The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-12-31

20. One hundred killed In street-car disLs
ter at Victoria, B. e. james Dunham mur
ders six people at San Jose, Cal. Car OF
Russia crowned. :. Cairo. ILL.,, storm kills
twelve
81. st. Louis East st. Louis and several
Missouri towns swept by one of the most de
| structive cyclones in the worlds history
1000 reported dead
30. Two thousand Russians Killed In q
panic at Moscow. =. Eighteen people die In
cyclone at Seneca. Mo.
June.
5. Excessive heat in Northwest
| 6. Anarchist bomb in Barcelona kills .
and wounds 4.
13. Death of cx-Gov. Felch of Michigan.
16. Earthquake in Japan kills thousands
80. Republican convention in st. Louis.
Steamer DrummOnd and 24O lives lost on
France.
IS. Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake
and tidal wave in Japan: Mckinley nom,
convention. Ten killed by exploding yacht
boiler ut Little Falls. y. Y.
22. Five killed by collapsipg building at
San Francisco. Death of Il. H. Bristow,
| ex-Secretary of the Treasury. at New York.
%. One hundred miners buried at Pitts
Wis
July.
/. Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
| 4. Democratic convention at Chicago.
| Yale beaten at Henley.
s. Christian Endeavorers assemble at
| Washington
| 10. Chicago convention nomnates Bryan.
IL. Twenty-eight killed in wreck at Lo-
| gan, Iowa. =. 81. $50 hold-up at noon in Chi
cago. :. .s3OO.Ooo fire at Nashville. Tenn:
| H. Five killed in week at Chicago. -Four
| drowned at Lawrence, Kan.
II. Half million fire loss at St. Louis. -.
| Intense heat at Chicago.
II. Hot wave sweeps the country; 04 de-
| grees at Chicago.
| II. Temperature drops 3G degrees at Chi
| TwCuty-eirlt drowned at Cleveland,
| Ohio.
| IS. Three lives and half million in prop
erty lost by. fire at Chicago car barns....
Malvern. Ark, razed by incendiary fire.
"a. Twenty-six drowned by cloudburst In
| Colorado. Serious floods in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
%. PopuliSts at st. Louis nominate Bryan
and Watson.
%. Eleven die in Pennsylvania cloud
burst, near Pittsburg.
%. Indiana gas belt swept by floods; three
killed at Anderson.
80 Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer-
sey City, n. j.
August.
4. Failure of Moore Bros, Chicago, Dia-
mond Match brokers. for 100000 :. .Phe-
nomenal heat In Western, Central and Mid
die Northern States.
:. 8, I. Continuance of killing heat. -.
Conference of National Democratic party at
Indianapolis.
.. Furious heat increases: - deaths from
Chicago; similar reports from all quarters. -.
Seven killed by trolley accident at Column
bia, Pa.
10. One hundred and eighty people die Of
heat In New York ard Brooklyn; 60 at Chi
cagO; IL at ST. Louis.
II. Cool wave. :. Thirty die in Pennsyl-
vania cloudburst Seven killed by boiler
explosion near Alliance Ohio.
16. Undertakers and cemeteries in New
York overwhelmed with business; hundreds
of funerals postponed; heat the cause.
IL. Death of Abigail Dodge Gail Hamil-
tom at Hamilton, Mass.
IS. Death of Nicholas Crouch, author of
"katheen MavOurneen.'
%. WhitneyVanderbilt wedding. On
tonagon, Mich, destroyed by fire. Nation
al Democratic State Convention Of Illinois
nomnates John g. Black for Governor.
September.
1. Twelve killed by powder-house explosion
at San Francisco.
3. Gold Democrats Mt Indianapolis nomin-
ate Palmer and Buckner. Slight frost in
Northwest.
G. Eleven firemen killed Mt Benton Har-
Dor, Mich. Two men lynched at Glencoe,
MINI.
$. Six of coaching party killed near
crossing at Oshkosh, Wis.
~ 20 Cyclone ut Paris. i. Terrific storm on
Atlantic coast.
10. Tremendous storm In the East.
British troops capture DongOla and rout
dervishes In Egypt. Riot in Leadville;
four killed.
%. Leadville under martial law.
%. Mount Holyoke College burns at South
Hadley. Mass.
%. Many Southern cities wrecked by
storm: great life and property loss in Flor
ida. Georgia and Pennsylvania.
October.
1, 8. Iowa semi-centennial jubilee.
g. Death Of Du Maurier. the novelist.
q. Chicago Day celebration.
10. Two bank robbers killed at Sher-
bourne, Mnn.
IA. Meeker Col. citizens kill three bank
robbers, and hold celebration over 1t.
13 Flight Of W. T. Rambusch. from Ju-
neau, Wis, after embezzling over 100000
during long term of years.
16. First snow in Northern Wisconsin.
at Holland. Mich
IS. Death of Henry f. Abbey, theatrical
manager, at New York.
%. Eight killed. 20 hurt, in wreck at st.
Louis. Six drown while boating at Den |
20 81 100000 elevator fire at Chicago
%. %. Mercury at Chicago reaches IS de- |
grees. :. Cyclones in the South and Okla |
homa.
November.
g. Mckinley elected President.
<. Storm Of sleet and snow In Northwest |
and Middle States.
Z. Schooner Waukesha and six men lost |
off Muskegon, Mich.
10 Mercury registered 20 degrees at Chi |
cage
10 Death of Mrs. Siddons at Paris.
81. Steamer San BenitO and five men lost !
off California coast. =. Death of Inventor |
Ferris of wheel fame.
%. Death of Campanin the tenor. at |
Parma Italy Mabley e. Co. Detroit fail
90 nv Worst November blizzard ever Known
in Northwest: roads blocked and much stock |
killed. =. Apparently authentic report Of
Weyler's rout in Cuba, with loss of 3 600
men.
27. %, %. 50. Continued severe cold in
West AMI North.
December.
.. 3, 4, Alarming ice gorge in Chippewa
Valley, Wisconsin.
6. Strong indications that Cuban nsur-
gents will be successful; Weyler falls In his
in Pinar del Rio. Five killed in
collision at Waelder. Texas.
4 Congress in session. :. Reported death
Of Maceo, the Cuban insurgent general.
o Loss of North German Lloyd steamer
Salier with 2I5 people. off Spain.
II. Collapsed building at Jeres, Spain.
kills 100. =. Mine disaster at Hedges. Cal,
kills eight.
16. Tremendous snowstorm at New York
CITY, accompanied by extreme cold three
people perish. :. Chicago has mild tempera-
lure; no snow, and sunny skies. Wide
spread agitation looking toward aid Of Gu
ban insurgents.
II. England shaken by an earthquake -.
$500 600 fire at Plttsburg. -. Death Of Herr
mann, the magician.
81. National Bank or Illinois at Chicago
closes.
D. Three banks dragged down by Illinois
:. Two st. Paul banks fail. Cash
wheat at Chicago reaches S9la after three
moAths of almost uninterrupted advance,
md market continues strong.
Odds and Ends.
The sin of a moment may blight the
whole life.
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