The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10Th, 12o
by cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, So by
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, Al by cyclone in Nebraska;
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma;
on the 22d, > by cyclone in Missouri;
on the 24th. 40 by cyclone in Iowa; on
the 10Th, SG by cyclones in Michigan and
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at Nc
Gregor Iowa; and on the 26th, II by a
storm at Cairo and between rs and 100
by the fall of a bridge at Victoria, B. q.
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
dinary. y
January.
L. President names Venezuelan comm1S-
sion. :. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
ed on Vancouver Island; II men perish.
2. Six members of Hibbard 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 Transvaal,
South Africa. and is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Beers; British Government dis
avows his invasion. Earthquake in Per
sia destroys village of Jaujabad and Kills
300 people.
United States insists on indemnity from
Turkey for pundered missions. Six killed
in a wreck near Chillicothe, Ohio. - Utah
State
.. CuilSIe OueFS pOpuAoi AOotAA
... Second Persian earthquake destroys city
of Col and kills 800 people.
6. Report that Havana is fallen; not con-
frmed -Four miners killed in Shamokin,
Pa, shaft. :. Tremendous prairie fires In
Western Kansas.
9. 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 Beers.
II. Peter Hougaard of Chicago kills his
wife, five children and himself by asphyxla-
tion.
13. Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-
ter his domains.
IA. Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio.
15. 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
engagement. :. .Campos relieved of Spanish
command in Cuba. :. Death of Frank Law
Ter, of Chicago.
81 Five firemen killed by falling walls
at st. Louis; three people killed by gas e1-
plosion at New Haven, Conn; Two at heu-
key, Ind :. Death of Gen. Tom Ewing at
New York. E. Red Cross delegation starts
25. American Liner ST. Paul ashore at
Long Branch.
26. Cuban filibustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; % lost.
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 England's inability to
suppress Armenian outrages. Murder <of
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas, Ky.
February
1. Senate passes silver bond bill.
2. $2,000,000 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 $685.
100000, at figure exceeding ITO.
6. Three killed in Polish Hungarian riot
at Whiting, Ind. +. Terrific storm sweeps
Atlantic coast; Morristown, N. j., inundated
by bursting dam; Bound Brook wip> Sout by
flood and fire; many lives lost, immense
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol,
Conn.,, swept away, drowning eleven work
men.
s. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispatch,
sentenced to two years and to pay $2,OOO
for circulating obscene matter.
O. Ten sailors drown off Newburyport,
Mass.
IA Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan,
III.
IL 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; three
die of exposure: Clothing cutters at chi
cago strike. :. Dynamite at Johannesburg,
South Africa. kills scores; fire at a masked
ball in Lisbon, Portugal kills fifty attend
ants.
80 seconds. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth removed from command of Saliva
ton Army in America.
o. Death of "Bill' Nye.
f.1cE n
retirement IN Salvation Army =. Seven peo-
pie die in a Baltimore ire
27. New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Dunraven.
2S Senate passes resolution to recognize
% S1O00.nnG fire in Halifax. =. Riots in
Barcelona, Spain, upon receipt of news of
action Of Congress; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
l. Great foods in New England
g. Rome in a rage because Of slaughter of
1900 Italian soldiers in battle in Abyssinia.
t. Renewed anti-American demonstration
in Madrid. All Italy in an uproar over
Abyssinan defeat. 100000 fire at Johns
town, Pa.
IA Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, ILL.,
IS. Frankfort KY, under martial law.
18. Five killed by powder explosion at
Ripton n. Y.
49, Thirteen miners killed at Dubois, Pa
by explosion Death of Thomas Hughes
duluOls At ASOhuOll .AtiOI dl
Mich. over horse whipping of a sensational
newspaper correspondent
%. 100000 fire at Louisville, Ky IlIi-
nois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment
sentence of Bankers Meadowcroft
20. Unknown man kills Alvin NJ Stone
and wife, and wounds three daughters near
Akron, Ohio; cause unknown. . Four die by
fire in New York.
81 Storms in the Northwest. Report of
execution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha-
vana. Opening of fake navigation
April.
l. Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement
Trains en- B. & o. and Frisco roads held
up. CubGns capture Santa Clara.
g. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs.
Dimmick.
I. Chicago elections retire 81 Doodle alder
10. S. B. MinchelI kills w. b O. Sands,
his own wife and three children and him
self at Pentwater, Mich.
49, Six killed by falling trestle at Bed
ford. Ind. -. President Cleveland appoints
Fitzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba.
Greater New York bill vetoed. :. Democrats
observe jefferson Day.
IA. j. w Lehman, of Chicago, kills him
self and three children. . 81, ,00O. O00 fire at
New York. j. .$250,000 fire at Fairbury, III.
15 First fatal sunstroke of the wear at
Philadelphia. =. Phenomenal hot wave pre-
walls,
l6. Baseball season opens. =. Tempera-
ture reaches So degrees at Chicago. breaking
all records for April.