The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-12-29
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.
IauuarY.

January.
1-Oficers Of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn in.
2-Six persons burned TO death at Jersey
City. y. !.
3-Thrty persons killed by collapse OF
floor In city hall Mt London. Ont.
Theodore Durrant hanged FOR murder at
st. Quentin prison. California
S-Six men killed by explosion OF an Ohio
River tovboat near GIpndcld. Pa.
Fifteen men drowned on Bgudnc by
foundcrirg of French steamer. Six
lives lost In a mine explosion near Pitts
burg. Kan. :. Death of Maj. Moses T.
Handy.
lives and s1,oOo,ooO worth of prop
erty destroyed by tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
i6-Death of Hon. BeDi. Butterworth, Uni
ted States Commissioner Of Patents, at
Thomasville Ga.
19-Bread riots ut Ancoua. Italy.
20-Flre loss OF S600Oo0 at East Grand
Forks, MINI.
OF Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
and Mrs. Col. Collier. -. Destructive
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death in con
Migration at Spokane, Wash. 81 800
900 worth OF property at East ST. Louis.
ILL.,, including Union elevator and Bur
lington freight depot, destroyed by fre.
21-January wheat sells for S1.OJ in Chi
cago. Steamer City Of Duluth lost OF
29-Several persons killed in smash-up on
the Maine Contra, Railway at Orouo. :;
Ten men killed by caring in OF North
west land tunnel in Chicago.
February.
six lives lost by burning OF the Alvord
House. Gloversyile, \. ". Schooner
Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
o-s5OO. 900 fire loss in Winnipeg. Manitoba.
nd in vyp
near Boston. :. Fire destroys $4,000
worth OF property at Scranton. Ia.
4-Seven killed In railroad wreck at Glas-
gov, Scotland.
B-S50,O0O fire at Albany, Ind. Holland
American steamer Necndam 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 :. .$250,OOO fire loss
at Fort Worth, Texas.
1O-Thirty eight lives crushed out by fall
ing walls at Plttsburg.
11-Nassau Chambers in New York burned;
loss, S5OO,OOO. . French ship Flachat
goes down of Canary Islands; 81 lies
lost.
17-Fire damp explosion In colliery at
Hammeerly, Prussia, kills 80 persons.
100000 fire at Pittsfield. Mass. Brit
ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances T.. Willard in
burg.
20-New wharf and custom house at Tam
pico, Mexico, burned: loss, $2~O.Ooo
2J-National Tobacco COmpaDys works at
Louisville. Ky, burned; loss, $1,000 900.
26-Nine lives lost in a tenement house fire
at Charleston, S. c.. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island. ILL.,. by the coils
ION of a train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and Ave injured by an
explosion and fire in Hall Bros labora-
tory at Kalamazoo. Mich.
27-Death Of VIM. NJ. Singerly, proprietor OF
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewtol, Ala.
3-Nine drowned by the laundering Of the
schooner SpeedwelI of the Florida coast.
Fire causes $l50.000 loss In Browneli \
Field Co.'S building at Providence, X: !.
-. .S5,OOo,OoO fire loss at Manila, Phil
ippine Islands.
11-Death Of Gen. ". s. Rosecrans.
13-Eleven men burned to death in Bowery
Mission, New York.
16-Death OF Aubrey Beardsley, the artist
-. Many persons killed In fire at 21,
Wabash avenue, Chicago.
17-Death Of Blanche X. Bruce, Register oi
the Treasury.
19-Six convicts killed in mine at Pratt
City. Ala.
2l-several persous killed in hotel fire al
22-Forty lives lost by sinking OF bari
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
25-Death of James Payn, English novel
ist Death of Truman p. Handy. o.
Cleveland Ohio, oldest banker in United
States Wisconsin Industrial Schoo
for Boys at Waukesha damaged $4,000,
by fire.
23-Forty- eight seaers of steamer Green
land perished on ice foes.
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent
Minn.
2T-Death OF Congressman Simpkins, o
Massachusetts.
April.
S-Fifty lives lost in food at Shawnee
4-Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San Vicente. Mexico.
T-Sudden death of Margaret Mather. tn
tragedienne.
11-O1ford Junction, Iowa. visited by 800,
600 fire.
| 12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa.
burned; loss. SI50,O0o.
15-Auaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt
Mont, suffers s25O,OcO fire loss.
1T-Fire. following dust explosion. de
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss
$1,000
| 19-Death Of George Parsons Lathrop.
21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and i
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.
Death of Senator Walthall, of Missis
| sippi.
! 25-Secretary OF State John sherman re
| signs.
2s-Wm. r. Day appointed TO fill the va
| cancy.. >. Glasgow. Scotland. visited h.
a s75O,OO0 fire. Powder mill at SAINT
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss o
| eleven lives.
2s-Atlantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover
n j.. wrecked by an explosion.
SO-Heavy damage done by tornadoes i
| Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da
kcta.
| May.
| Jerico, Mo.
| 2-Scbooppr Grown wrecked on st. John:
| n f.. and II men drowned.
| 6-S125, 900 fire loss at Cleveland.
| Three hundred persons killed in a rio
| at Milan. Italy.
| S-Duiuth, Mimi. suffers a 100000 fire.
| ll-Wool warehouse burns at Ballardvilic
| Mass: loss. S50O.0O0.
| 12-Burning OF Armours elevator u an
| several lumber yards causes $l,O0O,OC
loss in Chicago.
11-Thousands killed by cyclone on Sun
| bawa Island. Malay Archipelago. l.,
| ward Remenyi vlolinist, falls dead In
San Francisco theater. Ball Bros
| glass works burned at Muncle. 1ud
| loss, $2SJ. 600.
| Liverpool. Ohio, burned: loss. $4,000
| 1LCreat damage done and many peop
| hurt by cyclone in Nebraska.
1S-Business section of Attleboro, Mass
destroyed by fire. :. Destructive cycior
sweeps through Iowa, Kansas, Ililno
and Wisconsin.
| 19-Death Of William r. Gladstone.
! 22-Death of Edward Belamy. Mine FL
| at ZolerD. Prussia; As miners perish.
2s-Italian cabinet resigns.
3l-New cabinet formed in Italy.
| June.
1-Death of tragedian Thos. ". keene.
Transmissippi exposition opens
| Omaha.
4-Death of Capt Chas. V. Gridley, of Il
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
| 7-Piant Of Burgess Steel Co.. Portsmout
| Ohio. burned: loss. 100000.
11-Case Power Building in Detroit burne
I3-Collapse of Joseph Letters wheat des
15-Resignation of the French ministry
| 2S-Flrst party cabinet forn,ed In Japan.
| c9-Formation of the Pelioux cabinet
Italy.
July.
2-Strike OF stereotypers causes Chica
papers to suspend FOR four days.
| 4-Frcncb liner La BOurgogne goes dow
of Sable Island with 5o3 passengers.
/ 6-Hawallan resolutions adopted by &
Senate.
| S-Steclyille Mo. almost obliterated by