Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS or THE YEAR.
Graeco-Turlxish War and the Cuban
Insurrcction-Thc Great Strike in
the Coal Fieids Political Changes of
Twelve Months.
A chronolorical TabIe.

strike in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal
fields, the change of national administra-
ton, the enactment of the Dingley tariff
law, the disastrous spring floods In the
Mississippi valley and autumn fires In the
West and Northwest, and the epidemic OF
yellow fever In the Southern States are
clearly not matters of small Importance
in the history of the world. The year has
been an unusual one from the fact that
but few men of really great reputation
have passed from the stage of their earth
ly labors; their number can be computed
upon the fingers of the two hands.
The most important events of the year
are recorded below in the order OF their
occurrences:
JANUARY.
Thirteen miners perish at Pachuca.
Mexico. :. Extremely high temperature anu
heavy rains In Northwest. ,Pingree inaug-
urated Governor Of Michigan.
2-W. A. Hammond. wrecker or Illinois
National Bank, commits suicide: .Fatal
storm In Southwest. Nashville, Tenn., mas
$500, fire. West and Northweft oei-
uged by rains
S-snow and frost succeed rain.
4-Furious blizzard In the West. :; GOV.
Scoheld inaueurated at Madison, WIS.,.
Three st. Paul banks fail.
6-Gov. Altgeld pardons 10 criminals. ST.
Stanislaus parsonage at Bay City, Mich,
sacked by warning church factions. -Four
children die by fire near Westheld, WIS;
three near Babcock, Wis.
6-lllinois Legislature meets. -. Seven Ur-
suline nuns perish by fire at Convent OF Our
Lady Of Lake st. Johns, Roberval, Quebec.
11-Tanner inaugurated Governor or I'LL
nois with much pomp and ceremony.
Mount inaugurated Governor OF .i, haid ana
cifc funding bill. .American-British arpi-
tration treaty signed
12-Five children drown, skating, at st.
Louis. Four die In powder explosion at
i3-Five killed in Pottsville. Pa. coal
shaft.
l9-wm. e. Mason chosen Senator from
Illinois. :. .Tbree negroes lynched In Louis
lana.
2l-Nine sailors drown or Long Island.
26-Fourteen below zero at Chicago; 700
poor families aided; relief measures adopted
over entire city. :. .S2.500.0OO fire at Phila-
delphia ;. $500 IRE at Chicago.
27-Continued cold weather In Northwest.
2S-Lyman ]. Gage Of Chicago accepts
treasury portfolio.
31-Family OF seven die by fire In Hobo
ken, n. j.. Cruiser Brooklyn on the rocks.
FEBRUARY.
2-Pennsylvania State capitol burned: loss
81, 500, 900. Venezuelan treaty signed.
S-Admiral Bunce's squadron In a storm of
Hampton Roads; three seamen swept away,
several Injured. 100000 railroad shop
10-Bradley- Martin ball at New York costs
$500, 900. Phenomenal drop In price OF
steel rails.
bad. O'Malley acquitted OF r.urder at
Chicago. >. Death OF j. Randolph Tucker at
Lexington, Va. and Gen. ]. o. Shelby ut
Adrian. Mo-; both noted Confederates.
14-Greeks lombard Canea, Island Of
Crete. under Turkish rule.
15-Appeal of Jos. II. Dunlop, convicted OF
improper use Of mails at Chicago. to Supreme
Court falls.
16-Miilionaire Duestrow hanged Mt Union.
Mo-, for wife murder; Peter Schmidt and
Sam Foster hanged at Clayton, Mo. ...
Greeks capture Turkish fort at Crete.
17-Powers OF Europe protest against ac-
tlol OF Greece.
ls-Two thousand Moslems slain In Crete
by Greeks. Big shortage of State officials
discovered In Nebraska.
21-Canea bombarded by the powers. -.
Baby girl at the Harrisons'.
22-General observation of washington's
birthday. Floods In Ohio Valley.
25-Powers decide Greece must evacuate
Crete.
MARCH.
4-McKinley inaugurated. i. Six killed at
Boston by gas explosion.
5-Extensive floods In Mississippi Valley,
and In Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
Greece defes the powers.
e--Founderng Of steamer Vile de- st. Ma
zaire or Carolina; 65 lives lost.
e-Tremendous rainfall In central States.
Ind.
12-Blizzard sweeps the Northwest-s4OO.-
600 wholesale grocery fire at Chicago.
ISL 200, 900 fire a st. Louis. :. Floods In
Mississippi Valley make thousands Of ne
groes homeless.
17-Fitzsimmons whips Corbett at Carson
City, New. rs lives lost by laundering of
French steamer of Carolina.
21-POwers blockade Cretan ports to Greek
ships.
22-Cyclone k.2s eight and Injuries 81 school
children at Arlington, Ca; family Of FIVE
killed In Henry County, Ala.
23-Heavy fall OF slushy snow In North
west.
3ooForty-nve killed by cyclone at Chand-
Ter. o. T.
31-House passes Dlngley tariff bill.
Powers lombard Cretans.
APRIL.
6-Carter H. Harrison elected Mayor OF
Chicago by $4,000 plurality. :. Alarming
floods In Mississippi Valley.
S-$lOO0,OO0 fire at Knoxville. Tenn; II
people killed.
0-Snow storm In Central States
10-Daniel w. Voorhees,. former u. s. Sem
ator from Indiana, dies at Washington.
15-Riots In indianapolis over Scent car
fare. :. $500 900 fire at New Orleans.
1T-war between Turkey and Greece.
1s-Fierce windstorm In Chicago; $3.50 900
fire.
2o-Desperate fighting in the Leyant. -.
First execution by electricity I'm Ohio.
23-Osman Pasha assumes command of
Turkish troops. which have met severe re-
verses.
24-Turks capture Larissa. :. Vast foods
In Missouri and Mississippi Valleys
26-Hundreds Of families at Ottumwa,
Iowa. and Quincy, ILL.,, homeless by floods.
27-Dedication OF Grants tomb mt New
York. 81. OO0. 900 fire at Newport News, Va
2S-Greeks at Athens riotous because OF
army reyerses. Flood at South Guthrie,
o. t., kills over 20.
2o-Ralli heads new cabinet of Greece. -.
Wild gale with loss of life and vessels on
Lake Michigan.
30-Greeks win a big battle. ;. Seven ne
groes lynched by mob Of negroes In Texas
MAY.
1-Snow Mt Chicago.
$4,000, 600 nre at Pittsburg. Pa.
4-One hundred die by IRE In a Partisan
bazaar.
brutal murder of the Harris family,
near wnukesha, Wis. by VIM. Pouch.
steamship Leona. OF Sandy Hook. :. Greece
asks Intervention Of powers.
14-Snow ut Chicago.
1S-Czar intervenes to stop war In the
Levant.
si-severe earthquake shock in Cincin-
natl and southeast. :. Five Of picnic par
ty killed on Long Island.
JUNE.
2-Spanish cabinet resigns.
1.-Two OF a mob of lynchers killed at
Urbana. Ohio. and nine wounded, by militia
under command Of Sheriff Mclean.
six killed In a wreck near Hudson. Wis.
0-s200.O00 nre Mt Carlinville, Ill. :. Death
Of Avian Clark, famous lens-maker, at CAN
bridge, Mass.
ii.wlfe murderer French hanged at
Rockford, Ill.
12-Mayor Richards killed at Bunker Hill,
ILL.,, by Editor Hcdley.
13-Attempt to kill President Faure by n
Paris bonb-thrower