Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-01-06
oes down off Canary Islands; ST lives

lost.
17-Fire damp explosion In a colhery at
Hammeerly, Prussia, kills 80 persons. -.
500, 600 fire at Pittsheld, Mass. Brit
ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances q. Willard In
New York City. Large fire at PITTS
burg.
2O-New wharf and custom house at Tam
pico, Mexico, burned; loss, $2,0OO,0Oo.
25-National Tobacco Companys works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss, $2,0OO,O0O.
26-Nine lives lost In tenement house nre
at Charleston, s. c. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island. ILL.,, by the coils
lon of a train and an omnibus. -. Ten
persons killed and FIVE Injured by an
explosion and fire In Hall Bros. labora-
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
27-Death of VIM, NJ Slngerly, proprietor OF
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
2-SIx men killed by boiler explosion near
3-Nine drowned by the laundering of the
schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast.
T-Flre causes $150,000 loss In Brownell y
Field Co.'S building at Providence, r: |.
... $5,000,000 fire loss at Manila. Phil
ippine Islands.
11-Death Of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans.
13-Eleven men burned to death in Bowery
Mission. New York.
16-Death of Aubrey Bsardsley, the artist;
-. Many persons killed In a fire at 21o
Wabash avenue, Chicago
17-Death of Blanche X. Bruce, Register or
the Treasury.
19-Six convicts killed In a mine at Pratt
City, Ala.
21-severa! persons killed In hotel fire at
Butte, Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking Of bark
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
25-D Death of James Payn. English novel.
list. Death of Truman P. Handy, of
Cleveland Ohio, oldest banker In United
States. -. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged 100000
by fire.
23-For y-eight sealers of steamer Green
land pershed on ice foes.
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
2-Death of Congressman SImpkins, Of
Massachusetts.
April
3-Fifty lives lost In food at Shawnee
town, III.
Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San VcenIs Mexico.
Sudden death Of Margaret Mather, the
tragedlenne.
11-Oxford Junction. Iowa, visited by $780,
600 fire.
12-Pepn glass works at North Irwin, Pa..
burned; loss. S750,000
B-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont, suffers $250,000 fire loss.
1T-Fire, following a dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss,
100000
19-Death of George Parsons Lathrop.
21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith. -.
Death of Senator Walthall of Missis-
slppi
25-secresary of State John Sherman re-
signs.
2e-Wm. B. Day appointed to fill the va
cancy... Glasgow Scotland, visited by
$750.000 fire.. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss of
eleven lives,
2S-AtlanHc Powder Co.'S works at Dover,
n: j.. wrecked by an explosion.
So-Heavy damage done by tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May.
2-Thlrteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerico, No.
S-Schooner Crown wrecked off st. Johns,
n. F., and IL men drowned.
6-S126, 900 fire loss at Cleveland.
three hundred persons killed In a riot
at Milan, Italy.
.s-Duluth. Minn., suffers S10o, 900 fire.
ll-Wool warehouse burns at Ballardyille
| Mass; loss, $500,
H-Burning OF APmour's elevator ard
several lumber yards causes $1.oO0,o00
loss In Chicago.
lA-Thousands killed by cyclone on Sum-
ward Remenyi, viohnlst, falls dead In
San Francisco theater. :. Ball Bros
glass works burned at Muncie, Ind ;
loss. 1886 900
1e-Fllnt mill of Mining s Mill Co., at East
Liverpool, Ohio, burned; loes S100 600
17-Great damage done and many people
| hurt by cyclone In Nebraska.
| I3-buslness section Of Attleboro, Mass
| destroyed by 1Fe. Destructive cyclone
sweeps through Iowa. Kansas, Illinois
19-Death Of William E. Gladstone.
22-Death Of Edward Bellamy . e.. Nine fire
| at Iollern, Prussia; IS miners perish.
2S-Italian cabinet resigns.
| 3l-Sew cabinet formed In Italy,
Juuc.
death Of traSedian Thos. W. Keene.
Iransmissippi exposition opens at
| Omaha.
4-Dsath Of Capt. Chas. V. Gridley, of the
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
| I-Plant Of Burgess Steel Co., Portsmouth.
Ohio, burned; loss 100000
n-Sase Power Building In Detroit burned
| lb-RestsnGtion of the French ministry,
2S-Ftrst parry cabinet formed In Japan.
29-FormatLol Of the Pelloux cabinet in
| Italy. "
July.
2-strike Of stersotypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend Tor four days.
-. stnch Snt hner La bourgogne goes down
on Sable Island with 553 passengers.
e-Hawailan resolutions adopted by the
Senate
s-6teelvllle, Mo-. almost obliterated hr n
waterspOut. =. Congress adjourns 1ne
| die. o''e
n-Sagasta ministry In Spain resigns.
Eleven men killed In water tunnel at
| Cleveland, Ohio.
wIroWdsr mill at Oakland, Cal, blown up
~ 9y Chinaman and seven lives lost.
So-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
August.
n. Y. "iHs'
S-Bismarck, n. D., destroyed by fire.
Death OF deorg M. Bbers, Egyptologist
| and novelist.
| R-Unlted States dDg oficIaIly bot,.o, -