Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-30

49, S-CPNutS NnUiLlCl tcSi6uCs
8-Two Of a mot of lynchers killed at
Urbana, Ohio, and nine wounded, by militia
under command Of Sheriff Mclean.
six killed In a wreck near Hudson: WIS.
$500, 600 fire ut Carlinville, ILL.,. Death
CT Avian Clark. famous lens-maker. at Cam
bridge, Mass.
n.wife murderer French hanged at
l2-Mayor Richards killed at Bunker Hill.
Ill. by Editor Hedley.
13-Attempt to kill President Faure BY q
Paris bomb-thrower.
14-Suicide OF Barney Barnato at sea.
t~rat!ons.
16-17-Northwest suffers from awful heat.
1S-Storm kills four children at Lincoln,
Ill. ...--Cyclones in many Western localities.
21-Victoriun Jubilee celebration COM
mences at London.
24-Cyclone in Kansas kills three; hail
bomba rds Topeka.
25-Lynching at Crystal Springs. Miss.
Ing. {. . Cornell defeats Yale and Harvard In
college boat race. f.. Four legal executions
at st. Joseph. Mo-, Fayetteville. W. Va.
Atlanta. Ca. and Houston, Texas.
2G-Seven killed In u wreck at missouri
City. Mo.
29-Three killed in wreck of a Christian
Endeavor train at West Chicago; 10 hurt.
Five men drowned ut Chicago while bathing
to get relief from terrific heat. . . Northwest
scorched.
ao-An districts report many fatalities
from heat.
JULY.
1-Continuance of fearful heat. .. Close OF
Victorian Jubilee.
2-One dead and 16 Frustrated by heat at
Chicago. in a temperature OF % degrees. -.
Cornell Boat Club defeats Columbia and
Pennsylvania.
3-Awful heat in Chicago kills six and
prostrates 40; Is die at Cincinnati. :. Snow
storm In Colorado. q. /. .Deluge at Duluth does
81. OO0,O GOO damage.
4-Heat and fatalities continue east Of Mis-
sissippi Valley; thunderstorm at midnight
relieves Chicago. after eight have died.
6-Twenty die at Chicago from previous
exhaustion by heat. though temperature did
not exceed Is degrees. D.. Celebration claims
Ave deaths there, and scores OF injured vic.
Tins. . H. B. Stone Of Chicago killed at
Nonquitt, Mass.
6-Ten killed by cyclone at Lowry. MINI.
Mine killed by boiler explosion at Harris
VILE. Tenn. Coal miners strike becomes
7-Continuance Of extreme heat and con-
seQuent fatalities-Senate passes tariff bill.
six killed at Bay City, Mich. by street
car sI PS!SSnisaDs am. 'ntG Atom At 9pf fpe nIsw house burn.
at Chicago; loss $250.00O. Heat and death
roll Increases. Death Of Senator Harris
lo-Drop Of IS degrees In temperature at
Chicago; change general.
12-Death Of Millionaire Columbus r. Cum
l6SNeero lynched for assault and murder
at West Point. Tenn. -. Illinois and Indiana
I7-News Of fabulous gold nnds In ALASKA.
lo-Tari6 bill passes the House. Snow
storm In Chicago.
22-Logan monument unveiled at Chicago.
23-Four killed by explosion Of naphtha on
steamer at Bridgeport, Conn. 4. +. 81 100000
grape sugar factory IRE at Peoria, III.
24-New tariff law enacted; Congress ad-
journs. .. .Cloudburst at Boston.
20-Cnvon Killed hv cvrlnnn af San 1nSa
Ill.
AUGUST,
6-Elevator nre at Chicago kills four Are
men. hurts 20 more, and does 100000 dam.
age.
Spain.
15-Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded BY Italian Count Of Turin in a duel
at Paris.
1e-Great boom in wheat. . Cold wave a,
Chicago.
1~7-Snowstorm In South Dakota. . Wheat
touches csc at Chicago.
19-Unknown man killed by farmers neal
Chicago. for assault. . -Four killed by glu
cose factory explosion Mt Davenport, Iowa.
21-Wheat reaches the dollar price in sew
eral cities and occasions great excitement
23-Three hundred Sepoys massacred by
Afridis In India.
26-President OF Uruguay ASA ssinated.
29-News Of a great tidal wave in Japan.
30-Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure.
3l-Yellow fever breaks out at Ocear
Springs, Miss.
SEPTEMBER.
Crops reported greatly damaged by lon,
continued drought.
RAILROAD collision near Emporia. Kan.
several killed. Lake st. Clair yacht cap
sized, drowning six.
9-Terrible head-end collision near New
castle, Colo. kills 30 people and manglei
many others.
s1O-Twenty-two striking coal miners nea
Latimer. Pa. shot dead by deputy sherins
many others wounded.
11-Miners' convention Mt Columbus set
ties the great coal strike.
13-Tidal wave along the Texas coast tool
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty.
15-Five alleged burglars taken from jal
by a mob at Versailles, Ind. and lynched.
16-Anarchist assaults President Dlaz o
Mexico; death OF the assaulter at tn
hands Of n mob.
2O-Outbreak Of yellow fever In New OF
leans.
2l-Pres,dent Ratchford Of the Unite,
26-Nine men killed In a bloody riot a
Girardyillc. Pa. 49, Mrs. John Becker an,
Ave children slaughtered near Carroll. Iowa
Railway hold-up at Moorhead. MINI.
S9-s1 100, 900 fire in Washington, D.. c..
Fall OF AxcarraRa ministry In Spain.
3O-Reslgnation Of the Rail- ministry 4
!. Greece.
OCTOBER.
Five bandits held up a train In India
:, Territory. Thirty persons hurt In railwa
accident Mt Medford, Mass.
3-Death OF Gen. Neal Dow.
4--Sagasta ministry assumes control
: Spain. Austin, Pa. almost entirely d.
stroyed by fire.
@onnecticut votes an educational tea
for voters.
/, 6-Alton train held up near Kansas CITY
: No.. /. !. Thousands Of lives lost and muc
property destroyed by a typhoon In the Phi
ippine Islands. .$117 600 1re at Chicag
: stock yards. !. Large Ore In Detroit. !. /. 81
girls burned to death at Plankinton, 8. d..
Disastrous FIRE at Medora. Ill.
1.-TWO prisoners roasted In Opelika, Ala
: jail.
Seen. weyler recalled from Cuba. :.
Death Of ex-senator Mcpherson Of Ne
Jersey.
2 12-Bandits rob q train near Austin, Te,
as. Death at Detroit Of ex-senator Cha
w. Jones Of Florida.
14-Four people killed In . railway acc
dent at Stittsville. Ont.
1S-Four persons killed and many injure
by cavinS In Of . theatsr roof In Cincil
natl.
16+steamer Triton sunk In Caribbean e.
and $50 lives lost.
0 H-Windsor, N. g.. Are-swspt and 3,ot