The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-14
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Month of May Most Conspicuous Dy
Its List of Appalling Disasters ana
Natural Catastrophes by Land ana
sea-Record of Fires and Crimes.
A backward Glance.

A Backward Glance.
Following is a chronological record OF
the most important events OF the past
twelve months: May, 1896, will be re-
membered as a month of disaster. On
the Sd twelve persons were killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati; on the lotn, lzo
hy a cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, 50 py
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; Oh
the 18th, A by cyclone in Nepraska'
on the 21st, 10 by cyclone in Oklanoma'
on the 22d, 5 by a cyclone in MISSOURI
on the Oath, 40 by cyclone IN Iowa. Oh
the 25th, SO by cyclones in Michigan ana
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at NC
Gregor, Iowa; and on the 10Th, II by
storm at Cairo and between 70 and lUO
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, 3. y.
Otherwise the record is not out OF the or
binary.
January.
1, President names Vent uelan commls-
sion. :. British ship Jeanette Cowan wreck
ed on Vancouver Island; II men perish.
2. Six members Of Hubbard family ole ~ 81,
fire at Columbus. Ohio. Four Killed. %
hurt by exploding fireworks at st. Louis, MO
80. British force under DR.. Jameson AZ
tempts seizure Of territory in IransFaal'
South Africa and is cut to pieces ana cap
tured by Boerss British Government n us
avows his invasion. Earthquake In f .9I
STA destroys village OF JauJapao anu Hills
300 people.
4. Cubans invest the city Of Havana.
United States insists on indemnify , iIol1
Turkey for plundered missions. SIX klilea
in wreck near Chillicothe, ONO. 80. olan .
s. Carlisle offers 500 ooo, 900 popular loan s;a
-. Second Persian earthquake destroys CITY
Of Col and kills 800 people.
6. Report that Havana Is fallen; not con-
frmed . -Four miners killed in ShamoKln,
Pa, shaft. Tremendous prairie nres ~
8. War fever high In England. -. Trans
vaal demands Independence and indemnify ~
for Jameson's raid :. Report Of alliance OF
Germany, France and Russia against Ghs-
II. Peter Hougaard, of Chicago, kills his
wife, five children and himself by asphyxia-
ton.
ter his domains.
IA Foraker chosen Senator from Ohio
10 Government victorious In MANITOBA
elections. Severe fighting ABOUT aasana
-. Allison chosen Senator from Iowa -.
Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan as
sured
16 Chicago gets Chicago National Demo
IL. Announcement of Harrison-Dimmick
engagement. :. .Campos relieved OF spanish
command In Cuba. -. Death OF Frank Law
Ter, of Chicago.
IL.
at st. Louis; three people killed by gas ex-
plosion at New Haven, Conn.,; two at REQ
key, Ind Death Of Gen. Tom Ewing at
New York. Red Cross delegation starts
25. American Liner St. Paul ashore at
Long Branch.
90 Cuban flibustering steamer Hawkins
sinks; 80 lost.
~. Fifty-four Welsh miners killed by ex-
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.
l. Senate passes silver bond bill
2. 100000 fire loss in Philadelphia. -.
Tremendous snowstOrm in Northwest
8. Richard Klatke kills his father. mother.
wife, three children and himself at Chicago;
100000, at a 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 wiped out by
food and fire; many lives lost, Immense
property destroyed. Bridge near Bristol.
Conn.,, swept away, drowning eleven work
men.
I. Death of w H. English at Indianapolis.
8. Publisher Dunlop, Of Chicago Dispatch,
sentenced to two years and to pay $1,000
for circulating obscene matter.
8. Ten sailors drown of ~Newburyport,
Mass.
IA. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan,
ILL.,
II Twenty die in factory fire at Troy.
10. Sixty miners killed at Newcastle.
Colo. ). Rain of mud in Chicago.
10 Bill Nye stricken by paralysis. .Mer-
below zero all day at Chicago three
cago strike. :. Dynamite at Johannesburg,
South Africa. kills scores; fire at a masked
ball in Lisbon. Portugal. kills fifty attend
ants.
Fl. Fitzsmmons whips Maher in minute
IS seconds. :. Commander and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth removed from command of Saliva
ton Army in America.
%. Death Of "BilP' Nye.
%. Ballington Booth revolts against his
retirement IN Salvation Army. =. Seven peo-
pie die in Baltimore fire:
Dunraven.
IS. Senate passes resolution to recognize
Cuba
20. $1,000 900 fire in Halifax. Riots in
Barcelona, Spain. upon receipt of news of
action Of Congress; American consulate at
tackled.
March.
1. Great floods In New England
g. Rome In a rage because Of slaughter of
5000 Italian soldiers in battle in Abyssinia.
H. Renewed anti-American demonstration
In Madrid. All Italy in an uproar over
Abyssinian defeat. :. 100000 fire at Johns
town, Pa.
a. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin, Ill.
49, Frankfort, KY, under martial law.
49, Five killed by powder explosion at
23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois. Pa.
by explosion. Death Of Thomas Hughes,
author, at London. Riot at Holland,
Mich, over horsewhipping Of sensational
newspaper correspondent.
g. $4,000 900 fire at Louisville Ky I'LL
nois Supreme Court confirms imprisonment
sentence Of Bankers Meadowcroft
co. 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 lake navigation.
April.
/. Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement
-. Trains en- b & o. and Frisco roads held
up. .Cubons capture Santa Clara.
6. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs.
Dimmick.
I. Chicago elections retire q Doodle alder
men.
10 s. B. Minchell kills W. B. o. Sands,
his own wife and three children. and him.
self at Pentwater, Mich.
13 Six killed by falling trestle at Bed
ford, Ind. President Cleveland appoints
Fitzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba.
Greater New York bill vetoed. !. Democrats
IA ]. w Lehman, Of Chicago, kills him.
self and three children. 81 ,OOO, 600 fre at
New York. $3.50. 600 FIRE at Fairbury, III.
ID First fatal sunstroke Of the year at
Philadelphia. -. Phenomenal hot wave pre-
walls.
49, Baseball season opens. . Tempera-
ture reaches 50 degrees at Chicago. breaking
all records for April.
10 Nine sailors drown on Long Stand.
Fl Baron Hirsch, millionaire Jewish phil
Leon Say. distinguished French political
economist. dies at Paris.
h. At Rockyirie, Ind, Albert Egbert kills
ave people without cause, and commits sui
sn1-c Has -.