Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

1-continuance Of fearful heat. :. Close of
Victorian Jubilee.
a-Awful heat in Chicago kills six and
prostrstes 40; Is die at Cincinnati. Snow
storm In Colorado. /. .Deluge at Duluth does
100000 damage.
4-Heat and fatalities continue east of Mis-
sissippi Valley; thunderstorm ut midnight
relieves Chicago. after eight have died.
6-Ten killed by cyclone at Lowry. MINI.
~. Nine killed by boiler explosion at Harris
Vile. Tenn. Coal miners strike becomes
general In the East.
1-Continuance of extreme heat and con-
sequent fatalities-Senate passes tariff bill.
Six killed at Bay City, Mich. w street
car plunging into an open draw.
s-Chicago and Alton freight house burns
at Chicago; loss $3.50, 600. :. Heat and death
roll increases. death Of Senator Harris
Of Tennessee.
lO-Drop Of IS degrees in temperature at
Chicago; change general.
l2-Death OF Millionaire Columbus II. Cum
mlngs OF Chicago. ,
15-Negro lynched for assault and murder
Mt West Point. Tenn. Illinois and Indiana
coal miners go out.
17-News Of fabulous gold finds In Alaska.
lo-Tarln bill passes the House. Snow
storm In Chicago.
22-Logan monument unveiled at Chicago.
2s-Four killed by explosion Of naphtha on
steamer ut Bridgeport. Conn. 81 ,000. 900
grape sugar factory fire at Peoria, Ill.
4-New tariff law enacted; Congress ad-
Journs. .Cloudburst at Boston.
,,S0-seven killed by cyclone at San Jose.
AUGUST.
0-Elevator fire at Chicago kills four fire.
men, hurts 20 more. and does $500, 900 dam
age.
ASSASSINATION Of Premier Canovas of
Spain.
15--Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded by Italian Count Of Turin In duel
at Paris.
10-Great boom In wheat. >. Cold wave at
Chicago.
17-Snowstorm In South Dakota. Wheat
touches CSC at Chicago.
19-Unknown man killed by farmers near
Chicago, for assault. Four killed by glu-
cosc factory explosion at Davenport, Iowa.
21-Wheat reaches the dollar price In sew
eral cities and occasions great excitement.
23-Three hundred Sepoys mastered by
Afridis In India.
20-News Of great tidal wave in Japan.
30-Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure.
31-Yellow fever breaks out at Ocean
Springs. Miss.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Crops reported greatly damaged by long
continued drought.
7-Railroad collision near Emporia, Kan;
several killed. Lake st. Clair yacht cap
sized, drowning six.
castle, Colo, kills 80 people and mangles
many others.
1O-Twenty-two striking coal miners near
Latimer. Pa, shot dead by deputy sheriffs;
many others wounded.
11-Miners' convention at Columbus set
ties the great coal strike.
13-Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty.
15-Five alleged burglars taken from jail
by mob at Versailles. Ind, and lynched.
16-Anarchist assaults President Diaz OF
Mexico: death of the assaulter at the
hands Of n mob.
2O-outbreak Of yellow fever in New Or
leans.
2i-President Ratchford of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended
26-Nine men killed In a bloody riot al
Girardville. Pa. Mrs. John Becker and
five children slaughtered near Carroll. Iowa.
-. Railway hold-up at Moorhead. MINI.
20-$1 900, 900 fire In Washington, ID. G.
Fall Of Azcarraga ministry in Spain.
( 30-Reslsnation of the Rail- ministry In
Greece.
OCTOBER.
Five bandits held up train In Indian
Territory. -. Thirty persons hurt In railway
accident at Medford, Mass,
3-Death of Gen. Neal Dow.
4-Sagasta ministry assumes control in
Spain. Austin. Pa. almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
5-connecticut votes an educational test
for voters.
G-Alton train held up near Kansas City.
No.. ;. Thousands of lives lost and much
property destroyed by typhoon In the Phil
ippine Islands. $4,000 fire Mt Chicago
stock yards. Large fire In Detroit. :. six
girls burned to death at Plankinton. s. ID. -.
Disastrous fire at Medora, Ill.
1.-Two prisoners roasted In Opelika, Ala,
jail.
Death Of ex-senator Mcpherson of New
Jersey.
12-Bandits rob a train near Austin, Tex
as. Death at Detroit Of ex-senator Chas.
nfL 1nEI In
1EFour people killed In a railway acci-
dent at Stittsville, Ont
15-Four persons killed and many injured
by caving In Of theater roof In Cincin-
natl.
le-steamer Triton sunk in Caribbean Sea
and $50 lives lost.
17Iwindsor. \; s.. hre-swept and 5000
people left homeless. Death Of Chas. A.
Dana OF the New York Sun.
19-Death Of Geo. NJ. Pullman of Chicago.
H-Jury In Luetgert murder case In Chi
c.go disagreed.
24-Twenty lives lost In New York Cen
trail accident at Garrisons. N. Y. Bank
wrecked at harrisburg, Iowa.
27-Wabash Railroad Offices in st. Louis
burned.
29-Henry George, singie-tax advocate,
died OF apoplexy at New York.
NOVEMBER.
Sale of the Union Pacific Railroad
Thirteen firemen injured by a gasoline
explosion at fire In Philadelphia. .Elec-
tion day: New York elected Van Wyck
(Tammany) Mayor; Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Iowa and Massachusetts went Republican:
Maryland, Nebraska, New York. Kentucky
and Virginia Democratic; Colorado was car
rled by silver men. and In South Dakota Re-
publcans and Democrats won over Populists.
4-Chesapeake and Ohio train wreck Mt
Charlottesville, Va, In which four people
are killed and many injured. Five men
badly burned by motion iron In Milwaukee.
and two die from their Injuries.
In rnll a. nta
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of the
steamer Idaho on Lake Erie.
11-Yellow fever quarantine declared Off
In New Orleans. Thieves steal S14, 900 In
money and jewelry from Silver Greek. y.
Y. bank.
I2-s6O,OO0 fire at Fostoria. Ohio.
13-Three Indians lynchcd by a mob at
Wiliamsport n. ID.
1T-Three people Injured In n railway
wreck near Cleveland Ohio. Panic In n
Cincinnati school caused the injury Of four
children. .Rozel, Kan, sinks Into the
prairie In night.
10-Three miners killed In railway wreck
at Coal BLUM, Ind. Great fire In London.
England; loss 25,000.00O
20-Masked negro attempting to hold up
Kansas City street car, shot conductor and
motorman.
21-Fire at Melbourne. Australia, in which
100000 OF mercantile property was de-
stroyed. Two motormen killed In collis-
Ion In Baltimore, Md. :. Fire ut La Grange,
Ohio. In which S25.00O worth of property
was destroyed.
23-F. A. Novak found guilty OF murder
at Vintcn, Iowa.
rs Capt. Lowering found guilty by court
martial at Fort Sheridan. Chicago.
2S-Resignation Of the Badeni ministry In
Austria. Three men asphyxiated In the
Grand Trunk tunnel nj Port Huron. Mich.