Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-01-06

12-Burning of Armour's elevator D AMI
several lumber yards causes s1,0o0,0t0
loss in Chicago
14-Thousands killed by cyclone on SUM-
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. Ed
ward Remenyi, violinist, falls dead in Il
San Francisco theater. =. Ball Bros
glass works burned at Muncie, Ind.
loss, $2S5, ,000.
1e-FIint mill of Mining & Mill Co., at East
Liverpool, Ohio, burned; loss, 100000.
17-Great damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone In Nebraska.
1S-Business section of Attleboro, 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 Zollern, Prussia; 45 miners perish.
2S-Italian cabinet resigns.
31-New cabinet formed in Italy.
Ju-e.
death of tragedian Thos. W. Keene.
Transmissippi exposition opens at
Omaha.
4-Death of Capt. Chas. v. Gridley, of the
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
7-Plant of Burgess Steel Co., Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned; loss, 100000.
11-Case Power Building in Detroit burned.
13-Collapse of Joseph Letters wheat deal.
15-Resiguation of the French ministry.
2S-First party cabinet formed in Japan.
29-Formation of the Pelloux cabinet in
Italy.
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2-StrIke Of stereotypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend for four days.
4Freucb liner La Bourgogne goes down
off Sable Island with 553 passengers.
6-Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the
Senate.
s-Steelville. Mo-, almost obliterated by a
waterspout. Congress adjourns sine
die.
11-sagasta ministry in Spain resigns. .
Eleven men killed in water tunnel at
Cleveland, Ohio.
19-Powder mill at Oakland, CAL, blown up
by Chinaman and seven lives lost.
30-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
August.
MARTIN Thorn executed at Sing Sing,
S-Bismarck, N. D., destroyed by fire..
Death of Georg NJ. Ebers, Psychologist
and novelist.
2-United States flag officially hoisted over
Hawaii.
1s-Twenty lives lost by cloudburst In Haw-
kins County, Ky.
15-Resignation of ministry at Lisbon.
20-French steamer La Coquette sunk of
Newfoundland by the Norge; 16 lives
21-seven persons killed in railway collision
at Sharon, Mass.
wall in Carnegie tunnel. Pa. Carter
Vile, ILL.,. visited by $250,000 fire. 300
miners drowned at Nience, Silesia.
Death of King Malietoa of Samoa.
23-Destructive fire at Logansport, La.
25-Ex- Gov. Claude Matthews stricken by
paralysis at Meharry's Grove, Ind.
2s-Death of ex-Goy. Claude Matthews of
Indiana.
30-Small pox breaks out at Put-in-B Bay Isl
and, Lake Erie.
31-WiihelmIna becomes Queen of Holland.
Confession and suicide of Col. Henry,
principal witness against Capt. Dreyfus,
at Paris.
September.
2-Presldent Wilford Woodruff, of the Nor
mon church, died at San Francisco.
The British captured OmdurmaR oppo-
site KhartOum, in the Soudan.
4HBritish 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.
Austria, by an Italian anarchist at
Geneva, Switzerland. 100000 fire at
Livermore Falls, Me.
11-Fire wiped out New Westminster, B. c.,
and Jerome, AriZ
H-Death of Judge Thos NJ. Cooley at Ann
Arbor, Mich. :. Hurricane on Island of
st. Vincent West Indies, killed 300 per-
sons and destroyed much property.
14-Lorenzo Snow choaen head of the Nor
mon church.
1s-Death of Dr. John Hall Death of
Miss Winnie Davis.
20-Te- persons burned to death in an ele-
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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.
lod nd
erty destroyed by windstorm at Lima, o.
26-Tornado destroys property al Tonawan-
da, N. Y, and kills FIVE at Merrlton, 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.
Hundreds of lives lost by floods in
Japan.
October.
1-Great fire in Colorado Springs, Colo.
2-Fierce gale on South Atlantic coast.
5-1n 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.
20-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. Y, water front;
loss, S4l5,O0O.
2@French cabinet resigns
31-New French cabinet formed. Japan
ese cabinet resigns.
November.
5-Eleven men killed by collapse Of new
Wonderland theater at Detroit. Seven
men crushed to death in a mine near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
6-Capitol at Washington wrecked by gas
explosion. Death of David A. Wells,
economic writer.
7-Resignation of the Greek ministry.
S5General election.
Reorganization Of Japans new ministry
completed.
10-New ministry formed In Greece. :. Pres
ident Masso and secretaries of Cuban re-
public resign.
11-Bank at Kirksville, No., robbed of
$50, 600.
17-British ship Atalanta sinks off Oregon
coast; 26 lives lost.
1S-Death of John W. Keely, the inventor
Twelve laborers killed by train at
Hackensack Meadows, N. ].
19-Death Of Gen. D. c. Buell..
Of the Baldwin hotel and the
ater in San Francisco.
2-26-Great storm sweeps over the coun-
try; many lives lost at sea.
27-Death of Actor c. W. Couldock. Ut. Six
Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal.
explosion In Havana kills 10
persons and Injuries 25 others.
December.
5-Opening of Congressional session.
10-Death of William Black, novelist
11-Death of Gen. Calixto Garcia at Wash
ington.
15-Death of ex-senator Calvin s. Brice. %.
Six persons killed In railway wreck at
Madison, Fla.
16-Six persons killed by a train at Allen
wood, N. j.. Department store of G.
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