Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.

January.
1-Oficers of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn in.
2-Six persons burned to death at Jersey
3-Thirty persons killed by collapse of
floor in city hall at London, Ont.
7-Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at
St. Quentin prison, California.
Six men killed by explosion of an Ohio
River towboat near Glenheld, Pa.
Fifteen men drowned off Bauduc by
laundering Of French steamer. Six
lives lost in a mine explosion near Pitts
burg, Kan. Death Of Maj Moses p.
Handy.
12-Forty lives and s1,ooOooo worth of prop
erty destroyed by tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
1e-Death of Hon. BENZ. Butterworth, Uni
ted States Commissioner of Patents, at
Thomasville, Ga.
19-Bread riots at Ancona, Italy.
2o-Fire loss of 100000 at East Grand
22-Sfar MARI; s'u Of Rev. t. Dewitt Talmage
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death in a con-
fagration at Spokane, Wash. 81 $780,
900 worth Of property at East st. Louis,
Ill, including Union elevator and Bur-
lington freight depot, DESTROYED by fire.
27-January wheat sells for $1.05 in Chi
cago. Steamer City Of Duluth lost off
St. Joseph, Mich.
the Maine Central Railway at Orono....
Ten men killed by caving in Of North
west land tunnel in Chicago.
February.
six lives lost by burning of the Alvord
House, Gloversvile, N. ". Schooner
Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
$500 900 fire loss in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3-Six persons killed in railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys $225 ZOO
worth Of property at Scranton, Pa.
4Seven killed in railroad wreck at GlaS-
Cow, Scotland.
$3.50, 900 fire at Albany, Ind. Holland
American steamer Veendam wrecked in
mid-ocean.
9-Adolph L. Leutgert sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for wife murder in Chi
cago. ASA ssination of President Bar
rios of Guatemala. .$250,0O0 fire loss
at Fort Worth, Texas.
1O-Thirty-eigh lives crushed out by fall
ing walls at Pittsburg.
11-Nassau Chambers in New York burned;
loss, $500, 900. :. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 81 lives
lost.
17-Ffre damp explosion in a coliery at
Hammeerly, Prussia, kills so persons. -.
100000 fire at Pittsfield, Mass. -. Brit
ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death Of Miss Frances e. Willard in
New York City Large fire at Pitts
burg.
2O-New wharf and custom house at Tam
pico, Mexico, burned; loss, 81, OOO, 900.
25-National Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss, $4,000 900.
26-Nine lives lost in a tenement house fire
at Charleston, S. c.. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island, ILL.,, by the collis-
ion Of a train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and five injured by an
explosion and fire in Hall Bros labora-
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
27-Death of VIM. M. Singerly, proprietor Of
the Philadelphia Record
March.
2-Six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewton, Ala.
3-Nine drowned by the laundering of the
schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast
Fire causes $500 loss in Brownell &
Field Co.'s building at Providence, r. I.
80. So, 100000 fire loss at Manila, Phil
ippine Islands.
11-Death of Gen. w. S. Rosecrans.
13-Eleven men burned to death in Bowery
Mission, New York.
16-Death of Aubrey Beardsley, the artist.
Many persons killed in a fire at 215
Wabash avenue, Chicago.
17-Death of Blanche X. Bruce, Register of
the Treasury.
19-Six convicts killed in a mine at Pratt
City, Ala.
21-Several persons killed in a hotel fire at
Butte, Mont
lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
of James Payn, English novel
list. death of Truman 2. Handy, of
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker in United
States. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged 100000
by fire.
sealers of steamer Green
land persisted on ice foes.
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
27-Death Of Congressman Simpkins, of
Massachusetts,
3-Fifty lives lost in flood at Shawnee
town, ILL.,
Fifteen men killed by explosion Of pow
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
Sudden death Of Margaret Mather, the
tragedienne
11-Oxford Junction, Iowa, visited by $780,
600 fire.
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa,
burned; loss, $750,000.
15-AnacoCda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont, suffers $3.50, 900 fire loss.
1T-Fire, following dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss,
5000, 900.
19-Death of George Parsons Lathrop.
General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.
Death Of Senator Walthall, Of Missis-
sippi.
of State John sherman re-
signs.
26-Wm. r. Day appointed to fill the va
cancy... Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
a S750,000 fire. =. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss Of
eleven lives.
Powder Co.'S works at Dover,
n. j., wrecked by an explosion.
damage done by tornedoes in
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May.
Thirteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerico, Mo.
3-Schooner Crown wrecked off st. Johns,
N. f., and IL men drowned.
6-$125, 600 fire loss at Cleveland.
Three hundred persons killed in riot
at Milan, Italy.
S-Duluth. Mimi. suffers 500. OG0 fire.