The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-01
HISTORY
OF A YEAR.
Review of the Leading
Events of 1896.
FOOTPRINTS OF TIME.
Havoc of the Dread
Cyclone.
"A LONG DEATH ROLL.
FOOTPRINTS OF TIME.
"A LONG DEATH ROLL.

Record Of Important Events Arranged
Consecutive1y by Months and Days.
Accidents, Obituaries, Conf1agra-
lions and Miscellaneous Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
The earth has made another revolu-
tion round the sun. The four seasons
have again swept past, and Time, the
measurer and the disoloser of all things,
has turned a page of eventful history.
Our own country saw the most excit-
ing and bitter presidential campaign in
its history. It eliminated, happily, in
quiet election and in a gratifying dis
position on the part of the defeated
party to abide by the will of the people.
The great European powers have been
at peace among themselves. On ocoa-
sicnE the British lion has roared and
the Russian bear has growled. The
phlegmatic German and the excitable
Frenchman have had their periods of
bellicose patriotism, but nothing more.
The Cuban instruction has gone on
continuously. At this writing no one
can foresee the end, except as it will re-
suit in the certain devastation of great
island of fabulous natural resources and
riches. Our complication with England
over the Venezuelan boundary dispute
is in fair way of speedy solution.
The death roll includes many names
of worldwide prominence. Among them
are those of Du Maurier, Sir John Mil
lais, two of the Hampers of publishing
fame, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gail Ham
ilton, Austin Corbin, Kate Field and
Mrs. Scott Siddons.
Disasters have been frequent, but the
more severe calamities cannot be oharg-
ed to the neglect or carelessness of man.
The cyclone season opened early, and
the loss of human life and the damage to
crops, buildings and animals have been
extremely heavy. Tt is estimated that,
from May ID to May ~, 200 persons
lost their lives in storms which ragged in
a radius of 400 miles of Chicago. But
the force of the wind in the locality
named was but as zephyr compared to
that which swept across Sherman, Tex,
May Is. During that terrible paroxysm
of nature more than 100 persons were
killed and several times that number
manned.
Special mention may also be made of
the business failures, notably that of
eHlton, Hughes g Co., the greae dry
goods dealers of New York. The bank
failures were also numerous, especially
during the period just prior to the
presidential election, when at one time
money was loaned at 100 per cent on
call in Wall street. Thus it will be
seen that the year 1895 has been one of
eventful interest. A classified review of
the more important events follows:
JANUARY.
T. Obituary: Alfred Ely Beach, editor Scien-
tiAc American. in New York city: aged 20.
john B. Blair, once famous painter and
inventor; aged 95.
2. Fire: At West Palm Beach, Fla. loss, $780,
600.
g. Fires: Franklin County Children s home at
Columbus, O., burned; loss, SIPS 900. Is
buildings burned at Creston. Ia. loss, $780,
600.
g. Fire: Central hotel and STREET. block burn
ed at Altoona, Pa.
g. Obituary: Gen. NJ. D. Leggett, a noted Fed
eral veteran. in Cleveland; aged II. Col.
Thomas W. Knox, author, in New York
city; aged 81
g. Obituary: Ex-Gov. W. R. Marshal of Min
nesota, at Pasadena, Cal; aged II. At
Paris, Paul Verlaine, French poet; aged 81.
H. Fire: In st. Louis; loss, $3.50, 600.
Obituary: George G. Wright, ex-U. s. sena-
tor and ex-chief Justice of Iowa, at Des
Moines; aged 76. Gen. Francis Charming
Barlow, noted war veteran and lawyer, in
New York city: aged ~.
a. Obituary: Hugh Dimond, pioneer capital
list of California, at Oakland; aged 66.
a. Obituary: Martin Brimmer, noted mer-
tron, in Boston; aged H. Gen. Charles A.
Hickman, noted Federal veteran, in Ger
mantown, Pa; aged a.
is. Obituary: Matthew s. Brady, of the
pioneer photographers of the United States,
in New York city: aged 70.
16. Obituary: Gen. E. B. Fowler noted veter
of the Federal army, in Brooklyn; aged
co.
10. Fire: Crescent City Rice mills burned in
New Orleans; loss, S1,O0o,0 co.,
Obituary: Charles Thomas Floquet, former
premier of France
10. Fire: large apartment houses burned in
Chicago; loss, $500, o00-
Obituary: Bernard Gillian, noted cartoonist,
at Canajoharie, N. Y; gged 80.
20. Obituary: Rev. DR.. Thomas Armitage, q
noted Baptist preacher, at Yonkers, N Y;
aged r. Prince Henry of Bastenberg died
at sea; aged 80.
q. Obituary: Gen. Thomas Ewing, in New
York city; aged SO.
q. Obituary: Ex-Judge Charles B. Elliott,
famous sporting man and builder Of racing
shells, in Brooklyn; aged 81.
Is. Obituary: Lord Leighton noted British
artist. in London; aged Sc. Alexander Mac
milan of Macmillan & Co.. British pub
fishers, in London; aged 81
&c. Shipwreck Filibustering steamer ]. W.
Hawkins wrecked on her voyage from New
York to Bermuda with and material
for Cuba; 10 drowned
~. Obituary: John Tyler, son OF the late Pres
ident Tyler, in Washington. Gen. Theo-
dore Runyon, war veteran and y. S.
bassador to Germany, in Berlin; aged "a.
Gen. Joseph H. Porter. New York war
veteran, in New York city.
Is. Disaster: Sc deaths in q coal mine disaster
near Cardiff.
Obituary: Elijah Shaw, founder of Shaw
university, North Carolina, at Wales,
Mass. aged 49, George Cochran Lambdin,
a noted Philadelphia artist, in that city
aged &c. Dr.. L. A. Harris, a noted public
citizen of Atlanta, in that city; aged 90.
Gen. Alfred Baker Smith, at Poughkeep-