Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-01-15
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Mcnth Of May Most conspicuous by
Its List of Appalling Disasters and
Natural catastrophes by Land and
sea-Record of Fires and Crimes.
a Rackward GIanee.

me,nbcred as month of disaster. On
the Sd twelve persons were killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati: on the 10th, lzu
by cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, ~ oy
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, Al by a cyclone in Nebraska;
on the Dist, 10 by a cyclone in Oklahoma;
on the 22d, 5 by cyclone in Missouri;
on the Oath, 40 by a cyclone in lowa;,on
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan ana
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudourst at NC
Gregor. Iowa; and on the 10Th, Il by z
storm at Cairo and between 90 and loO
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, b. Y.
Otherwise the record is not out OF the or
dinary.
January.
l. President names Venezuelan cohmls-
sion. !. British ship Jeanette Cowsn wreck
ed on Vancouver Island; IL men psrisn. !,
2 six members Of Hibbard family die os os
hre ut Columbus, Ohio. Four killed %
hurt by exploding fireworks at st. Louis. MV,
n. British force under Dr. Jameson az
tempts seizure Of territory In IransVaas' s
South Africa, and is cut TO pieces ana SAP
tured by Beers; British Government ,e els-
avows his invasion. !. Earthquake In FER
sia destroys village Of Jaujabad ana Kills
300 people. -
United States insists on indemnify from from
Turkey for plundered missions. SIX Kiilee
In a wreck near Chillicothe. Ohio. -. ltah .
3. Carlisle offers slOO, 900, 600 popular loan
Second Persian earthquake destroys city
Of Col and kills 500 people.
&. Report that Havana is fallen; not con-
nrmed . -Four miners killed In Shamokini. u
Pa, shaft . Tremendous prairie nres IN
western Kansas.
o. war fever high in England Trans.
vaal demands independence and inaemnisy
Cor Jamesons raid. Report OF aillahGs S,,s ~
Germany. France and Russia against Ehe-
land to sustain the Beers.
10 Peter Hongaard, of Chicago, kills MS
wife. fye children and himself by asphy Aia-
ton.
13. Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-
IL Foraker chosen Senator from ohlo;
ID Government victorious In MantoOa
elections. =. Severe fighting ABOUT daVaha
n. Allison chosen Senator from iowa, =.
Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as
1s. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo
cratic Convention. ..
IL Announcement of Harris0n-D -Dimmick
engagement Campos relieved or Spanish
command In Cuba. Death OF Frank LAW
ler of Chicago.
Fl. Five firemen killed by falling walls
at st. Louis; three people killed BY gas e1-
nlosion at New Haven Conn; two at RED
key, Ind. -. Death Of Gen. Tom Ewing ~ ~
New York. Red Cross delegation starts
for Turkey !.
Is. American Liner st. Paul ashore az
%. Cuban fiihustering steamer Hawkins
sinks: SO lost.
27. Fifty-four welsh miners killed by ex-
plosion .. Feud at Palon, owa ENDS IN tWo
deaths
80. Five killed, 20 hurt, by exploding
boiler at Hollidaysburg. Pa.
81. Salisbury comedies justice OF Monroe
doctrine and declares Englands inaDility %
Arm nfau mfr Murder Oh
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas. ny.
February.
L Senate passes silver bond bill.
2 s., 900 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 Sooo''
O0O,000 at figure exceeding ll0.
g. Three killed In Polish Hungarian riol
1t Whiting. Ind. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic coast; Morristown, n. j., Inundated
by bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out Dy
food and fire. many lives lost. Immense
property destroyed. s. Bridge near Bristol
Conn, swept away. drowning eleven WORK
I. Death Of w. H. English at indianapolis
g. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispaten
sentenced to two years and to pay Sz.Vot
for circulating obscene matter
9. Ten sailors drown on Newburyport
IL Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan
F1f
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
curry below zero all day at Chicago; tnre
die Of exposure. !. Clothing cutters at Chi
cago strike. ). Dynamite at Johannesburg
south Africa. kills scores; fire at a masket
ball In Lisbon. Portugal, Kills fifty attend
ants
g5 seconds. Commander and Mrs. BallinG
ton Booth removed from command of Saliva
tion Army in America.
% Death of "Bills Nye
81 Balington Booth reyolts against hi
retirement in Salvation Army. Seven pee
pie die In a Baltimore IRE.
2T. New York Yacht Club expeis LOr
Dunraven.
"a. 100000 fre In Halifax !. Riots I
Barcelona, Spain, upon receipt OF news Q
action Of Congress; American consulate a
tackled.
March.
/. Great foods in New England.
Rome in rage because of slaughter Q
8O0O Italian soldiers In battle In AbyasinIi
a Renewed anti-Amerlcan demonstrate
in Madrid. (. All Italy In an uproar owe
town, Pa
ID. Albert Wallace hanged at PekIn, Ill.
10. Frankfort, KY. under martial law.
Is. Five killed by powder explosion
Rlpton. N. Y.
23. Thirteen miners killed at Dubois. Pa
by explosion. :. Death of Thomas Hughe
author, at London. .. Riot at HOLLAND
Mich. over horsewhipplng Of sensation;
newspaper correspondent
28 100000 fire at Louisville, Ky. - Ill
nois Supreme Court confirms impris0nmer
sentence of Bankers Meadowcroft.
30 Unknown man kills Alvin NJ StoI
tf. 0,td sudo uH0 rtnru uos
Akron Ohia; cause unknown. Pour die B
fire in New York.
ri. Storms In the Northwest. Report
execution by garrote of FIVE Cubans at III
yana Opening OF lake navigation.
April.
i Ten die by fire In a Brooklyn tenemei
Trains on b. & O. and Frisco roads he
M. .Cubans capture Santa Clara.
g. Wedding Of Gen. Harrison and Mr
Dimmick.
10. s. b. Mincheli kills w. B. O. Sand
his own wife and three children, and hii
self at Pentwater, Mich.
I3 Six killed by falling trestlc at Be
ford, Ind /. President Cleveland appoin
Fitzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba. !.
Greater New York bill vetoed. I. .Democra
observe jefferson Day.
IA j. w Lehman, Of Chicago, kills h
self and three children. 81 ,000, 900 FIRE
New York .$250,000 fire at Fairbury, ]
III. First fatal sunstroke of the year
Philadelphia. Phenomenal hot wave p
i5s il. Baseball season opens. . Temper