Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 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
eea-Record OF Fires and Crimes.
A backward Glance.

Following is n chronological record OF
the most important events of the past
twelve months: May, 1896, will be re-
membered as a month of disaster. On
the Sd twelve persons We're killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 18th, 12O
by a cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, 33 by
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, A by cyclone in Nebraska
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma
on the 22d, by cyclone in Missouri;
on the oath. 40 by a cyclone in Iowa; on
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan ana
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at Nc
Gregor, Iowa; and on the 10Th, II by 4
storm at Cairo and between 20 and 1OO
by the fall of a bridge at Victoria, B. O..
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
dinary.
January.
I. President names Venezuelan commits
sion. :. /. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
ed on Vancouver Island; IL men perish
2 Six members of Hibbard family die by
fire ut Columbus, Ohio. :. -Four killed, 81
hurt, by exploding fireworks at st. Louis, Mo.
:. British force under Dr. Jameson at
tempts seizure Of territory In Transvaal,
South Africa. and Is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Beers; British Government dis
nvows his invasion. :. Earthquake In Per
sla destroys village Of Jaujabad and kills
300 people.
4. Cubans invest the city Of Havana.
United States insists on Indemnity from
Turkey for plundered missions. 49, Six Killed
In a wreck near Chillicothe, Ohio. - Titan
8. Carlisle offers 500, 900. 600 popular loan
Second Persian earthquake destroys city
OF Col and kills 500 people.
O. Report that Havana Is fallen; not con-
firmed 4. -Four miners killed In a Shamokin,
Pa, shaft, Tremendous prairie hres In
Western Kansas
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 asphyxia-
I3. Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-
ter his domains
IA. Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio.
Is. Government victorious In Manitoba
elections. /. f. Severe fighting about Havana
=. Allison chosen Senator from Iowa..
Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as
10. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo-
cratic Convention
II. Announcement OF Observation-Disclosures
engagement. :. .Campos relieved Of Spanish
command In Cuba. Death of Frank Law
Ter. Of Chicago.
21. Five fremen killed by falling walls
at St Louis; three people killed by gas ex-
plosion at New Haven. Conn; two at Red
key. Ind. Death Of Gen: Tom Ewing at
New York :. Red Gross delegation starts
for Turkey.
Is. American Liner st. Paul ashore at
Long Branch.
2e. Cuban nllbustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; SO lost.
"a. Fifty-four Welsh miners killed by ex-
nlosion. .Feud at Palon, owa, ends In two
deaths
80. Five killed. 30 hurt, by exploding
boiler at Holidaysburg, Pa.
81. Salisbury comedies Justice OF Monroe
Fri dacl aras
suppress Armenian outrages. Murder of
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas Ky.
February.
I. Senate passes silver bond bill.
2. S2,OO0,0O0 fire loss In Philadelphia.
Tremendou SHOWS storm In Northwest.
3. Richard KIatke kills his father, mother,
wife, three children and himself at Chicago;
respondent. Bond bids aggregate $685.
100000; at a figure exceeding 11O.
O. Three killed In Polish-Hungarian riot
at Whiting, Ind. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic coast; MOrristown, y. j., inundated
by bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol.
Conn, swept away. drowning eleven work
men.
Z. Death of W. II. English at Indianapolis.
sentenced to two years and to pay $1,000
for circulating obscene matter.
8. Ten sailors drown OF Newburypert.
Mass.
IA Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan.
Ill.
H. Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy.
Is. sixty miners killed at Newcastle.
Colo. >. Rain OF mud In Chicago.
10 Bill Nye stricken by paraly sis. .Mer-
curry below zero all day at Chicago: three
die OF exposure; Clothing cutters at Chi
cago strike. dynamite y Johannesburg.
South Africa. kills scores; lire at n masked
ball In Lisbon, Portugal. kills fifty attend
ants.
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35 seconds. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth removed from command OF Saliva
tion Army In America.
-. Death OF "Bill' Nye.
23. Balington Booth revolts against his
retirement IN Salvation Army. Seven peo-
pie de In Baltimore fire.
"a. New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Dunraren.
%. senate passes resolution to recognize
Cuba.
20. $1.oO0OOO fire In Halifax. #. Riots In
Barcelona. Spain, upon receipt Of news OF
action OF Congress-; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
/. Great foods In New England.
3 Rome In a rage because of slaughter of
5000 Italian soldiers In battle In Abyssinia.
4. Renewed anti-American demonstration
In Madrid. All Italy In an uproar over
town. Pa.
Il. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin. III.
ls. Five killed by powder explosion at
Ripton. N. Y.
%. Thirteen miners killed at Dubois. Pa,
by explosion. Death OF Thomas Hughes,
Mich. over horsewhipping of a sensational
newspaper correspondent.
2S. 100000 fire at Louisville. Ky. =. I'LL
nois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment
sentence Of Bankers Meadowcroft.
% Unknown man kills Alvin NJ Stone
and wife. and wounds three daughters, near
Akron. Ohio; cause unknown. -Four die by
81. Storms In the Northwest. :. Report of
execution by garfote OF fve Cubans at Ha-
vana. Opening of lake navigation.
April.
l. Ten die by fire In a Brooklyn tenement
>. Trains on B & o. and Frisco roads held
up. :. .Cubnns capture Santa Clara.
9. Wedding Of Gen. Harrison and Mrs.
Dimmick.
Z. Chicago elections retire 21 Doodle alder
men.
10. s. b. Minchell kills w. b. o. Sands,
his own wife and three children, and him
self at Pentwater. Mich.
13. SIX killed by falling trestle at Bed
ford, Ind. :. President Cleveland appoints
Lee Consul General to Cuba.
Greater New York bill vetoed. Democrats
observe jefferson Day.
IA. J. w Lehman, Of Chicago. kills him.
self and three children. :. 81, 600, 600 fire at
New York. .s250.OO0 fire at Fairbury, iii.
Is. First fatal sunstroke Of the year at |
philadelphia. Phenomenal hot wave pre- |
walls.
VI. Baseball season opens. :. Tempera-
lure reaches SO degrees at Chicago, breaking |
all records for April.
10. Nine sailors drown OF Long sland.
30. At Rockville, Ind, Albert Egbert Kills |
i've people without cause. and commits sui /
'ide; his sick sister dies from shock. -.
II .0O0.0dO lncendiary fire loss at Cripple |
Creek. Colo. =. Ten Killed and twenty hurt /
IN Kansas. and three killed In Virginia, by |
cyclones.
pass sentence Of death upoa leaders Of the |