Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-05
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NonQuitt, Mass
Niue killed By boiler explosion at Harris
general In the East
sequsnt fatalities-6enate passes tariff bill
six killed at Bay City. Mich, by street
car plunging Into an open draw.
S-Chicago and Alton freight house burns
at Chicago; loss $685. Heat and death
roll increases. :. Death OF Senator Harris
OF Tennessee
19-Drop Of 35 degrees in temperature at
chicago; change general.
i2-Death Of Millionaire Columbus r. Cum
mlngs OF Chicago.
i6-Negro lynched for assault and murder
at West Point, Tenn. Illinois and Indiana
coal miners go out
l1-News Of fabulous gola finds In Alaska
ls-Tariff bin passes the House. Snow
storm in Chicago.
Hogan monument unveiled at Chicago.
25-Four killed by explosion of naphtha on
steamer at bridgeport, Conn. !. 81, O00, 900
grape sugar factory fire at Peoria. I'll.
Anew tariff law enacted; Congress adj
journs. !. Cloudburst at Boston.
S0-Steen killed by cyclone at San Jose
ILL.,
AUGUST.
6-E'evator fire at Chicago kills four fire.
men. aurts 20 more. aud does $500. 600 dam
age.
ASSASSINATION of Premier Canovas Of
SPAIN
5-Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded by italian Count Of Turin in duel
at Paris.
le-Great boom in wheat. j. Cold wave at
Chicago
17-Snowstorm in South Dakota. ). Wheat
touches Csc at Chicago.
19-Unknown man killed by farmers near
Chicago, for assault. -Four killed by glu-
cose factory explosion at Davenport, Iowa.
21-Wheat reaches Ae dollar price in sew
eral cities and occasions great excitement
23-Three hundred Sepoys ynassacred by
Afridis In India
26President of Uruguay assasslnated.
29-News of great tidal wave In Japan.
S0-Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure.
3l-Yellow fever breaks out at Ocean
Springs, Miss.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Crops reported greatly damaged by long
continued drought.
7-Railrcad collision near Emporia, Kan. ;
several killed, !. Lake st. Clair yacht cap
Sized drowning six.
castle, Colo, kills So people and mangles
many others.
1O-Twenty-two striking coal miners near
Latimer, Pa, shot dead BY deputy sheriffs;
many others wounded
1l-Miners convention at Columbus set
ties the great coal strike.
1S-Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty.
15-Five alleged burglars taken from tail
BY moo at Versailles, Ind, and lynched
16-Anarehist assaults President Diaz Of
Mexico; death OF the assaulter at the
hands OF mob.
20-Outbreak OF yellow fever in New Or
leans.
21-President Ratchford of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended
26-Nine men killed In a bloody riot at
Girardyille, Pa. Mrs, John Becker and
ave children slaughtered near Carroll, Iowa.
Railway hold-up at Moorhead, MINI.
psi 100000 fire In Washington, D. G.
Fall Of Azcarraga ministry In Spain.
30-Resignation of the Rail- ministry In
Greece
OCTOBER.
Five bandits held up train in Indian
Territory. :. Thirty persons hurt In railway
accident at Medford Mass.
3-Death OF Gen. Neal Dow.
4-Sagasta ministry assumes control In
Spain. Austin, Pa, almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
5-Connecticut votes an educational test
for voters.
6-Alton train held up near Kansas City,
Mo-. Thousands of lives lost and much
property destroyed by a typhoon In the Phil
stock yards. Large fire In Detroit. !. six
girls burned to death ar Plankinton, s. 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 New
Jersey.
IL Bandits rob train near Austin, Tex
as. Death at Detroit of ex-senator Chas,
w. Jones of Florida.
14-Four people killed in railway acct
dent at Stittsville, Ont.
15-Four persons killed and many injured
by caving In of theater roof In Cincin-
natl.
16Steamer Triton sunk In Caribbean Sea
and $50 lives lost
17-Windser, N; s., hre-swept and 1000
people left homeless. =. Death of Chas. A.
Dana of the New York Sun.
19-Death Of Geo. NJ. Pullman Of Chicago.
2l-Jury In Luetgect murder case In CHI
cago disagreed
2-Twenty lives lost In New York Gen.
trail accident at Garrisons N. " Bank
wrecked at Blairsburg, Iowa.
27-Wabash Railroad offices In st. Louis
burned.
29-Henry George. single-tax advocate,
dieo of apoplexy at New York.
NOVEMBER.
Sale of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Thirteen fremen Injured by a gasoline
explosion at fire in Philadelphia. :. .Eiec.
ton day: New York elected Van Wyck
tTammany) Mayor; Ohio. Pennsylvania,
Iowa and Massachusetts, went Republican:
Maryland. Nebraska, New York, Kentucky
and Virginia Democratic; Colorado was car
ried by silver men, and In South Dakota Re-
publlcans and Democrats won over Popuiists
4--Chesapeake and Ono train wreck at
Charlottesville, Va, In which four people
are killed and many injured. :. Five men
badly burned by molten Iron In Milwaukee,
and two die from their injuries.
6-Train robbery near Grants N NJ.
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of the
steamer Idaho on Lake Erie.
11-Yellow fever quarantine declared OFF
In New Orleans. Thieves steal $4,000 In
money and jewelry from Silver Cheek, N
Y, bank.
1850, 900 fire at Fostoria, Ohio
l3-Three Indians lynehed by mob at
Willamsport, N. ID.
17,Three people Injured in railway
Cincinnati school caused the injury Of four
children. :. .Rozel. Kan, sinks into the
prairie In a night
19-Three miners killed in railway wreck
at Coal Bluff, Ind. :. Great fire In London,
England; loss 25,0O0,O0O
20-Masked negro. attempting TO hold up
Kansas City street car, shot conductor and
motorman.
Sb,O0O,0OO of mercantile property was de-
stroyed. Two m0tormen killed In a cOlis-
lon In Baltimore, Md. Fire at La Grange,
Ohio, In which $4,000 worth of property
Psf. A. Novak found guilty of murder
at Vinton, Iowa.
25-Capt. Lowering found guilty by court
martial at Fort Sheridan, Chicago.
2S-Resignatlon of the Badeni ministry In
Austria. Three men asphyxiated in the
Grand Trunk tunnel at Port Huron, Mich.
30-New cabinet formed In Austria
Eleven persons killed in a railway accident
at Warsaw, Poland. Martin Thorn con-
victed Of the murder of VIM Guldensuppe at
New York.
DECEMBER,
L--Thirty-seven miners killed In Homburg
bavaria by explosion of fire damp. .Furi-
GUS riots at Prague. Bohemia
4Three men killed and several persons
injured in collision of trolley cars near
Detroit, Mich
5-Resignation of the Italian ministry.
8-Congress conyenes In regular session at
Washington.
1.-Two men killed In railway collision at
Oakland, CAL. :. .Haytian cabinet resigned
13-New Haytitu ministry formed.
4-Resignation of Gillian cabinet.
Rudini cabinet reconstructed In Italy.
16-Three men killed In c., e. & /. wreck
at Clinton, Ind. Death Of AlphoEse Dau-
det, noted French author. William Ter
riss. English actor, assassinated In London
-. Ratification Of peace treaty between
Greece and Turkey. ;. New Gillian cabinet
formed.
l7-Slx lives lost In fire at Ottawa, Ont.
Three persons perish In an $S50,0 fire at
Grand Forks. Oak.
1s-Zero weather In Chicago. :. Death of
Hon. Washington Hesing, of Chicago.
20-Five train wrecks-at Castle Rock,
Colo two persons killed; al Pontiac, ILL.,,
FIVE persons Injured near Benson, Ar!z, one
man killed; near Ripton, Ala, four men