Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-05
WHAT 1897 HAS SEEN.
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Grasco-Tnrkish War and the Cuban
Insnrrection-The Great Strike in
the Coal Fields Political Changes of
Twelve Months.
A Chronological Table.

almost q commonplace one, since its COM
mencement, that is, no events of over
whelming moment have taken place, but
there has been no dearth of important
occurrences. The war between Turkey
and Greece, the struggle for freedom in
Cuba, the costly and long -drawn-out
strike in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal
fields, the change of national adninistra-
ton, the enactment of the Dingley tariff
law, the disastrous spring foods In the
Mississippi valley and autumn fires In We
West and Northwest, and the epidemic or
yellow fever in the Southern States are
clearly not matters of small Importance
in the history of the world. The year has
been an unusual one from the fact that
but few men of really great reputation
have passed from the stage of their earth
ly labors; their number can be computed
upon the fingers of the two hands.
The most important events of the year
are recorded below in the order of their
occurrence:
JANUARY.
Thirteen miners perish at Pachuca.
Mexico. &. Extremely high temperature and
heavy rains In Northwest. .Pingree inaug-
urated Governor OF Michigan.
Wv. A. Hammond. wreeker or illinois
National Bank, commits suicide. .Fatal
storm In Southwest. Nashville, Tenn, has
100000 fire. West and Northwest del
uged by rains.
3Snow and frost succeed rain.
4-Furious blizzard In the West. :. Gov.
Scofeld inaugurated at Madison, Wis.
Three st. Pau banks fall
5--Gov Altgeld pardons 10 criminals. ST.
Stanislaus parsonage at Bay City, Mich,
sacked by warning church factions. -Four
children die by fire near Westheld. Wis.,;
three near Babcock Wis.
6-Illinois Legislature meets. Sewn Ur-
suline nuns perish by fire at Convent of Our
Lady of Lake St. Johns, Roberval. Quebec.
11-Tanner inaugurated Governor OF I'LL
nois with much pomp and ceremony. -.
Mount inaugurated Governor Of Indiana
with very simple style. House kills Pa
cific funding bill. .American-Britisf arbl-
tration treaty signed.
12-Fiye children drown, skating, at st.
Louis. -Four die In powder explosion at
13-Five killed in a Pottsville. Pa, coal
shaft
IA News of capture of Santa Clara by
Cuban Insurgents. :. Bombay. India, city
bubonic plague (black death) and famine;
thousands dying, and city being depopuated;
dead lie unburled. and vultures hover over
the town and country; sky ablaze by night
with funeral pyres; Europe greatly alarmed.
19-Wm. e. Mason chosen Senator from
Illinois. =. Three negroes lynehed in Louis
lana.
21-Nine sailors drown off Long Island.
22-Mercury falls 30 degrees to zero at
Chicago. ;. Death OF Sir isaac Pitman at
London.
24-Widespread cold wave: Chicago tenn
perature II below zero. -. 100000 fire loss
at Northwestern stove repair works and O.
j. Barnes residence In Chicago.
25-Twenty below zero at Chicago.
26-Fourteen below zero at Chicago: 700
poor families aided; relief measures adopted
over entire city. :: 50, 100000 fire at Phila-
delphia. . $3.50, 900 fire at Chicago
27-Contlnued cold weather in Northwest.
2S-Lyman j. Gage Of Chicago accepts
treasury portfolio.
31-Family Of seven die by fire In Hoh3-
ken, N. j.. Cruiser Brooklyn on the rocks.
FEBRUARY.
pennsylvania State capitol burned; loss
81, SOC, 600. Venezuelan treaty signed
S-Admiral Bunce's squadron In storm off
Hampton Roads; three seamen swept away,
several injured. :. $4,000 railroad shop
fire at Prlnceon, Ind.
10-Bradley- Martin ball at New York costs
$500, 000... Phenomenal drop In price of
steel rails.s
13-Ald. o'Malley acquitted of murder at
Chicago. Death of J. Randolph Tucker at
Lexington, Va. and Gen. j. o. Shelby at
Adrian, Mo-; both noted Confederates
l4-Greeks lombard Canea, island Of
Crete. under Turkish rule.
15-Appeal of Jos. r. Dunlop convicted of
Improper use of mails at Chicago. to Supreme
Court falls.
Mo. for wife murder; Peter Schmidt and
Sam Foster hanged at Clayton Mo-.
Greeks capture Turkish fort at Crete.
I7-Powers of Europe protest against ac-
1S-Two thousand Moslems slain in Crete
by Greeks. Big shortage of State officials
discovered in Nebraska.
21-Canea bombarded by the powers
Baby girl at the Harrsons'.
2-General observation Of Washington's
birthday. Floods in Ohio Valley.
25-Powers decide Greece must evacuate
Crete.
MARCH.
4-McKinley inaugurated. :. Six killed at
Boston by gas explosion.
5-Extensive floods In Mississippi Valley
and In Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
Greece defes the powers
S-Founderng of steamer Vile de ST. Ma
zaire off Carolina; e5 lives lost.
9-TremendOuS rainfall in central States
1O-Six killed IN a wreck near Princeton
Ind.
12-Blizzard sweeps the Northwest-s4OO.-
600 wholesale grocery fire at Chicago.
15-$1 100000 fire at st. Louis. . Floods In
Mississippi Valley make thousands of ne
groes homeless.
17-Fitzsimmons whips Corbett at Carson
City, New. rs lives lost by laundering of
French steamer off Carolina.
21-Powers blockade Cretan ports to Greek
ships.
22-Cyclone kills eight and Injuries % school
children at Arlington, Ca; family of FIVE
killed In Henry County, Ala
23-Heavy fall of slushy snow In North
west.
8o-Forty five killed by a cyclone at Chand-
Ter, O. T.
31-House passes Dingey tariff bill,
Powers lombard Cretans.
APRIL.
6-Carter H. Harrison elected Mayor OF
Chicago by $4,000 plurality. :. Alarming
foods In Mississippi Valley.
S-$1,000,000 fire at Knoxville, Tenn; II
people killed.
9-Snow storm in Central States.
10-Daniel W. voorhees,, former U. S. Sem
ator from Indiana, dies at Washington
15Riots in indianapolis over 3-cent car
fare. :. 100000 fire at New Orleans
17-War between Turkey and Greece
1S-Fierce windstorm ii Chicago; $3.50, 600
fire.
2o-Desperate fighting In the Levant :.
First execution by electricity In Ohio.
23-Osman Pasha assumes command of
Turkish troops, which have met severe re-
verses.
24Turks capture Larissa Vast foods
In Missouri and Mississippi Valleys.
% Hundreds of families at Ottumwa,
Iowa, and Quincy, ILL.,, homeless by floods.
H-Dedlcation of Grants tomb at New
York. :. 81, 600, 900 fire at Newport News Va.
2S-Greeks at Athens riotous because of
army reyerses. :. Flood at South Guthrie.
O. T., kills over TO-
29-Ralll heads new cabinet of Greece.
Wild gale with loss Of life and vessels on
Lake Michigan.
30-Greeks win big battle Seven ne
groes lynched by a mob of negroes In Texas.
MAY.
1-Snow at Chicago.
2-S4, 000, 900 fire at Pittsburg Pa
4One hundred die by fire IN Partisan
baZar.
brutal murder of the Harris family,
near Waukesha, Wis. by VIM Pouch
9-Sixteen die by fre on Mallory Line
steamship Leona, off Sandy Hook. ;. Greece
asks Intervention Of powers
14-Snow at Chicago
1S-Czar intervenes to stop war in the
Levant,
3I-Severe earthquake shock in Cincin-
| natl and southeast. Five of picnic par
| ty killed on Long Island.
JUNE.
2-Spanish cabinet resigns.
3-Two of mob Of lynchers killed at
Urbana, Ohio, and nine wounded, by militia
under command of Sheriff Mclean
Nv kfflad in nd Vtc