Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29

14-Thousands killed by cyclone On Sum-
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. Ed
ward Remenyi, violinist, falls dead IN
San Francisco theater. Ball Bros.
glass works burned at Muncie, End;
loss, $685., 900.
16-Flint mill Of Mining. & Mill Cos, at East
Liverpool, Ohio, burned: loss, 100000.
17-Great damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone in Nebraska.
1S-Business section Of Attlebero, Mass,
destroyed by fire.. :. Destructive cyclone
sweeps through Iowa, Kansas, Illinois
and Wisconsin.
19-Death of William e. Gladstone.
22-Death of Edward Bellamy. Mine FIRE
at Zolern, Prussia; 40 miners perish.
2S-Italian cabinet resigns.
31--New cabinet formed in Italy.
death of tragedian Thos. W. Keene. 90.
Transmissippi exposition opens at
Omaha.
4-Death Of Capt. Chas. v: Gridley. Of the
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
PLANT of Burgess Steel Co., Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned; loss, 100000
11-Case Power Building in Detroit burned
13-Colapse Of Joseph Letters wheat DEAL
28-Tirst party cabinet formed in Japan.
29-Formation Of the PelIoux cabinet In
Italy.
2-Strike Of stereotypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend for four days.
off Sable Island with 5o3 passengers.
6-Hawaian resolutions adopted by the
Senate.
s-Steeville, Mo-, almost obliterated by
waterspoat. Congress adJourns sine
die
11-Sagasta ministry in Spain resigns. -.
Eleven men killed In water tunnel at
Cleveland, Ohio.
1e-Powder mill at Oakland, CAL, blown up
by Chinaman and seven lives lost.
3O-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
August.
Martin Thorn executed at Sing Sing,
e-Bismarck, n D., destroyed by fire. 80.
Death Of Georg M. Ebers, Psychologist
and novelist.
12-United States flag officially hoisted over
Hawaii.
13-Twenty lives lost by cloudburst in Haw-
kins County, Ky.
2O-French steamer La Coquette sunk Off
Newfoundland by the Norge; 16 lives
lost.
21-Seven pessons killed in railway collision
at Sharon, Mass.
22-Eight laborers killed by collapse Of a
wall in Carnegie tunnel. Pa. Carter
Vile, ILL.,, visited by $250,0OO fire. 300
miners drowned at Nience, SileS1a.
Death of King Malietoa Of Samoa.
23-Destructive fire at Logansport, La.
25-Ex-G Gov. Claude Matthews stricken by
paralysis at Meharry's Grove, Ind.
2S-Death Of ex-GovA Claude Matthews of
Indiana.
3o-smail pox breaks out at Putin Bay ISL
and, Lake Erie.
31-Wilhelmina becomes Queen Of Holland.
....Csnfession and suicide Of Col. Henry,
principal witness against Capt. Dreyfus,
at Paris.
September.
2-President Milford Woodruff, of the Nor
mon church, died at San Francisco. -.
The British captured Omdurman, oppo-
site Khartoum, in the SOudan.
4-British troops occupied Khartoum. M.
Cavaignac, French Minister Of War, re-
signs.
5-Twenty eight people killed in collision
Of train with trolley car at Cohoes. N. Y.
....Gen. Zurlinden appointed French
Minister of War.
6-Wilhelmina crowned Queen Of Holland
at Amsterdam. :. Thirty men killed by
falling Of bridge over st. Lawrence
River, near st. Regis Indian village. -.
Many killed in riots in Crete. Opening
Of G. A. R. national encampment at Gin
cinnati.
Dissatisfaction of Elizabeth, Empress of
Austria by an Italian anarchist at
Geneva, Switzerland. :. $500, 900 fire at
Livermore Falls, Me.
11-Fire wiped out New Westminster, B. c.,
and Jerome, AriZ.
12-Death of Judge Thos. M. Cooley at Ann
Arbor, Mich. Hurricane on Island Of
st. Vincent, West Indies, killed 300 per-
sons and destroyed much property.
14-Lorenzo Snow chosen head Of the Nor
mon church.
1S-Death of Dr. John Hall. .. Death Of
Miss Winnie Davis.
20-Ten persons burned to death in an ele
vator fire in Toledo.
22-Thirty six men drowned by sinking of
French boat Vile de Fecamp off Fecamp.
23-Fifty miners entombed in coal shaft at
Brownsville, Pa.
24-Several persons killed and much prop
erty destroyed by WfndStOrm at Lima, o.
26-Tornado destroys property at Tonawan-
da, N. Y, and kills five at Merrilton, Ont.
death of Miss Fanny Davenport.
27-Claremont, Mimi, destroyed by fire.
2S-Death Of ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bay
ard :. Riot at Pana, Ill
29-Death of Queen Louise of Denmark.
30-Hundreds Of lives lost by floods in
Japan.
October.
1-Great fire in Colorado Springs, Colo.
2-Fierce gale on South Atlantic coast.
DIN attempting to quell the rebellion of
the Indians at Bear Lake, Mimi, several
soldiers were killed and wounded.
S-Great fire In Sidney, N. S. w.
$500, 900 fire at Atlantic City, N. ].
16-Great fire at Dawson City, Alaska
2O-seven men killed by boiler explosion on
torpedo boat Davis near Astoria, Ore.
23-Ten men killed in race war at Har-
persville, Miss.
24-Fire ON the Brooklyn, N " water front;
loss, $475O0O.
2o-French cabinet resigns
3l-NeW French cabinet formed. Japan
csc cabinet resigns.
November.
5-Eleven men killed by collapse of new
Wonderland theater at Detroit. y. Seven
men crushed to death in q mine near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
6-Capitol at Washington wrecked by gas
explosion. Death of David A. WtHs,
economic writer.
7-Resignation of the Greek ministry
S-General election.
Reorganization Of Japan's new ministry
completed.
10-New ministry formed in Greece. :. Pres
ident Masso and secretaries of Cuban re-
public resign.
11-Bank at Kirksville, Mo-, robbed of
1900.
1T-British ship Atalanta sinks off Oregon
coast; &c lives lost.
1S-Death of John w. Keely, the inventor.
-. Twelve laborers killed by train at
Hackensack Meadows, N. j.
10-Death Of Gen. D. c.. Buell.
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