Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-12-28
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY,
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.
January.

January.
i-Officers OF the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn in.
six persons burned to death at Jersey
City, n. ].
3-Thirty persons killed by couapse of
floor In city hall at London, Ont
T-Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at
st. Quentin prison, California.
S-Six men killed " explosion OF an Ohio
River towboat near Gienfell Pa !.
Fifteen men drowned off Dauduc by
founuering of French steanle. six
lives lost In a mine explosion near Pitts
burg, Kan. Death of Mai, Moses T..
Handy.
12-Forty lives and $1,000, ooo worth # prop
erty destroyed by tornado II Fort
Smith, Ark
16-Death of Hon Benz. Butterwor,h, Uni
ted States Commissioner OF pa.ents, at
Thomasyllle, Ga.
19-Bread riots at Ancona, Italy
2o-Fire loss of 100000 at Eas, Grand
p Marriage Of Rev. t, pewitt Talmage
and Mrs. Col. Collier. Obstructive
storm over he West and Sub
Many persons burned to death con-
Migration ns Snokane Wash 1500,-
600 worth Of propcrt, a. a-4ss q. Louis,
ILL.,, including Union elevator sad Bur-
lington freight depot, destroyed by fire.
2-January wheat sells for s105 In Chi
cago.. Steamer City of Duluth lost off
st. Joseph, Mich.
29-Seyeral persons killed In smas1-up on
the Maine Central Railway at oTono.
Ten men killed by caving in OF North
west land tunnel in Chicago.
February.
six lives lost by burning of the Alyord
House, Gloversville, N ". Schooner
Briggs wrecked off Little Nahdnt and
eight lives lost.
2-$500,000 fire lcss in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3-Six persons killed in railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys S225, 900
worth of property at Scranton, Ia.
4-Seyen killed In railroad wreck at Glas-
gov, Scotland.
6-$50, 900 fire ut Albany, Ind. Holland
American steamer Veendam wrecked In
mid-ocean.
9-Adoph l.. Leutgert sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for wife murder in Chi
cago. Assassination of President Bar
rios of Guatemala. $3.50, 900 fire loss
at Fort Worth, Texas.
10-Thirty eight lives crushed out by fall
Ing walls at Pittsburg.
In ssau Chambers in New York burned;
los S500,000. :. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 81 lives
lost
17-Flre damp explosion In a colliery at
Hammeerly, Prussia kills so persons. -.
100000 fire at Pittsheld Mass. :. Brit
ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances Il. Willard In
New York City ~. Larg fire at Pitts
burg.
2o-New wharf and custom house at Tam
pico, Mexico, burned; loss, 81, ,000, 900.
25-National Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss, 100000
26-Nine lives lost In q tenement house fire
at Charleston, S. c.. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island, ILL.,, by the collis-
Ion of q train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and five injured by an
explosion and fire in Hall Bros. labora-
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
S-Death of VIM. NJ. Singery, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Record
ITarch,
2-Six men killed b. boiler explosion near
Brewtol, Ala
3-Nine drowned by the laundering of the
schooner Speedwel off the Florida coast
Fire causes $150,000 loss In Grownell 4
Field Co.'S building at Providence, Il. L.
-. .S5,000,000 fire loss at Manila, Phil
ippine Islands
11-Death of Gen. W. s. Rnsecrans
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 2-5
Wabash avenue Chica go.
17-Death of Blanche X. Eruce, Register of
the Treasury
19-Sx eonvicts killed in mine at Pratt
CITY, Ala.
21-Several persons killed in a hotel fire at
Butte, Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking 90 bark
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
25-Death of James Payn, English novel;
ist. :. Death of Truman p. Banay, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker Ia United
States. Wisconsin Industrial school
for Boys at Naukesha damaged ltsa 200
by fire.
23-Forty eight seaiers oe steamer Green
!and perished on ice foes.
2e-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
27-Death of Congressman Simpktus of
Massachusetts.
3-Fifty lives lost in flood at Shawnee
town, Ill.
4-Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
Sudden death of Margaret Mather the
tragedlenne.
11-Oxford Junction, Iowa, visited by $780,
600 fire.
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa,
burned; loss, $750,000
15-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont, suffers $25O,0OO fire loss
1T-Fire, following Il dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss,
100000.
19-Death of George Parsons Lathrop.
General Gary resigns ana 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
caucy. :. Glasgow, Scotland. visited by
$750,000 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 tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May.
2-Thirteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerico, Mo.
3-Schooner Crown wrecked off st. Johns,
n f., and II men drowned.
6-$125, 900 fire loss at Cleveland.
Three hundred persons killed in a riot
at Milan, Italy.
S-Duluth, Mimi, suffers a 100000 fire.
11-Woo warehouse burns at Ballarayille,
Mass: loss, S500,000.
12-Burning of Armours elevator d and
several lumber yards causes S1,OOOOO0
loss in Chicago.
killed by cyclone on Sum-
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. I. Ed
ward Remenyi, vlolinist, falls dead in a
San Francisco theater. Ball Bros
glass works burned at Muncie. Ind:
loss. S2S5. 200.
16-Flint mill Of Mining & Mill Co., Mt East
Liverpool, Ohio, burned; loss, 100000.
1T-Great damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone In Nebraska.
1S-Buslness section of Attleboro, Mass,
destroyed by fire. Destructive cyclone
sweeps through Iowa, Kansas. Illinois
and Wisconsin.
19-Death of William e. Gladstone.
22-Death of Edward Bellamy. Mine fire
at Zollern. Prussia; 45 miners perish.
2S-Italian cabinet resigns.
31-New cabinet formed in Italy.
June.
1-Death of tragedian Thos. W. keene....
Transmlssippl exposition opens at
4-Death of Capt. Chas. V. Gridley, Of the
cruiser olympia at Manila.
7-Plant of Burgess Steel Co. Portsmouth,
Ohio. burned; loss, 100000.
i1-Case Power Building In Detroit burned.
i3-Collapse of Joseph Letters wheat deal.
5-ResignRtion of the French ministry.
2S-First p2-ty cabinet formed In Japan.
of the Pelloux cabinet in
Italy.
2-Strike of stereotypefs causes Chicago |
papers to suspend for four days.
4-Freneh liner La Bourgogne goes down |
off Sable Island with 553 passengers.
6-Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the |
Senate.
s-SteeIville. Mo-, almost obllterated by a |
watersp)ut. Congress adjourns sine
die. |
l1-Sagasta ministry Spain resigns....
Eleven meh killed in water tunnel at |
Cleveland. Ohio.
19-Powder mill at Oakland, Cal, blown UP |
by Chinaman and seven lives lost.
S0-Death of Prince Bismarck.
August.
martin Thorn executed at Sing sing, |
N Y. |
S-Bismarck, y. D.. destroyed by fire..
Death of Georg NJ. Ebers, Egyptologist |
and novelist.
l2-Cnited States flag officially hoisted over |
Hawaii. |
l3-Twenty lives lost by cloudbasst in Haw- |
kins County, KY.
TX -Resienatfon OF ministry at Lisbon.