Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-01-15

q. Fatal storms In South Dakota. !. Beers
mass sentence OF death upon leaders OF the
Transvaai lnsurrection; President Kruger
20 Second DIRE at Cripple Creek. Colo.
does sl,500.000 damage aud wipes out the
50 50. nllnols Republican convention declares
for Mckinley.
May.
3. Fearful loss of life by explosion OF a
gas generator at Cincinnati; nearly ntty
hurt
s. Street car strike in Milwaukee.
&. Cleveiand's sweeping civil service order
protects 10000 ofice-holders.
s. Many points record temperature OF 10
d L'Anse. MIcn. has sT5o00O fire. ). Ash
land Wis. loses half million by fire, -.
Continued excessive heat
II, Eleven killed by explosion Of boiler OF
rafting steamer Harry Brown. at Vicksburg,
IA. Bold bank robbery at Buffalo n. y....
Big windstorm at Chicago. I. .Methodtsts re-
tire Bishops Foster and Bowman.
10. Eighty killed by cyclone at sherman,
il. Great loss Of life and property by ey..
clones in Kansas. Five sailors drown on
Crosse Point III. !. Blue Island, III, are
swept 100000 fire at Atlanta, Ga.
Is Nebraska cyclone kills "A.
2i Oklahoma cyclone kills ten.
90 Missouri cyclone kills five.
"a Four OF Otto Mains family die by
gasoline fire at Chicago. Cyclone IN POLK
and Jasper Counties, Iowa. Kills score Of
people and does tremendous damage; chi
cago and suburbs also suffer.
Is. Over 100 killed by cyclone In Michigan
\. Forty die at McGregor, Iowa. In cloud
burst
RI. One hundred killed in street-car disas-
ter at Victoria r.. G. James Durham muir
ders six people at San Jose. Cal. Gar OF
Russia crowned. :. Cairo, ILL.,. storm kiiis
twelve.
"a. ST. Louis. East st. Louis and several
Missouri towns swept by one of the most de-
structive cyclones in the worlds history
1900 reported dead.
so. Two thousand Russians killed ln a
panic at Moscow. ;. Eighteen people die In
a cyclone at Seneca, Mo.
June.
5. Excessive heat In Northwest
13 Death of ex-Gov. Felch of Michigan.
| 16. Earthquake In Japan kills thousands
- Republican convention In st. Louis. !.
Steamer Drummond and 24o lives lost on
| France.
| ls Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake
and tidal wave In Japan. I, Mckinley nom
\ mated at st. Louis. Silver men nolt me
convention. >. Ten killed by exploding yacn'
boiler at Little Falls. N. Y.
%. Five killed by collapsing building at
San Francisco. (. Death Of b. a. Bristow'
/ ex-Secretary of the Treasury. at New YORK
28. One hundred miners buried AT fltts'
| ton, Pa. :. six drown In Shawano Lake
/ Wis
July.
4 l. Death OF Harriet Beecher Stowe.
4 I. Democratic convention at Chicago.
Yale beaten at Henley.
i TO- Chicago convention nomlnates Bryan
Ill. Twenty eight killed In wreck at 10
gan, Iowa q $50 hold,up p,,a at neon nsnn N oni
T. Five killed In week at Chicago. .Fou'
4 drowned at Lawrence, Kan.
13. Half million fire loss at 81. Louis. !.
Intense heat at Chicago.
4 IA. Hot wave sweeps the country "a de
is. Temperature drops SO degrees at Chi
cago. Twenty eight drowned at Cieveiahu
Ohio
4 is. Three lives and half million In prop
erty lost by fire at Chicago car barns+..
Malvern. Ark, razed by incendiary IRE. ).
"A. Twenty-slx drowned by cloudburst y
Colorado. h. Serious floods In ONO an
Pennsylvania.
25. Populists at st. Louis nominate bFya'
and Watson.
2T. Eleven die In a Pennsylvania cloud
burst, near PittShurg.
2S. Indiana gas belt swept by foods; tnre
killed at Anderson.
80. Fifty killed In railroad wreck at Jer
sey City, n. ].
August.
mond Match brokers, for $4,000OO -Pne
nomenai heat in Western. Central ana mig
die Northern States.
4 5, 8, Z. Continuance OF killing neat. i.
Conference Of National Democratic party
indianapolis.
Q. Furious heat increases; Y deaths fror
sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn; ~ 9
Chicago: similar reports from all quarters. !.
Seven killed by trolley accident at Coiun
bia, Pa.
10. One hundred and eighty people die
heat in New York and Brooklyn; W az Ch
| cago; IL at st. Louis.
Il. Cool wave. !. Thirty die in a Pennsy
J vania cloudburst Seven killed Dy Oolie
explosion near Alliance, Ohio.
16. Undertakers and cemeteries In ne,
| York overwhelmed with business; hundred
of funerals postponed; heat the cause.
Is. Death OF Nicholas Crouch. author
} t'Kathleen Mayourneen."
%. Whitney Vanderbilt wedding. Oh
, | tonagon, Mich. destroyed by fire. Natiol
al Democratic State Convention OF iliino
, nominates John G. Black for Governor.
September.
: /. Twelve killed by powder-house explosio
at San Francisco.
8, Gold Democrats at Indianapolis nomi
: Northwest.
6. Eleven hremen killed at Benton Ha
bor Mich. :. Two men lynched at Glenco
/ Mimi.
O. a So.
Warsaw, Ind Family Of four killed
q crossing at Oshkosh, Wis.
49, Tremendous storm In the East.
I British troops capture Dongola and 70
dervishes in Egypt. (. Riot In Leadvii
four killed.
/. 23. Leadyille under martial law.
!. q. Mount Holyoke College burns at Sou
Hadley, Mass.
4 % Many Southern cities wrecked
storm: great life and property loss In Fle
4 Ida, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
October.
n i. g. Iowa semi-centennial jubilee.
4 81 Death of Du Maurier, the novelist.
8. Chicago Day celebration.
10. Two bank robbers killed at She
bourne, Mum.
IA. Meeker, Col, citizens kill three bal
# robbers, and hold celebration over 1t.
a mean, Wis, after embezzling over 5000
i during long term of years.
3 TO- First snow in Northern Wisconsin.
II. First snow In Chicago. ;. $780, 600 q
1e Death Of Henry e. Abbey. theatre
It manager, at New York.
25 Eight killed. 20 hurt, In wreck at
!, Louis. six drown while boating at De
j. 2e s1,2oo.ooo elevator nre at Chicago.
II %, 20. Mercury at Chicago reaches y
grees. Cyclones In the South and Ok
T. homa.
II November.
8. Mckinley elected President.
y S, Storm Of sleet and snow In Northw'
= and Middle States.
y T. Schooner Waukesha and six men i
:. of Muskegon, Mich.
VI FaYfgfQTpn 10 degrees at ~