The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
WHAT 1897 HAS SEEN.
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Grnco-Turkish War and the Cuban
Insurrection-The Great Strike in
the Coal Fie1ds-Political Changes of
Twelve Months.
A Chronological Table.

The year 1897 has been, it might be said
almost 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 admlnlstra-
ton, the enactment of the Dingley tarlh
law, the disastrous spring floods In the
Mississippi valley and autumn fires in the
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
occurrences; :ss:
JANUARY.
Thirteen miners perish at Pachuca;;
Mexico. Extremely high temperature ana
heavy rains in Northwest. .Pinsfee iaaug-
urated Governor Of Michigan.
2W. A. Hammond, wrecker OF ILLINOIS
storm In Southwest. Nashville. Tenn, has
$4OO000 FIRE. =. West and Northwest DEL
uged by rains.
3-Snow and frost succeed rain.
4Furious blizzard in-the West GOV.
Scof1eld 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. Seven Ur-
suline nuns perish by fire at Convent of Our
Lady of Lake st. Johns, Roberyal, Quebec.
11-Tanner inaugurated- GoSfrnor OF Hi
nois with much pomp and ceremony:
Mount inaugurated G6vsTTor of Indiana
with very simple style. House kills Pa
cific funding bill. .American-British arbi-
12-Five children drown, skating. at ST.
Louis. Four die In powder explosion at
Shanokin Pa.
13-Five Killed In Pottsvirle, Pa. coal
shaft
1ANews of capture Of Santa Clara by
Cuban Insurgents. :. Bombay, India, a city
of death and terror because of ravages Of
bubonic plague Cblack death) and famine;
thousands dying, and city being depopulated
dead lie unburied, 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 lynched In Louis
lana,
21-Nine sailors drown off Long Island.
22-Mercury falls 80 degrees to zero at
Chicago. Death Of Sir Isaac Pitman at
London.
Widespread cold wave; Chicago tenn
perature II below zero. .. $500, 900 fire loss
at Northwestern stove repair works and c.
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: $4,000 900 fire at Phila-
delphia. $3.50, 900 fire at Chicago.
22aa-Continued cold weather in Northwest.
s1.Family Of seven die by fire in Hobo
ken, N j.. Cruiser. Brooklyn on the rocks.
FEBRUARY.
2IPennsyIvania State capitol burned; loss
81 800 900. .Venezueian treaty signed.
S-Admiral Bunce's squadron in a storm off
several injured. :. 100000 railroad shop
fire at Prirceon, Ind.
10-Bradley Martin ball at New York costs
$500, 600: Phenomenal drop in price of
steel rails.
BAD. o'Malley acquitted of murder at
Chicago. Death of ]. Randolph Tucker at
Adria9, Mo- both nno noted dec Go5federafes eei0S
14Greeks bombard Canea, island of
Crete, under Turkish rule
15-Appeal of Jos. r. Dunlop, convicted of
eper nse Of malls at Chicago, to Supreme
Millionaire Deestrow hanged at Union.
Af1S wife murder; Peter Schmidt and
pture Turkish fort at Crete.
III ,l71Esrs .anso OF Europe protest pgainsts ac-
1s-TIo thousand Mosems slain in Crete
by Greeks. :. Big shortage of State officials
discovered in Nebraska.
21-Canea bombarded by the powers. -.
Baby girl at the Harrisons'.
2-General observation of Washington's
birthday. :. Floods in Ohio Valley
25-Powers decide Greecen pust evacuate
Crete.
-. MARCH. 7a
Boston by gas explosion.
5-Extensive floods in Mississippi Valley,
and in Ohio, Kentucky aid Indiana .
Greece dehes the powers.
.aire FST9as5s of GsTdlsa as stfs asl Is Ma
9aTremendogs. .rainfaIl IN central States.
1o'Six killes'f "a wreck hear Princeton.
12-Blizzard sweeps the Northwest-s4oo,-
OoO wholesale grocery fire at Chicago.
I5.S1 ,5Oo0 600 fire at st. Louis. -. Floods in
Mississippi Valley make thousands of ne
groes homeless. ? .4s
17-Fitzsimn1ons 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.
2a-Heayy fall of slushy snow in North
west.
3oaaForty-hve killed by cyclone at Chand-
31-House passes Dingley tariff bill.
Powers lombard Cretans.
APRIL.
6-Carter H. Harrison elected Mayor of
Chicago by $1,000 plurality. . Alarming
floods in Mississippi Valley
people killed.
9-Snow storm in Central States.
10-Daniel w. Voorhees,, former U. s. SEN
ator from Indiana, dies at Washington.
15-Riots In Indianapolis over 3-cent car
20 Arn No nrIa
17-War between Turkey and Greece.
= 1s-Fierce windstorm in Chicago; S15O 900
2o-Desperate fighting In the Levant. :.
First execution by sazfricity in Ohio.
23-Osnan 49, knmes command of
4sfsh oops, which have met severe re-
sEse;i aMrur1s cspstrss,, LarsAa j., ctiAst floods
in Missouri and tlssisst-a VaicTs.
26-Hundreds Of families at Ottu1a-~a
a7Dedicatior Of Grants 'ts1 tomb b at toSss New
York. :. 50, 600, 900 fire at NewparRskews. Va.
2s-Greeks at Athens riotouE9bscaase Of
army reyerses. Flood at South Guthrie,
29-Ralli heads new cabinet Of Greece
Wild gale with loss of life and vessels on
30@Greeks win a, big battle . Seven ne
groes lynched by a mob of negroes In Texas
MAY.
1-Snow at Chicago.
S4,OOOO 900 fire at Pittsburg, Pa
4One hundred die by fire In a Partisan
bazar.
BRUTAL murder of the Harris family.
near Waukesha, Wis, by VIM. Pouch
9-Sixteen die by fire Mallory Lime
steamship SLeona, off Sandy Hook. . Greece
asks Intervention of powers. -:
1ASnow at Chicago.
Levant. -4- q kIH
31-severe eartfaqaaM Sshock 5aA Cincin-
natl and southeast give of 3&Dacnic par
ty killed on Long Island. NH3
JUNE. *8H
2-SpahIsh cabinet resigns. ~