The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
January.


 4. Cubans invest the city of Havana. ..
 United States insists on indemnity froI
 Turkey for plundered missions. SIX klile
 in wreck near Chillicothe, Ohio. Utah | State.
 5. Carlisle offers S1OO, ,OOO, 900 popular loa l ... Second Persian earthquake destroys GIT of Col and kills 800 people.
 6. Report that Havana Is fallen; not COT frmed .. Four miners killed in Shamokir l Pa, shaft. Tremendous prairie fires l Western Kansas.
 g. Wa. fever high in England. .. Trans vaal demands independence and indemnit for Jameson's raid :. Report of alliance o l Germany, France and Russia against Eng land to sustain the BOers. 12 Peter HOugaard, of Chicago, kills hi ] wife, five children and himself by asphyxia 1 ton.
 13. Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en | ter his domains. 14. FOraker chosen Senator from Ohio. l5. Government victorious in Manitoba elections. Severe fighting about Havana Allison chosen Senator from Iowa. Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as sured.
 16. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo cratic Convention.
 II. Announcement of Harrlson-Dimmicl engagement .. .Campos relieved of Spanish command In Cuba. -. Death of Frank Law | Ter. of Chicago.
 21; Five, firemen 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 Cross delegation starts for Turkey
 9. American Liner St. Paul ashore at Long Branch.
 20. Cuban ilibustering steamer Hawkins sinks; 5 lost.
 27 Fiftyfour Welsh miners killed by ex- plosiOn. .. .Feud at Palon, owa, ends in two deaths
 30 Five killed. 20 hurt, by exploding boiler at Hollidaysburg, Pa.
 31. Salisbury comedies justice of Monroe doctrine and declares England's inability to suppress Armenian outrages. Murder of Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas, Ky.
 February.
 1. Senate passes silver bond bill.
 2 S2,000, ,000 fire loss in Philadelphia. Tremendous snOwstOrm in Northwest.
 5 Richard Klatke kills his father, mother, wife, three children and himself at Chicago; Respondent. ... Bond bids aggregate $56S,- 100000. at figure exceeding 11O.
 G. Three killed in Polish Hungarian riot at Whiting, Ind. .. Terrific storm sweeps Atlantic coast; Morristown, N. J., inundated hy bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by flood and -hre:-m many-lives lost,-immense property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol Cohn., swept away, drowning eleven work men.
 T. Death of ". H. English at Indianapolis
 s. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispatch, sentenced 10 two years and to pay $2,OOO for circulating obscene matter.
 9. Ten sailors drown off Newburyport, Mass.
 H. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan. III.
 NJ 17 Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy
 IS. Sixty miners killed at Newcastle, Colo. .. Rain of mud in Chicago
 19 Bill Nye stricken by paralysis. .. .Mer cury below zero all day at Chicago; three cagO strike. Dynamite at Johannesburg, South Africa, kills scores fire at a masked ball in Lisbon, Portugal, kills fifty attend ants.
 21. Fitzsimmons whips Maher in 1 minute 35 seconds. .. Commander and Mrs. Railing ton Booth removed from command of SalYa- tiOn Army in America.
 22. Death of "Bill'' Nye.
 23. Ballington Booth revolts against his :n Salvation Army. .. Seven peo- pie die in Baltimore fire.
 27 New York Yacht Club expels Lord Dunraven.
 2S Senate passes resolution to recognize 29. Sl.OOO.OOO fire in Halifax. .. Riots in Barcelona. Spain, upon receipt of news of action Of Congress; American consulate at lacked.
 March.
 i. Great floods in New England
 Rome in a rage because of slaughter of {, GOO Italian soldiers in battle In Abyssinia. 1. Renewed anti-American demonstration In Madrid. .. All Italy In an uproar over 'f-NNfONO town, Pa.
 II. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, III. 16. Frankfort, Ky, under martial law. IS. Five killed by powder explosion at 23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois. Pa. oy explosion. Death of Thomas Hughes. author. al London. Riot at Holland. Mich. ovcr horsewhipping of a sensational newspaper correspondent.
 2S. S400.O00 fire at Louisville Ky Illi- lois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment sentence of Bankers MeadowcrOft % Unknown man kills Alvin NJ Stone md wife. and wounds three daughters near Akron. Ohio; cause unknown. Four die hv | ire in New York. execution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha- | -ana. .. Opening of lake navigation.
 April. l. Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement | .. Trains cn B X O. and Frisco roads held 1 ID. .CubGns capture Santa Clara. 6. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs. )immick.
 [. Chicago elections retire 21 poodle alder nen.
 10 S. B. Minchell kills W. B. o. Sands. lis own wife and three children, and him, elf at Pentwater, Mich. 13- Six killed by falling trestle at Bed ord, Ind. President Cleveland appoints 'itzhush Lee Consul General to Cuba. =. ,rea:er New York biIi vetoed. Democrats bServe Jefferson Day. H. J. w Lehman, of Chicago, kills him. elf and three children. .. .$1 ,OOO. 900 fire At lew York. .. .S250, 900 fire at Fairbury Ill | 15. First fatal sunStroke of the year at Philadelphia. Phenomenal hot wave pre- ailS.
 l6. Baseball season opens. .. .Tempera- Ire reaches SS degrees at Chicago, breaking Il records for April. l9. Nine sailors drown off Long sland. 21 Baron Hirsch, millionaire Jewish phil nthropist dies at Komorn, Germany con Say distinguished French political 1 .oHomist dies at Paris ,S5 At RockViIie, Ind, Albert Egbert kills ! ye people without cause, and commits sui de; his sick sister dies from shock GOO Goo incendiary fire loss at Cripple Kansas, and three killed in Virginia, by clones. 27 Fatal storms in South Dakota Boers lss sentence of death upon leaders of the ransvaal instruction; President Krueger mmuteS sentence. %. Second fire at Cripple Creek, Colo, Des S1 800 900 damage and wipes out the wn.
 30 Illinois Republican convention declares r Mckinley.
 May. E. Fearful loss of life by explosion of a S generator at Cincinnati; nearly fifty rt
 }. Street car strike Tn Milwaukee. ( }. CleVeland'S sweeping civil service order C otects 3O000 office-hOlders. B Many points record temperature of 90 s ! L'Anse: Mich, has $75o,OO0 fire. .. Ash nd. Wis, loses half million by fre.... ( ntinued excessive heat. ! Il. Eleven killed by explosion of boiler of