The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1898-01-13

| general in the East.
| 7-Continuance of extreme heat and con-
sequent fatalities-Senate passes tariff bill.
| " Six killed at Bay City, Mich, by street
| car plunging into an open draw.
| S-ChicagO and Alton freight house burns
| at Chicago; loss $3.50, 900. -. Heat and dea tn
| roll increases. Death Of Senator Harris
| Of Tennessee.
| 1O-Drop Of 35 degrees in temperature at
| Chicago; change general
12-Death Of Millionaire Columbus R. Cum
mings of Chicago.
15-Negro lynched for assault and murder
at West Point, Tenn. :. Illinois and Indiana
coal miners go out.
17-News Of fabulous gold finds in Alaska.
19-Tarif bill passes the House. :. Snow
storm In Chicago.
23-Four killed by explosion of naphtha on
steamer at Bridgeport, Conn. 81 ,OOO,O
grape sugar factory fire at Peoria, Ill.
24-New tariff law enacted; Congress ad-
journs. :. CIoudburst at Boston.
3O-Seven killed by cyclone at San Jose,
Ill.
AUGUST.
6-Elevator fire at Chicago kills four fire.
men, hurts 20 more, and does $500, 600 dam
age.
ASSASSINATION Of Premier Canovas of
Spain.
15-Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded by Italian Count of Turin In duel
at Paris
16-Great boom in wheat. =. Cold wave at
Chicago.
17-Snowstorm in South Dakota. =. Wheat
touches csc at Chicago
19-Unknown man killed by farmers near
Chicago, for assault. :. -Four killed by glu-
cose factory explosion at Davenport, Iowa.
21-Wheat reaches the dollar price in sew
eral cities and occasions great excitement.
23-Three hundred Sepoys massacred by
Afridis in India.
26-President Of Uruguay assassinated.
29-News of great tidal wave In Japan.
3O-Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure.
31-Yellow fever breaks out at Ocean
Springs, Miss.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Crops reported greatly damaged by long
continued drought.
RAILROAD collision near Emporia, Kan;
several killed. :. Lake st. Clair yacht cap
sized, drowning six.
9-Terrible head-end collision near New
castle, Colo, kills 80 people and manges
many others.
1O-Twenty-two striking coal miners near
Latimer, Pa, shot dead by deputy sheriffs;
many others wounded.
11-Miners' convention at Columbus set
ties the great coal stri Ike.
13-Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty.
15-Five alleged burglars taken from Jail
by mob at Versailles, Ind, and lynched.
Mexico; death Of the assaulter at the
hands Of mob.
2OeOutbreak of yellow fever in New Or
leans.
21-President Ratchford Of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended
26-Nine men killed in a bloody riot at
Girardville, Pa. :. Mrs. John Becker and
FIVE children slaughtered near Carroll, Iowa.
:. Railway hold-up at Moorhead, Mimi.
29-$1 600, 900 fire in Washington, D. G. ;.
of ministry
Resignation Of the Ralli ministry in
Greece.
OCTOBER.
Five bandits held up train in Indian
Territory :. Thirty persons hurt in railway
accident at Medford, Mass.
3-Death Of Gen. Neal Dow.
4-Sagasta ministry assumes control In
Spain. :. Austin, Pa, almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
5-Connecticut votes an educational test
| for voters.
6-Alton train held up near Kansas CITY.
property destroyed by typhoon in the Phil
| ippine Islands. :. SIT 900 fire at Chicago
stock yards. Large fire in Detroit. :. Six
| girls burned to death at Plankinton, S. D. -.
| Disastrous fire at MedOra, Ill.
Jail. W. p'''' ''A''eD - ope''Aa' A'A''
Seen. Weyler recalled from Cuba .
Death Of ex-senator Mcpherson of New
| Jersey.
12-Bandits rob a train near Austin, Tex
| as. . Death at Detroit Of ex-senator Chas.
! W. Jones of Florida.
| 14Four people killed in a railway acct
| dent at Stittsville Ont.
15-Four persons killed and many injured
| by caving in Of a theater roof in Cincin-
| natl.
| 16-Steamer Triton sunk In Caribbean Sea
! and $50 lives lost
! 17-Windsor, N. s., fre-swept and 5000
! people left homeless. :. Death of Chas. A.
Dana Of the New York Sun.
| 19-Death of Geo. NJ. Pullman of Chicago.
21-Jury In Luetgert murder case In Chi
| cago disagreed.
AETwenty lives lost in New York Cen
| trail accident at Garrisons, N. " Bank
wrecked at Blairsburg Iowa.
| 27-Wabash Railroad Offices in st. Louis
| burned.
29-Henry George, single-tax advocate,
died OF apoplexy at New York.
NOVEMBER.
Sale Of the Union Pacific Railroad.
| Thirteen fremen injured by a gasoline
explosion at fire in Philadelphia :. Elec-
| ton day: New York elected Van Wyck
| (Tammany) Mayor; Ohio, Pennsylvania,
| Iowa and Massachusetts, went Republican
Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Kentucky
and Virginia Democratic; Colorado was car
| ried by silver men, and in South Dakota Re-
| publicans and Democrats won over Populsts
| 4Chesapeake and Ohio train wreck at
Charlottesville, Va, In which four people
are killed and many Injured. Five men
badly burned by molten iron in Milwaukee,
and two die from their injuries. u
6-Train robbery near Grants N. M. -.
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of the
steamer Idaho on Lake Erie.
| n-Yellow fever quarantine declared of
In New Orleans. Thieves steal $4,000 In
money and jewelry from Silver Greek. N
| y, bank.
IL $50, 600 fire at Fostoria, Ohio.
| 13-Three Indians lynched by a mob al
Williamsport, N. D.
1Erhree people injured In railway
/ wreck near Cleveland, Ohio. :. Panic in O
Cincinnati school caused theN injury of -four
children. Rozel, KAN, sinks into the
| prairie In night.
19-Three miners killed in railway wreck
England; loss $25, ZOO, 600
20-Masked negro, attempting to hold up
Kansas City street car, shot conductor and
| mOtorman.
2ImFire at Melbourne, Australia, in which
| $5,OOOOO0 Of mercantile property was de-
stroyed. Two motormen killed In a coils
lon In Baltimore, Md. :. Fire at La Grange
Ohio, In which $4,000 worth of property
| was destroyed.
23-F. A. Novak found guilty of murde,
at Vinton, Iowa.
25-Capt. Lowering found guilty by cour,
martial at Fort Sheridan. Chicago.
zo-hesignation Of the Badeni ministry In
Austria. Three men asphyxiated in the
Grand Trunk tunnel at Port Huron, Mich.
| 3O-New cabinet formed In Austria.
Eleven persons killed In a railway accident
At warsaw, Poland. :. Martin Thorn con
vlcted OF the murder Of VIM. Guldensuppe a,
New York
DECEMBER.
Thirty seven miners killed In Homburg
Bavaria, by explosion Of fire damp. ;. .Furi
GUS riots at Prague. Bohemia
4Three men killed and several persons
injured In collision Of trolley cars neal
Detroit, Mich
eResignation of the italian ministry.
eCongress convenes in regular session a
Washington.
| 1.-TWO men Killed In railuar ooi1isiaz- .,