Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-12-30
GENERAL

GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
lurinH the Past Year.
January.
1-Oflcers Of the Cuban provisional gov.
six persons burned to death ut Jersey
s-Thirty persons killed by collapse of
floor In city hall at London, Ont.
Theodore Durrant hanged for murder Mt
st. Quentin prison, California.
SIX mon Killed by explosion OF an Ohio
River towboat near Glenfield. Pace.
Fifteen men drowned Off Bauluc iy
~fonndcring Of a French steamer. /. six
lives lost In a mine explosion near Pitts
burg, Kan... Death Of Mai. Moses T..
Handy.
12-Forty lives and $1,000, 600 worth of prop.
Smith, Ark.
1G-Death of Hon. Benj. Buttcrworth. Uni
ted States Commissioner Of Patents. at
ThOmasvllle, Ga.
19-Bread riots at Ancona, Italy.
2o-Flre loss of seoo,ooo ut Fast Grand
ee-Marriaee Of Rev. T; Dewitt Talmnse
and Mrs. Col. Collier. 80. Destructive
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death In n CON
Migration ut Spokane, Wash. /. =. 81. $780,
600 worth of property Mt East st. Louis.
iinston freight depot, destroyed by fire.
21-January wheat sells for S1.O5 In Chi
cage. .:.Steamer City of Duluth lost or
st. Joseph, Mich.
:0-Several persons killed In a smash-np ON
the Maine Central Railway at Orono....
Ten men killed by caving In of North
west land tunnel In Chicago.
February.
1-Six lives lost by burning of the Alvord
House, Gloversville, N. Y....Schooner
Briggs wrecked on Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
2-$5OO,0O0 fire loss in Winnipeg. Manitoba.
3-Slx persons killed In railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys s22o 600
worth of property ut Scranton. Pa.
4-Seven killed in railroad wreck at Glas-
gow, Scotland.
6-$5O.OOO fire Mt Albany. nd....H Holland.
American steamer Veendam wrecked In
9-AdoIph l.. Leutgert sentenced to life I'M
p%risonment for wife murder in Chi
cago. Assassination of President ysar-
rios of Guatemala /. /. .$25O,OOO fire loss
at Fort Worth. Texas.
1O-Thirty-eig lives crushed out by fall.
ing walls at Plttsburg.
11.Nassan Chambers in New York burned:
loss, 100000. -. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 81 lives
17-Fire damp explosion in a colliery Mt
Hamn,eerly, Prussia. kills 80 persons.
vAVVt0VV AhS at Iiktblclut VxdSSs . . sIbTll-
lsh steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death Of Miss Frances r.. Willard In
New York City. 80. Large fire at Pitts.
burg.
2O-New wharf and custom house at Tam.
~ p,!co. Mexico. burned; loss. 100000.
25-NatiOnal Tobacco Company's works Mt
Louisville. KY. burned; loss, s., 1000, 600.
26-Ntne lives lost In a tenement house fire
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.
Of VIM. NJ. Singerly, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewton, Ala.
swine drowned by the laundering of the
7-Eire causes $3.50. GOO loss in Brownell &
Field Co.'S building at Providence. II. L.
:...$5,0O0.0OO fire loss at Manila, Phil
ipplne Islands,.
11-Death Of Gen. w. 8. 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.
Butte. Mont.
22-IEorty lives lost by sinking of bark
IDeath Of James payn. English novel.
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker in United
states. Wisconsin Industrial School
Tor Boys at Waukesha damaged 100000
by fire.
land persisted on Ice does.
2G-Seven persons burned to death at Kent.
27-Death of Congressman stmpLlns, of
April.
3-Fifty lives lost in food at Shawnee.
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.
Penn glass works at North Irwin. Ps..
burned; loss. $4,000.
1SJ Mnaf' .nt,s Copper a9sc M Mining dns Go Co. at Belt,
1s-Fire. following a dust explosion, de.
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss.
21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and is
succeeded BY Charles Emory Smith,.
Death Of Senator Walthall, of Missis-
slppi.
s"~Secre'ary VI STATE JOnn sherman re-
GOWN. r. Day appointed to all the va
cancy. =. Glasgow. Scotland. visited by
q $I5O.00o firc....Powder mill at Santa
Cruz. Cal. blown up, causing loss Of
2s-Atlanttc Powder Co.'s works at Dover.
n. j.. wrecked by an explosion.
S0-Heavy damage done by tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
2-Thirteen persons killed BY tornado at
8-schooner Crown wrecked OF 81. Johns,
N. f.. and II men drowned.
6-$1c5.000 fire loss at Cleveland.
7-Three hundred persons killed in q riot
at Milan. Italy.
Mass; loss. $4,000.