The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-08

/ .
ders six people at San Jose, Cal. Gar ,
Russia crowned. Cairo. H., storm xii
| twelve.
27. st. Louis, East st. Louis and sever
Missouri towns swept by one of the most d
structiye cyclones in the worlds histor,
LOCO reported dead
~. Two Thousand Russians Killed in
panic at Moscow. :. Eighteen people die |
a cyclone at Seneca, Mo.
June.
5. Excessive heat in Northwest.
T. Anarchist bomb in Barcelona kills
and wounds 4.
13. Death of ex-Gov. Felch of Michigan.
16 Earthquake in Japan kills thousand
-. Republican convention in st. Louis.
Steamer Drummond and 240 lives lost Of
Is Ten thousand lives lost by earthquak
ana ;nntod tidal wave S In Japan: Mckinley non
convention Ten killed yee bv expodns ed eis yach
boiler at Little Falls. N. Y.
Y. Five killed by collapsing building a
San Francisco: Death of B. H. Bristow
ex-Secretary of the Treasury. at New York
%. One hundred miners buried at Pitts
ton, Pa. six drown in Shawano Lake
| l. Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe
{. DeInocrntic convention at Chicago. :.
| Yale beaten at Henley.
g. christian Endeavorers assemble a
| Washington.
| 10. Chicago convention nominates Bryan
IL. Twenty eight killed in wreck at Lo
gan. Iowa. >. .750 hold-up at noon in Chi
cago. .S3OO.000 fire at Nashville, Tenn.
L. Five killed in week at Chicago. :. Foul
| drowned at Lawrence, Kan.
13 Half million fire loss at st. Louis.
/ Intense heat at Chicago
Ii. Hot wave sweeps the country; 81 de
grees at Chicago.
10. Temperature drops Sc degrees at Chi
| cago -.Twenty-eight drowned at Cleveland
Is. Three lives and half million in prop
| erty lost by fire at Chicago car barns. :.
Malvern, Ark, RACED by incendiary fire.
a Twenty-six drowned by cloudburst in
| Pennsylvania.
25. Popuists at st. Louis nominate Bryan
and Watson.
p. Eleven die in Pennsylvania cloud
burst, near Pittsburg.
2S. Indiana gas belt swept by floods; three
Killed at Anderson.
30. Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer-
sey City, N. ].
4. Failure of Moore Bros, Chicago, Dia-
mond Match brokers. For 50, ,O0O, ,0O0 -. Phe-
nomenal heat In Western, Central and Mid
die Northern States.
8. 6, I. Continuance of killing heat. j..
Conference of National Democratic party at
Indianapolis.
sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn; 10 at
Chicago; similar reports from all quarters.
Seven killed by trolley accident at Column
10. One hundred and eighty people die of
heat In New York and Brooklyn; go at Chi
cago; Y at st. Louis.
Il. Cool wave. Thirty die in Pennsyl-
vanla 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
1S. Death of Nicholas Crouch, author of
kathleen Mavourneen."
%. WhitneyVanderbilt wedding. :. On
tonagon, Mich, destroyed by fire. Nation
al Democratic State Convention of Illinois
nomlnates John c. Black for Governor.
September.
1. Twelve killed by powder-house explosion
at San Francisco.
8. Gold Democrats at Indianapolis nomin-
ate Palmer and Buckner. Slight frost in
Northwest.
6. Eleven fremen killed at Benton Har-
Dor, Mich. ;. Two men lynched at Glencoe,
s. Six of coaching party killed near
Warsaw, Ind. j.. Family of four killed at
crossing at Oshkosh. Wis.
10. Cyclone at Paris. Terrific storm on
Atlantic coast.
10. Tremendous storm in the East 80.
British troops capture Dongola and rout
deryishes in Egypt. Riot in Leadville;
four killed.
%. Leadvflle under martial law.
IT. Mount Holyoke College burns at South
Hadley, Mass.
20. Many Southern cities wrecked by
ida, Georgia aud Pennsylvania.
October.
|, 8. Iowa semi-centenflial jubilee.
8. Death of Du Maurier, the novelist.
8. Chicago Day celebration.
10. Two bank robbers killed at Sher-
bourne. Minn.
"A. Meeker, Col, citizens kill three bank
robbers, and hold celebration over it.
13. Flight of w. I. Rambusch, from Ju-
neau, Wis, after embezzling over 5000, 900
during long term of years.
16. First snow in Northern Wisconsin.
II. First snow in Chicago. :. $3.50, 900 fire
1t Holland, Mich.
ls. Death Of Henry E. Abbey, theatrical
at New York
Louis. Six drown while boating at Den
26 s1.2oo.ooo elevator fire at Chicago.
2S, 20. Mercury at Chicago reaches IS de- +
yrees. Cyclones in the South and Okla.
iona.
November.
B. Mckinley elected President
8; Storm Of sleet and snow in Northwest
l.. Schooner Waukesha and six men lost
IF Muskegon. Mich.
IS. Mercury registered 20 degrees at Chi
10. Death of Mrs. Sddons at Paris,
=. Steamer San Benito and five men lost
if California coast. Death of Inventor
%. Death of Campanini. the tenor, at
'arma, Italy Mabley, &. Co., Detroit, fail.
26. Worst November blizzard ever known
n Northwest; roads blocked and much stock
illed. Apparently authentic report of
Veyler's rout in Cuba, with loss of a,OOO
zen.
81, 2s, %. 80. Continued severe cold In
Vest aud North.
December.
2, 3, 4. Alarming ice gorge In Chippewa
ALLEY, Wisconsin.
6. Strong indications that Cuban ipsur.
ents will be successful; Weyler fails In his
9mO9ign in Pin1r del Rio b |
olision at Waelder, Texas.
Z. Congress In session. . Reported death
Maceo, the Cuban insurgent general
g. Loss of North German Lloyd steo NOR
alfer with 275 people, off SPAIN
H. Collapsed building at Jeres. Spaip
ills 100. -. Mine disaster at Hedges, Cal
Ills eight. ''
16. Tremendous snowstorm at New York
ity, accompanied by extreme cold: three
eople perish. Chicago has mild tempera-
ire; no snow, and sunny skies. Wide
,read agitation looking toward aid Of Cn.
an Insurgents.
II. England shaken by an earthauake
SOC, 600 fire at Pittsburg. . Death OF Herr
ann, the magician.
p. National Bank of Illinois at Chica 90
OSeS.
% Three banks dragged down by Illinois
atiOnal. Two st. Paul banks fail, Cash
heat at Chicago reaches S9E after three
ouths OF almost uninterrupted advance
Id market continues strong
Odds and Ends.
The sin of a moment may blight the :
hole life.
|