The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-01-02
A YEARS HISTORY.
Chronological Record of Twelve
Months.
FULL RECORD OF 1895.
An Epitome Of All Events Of
importance.

An Epitome Of All Events Of
Importance.
The Usua1 Admixture Of Disaster,
Crime, Political Changes, CONNER
cial Achievements, and Interna-
tional Com Observation-Disclosures Of
Turks In Armenia the Most Shock
ing Page In Modern History-Pow-
ers of Europe Unite In Demanding
Rcform-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-
kested 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 at the close of the year.
Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every
energy toward it's 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
faith by a majority in either house Of
Congress. A chronological record Of
events follows:
January.
1. Michigan's hrst 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.
2. Death of Col. Edward NJ. Heyl, inspec-
tor general Department of the Missouri. At
Chicago. . . .Carnegle's Homestead men strike
against reduction OF wages.
8. Fires: $50. 200 at Springfield. Ohio; $685.
land; 100000 at the Southern Illinois In.
sane Asylum. at Anna. =. Cleveland enter
tains Hill at a Cabinet dinner.
4 Scores of villages and cities unite In
sending aid to destitute people In Nebraska
-. 500. 900 fre In Milwaukee.
8. Captain Dreyfus, Of the French army,
publicly degraded for selling war secrets.
8. 1000, 900 fire at Toronto; two lives lost.
7. Explosion on steamer In Rio harbor kills
100. g. High water In Ohio River towns.
8. Starving men pillage stores at st. Johns.
N. +.
Q. W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer Of South
Dakota, embezzles 1886. 900; his bank at Red
neld closes.
10. Two lives lost In a Toronto nre; prop
erty loss. $Co0. 900.
II. Coolest day Of the season in Chicago;
IL below . Storms In the East.
II. Train held up near Ottumwa. Iowa.
ID. One hundred lremen frost-bitten at
Bradford, Pa; S130,OW damages. . . Several
vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sail
ors drown.
IA. Hundred miners trapped by rising wa
ter in North @taff ordshire, Eng. 20 drowned.
Is. Giant powder horror at Butte, Mont. I;
so people killed. 100 hurt. e.. French Presi-
dent resigns; Royalists awake.
II. NJ. Felix Faure elected President Of
-. News OF rebellion In Hawaii. . Death
OF Mary, Vice President Stevenson's daugh-
ter. Militia ordered out TO protect Brook
Ign trOllcys.
10. Body Of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill.
Neb,, defaulter, found In tho river, with rope
around his neck. Sinking Of steamer
state OF Missouri In the Ohio; forty lives
lost.
II. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm,
with temperature of - degrees and IL spring
breeze, followed by "A hurricane blowing ca
miles an hour. temperature falling to 10 de
Srecs above zero; many people hurt by fall
inS timbcrs, blown from new buildings.
~. steamer Chicora and % people lost or
South Haven. Mich; financial loss. SIS. 600
London.
-. Seven killed by MENDOZA. Ill.,. boiler
explosion. Guatemala comedies Nexico's
boundary claim. -. Fearful wind and snow
storm in the West.
20. Thirteen sailors drowned on Point Ju-
attn, Conn.
81. Mercury below zero all day in Chicago
...Sno" blOckades many Western roads.
IS. one killed, 43 hurt. in NandaliA wreck
nj CoatSyillc. Ind ...Pr 'silent Cleycland's
currency message sent to- Congress.
-. Receivers named for the whisky trust.
80. Steamer Elhe sunk In collision with the
'rathie. in North Sea: 3l4 lives lost.
81. Death Of Ward McAlliSter, leader ot
New YORK society.
February.
,. Ncws Of kidnapping If officers from Uni
ted Statc~ guIboat Concord, by Chinese, for
Hrrldontal shooting OF a native. . . Chicago
temperature IL below.
I. Ihrce drowned by Milwaukee street car
running iIlp an open draw. thirty French
miners kil.gd by explosion. chicago tenn
pcrat.tr II below . Queen Lii abdicates
u. Blizzard sweeps oyer the Northwest. -.
Alarm Tor ihc overdue French liner La Gas
cO@nc.
!. Whole country suffers cXtrcm" cold; 20
hcIpw al Chicago. &. Nine men lost In oleu
boats at Milwaukee. q. Report Of a%Inih!la-
tlon Of Chinese fleet at Nci-IIai-Wci.. ..Ad-
ininiStiatiun ,Urrci.cy measure and Reed
and toY substitutes defeated ia the House.
:. President announces tn" sale or S62.-
1uo.U00 in bonds. q. Coolest day OF the year
in Chicago.
10. Schooner Clara and ID men lost of Liv-
crpoOl, y. =.
II. La Gascognc. eight days overdue,
makes New York harbor with disabled ma
Caincry great rejoicing.
l.. S2ul.UU0 atrcet-car barn fire at Chicag 70.
IL. Five iircinen killed. IL hurt. at Lynn.
Mass.
IL. Death Of Isaac =. Gray. Minister TO
Mexico. New Orleans has ten inches or
snow.
~. Death OF Fred Douglass. the colored
orator, ut Washington. =. Quick sale OF late
bond issue.
~. Riot ut Savannah, Ga. because OF eX-
Priest Slattcry's lecture: troops called.
u. $500, 900 fire Mt Chicago; 1.0OO,OCO at
Halifax. e. Scores Of miners killed In New
signs.
March.
|. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.
Five killed. 10 hurt, by falling walls at New