The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07

Sornell BOAT CluD QeIeats Columpla hhu
Pennsylvania.
S-Awful heat in Chicago kills six and
prostrates 20; 13 die at Cincinnati. Snow
storm in Colorado. =. .Deluge at Duluth does
81 900 900 damage.
Heat and fatalities continue east Of Mis-
sissippi Valley; thunderstorm at midnight
relieves Chicago. after eight have died.
5-Twenty die at Chicago from previous
not exceed IS degrees. Celebration claims
five deaths there, and scores of injured vic
Tins. H. B. Stone of Chicago killed at
Nonquitt, Mass.
=. Nine killed by boiler explosion at Harts-
vile, Tenn. :. Coal miners strike becomes
general in the East.
7-Continuance of extreme heat and CON
-.Slx killed at Bay City, Mich, by street
car plunging into an open draw.
S.Chlcago and Alton freight house burns
at Chicago; loss $3.50, 600. :. Heat and death
roll Increases. Death Of Senator Harris
Of Tennessee.
10-Drop of s5 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.
l9.Tarim bill passes the House. -. Snow
storm In Chicago
22-Logan monument unveiled at Chicago.
23-Four killed by explosion of naphtha on
steamer at Bridgeport, Conn. :. 81 ZOO, GOO
grape sugar factory fire at Peoria, Ill.
M-New tarid law enacted; Congress ad-
journs. .Cloudburst at Boston.
3o-Seven killed by cyclone at San Jose,
. AUGUST.
6-Elevator fire at Chicago kills four fire.
men, hurts 20 more, and does 100000 dam
age.
sIkAyssassnation ,kys of Premier canovas of
15-Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded by italian Count Of Turin In duel
at Paris.
16-Great boom in wheat. :. Cold wave at
Chicago.
touches 9Sc at Chicago.
19-Unknown man killed by farmers near
Chicago, for assault. -Four killed by glu-
cose factory explosion at Davenport, Iowa.
N-Wheat reaches the dollar price in sew
eraf' cities and occasions great excitement
23-Three hundred Sepoys massacred by
AfrIdis in India.
28-Presldent of Uruguay assassinated.
29-News of great tidal wave in Japan.
3Q-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 30 people and mangles
many others.
10-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 strike.
13-Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty.
15-Five alleged burglars taken from Jail
nv rr1F,b nj Unr 1taa 1v1I md tI
16-Anarchist assaults President Diaz of
Mexico; death Of the assaulter at the
hands of a mob
2O-Outbreak of yellow fever in New Or
leans.
21-President Ratchford of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended.
Girardville, Pa. Mrs. John Becker and
five children slaughtered near Carroll, Iowa.
Railway hold-up at Moorhead, MINI.
% 29-s1 600, 600 fire In Washington, D. Co..
30-Resignation Of the RalH 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.
tSagasta ministry assumes control in
Spain. Austin. Pa. almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
5EConnecticut votes an educational test
for voters.
6-Alton train held up near Kansas City,
Mo-. :. Thousands of lives lost and much
property destroyed by typhoon in the Phil
ippine Islands. .$117, 200 fire at Chicago
stock yards. :. Large fire in Detroit. :. Six
girls burned to death at Plankinton, s. D. %.
Disastrous fire at Medora, Ill.
1.-Two prisoners roasted in Opelika, Ala,
jail.
Seen. Weyler recalled from Cuba. 80.
Death of ex-senator Mcpherson of New
Jersey.
12-Bandits ~ a train near Austin, Tex
as. Death at t.etroit of ex-senator Chas
w. Jones of Florida.
14-Four people killed in a railway acci-
dent at Stittsville, Ont.
15-Four persons killed and many injured
by caving in of a theater roof in Cincin-
natl.
and $50 lives lost.
17-Windsor, N. s., fire-swept and 5000
people left homeless. Death of Chas. A
Dana of the New York Sum-
19-Death of Geo. NJ. Pullman of Chicago
21-Jury in Luetgert murder case in Chi
cago disagreed.
24-Twenty 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
2-Thirteen hremen injured by a gasoline
explosion at fire in Philadelphia. .Elec-
1Tammany, 11E Mayor: Ohio % PennsvlvaS an mgGk Sa
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 PopuIists
4EChesapeake and Ohio train wreck at
Charlottesville; Va, in which four people
badly burned by molten iron in Milwaukee,
and two die from their injuries.
6-Train robbery near Grants N. NJ.
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of the
steamer Idaho on Lake Erie.
11-fellow fever quarantine declared off
In New Orleans. Thieves steal S14, 900 In
money and jewelry from Silver Greek. N
Y, bank.
- 12-$5O,OoO fire at Fostoria, Ohio
13.Three Indians lynched by a mob at
WiIliamsport, N D.
wreck near Cleveland, Ohio. Panic In a
Cincinnati school caused the injury of four
prairie In night
19-Three miners killed in railway wreck
at Coal Bluff, Ind. Great fire in London
England; loss s25.OOo.OoO
: 2o-Masked negro, attempting to hold up
a Kansas City street car. shot conductor and
motorman.
21-Fire at Melbourne, Australia, In which
S5,O00,0O0 of mercantile property was de-
stroyed. ...T Two motormen killed IL a coils
ior IN Baltimore. Nd Fire at La Grange
Ohio, IN which $4,000 worth of property
destroyed.
23-F. A. Novak found guilty of murder
at Vinton Iowa.
23-Capt Lowering found guilty by court
martial at Fort Sheridan, Chicago.
2s.Resignation 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 railway accident
at. Warsaw, Poland. >. Martin Thorn con-
victed of the murder of VIM. Guldensuppe at
New York.
DECEMBER.
1-Thffty-seven miners killed In Homburg