Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-01-06
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.


1-Oficers of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn in.
2-six persons burned to death at Jersey
City, N. ].
s-Thirty persons killed by collapse of
floor in city hall at London, Ont.
7-Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at
st. Quentin prison, California.
StSix men killed by explosion of an Ohio
River towboat near Glenheld, Pa.
Fifteen men drowned off Bauduc by
foundering of q French steamer. Six
lives lost in mine explosion near Pitts
burg, KAN. Death Of Maj. Moses r.
Handy.
erty destroyed by a tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
1e-Death Of Hon. BENZ. Butterworth, Uni
ted States Commissioner of Patents, at
Thomasyille, Ga.
19-Bread riots at Aneona, Italy
20-Fre loss of 100000 at East Grand
22-Marriage Of Rev. t. Dewitt Talmage
and Mrs. Col. Collier. Destructive
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death In con-
fagration at Spokane, Wash. 81, ,5o0,-
600 worth of property at East st. Louis,
ILL.,, Including Union elevator and Bur-
lIngton freight depot, DESTROYED by fire.
27-January wheat sells for $105 in Chi
cago. ;. Steamer City of Duluth lost off
st. Joseph, Mich.
Ten men killed by caving In Of North
west land tunnel in Chicago.
February.
six lives lost by burning of the Alvord
House, Gloversvile, N. Y. Schooner
Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
$500, 600 fire loss in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3-Six persons killed in railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys $225, 900
worth of property at Scranton, Pa.
4Seven killed in railroad wreck at Glas-
cow; Scotland.
$3.50, 600 IRE at Albany, Ind. Holland
American steamer Veendam wrecked in
mid-ocean.
e-Adolph L. Leutgert sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for wife murder In Chi
cago. -. "A ssassination of President Bar
rios of Guat emala. $3.50, 900 fire loss
at Fort Worth, Texas.
O-Thrty-eight lives crushed out by fall
Ing walls at Pittsburg.
11-Nassau Chambers in New York burned;
loss, S5GO,O00.. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 81 lives
1LFire damp explosion in colliery at
~ eerly, Prussia. kills so persons. -.
at Pitt stia1ta Ma IS IS 49, Brit
- stednfef Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances e. Willard in
New York City. Large fire at Pitts
burg.
2o-New wharf and custom house at Tam
p!co, Mexico, burned: loss, $2,oo0,ooo
25-Nationa1 Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss, $2000,o 600.
26-Nine lives lost in tenement house fire
at Charleston, S. c.. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island Ill., by the collis-
ion 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. Singerly, proprietor Of
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
2-Six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewton, Ala.
3-Nine drowned by the laundering of the
schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast.
7-Fire causes $150,0OO loss in Brownell Il
Field Co.'S building at Providence, R.. l.
-. .$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 Beardsley, the artist.
-. Many persons killed in fire st 215
Wabash avenue, Chicago.
17-Death of Blanche K. Bruce, Register of
the Treasury.
19-Six convicts killed in mine at Pratt
City, Ala.
21-Several persons killed in hotel fire at
Butte, Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
25-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-Forty-eight sealers of steamer Green
land perfshed on Ice foes.
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
27-Death of Congressman Simpkins, of
Massachusetts,.
3-Fifty lives lost in food at Shawnee
town, Ill.
4-Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
7-Sudden death of Margaret Mather, the
tragedienne.
11-oxford Junction, Iowa, visited by $780,
600 fire.
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa,
burned, loss, $750,000
15-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
- Mont, suffers $3.50, 600 fire loss.
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss,
5000, 900.
19-Death of George Parsons Lathrop.
21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith. -.
Death of Senator Walthall, of Missis-
sippi.
25-Secretary of State John Sherman re-
26-Wm. R. Day appointed to fill the va
caucy -. Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
$750,O0 fire. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss of
eleven lives.
2S-Atlantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover,
N. j., wrecked by an explosion.
S0-Heavy damage done by tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May,
2-Thirteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerico, Mo.
3-Schooner Crown wrecked off st. Johns,
N. F., and II men drowned.
6-$125, 900 fire loss at Cleveland.
Three hundred persons killed in a riot
at Milan, Italy.
S-Duluth, Mimi, suffers 100000 fire.
s11-WnO1 UarahonSn hnrnS Ra1la rdvillp
Mass; loss. $500 900.