Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03
LYNCUINGS.

LYNCUINGS.
Jan. 2-Near Sheriff., Ark, negro; hog
I'm s1I1s''Pi' Pa Ridge, Miss, l,,a Watts and
eAt oofa .s0WS WASH, Marshai G chadWic
alleged murderer. Near Wewoka, o..
T., Markus McGeiney and Palmer Simp-
son Indians); assaulting and murder
ing white woman.
Feb. AT Bramwall, w. Va, unknown ne
gro; having killed Henry Draper.
pat Lake City, s, g, Postmaster Baker
23-At Mayfield, KY, Richard Allen and
Tom Holmes, for robbery and murder.
Mar. 2-Near Morgantown, N. c., Indian
doctor and little girl hanged by mob :.
At Senatobia, Miss, Fred Moore, muir
derer, shot to death.
l9-Near Wybark, /. T., Ed Chalmers (ne-
grol and white wife murdered by mob
Felipe Cobb killed and Carlos Julien
lynched; election riots.
May 23-At Rives, Tenn, Jos. Mitchell
(colored), showing white boy off moving
train.
Jun Sat Doyline, La, VIM. Street (col-
oreD burned to death; attempted muir
der white woman.
: leologedl; killing City Marshal aIelyan.s
murder of Myrtle Hnffmeister
l7-Near Wetumpka, Ala, 4 negro mur.
derers and man named Carlee.
Jul: Near Marion, H., horse thief shot
l4.At Monticello. Ark, jim Redd and
Aug. Sat Carmel, Ca, John Meadows
(colored), for attempted assault. ;. At
Ripley, Tenn, Richard Thurmond tool.
ored), for attempted assault.
Sat Clarendon, Ark, men and wom-
en-, for murder.
Sep. PAT Liberty, Mo, Benz. Jones, for
PEAT Mountain City, Tenn, John Will
liams (colored), for attempted murder.
Oct Sat Jones Station, Nd, Wright
Smith (colored), shot for attempted as
sault.
25-At Fdgefeld Courthouse, S. c., jim
Maclsie and Luther Sullivan, for murder
of white woman.
Nov. AT Lacon, Ill, S. w. Stewart (col-
ored), charged with assault.
9-Near Phoenix, s. c., negroes, for
shooting white man.
26-Near Meridian, Miss, negroes, for as
saulting white man.
Dec. Cat Benton, La, Hearn and Rich
ardson (negroes), charged with murder.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Jan: Fort Smith, Ark, tornado; loss,
Feb. New England states swept by storm
Great loss of life; property loss, 81, 900, 600
Mar. l6-Cal. extreme frost damaging fruit
crop.
PIN ILL.,, Ind. and o., great damage by
oyerhowing rivers
23-Terrible floods in Ohio and Indiana; %
fatalities and property loss about 81 ,000,-
O00 Rivers in III, Mo-, Pa and w. Va.
raging torrents. Cold wave at Oklahoma
kills fruit and even trees.
Apr. Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
fruit crops damaged by frost.
May Iva. and N. G. coasts swept by hurr-
cane; vessels wrecked; II fatalities. Da-
kota and Iowa, tornadoes, lives lost and
much damaged done.
l8-1a. and portions Of Ill., and Wis, dig,
astrous cyclone; many killed, thousands
Of head Of horses and cattle destroyed.
South central Nebraska, tornado; Cum
bingham, Kan, destroyed by tornado.
Jul. Hampton, N. H.. tornado; IL lives
lost.
s-steeleyile, Mo-, almost wiped out by
waterspont; 10 lives lost. stapberry ana
Maryville, floods.
27-In Codington Co., S. d., hailstorm de.
stroys 10000 acres crops.
Aug. Brain in Philadelphia foods many
business places; immense damage.
l2-Cloudburst causes immense damage at
Clarksburg, w. Va.
Sep. l--Storm floods 6 counties in southeast
Georgia.
s-Heat causes 80 deaths and over 100 pros
trations in New York city.
5.Iornado sweeps st. Joseph. Mo-; loss,
$l50,000.
g. Heavy frost in Nebraska. Halstorm
does 100000 damage in Nodaway Co, Mo.
Oct. 3.,Storm at Brunswick, Ca, mandates
nearly every business house feet; dam
age, 100000. TornadoatFernandin Fla,
destroys s500,oGo worth of property and
kills persons.
4-.At least 100 lives lost ard sl,ooo,e1ol
damage done by storms in George. and
Florida. Heavy snowstorms in MINI.
and N. ID.
l74Kansas City, Mo-, almost isolated by
worst early snowstorm on record. Ear
lest snowstorm in southwest in 70 years.