Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
CRAWLING MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER %, 1899

May.
Destructive forest fires in South Dakota,
Nebraska and Colorado.
3@-Resignation Of Italian cabinet.
4-Opening OF Ute reservation In Colorado
6-Fiye killed by tornado In Chickasaw ma
tion. q. n. Death OF Mrs. w. &. whitney.
7Report Of Wade Court OF Inquiry given
out.
s-Russell a. Co.'S thresher works at Mas
silon, Ohio, burned: loss $500.OO0.
12-Death of ex-Goy. X. L. Flower OF New
York. Twenty-Five persons killed In rail-
way collision at Exeter. Pa.
15-Death OF Francisque sarcey, noted
French critic. Riot at Princeton between
students and Pawnec Bits Wild West.
16-Cyclone In Ohio and Michigan.
1I-Insurgent stronghold at San lsidro.
H. l., taken by Americans.
20-Agulnaido sends ENJOYS to sue for
peace.
21--Amerlcan liner Paris goes ashore on
the Manacles. on Cornwall. England
22-BuffalO grain shovelcvs' strike ends
4. Tornado In Erath County, Texas.
25-Death of Don Emilio CASTELAR,. Span
ish statesman. Great fire at 81. John.
less ;. Death OF Rosa Bonheur, French
artist.
2s-Tornado devastates parts OF South Da-
kota, Iowa and Nebraska. Seven persons
killed in train wreck near Waterloo. Iowa.
June.
0-Rallwsy wreck at Grandview. Mo-:
Jeffries defeats Fltzsimmons at Coney Isl
and, New York.
12-New Richmond, Wis, wiped out by
tornado, 100 persons being killed. y. .Dupuy
ministry resigns AT Paris.
13-Herman, Neb., destroyed by storm.
16-Thlrteen persons drowned In steam
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion ut
Glace Bay, &. Il.
22-New French cabinet organized at Paris.
23Death OF II. B. Plant
29-Nine lives lost In wreck OF steamer
Margaret olwill In Lake Erie.
0-Dreyfus lands In France. Walkout
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg.
2S-Disastrous floods In Texas.
July.
5-Death of Bishop J. Z. Newman.
G-Death OF Robert Bonner. Order Is
sued for enlistment Of ten regiments for the
Philippines.
anti-slavery leader. !. .Llndell Hotel, Lin
coin, Neb., burns.
49, Street car strike inaugurated in Brook
10 Resignation of II. A. AIger, Secretary
of War.
2l-Death OF Robert G. Ingersol.
.2-Elihu Root named as Secretary OF war
-. Telegraph messengers strike at Cincin
a3-s1, 900, 900 loss by burning OF C.. H. &
ID; elevator at East Toledo, ohio. ,
2G-Assassination OF President Ulysses
Heureaux of San Domingo
27-Death Of A. l.. Lneigert In Joliet ILL.,,
prison.
20 -Tupper Lake. y. Y. wiped out by fire.
August.
l-Elihu Root OF New York, sworn In as
6-Thirty-hve killed and twelve injured In
trolley car accident near Bridgeport, Conn
... Collapse of ferry slip AT Bar Harbor,
Me, kills twenty persons and Injuries forty
others.
= Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France.
13-M. Laborl counsel for Capt. Dreyfus,
shot at Renncs.
2o-Great riot In Paris.
f-Buslness portion of Victor. Colo. de-
stroyed by fire.
IS Chicago Coliseum framework colapses
killing nine men and inJuring Ms many more.
september.
Extremely hot weather In Chicago;
thermometer registers 9S degrees.
8-Fifty persons Injured In collision on the
II. & q. Railway at Connclsvile, Pa.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Ken
mes. France. --....-.---
Death of cornelius Vanderbilt.
13-Trust conference begins In Chicago.
1T-Seven negroes killed in coal mine riot
at Carterville, Ill. Death OF Chas. A. Pills
bury of Minneapolis.
19-Capt. Dreyfus pardoned.
IzFire In Chicago stockyards; loss
2s-Admiral Dewey's flagship. the olym-
pa arrives In New York.
29-Dewey naval parade in New York.
3o-S1, 100000 fire in Big Four depot and
warehouse at Cincinnati.
October.
Fall festival In Chicago.
li-War IL begun In South Africa. For
NAL declaration Of war made by Beers.
12-Four thousand persons killed by earth
quake In ceram. Molucca Islands.
16-C0lumbla wins hrst race for Americas
cup.
being disabled by breaking of topmast.
20-Columbia wins third race. Beers de-
feated at Glencoe.
21-English defeat Beers at Elandslaagte.
23-Baftle at Glencoe. South Africa.
24-Boers repulsed Mt Iadysnith.
26-Death Of Gen. Guy V. Henry.
27-Dcath OF Florence Marryat, English
British badly defeated in desperate
battle at Ladysmith. Ferryboat sunk In
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
3-Jeffrles defeats Sharkey In New York.
4-American Steel and Wire Companys
plant at Waukegan, ILL.,. burns.
7-Crulser Charleston goes ashore OF
northwest coast OF Luzon.
9-Admiral Dewey and Mrs Mildred Hazen
welded in Washington :. .Joubert begins
bombardment Of Ladysmith
12-Major John A. Logan killed In battle
2i-Death OF vice President Garret A.
Hobart.
23-British defeat Beers In hard battle at
Belmont.
25-Death of George X. Davis, OF Chicago,
Director-General OF Worlds Fair OF 1898.
27-Death OF Charles Coghlan, the actor.
2S-Boers defeated In severe engagement
oh banks OF Modder River.
29-Block Of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss S3,o0o,000
December.
4-Fifty-sixth Congress opens
5-Death Of Senator Hayward OF Nebraska.
6-Dlck Coleman, negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Maysyille, Ky.
9-Brltish meet decisive defeat at Storm
berg. .Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex-
ploslon In mine at Carbonate. Wash.
11-British suffer great losses In engage
14-Gen. Butler badly defeated by Beers
I'm attempting to cross Tugela River.
17--Death of Thos. NJ. Brumby, flag lieu
tenant of u. =. warshp Olympia.
1S-Currency bill passed by lower house
of Congress-. :. Excitement on Wall street
causes two big failures.
19-Gen Henry W. Lawton killed before
San Mateo, T.. I.