The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
afting steamer Harry Brown, at vicksbDrs

rafting steamer Harry Brown, at vicksburg
"A. Bold bank robbery at Buffalo. N. Y.
Big windstorm at Chicago . Methodists re-
tire Bishops Foster and Bowman.
10, Eighty killed by cyclone at Sherman.
II. Great loss of life and property by cy-
Crosse Point, II. Blue Island, H.. fire,
Is. Nebraska cyclone kills A.
81. Oklahoma cyclone kills ten.
%. Missouri cyclone kills five.
"a. Four of Otto Mains family die by
gasoline fire at Chicago. Cyclone in Polk
and Jasper Counties, Iowa, kills score of
people and does tremendous damage; Chi
cago and suburbs also suffer.
25. Over 100 killed by cyclone in Michigan
burst
20 One hundred killed in street-car disas-
ter at Victoria. 3. c.. james Dunham muir
ders six people at San Jose. Cal. Gear of
Russia crowned. Cairo, ILL.,, storm kills
twelve.
27. 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
a cyclone at Seneca, Mo.
June.
3. Excessive heat in Northwest
6. Anarchist bomb in Barcelona kills z
and wounds f.
13. Death of ex-Gov. Felch of Michigan.
16. Earthquake in Japan kills thousands
republican convention in st. Louis. =.
Steamer Drummond and 240 lives lost off
France.
18. Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake
and tidal wave in Japan. Mckinley NOM
mated at st. Louis. Silver men bolt the
convention. Ten killed by exploding yacht
boiler at Little Falls, N. Y.
%. Five killed by collapsing building at
San Francisco. Death of B. H Bristow,
ex-Secretary of the Treasury, at New York.
ton, Pa. Six drown in Shawano Lake,
July.
1. Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Z. Democratic convention at Chicago.
Yale beaten at Henley.
s. Christian Endeavorers assemble at
Washington.
TO- Chicago convention nominates Bryan.
IL. Twenty eight killed in wreck at Lo-
gan, Iowa. 81, 750 hold-up at noon in Chi
cago. 100000 fire at Nashville, Tenn.
II Five killed in week at Chicago. =. -Four
drowned at Lawrence, Kan.
13 Half million fire loss at St. Louis. 80.
Intense heat at Chicago.
H. Hot wave sweeps the country; 81 de-
grees at Chicago.
15 Temperature drops SO degrees at Chi
cago. .Twenty-eight drowned at Cleveland,
49, 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.
27. 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. ].
August.
4. Failure of Moore Bros, Chicago, Dia-
mond Match brokers', for $4, ,000, 900. .Phe-
no1henal heat in Western, Central and Mid
die Northern States.
5, 6, Z. Continuance of killing heat.
Conference Of National Democratic party at
Indianapolis.
8. Furious heat increases; 72 deaths from
sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn; 10 at
Chicago; similar reports from all quarters.
Seven killed by trolley accident at Colum-
bia, Pa.
10. One hundred and eighty people die of
heat in New York and Brooklyn; 60 at chi
cagO; IL at st. Louis.
12 Cool wave. :. Thirty die in Pennsyl-
vania cloudburst. Seven killed by boiler
explosion near Alliance, Ohio.
Ii. Undertakers and cemeteries In New
York overwhelmed with business; hundreds
of funerals postponed; heat the cause.
II. Death of Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamil-
tom at Hamilton, Mass
18. Death of Nicholas Crouch, author of
"Katheen Mavourneen."
%. Whitney-Vanderbilt wedding. :. On
tonagon, Mich, destroyed by fire. :. Nation
al Democratic State Convention of Illinois
nomlnates John G. Black for Governor.
September.
1. Twelve killed by powder-house explosion
at San Francisco.
ate Palmer and Backner. =. Slight frost in
Northwest.
g. Eleven fremen killed at Benton Har-
Dor, Mich. :. Two men lynched at Glencoe,
MINI.
s. Six of a coaching party killed near
Warsaw, Ind. Family of four killed at
crossing at Oshkosh Wis.
10. Cyclone at Paris. :. Terrific storm on
Atlantic coast.
49, Tremendous storm in the East. -.
British troops capture Dongola and rout
dervishes in Egypt. Riot in Leadville;
% Leadville under martial law.
81 Mount Holyoke College burns at South
Hadley, Mass
90 Many Southern cities wrecked by
storm; great life and property loss in Flor
ida, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
October.
1, g. Iowa semi-centennial jubilee.
s. Death of Du Maurier, the novelist.
0. Chicago Day celebration.
TO- Two bank robbers killed at Sher-
bourne, Minn.
a. Meeker, Col, citizens kill three bank
robbers and hold a celebration over it.
13. Flight of w. t. Rambusch, from Ju-
neau, Wis, after embezZing over 100000
during long term of years.
16. First snow in Northern Wisconsin,
IT, First snow in Chicago. :. $50, 900 fire
at Holland, Mich.
1S 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
yer.
%, 90 Mercury at Chicago reaches 78 de-
grees. :. Cyclones in the South and Okla
homa.
November.
g. Mckinley elected President
5. Storm Of sleet and snow in Northwest
and Middle States
7. Schooner Waukesha and six men lost
off Muskegon, Mich.
16. Mercury registered 40 degrees at Chi
cago.
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 Campanini, the tenor, at
Parma, Italy. AIabley & o. Detroit fail.
26 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 1900
p, 2s. %, 30. Continued severe cold in
West and North.
December.
2 8, 4. Alarming ice gorge in Chippewa
Valley, Wisconsin
6. Strong indications that Cuban fnsur
oon+s kill be successfuI: WeyIer fai1S IN b;s