The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-08
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
sea-Record of Fires aud Grimes.
A Backward Glance.

Following is chronological record o
: the most important events of the pas
: twelve months: May, 1896. will be re
: melnbered as a month of disaster. Or
:, the Sd twelve persons We're killed by al
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10Th, 12t
by cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, 33 by
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; oil
i, the 18th, Al by a cyclone in Nebraska
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma
ON the 22d, 3 by a cyclone in Missouri
on the Oath. 40 by cyclone in Iowa; on
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan and
T Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at Nc
Gregor, Iowa; and on the 26th, II by Il
; storm at Cairo and between 75 and 100
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, B. G.
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
dinary.
January.
l. President names Venezuelan commits
sion. =. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
ed OH Vancouver Island; II men perish
=. Six members of Hubbard family die by
fire at Columbus. Ohio. -Four killed, 81
hurt, by exploding fireworks at st. Louis, Mo.
-. British force under Dr. Jameson at
tempts seizure of territory in Transyaal,
South Africa. and is cut to pieces aud cap
ayows his invasion. Earthquake in Per-
STA destroys village of Jaujabad and kills
300 people.
4. Cubans invest the city of Havana.
United States insists on indemnity from
Turkey fol plundered missions :. Six killed
State
4 8. Carlisle offers s10o,0o0, 600 popular loan
-. Second Persian earthquake destroys city
of Col and kills, 500 people,
6. Report that Havana is fallen; not con-
frmed. Four miners killed in Shamokin,
Pa, shaft. Tremendous prairie fires in
8. War fever high in England. :. Trans
] vaal demands independence and indemnity
| for Jameson's raid. Report Of alliance of
Germany, France and Russia against Eng
land to sustain the Boers
II Peter Hougaard,S of Chicago kills his
/ wife, five children and himself by asphyXia-
tion-
13 Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-
ter his domains.
IA. Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio.
| Is. 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 Harrison-Dimmick
engagement. :. .Campos relieved of Spanish
command In Cuba. Death of Frank Law
Ter, of Chicago.
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
25. American Liner st. Paul ashore at
Long Branch
g. Cuban filibustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; 90 lost.
27. Fifty-four Welsh miners killed by ex-
plosion. .Feud at Palon, owa, ends in two
80. Five killed. 20 hurt. by exploding
boiler at Holfdaysburg, Pa.
81. Salisbury comedies Justice of Monroe
doctrine and declares Englands inability TO
suppress Armenian outrages. Murder of
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas KY
February.
1. Senate passes silver bond bill.
fro i'm phiIadolnlia
Tremendous snowstorm in Northwest
3 Richard klatke kills his father. mother,
Wife, three children and himself at Chicago;
despondent. Bond bids aggregate $685.
100000, at a figure exceeding 11O.
6. Three killed in Polish-Hungarian riot
at Whiting, Ind. :. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic coast; Morristown, N j., inundated |
by bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by |
MOOD and hre' many lives lost, Immense !
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol, |
Conn.,, swept away, drowning eleven work |
men.
!. Death of W H English at indianapolis.
3. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispatch, |
sentenced to two years and to pay $1,000 |
for circulating obscene matter.
g. Ten sailors drown off Newburypert,
IA. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan,
II; Twenty die in factory fire at Troy
Is. Sixty miners killed at Newcastle
Colo. Rain of mud in Chicago.
10 Bill Nye stricken by paralysis " Mer-
die of exposure: Clothing cutters at Chi
eago, strike. Dynamite at johannesburg,
South Africa. Kills scores; fire at a masked |
ball in Lisbon. Portugal kills fifty attend
ants.
21. Fftzsimmons whips Maher in minute
S5 seconds. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth removed from command of Saliva |
tion Army in America.
%. Death of "Bill' Nye.
%. Ballington Booth revolts against his
retirement IN Salvation Army. :. Seven peo-
pie die In Baltimore fire.
27. New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Dunraven.
%. Senate passes resolution to recognize
%. $1,000, 600 fire in Halifax. Riots in
Barcelona, Spain, upon receipt of news of
action of Congress-; American consulate at
tackled
March.
l. Great floods in New England,
3. Rome in rage because of slaughter of
!, 200 Italian soldiers in battle in Abyssinia
4. Renewed anti-American demonstration
Abyssinan defeat. :. $1,000 fire at Johns
town, Pa. ,
i. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, Ill.
49, Frankfort. KY, under martial law.
49, Five killed by powder explosion at
23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois Pa
~ explosion. Death of Thomas Hughes,
luthor. at London. :. Riot at HolIand'
Mich, over horsewhipping Of sensational /
newspaper correspondent. i
2S. 100000 fire at Louisville KY. ILL
lois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment {
entence OF Bankers MeadOwcrOft r
20. Unknown man kills Alvin NJ Stone
md wife, and wounds three daughters near :
Akron, Ohio; cause unknown. -Four die by i
Ire in New York.
81 Storms in the Northwest Renort of ! G
xecution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha-
ana. Opening of lake navigation.
April C
1. Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement
:. Trains ON B. g. o. and Frisco roads held
p. :. .Cubans capture Santa Clara v
8. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs n
Z. Chicago elections retire 21 Doodle alder.
10 s. B. Minchell kills W. B. O. Sands.
is own wife and three children, and him y
13. Six killed by falling trestIe at Bed
ord, Ind; President Cleveland appoints ,
'itzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba "
reater New York bill vetoed Democrats
bserye Jefferson Day.
Il. J. W Lehman, of Chicago. kills him. a
elf and three children; 81 600, 600 fire at d
ew York. ;. .$250,O00 fire at Fairbury. Ill
15. First fatal sunstroke of the year at
Philadelphia. Phenomenal hot wave pre- =
16. Baseball season opens.,.. Tempera- a
ire reaches ss degrees at Chicago, breaking s
10. Nine sailors drown off Long sland.
81 Baron Hirsch, millionaire Jewish phil :,
dies at komorn. Germany..
.onomist, dies at Paris. ~
Rs At Rockyiife, Ind, Albert Egbert Kills
We people without cause. and commits sui
de; his sick sister dies from shock
O6tl ono incendiary fire loss an (yrinnic il;
reek, Colo. Ten killed and twenty hurt e.
Kansas. and three killed in Virginia, by -
7clones. ....s.s-. ci
n. Fatal storms in South Dakota. Boers
lss sentence of death upon leaders of the
ransvual insurrcction: President Kruger i'm
sentence.
20. Second fire at Cripple Creek, Colo. th
'es 81 500, GOO damage and wipes out the 81
wn.
30 Illinois Republican convention declares
r Mckinley n
May, ~,