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

Importance.
Usual A~dmixture Of Disaster,
rhine, Political Changes, CONNER
.,o, Achievements, and I%nterna.
aoroI Observation-Disclosures of
r.rks in Armenia the Most Shock
,c Page in Modern History-Pow-
rs of Europe Unite In Demanding
peform-Cuban Revolution Next in
Public Interest.
With but two exceptions, the nature of
| 70 events which so to make up the his
nv of the past year Is not startling.
(ba butchery of thousands of Armenians
Turks has aroused the European
RIVERS. and at the close of the year active
rcporations were in progress which sug-
psted the probable ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
he Ottoman empire. The revolt Of
ubans against Spanish rule was the
ext most important affair, and that, too,
vas in full sway at the close of the year.
pain seems to fruitlessly bend every
nergy toward it's suppression. Popular
rmpathy is largely with the Cubans, and
heir success seems not improbable. In
american politics the year has been ex-
ting. and one of the great parties has
Uttered such reverses as to leave the
hief executive unsupported in political
hith by a majority in either house of
Congress. A chronological record of
vents follows:
January.
!. Michigan's first public installation Of
fate officers. j.. Gov. Morton, OF New York,
Norn in. . belgium bars American beef. -.
ON Blair lynched at Mount Sterling, KY.
I've perish in an incendiary fire at Lancas-
q Death Of Col. Edward NJ. Heyl, inspec-
n general Department Of the Missouri, at
hieago. . . .Carnegie's Homestead men strike
gainst reduction of wages.
b al Coreyville. Kan; 100000 at dleye-
Ind; $500. 900 at the Southern Illinois In
nne Asylum, at Anna. .. Cleveland enter
aims Hi at a cabinet dinner.
4. Scores of villages and cities unite In
e.. 100000 fire In Milwaukee.
8. Captain DrcyfuS, OF the French army,
publicly degraded for selling war secrets.
8. 81, 200. 900 fire at Toronto; two lives lost.
1. CADtoSlOu Ol IL AbAO III
l2O. -. High water In Ohio River towns.
s. Starving men pIllage stores at st. Johns.
n. b.
8. W. w. Taylor. ex-Treasurer Of South
Dakota, embezzles $3.50, 900; his bank at Red
! ID closes.
| }. Two lives lost In a Toronto Are; PROV
loss. 5000, 900.
IL. Coolest day Of the season In Chicago;
II below. -. storms in the East.
u. Train held up near Ottumwa. Iowa.
Bradford, Pa; $l3o.oO0 damages: . Several
vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sail
prs drown.
IA. Hundred miners trapped by rising wa
ter in North staifordshire, Eng. 20 drowned.
Is. Giant powder horror at Butte. Mont;
dent resigns; Itoyalists awake.
II. NJ. Felix Faure elected President Of
IS, News Of rebellion In Hawaii. Death
pr Mary. Vice President Stevenson's daugh-
ter. e. Militia ordered out to protect Brook
Ign trOlleys.
10. Body Of Barrett Scott. the O'Nelll.
Neb.. defaultcr. found In the river, with rope
around his neck. Sinking Of steamer
State Of Missouri In the Ohio; forty lives
lost.
Il. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm,
with temperature of "a degrees and a spring
breeze. followed by n hurricane blowing GA
niles an hour, temperature falling to 10 de-
eF'eS above zero; many people hurt by fall
tlmbrrs, blown from new buildings.
-. steamer thicora and % people lost off
soIih Haven. Mich; financial loss. S1S3. 900
e. Death Of Lord Randolph Churchill at
-. Seven Killed by Mendoza. Ill.,, boiler
.Gualeinala comedies Mexico's
boundary claim. -. Fearful wind and snow
storm in the West.
~. Thirteen sailors drowned of Point Ju-
i'm, conn.
-. Mercury below zero all day in Chicago
- SNOW blpckaies many Western roads.
- one Killed, - hurt. In Nandalia wreck
'"ai>y!iic, Ind. President Cleveland
Hrfrn': message sent to Congress.
~ Receivers named for the whisky trust.
~ steamer Nibc sunk In collision with the
rllhie. in North Sea: 3I4 lives lost.
~. i'eaih % ward McAllister. leader Of
FORKS society,
february.
). News Of kiiuaping Of officers from Uni
eel States 3 lllboat Concord, by Chinese. for
shooting of Il native. . e. Chicago
rtprr4tuT" Is below.
i. Tire" !ro~npd by Milwaukee street car
Hhhlh@ lntp IN open, iraw....T Thirty French
ilirrN allied by explosion. Chicago TEN
:als." II below. =. Queen Lii abdicates
- N3IIS tAfene.
~ B.izz@ri sweeps over the Northwest. -.
NAfm Tor the overdue French liner La Gas
"@uo.
Whole cou!iry suffers extreme cold; 20
'I'" ~ llrd 70. e. Nine men lost III open
lod'H a. NliwanA"r. Report of annillila-
la. IF Chinese ile,i .- W'ri-IIai-Wri. ...Ad-
"'IiSlia'iun'a >Hrt ,ry measure and Reed
.'i ,.pN ~lb>titure, aoicated in the House.
;. III ,lucut Announces the sale OF So
~ 200 III b"ldS. .Noldcst day of the year
Il Chicago.
10. S~clooprr Cara and 10 men lost of L.iv-
Flp"l, y. ;.
~. la GaSco2ne. eight days overdue.
t,'-cH New York harbor with disabled ma
Aiiery .reat rejoicing.
-. H-FJ,VD rtrcet-car barn fire ut Chicago.
-. Five iircncn killed, IL hurt, at Lynn.
10. Death OF Isaac l.. Gray. Minister TO
ltSlco. New orleans has ten inches OF
now.
~. Death OF Fred Douglass. the colored
'"lor' Ut Washington. Quick oaie Oh late
Uni issue.
~. Riot ut Savannah, Ga. because OF cX-
U.s. Slattery'S lecture; troops chilled.
-; 100000 fire at Chicago; Sl.WO.OOO at
ialiaX. Scores Of miners killed In New
1rAlco.. .Postmas ter General Blssell re-
March.
l. Mexican train wreck costs l0i lives.
I'VE Killed, 10 hurt, by falling walls at New
i9eh Rebellion gains ground In Cuba.
= Sl,DOO,0O0 lire In Toronto; S35O,OU az
alma. Kan.