warren. r. L
7. Seven killed BY explosion In q wilkes
barre Pa, mine. Masked bandits success
fully hold up Chicago electric car.
die BY fire IN GneInnssti. % s .e Steamer Africa
and crew OF eleven lost In Owen Sound.
Georgia father kills his nine children; six
ehasss a siBB EBSB le Y ioss ssSi4bs buai Siider Ont
n -Four killed, twelve hurt, On Pittsburg
toSs raIrIe re Immense sss prSPsr,s Ioss
20: Half-milllop dollar fire at New Orleans;
900 people homeless. ). First snowstorm Of
season ut Chicago; Erie. Pa, has fall OF ten
%. President Cleveland welcomed to At
lanta. $4,000 llnseed oil mill nre at CHI
cago.
Buffalo. $40 miles. In hours 30 minutes 70
seconds running time, beating worlds rec
ord.
26. Three killed by explosion Of tug boiler
at Chicago. :. Sheriff and posse at Tlfin.
Ohio. kill two OF lynching mob. Burning
Of yirginia's State University. !.
20. Negro criminal burned at the stake In
Texas. :. $4,000 Are In Springfield. Ohio
-. Two killed. three fatally hurt. In col
lision In St Louis
81. Earthquake throughout the central belt
Of the United States; no fatalities. little DAM
age.
November.
I. Earthquake at Rome. :. .Durrant found
guilty of murder at San Francisco.
- III. III. Holmes found guilty of murder OF
Benjamin Pitzel at Philadelphia
>. -Four killed In Ii. & D. wreck near Wheel-
Ing. w. Va. -Four burned to death In New
York tenement house fire.
= Death OF Eugene Field Mt Chicago..'.
$500. 900 fire ut Decatur. Ill.
3. Republican landslide. .Sl.5OO,OOO nre
g. Forty Killed by boiler explosion in De-
troit. Mich. Journal building. Ryan fam
lily Of six die In their burning house at
Brooklyn.
10. Twenty killed In street car accident
Mt Cleveland, Ohio. Death OF DR.. ;. +,
Smith. author OF America" at Boston.
News OF another massacre by Turks In Ar
menia; 500 slain. Consolidation OF Chicago
Journal and Press.
10. Furious snow and wind storm in North,
west. Lowell, Mass: Dallas, Texas; ana
Purcell. /. r.. have big fires.
81. $6OO.OOO fire In Springer Building. Chi
cago; Eugene Y; Debs % released ~ rrrsn from
forced to n peace policy by the powers, after
he had countenanced many Armenian massa-
cres
cago blaze. ;. Release from Jail and enthns-
astic reception OF II. V. Debs, labor leader.
at Chicago. :. Foreign fleets rendezvous In
-. tremendous damage at Chicago by
storm of snow. sleet and rain; all car lines
blocked. wires down. Fire at Chicago does
1000 damage. Seventy killed py expio-
sion In cartridge factory at Palma, Island OF
Majorca.
ri Three vessels go ashore Mt Glencoe, ILL.,;
crews OF 20 men saved. Riot In Jackson,
Mich. prison.
27 Death OF Alexandra Dumas, Jr., at
Paris.
2S. Day of doom for the turkey. Foot
ball games: Michigan beats Chicago; Boston
and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cor
nell; Purdue defeats Illinois; Louisville wins
from De pauw; Columbia Athletic downs Co
lumbia University; Brown defeats Dart
mouth.
3 Assembling OF Flfty-fourth Congress;
Reed elected Speaker of the House. Zero
weather In Northwest. Further massacres
In Armenia
7. $3.50, 900 fire In San Francisco. :. Europe
storm swept; British boat and twenty seven
sailors lost Off Scotland.
=. 5000, ,OO0tires In Chicago. Death or Geo
A. Sala. London journalist. ;. Tug Campbell
and seven men lost I'm Lake Superior.
o. Chiffon, Wis. razed by fire.
10. st. Louis gets next National Republican
to pass Dardanellcs. :. Harry Hayward
hanged mt Minneapolis.
IL Burning Of Catholic Orphan Asylum at
Milwaukee; 200 children rescued. :. Steamer
Germanic sinks the Cambrae, mt London; no
lives lost. =. Mob threatens Kansas Medical
College at Topeka. because OF grave-robbing.
H. Death OF Allen G. Thurman at Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Is German ship Athena with a cargo OF
naphtha expodes on Cape May; IA lives lost.
II. Clevelands Venezuelan message
arouses great enthusiasm Mt home and
astounds Great Britain. Philadelphia In
the hands OF mob during a strike.
men and Injured five. ). House passes $780,
900 appropriation for Venezuela commission
-. Rloting in Philadelphia; entire street
Isaac Bassett. doorkeeper of the Senate.
10. Thlrty-six lives lost In Newfoundland
fishing feet by storm. Forty three killed
In North Carolina mine. Tremendous
rainfall at Chicago.
20. Panic on Wall street. :. Senate unani-
mously passes House bill for Venezuelan
commission. Cleveland sends financial
at Dayton, Tenn. killed. -. Unprecedented
flood at Chicago.