The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-09

Crime, Political Changes, CONNER
tional complications-Atro of
Turks In Armenia tho Most Shock
Ing Page In Modern History-Pow-
ers of Europe Unite in Demanding
Reform-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-
gested the probable dismemberment 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 Oubans, 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. Miehigan's first public Installation Of
State officers. Gov. Morton, of New York.
Blair 1nehsd p at 1aos Mount sserins
ter Ry., y:
tor general DpD6 rfmonf Of the Missouri o.
Chicago. /. Carnegie g Homestead men strike
against REDUCTION Of wages:
ooo At Il ksPp at deTs aSS
sane Asylum, at Anna. :. Cleveland % enter
4. Scores Of villages and cities unite in
sending aid to destitute people in Nebraska
$4,000 g. so;o2o f4re hsos IL Milwagkee .ha .
publicly degraded for selling war secrets.
8. $1,000, 600 fire at Toronto; two lives lost.
I. Explosion on steamer in Rio harbor kills
12o. High water In Ohio River towns.
8. Starving men pillage stores at st. Johns.
8. W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer of South
Dakota, embezzles $s5o,ooo; his bank at Red
.rssgss T. gwo sIae, Lost in Toronto fire; prop
u below: Storms in the East.
II Train held up near Ottumwa. Iowa.
13. One hundred fremen frost-bitten at
vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sail
ors drown.
a. Hundred miners trapped by rising wa
ter in North staffordshire, Eng: 20 drowned.
60 people killed. 100 hurt. :. French Presi-
dent resigns; Royalists awake.
II. NJ. Felix Faure elected President Of
France.
1s. News Of rebellion in Hawaii. :. Death
Of Mary. Vice President stevenson's daugh-
ter Militia ordered out to protect Brook
70. Body of Barrett Scott, the o'Neill
Neb., defa utter, found In the river. with rope
State Of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives
lost.
q. Chicago has thunder and rain storm,
With With se9pspatuFe Of degrees and spring
miles an hour. temperature falling to ID de-
grees above zero; many people hurt by fall
Ing bloTn 6SI1ora from nsw
-. Death Of Lord Randolph Churchill iIH'0 at
Is. Seven killed BY Mendoza. ILL.,, boiler
boundary r ell slaiW Fearful wind and snow
2e. Thirteen sailors drowned Off Point Ju-
dith, Conn.
27; Mercury below zero all day in Chicago
-. Snow blockades many Western roads.
%: One killed, 4S hurt, In Vandalia wreck
at Coatsville, Ind. >. President Cleveland's
currency 1a pao!les message sent M h to Congress:
30. Steamer Elbe sunk in collision with the
Crathie, In North Sea; 3l4 lives lost.
New York's society.
February.
3. News Of kidnapping Of officers from Uni
ted States gunboat Concord, by Chinese, for
accidental shooting of a native. :. Chicago
4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car
running Into an open draw. Thirty French
arss miners kied ~ explosion: aon Dnfcag9 & TEN,
Hawairs throne.
9. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. -.
Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gas
Z Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20
below at Chicago. Nine men lost in open
tion of Chinese fleet at Wel-Hai- Wei. :. .Ad-
ninistl atoms currency measure and Reed
and Cox substitutes defeated In the House.
400 900 in bonds. Coolest day of the year
10. Schooner Clara and Is men lost off Liv-
erpool, N. s.
makes New York harbof with disabled ma.
ehi1eryi IN ryy6idg great gpea REJOICING @ 10 c,,,
13. Five fremen killed. 16 hurt at Lynn,
Mass.
Mexico. ;. New Orleans has ten Inches Of
TO- Death of Fred Douglass the colored
orator, at Washington. Quick sale Of late
26. Riot at Savannah, Ca. because of ex-
Priest Slattery's lecture; troops called
27. $4OO, 900 FIRE at Chicago; $1,000, 600 at
Halifax. :. Scores Of miners killed In New
Mexico. ;. Postmaster General Bissell re-
signs.
March.
1. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.
Five killed, 10 hurt, by falling walls at New
York. Rebellion gains ground In Cuba.
2. 81, 900 900 fire In Toronto; $350,000 at
Salina, Kan.
8. Chicago Times issues its last number
before consolidation with the Herald. :. Ter
rife snowstorm In Northwest
4. Fifty-third Congress adJourns.
8. Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New
York.
6. One robber killed, one captured, and
four citizens wounded during raid on the
Odell, Iowa, bank
8. Harry Hayward convicted Of numbering
Catherine Cling at Minneapolis. Steamer
Longfellow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve
drowned.
10. Spanish war vessel Reina Regente
400 lost.
II. Six men killed In New Orleans riots
r. Seven Italians lynched by miners for
murder In Colorado.
Is. Western Newspaper Union plant burns
at Kansas City :. Two more Italians lynch
ed In Colorado.
l6 Five killed In round-house fire at To-
ledo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland
burns; $500, 600 fire at st. Louis. Report of
sinking of American schooner and crew Of
16 by Spanish gunboat,
20. Mine explosion in Wyoming kills 60
miners. :. s 1OO, 600 fire In Peoria. Ill