Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-08
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Month Of May Most conspicuou. by
Its List of Appalling Disasters and
Natural c~atastrophes by Land aud
sea-Record of Fires and crimcs.
Backward Glance.

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sea-Record of Fires aud crimcs.
A Backward Glance.
Following is a chronological record of
the most important events of the past
twelve months: May, 1896, will be re-
membcred us O month of disaster. On
the BID twelve persons were killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10th, 12O
by q cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, SO by
cyclones in kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, A by q cyclone in Nebraska;
on the 21st, 10 by a cyclone in Oklahoma;
on the 22d, 5 by q cyclone in Missouri;
on the Oath. 40 by a cyclone in Iowa; on
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan and
Oklahoma and 40 by a cloudburst ut Nc
Gregor, Iowa; and on the Goth, IL by a
storm at Cairo and between Is and 100
by the fall of a bridge ut Victoria, B. G.
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
binary.
I. President names Venezuelan commits
sion. -. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
=. Six member of Hubbard family die by
fire ut Columbus, Ohio. -Four killed. ~
hurt. by exploding fireworks ut st: Louis, Mo.
-. British force under DIR. Jameson ut
tempts seizure Of territory in Transvaal,
South Africa. and is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Beers. British Government dis
avOws his invasion. I. 4. Earthquake in Per-
sin destroys village Of Jaujabad aud kills
800 people.
4. Cubans invest the city of Havana. 90.
United States insists OH Indemnity from
Turkey for plundered missions. six killed
In a wreck near Chillicothe. Ohio. Utah u
State.
8. Carlisle offers s1oo.ooo,oo popular loan
80. Second Persian earthquake destroys city
Of Col and kills 500 people.
6. Report that Havana is fallen; not con-
atrmed. -. -Four miners killed in u Shamokin,
Pa, shaft. 4. . Tremendous prairie fires In
Western Kansas.
o. War fever high in England. . . Trans
vaal demands Independence and indemnity
for JanesOn's raid. {. Report Of alliance Of
Germany. France and Russia against Eng
land to sustain the Beers.
II. Peter Hougaard. of Chicago. kills his
wife. i've children and himself by %asphyxia-
ton.
10: Sultan forblds Red Cross Society to en-
ter his domains.
Il. Foraker chosen senator from Ohio:
elections. 80. Severe fighting about Havana
...Allison chosen Senator from IOwa....
Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as
sured.
18. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo-
cratic Convention.
II. Announcement Of Harrison-Dimmick
engagement. =. .Campos relieved of Spanish
81. Five bremen killed by falling walls
at st. Louis; three people killed by gas e3-
key. lnd.... Death Of Gen. Tom Ewing ut
New York. Red Cross delegation starts
for Turkey.
%. American Liner st. Paul ashore at
20. Cuban filibustering stesmer Hawkins
sinks; 50 lost.
20; Fifty;four Ws3sh miners killed by ex-
deaths.
80. Five killed. 20 hurt, by exploding
boiler ut Hollidaysburg. Pa.
doctrine and declares England's inability to
suppress Armenian outrages -. Murder Of
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas. ny.
February.
1. Senate passes silver bond bill.
=. $2.oOO.OOO fire loss in philadelphia.
Tremendous snowstorm In Northwest.
). Richard Klatke kills his father, mother.
wife. three children and himself ut Chicago;
O00,O0O. at q figure exceeding ITO.
e. Three killed in Polish-Hungarian riot
at Whiting, Ind: %. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic const; Morristown, \: j.; inundated
flood and fire; many lives lost. immense
property destroyed. -. Bridge near Bristol,
Conn.,, swept away, drowning eleven work.
men.
Z. Death Of W. H. English at indianapolis.
8. Publisher Dunlop. of Chicago Dispatch.
sentenced to two years and to pay $1,000
AOI ClECulUllIlk ODSCcue MATTER
o. Ten sailors drown of N~ewburyport,
Mass.
Il. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan.
IL. Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy,
10. 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; three
die Of exposure. .. Clothing cutters at Chi
cage strike. dynamite at Johannesburg.
ball in Lisbon, Portugal, kills fifty attend
ants.
q. Fitzsimmons whips Maher in / minute
IS seconds. -. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
%. Death Of .Biii" Nye.
-s Il: nallin 1g sn,y Booth reyolts against his
81. New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Dunrayen.
20. $1,000 fire In Halifax. :. Riots In
Barcelona. Spain. upon receipt of news Of
action Of Congress; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
I. Great floods in New England.
g.. Rome In a rage because Of slaughter Of
5000 Italian soldiers In battle In Abyssinia.
In Madrid..:.A All Italy in an uproar over
town, Pa.
Is. Five killed by powder explosion at
Ripton. N. Y.
g. Thirteen miners killed at Dubois, Pa.
BY explosion. . . Death of Thomas Hughes.
author, at Lendon. . Riot at Holland.
Mich. over horsewhipping Of a sensational
newspaper correspondent.
%. 100000 fire at Louisville, Ky... iii.
nois Supreme Court confirms imprisonment
sentence Of Bankers Meadowcroft.
20. Unknown man kills Alvin n. Stone
and wife. and wounds three daughters, near
Akron. Ohio; cause unknown. -Four die by
Ore in New York.
81. Storms In the Northwest. . Report Of
execution by garrote Of five Cubans at IA.
vana. Opening Of lake navigation.
April.
I. Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement
go. Trains en- b. 4 o. and Frisco roads held
up... .Cubuns capture Santa Clara.
o. Wedding Of Gen. Harrison and Mrs.
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