Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 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


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the most important events OF the past
twelve monthr: May, 1896, will be re-
menbcred as a month of disaster. On
the Sd twelve persons were killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10Th, 10
by cyclone in Texass on the 18th, 81 by
cyclones in kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, A by q cyclone in Nebraska;
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma;
on the Odd, by cyclone In Missouri;
on the oath, 40 by a cyclone in Iowa; on
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan and
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at Nc
Gregor, Iowa; and on the Goth. II by a
storm at Cairo and between IS and 100
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, B. G.
Otherwise the record is not out of the Or
binary.
January.
sion. ). British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
ed on Vancouver Island; II men perish.
2. Six members Of Hubbard family die BY
Are at Columbus, Ohio; -Four killed. 81
80. British force under Dr. Jameson AZ
tempts seizure OF territory In Transvaal.
South Africa. and Is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Beers; British Government dis
ayows his invasion. :. Earthquake In Per
STA destroys village Of Jaujabad and kills
300 people.
4.
United States insists on indemnity from
Turkey for plundered missions. six killed
in a wreck near Chillicothe. Ohio. :. Utah q
8. Carlisle offers 500, ooo, 900 popular loan
/. Second Persian earthquake destroys city
of Col and kills 800 people.
6. Report that Havana Is fallen; not con-
rmed miners killed IN sha arss H.
Q. War fever high in England. =. Trans
vaal demands independence and Indemnity
for Jameson's raid. >. Report Of alliance OF
Germany. France and Russia against Eng
land to sustain the Beers.
IL. Peter Hougaard, Of Chicago. kills his
wife, five children and himself by asphy1la-
ton.
Is Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-
IA. Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio:
Is. Government victorious In MANITOBA
elections. :. Severe fighting about Havana
80. Allison chosen Senator from Iowa..
Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as
sured.
is. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo-
II. Announcement of Observation-Disclosures
engagement. +. .Campos relieved OF Spanish
command in Cuba. :. Death of Frank Law
Ter, Of Chicago.
Il. Five firemen killed by falling walls
at st. Louis; three people killed by gas ex-
key, Ind. :. Death Of Gen. Tom Ewing at
New York. Red Gross delegation starts
Fo.
25. American Liner St. Paul ashore at
%. Cuban flibustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; 53 lost.
81. Fifty-four Welsh miners killed by ex-
plosion. .Feud at Palon. owa. ends IN two
30. Five killed, 20 hurt. by exploding
boiler at Hollidaysburg, Pa.
doctrine and declares England's inability to
suppress Armenian outrages. Murder OF
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas. Ky.
February.
1. Senate passes silver bond bill.
2. S2,OOO,OOO fire loss in philadelphia. 49,.
Tremendous snowstorm In Northwest
5. Richard Klatke kills his father. mother.
wife, three children and himself ut Chicago;
Respondent. Bond bids aggregate $685.
OOO,C0O, at a figure exceeding ITO.
6. Three killed in Polish Hungarian riot
at whiting, Ind. :. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic coast; Morristown. N. j., inundated
by bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by
food aud fire; many lives lost. Immense
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol,
Conn.,, swept away. drowning eleven work.
!. Death of w. H. English at Indianapolis.
8. Publisher Dunlop, Of Chicago Dispatch,
sentenced to two years and to pay $1,000
for circulating obscene matter:
8. Ten sailors drown OF Newburyport.
ii. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan.
ii; Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy.
10. sixty miners killed at Newcastle.
10. Bill Nye stricken BY paralysis. .Mer-
die Of exposure: ;. Clothing cutters at Chi
| cago strike. :. Dynamite at Johannesburg,
| South Africa. kills scores; fire ut masked
ball In Lisbon. Portugal. kills hfty attend
ants
! 81 Fitzsimmons whips Maher In minute
| IS seconds. =. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
! ton Booth removed from command of Saliva
| ton Army in America.
| %. Death of "Bill'' Nye.
| %. Darlington Booth revolts against his
J retirement IN Salvation Army. -. Seven peo-
/ ple die In q Baltimore fire.
p. New York Yacht Club expels Lord
| Dunraven.
Is. senate passes resolution to recognise
20. 100000 fire in Halifax. Riots in
! Barcelona, Spain. upon receipt Of news OF
! action Of Congress; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
1. Great foods In New England.
| 5000 italian soldiers in battle in Abyssinia.
4. Rsnewed anti-American demonstration
in Madrid. :. All Italy In an uproar over
Abyssinian defeat. :. 100000 nrs at Johns
Il. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, Ill.
| 16. Frankfort, KY. under martial law.
IS. Eye killed BY powder explosion at
| g. Thirteen miners killed at Dubois. Pa.
| BY explosion. Death Of Thomas Hughes.
| author, at London. Riot at Holland,
| Mich, over horsewhipping Of q sensational
| Newspaper correspondent
| a. 10000 IRE at Louisville. KY. ). .Ini.
| nois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment
| sentence Of Bankers Meadowcroft.
| -. Unknown man kills Alvin N. Stone
| and wife, and wounds three daughters, neAx
| Akron, ohio; cause unknown. -Four die BY
| are In New York.
| 81. Storms In the Northwest. !. Report OF
| execution by garrote Of i've Cubans at Ha-
| vana. :. Opening Of lake navigation.
| April.
1. Ten die by dre In q Brooklyn tenement
Trains on b. & o. and Frisco roads held
| up. ;. .Cub0ns capture Santa Clara.
I g. Wedding OF Gen. Harrison and Mrs..
| Dimmick.
I. Chicago elections retire q Doodle alder.
10. 8. B. Minchell kills w. B. O. sanda
his own wife and three children. and him.
/! eelf 1T Pentwater, Mich.
Is Six killed by falling trestle ut Bed.
i ford. Ind. J. President Cleveland appoints
Titshugh Lee Consul General to Cubs. :.
Greetef New York bill vetoed. ;. Democrat
| observe Jefferson Day.
/ ia. ]. w. Lehman, Of Chicago, kills hin
self arc three children. ;. 81 .O0O. 600 llro d