Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-01-05
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.

Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.
January.
i--Oficers of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn tn.
Six persons burned to death at Jersey
s-Thirty persons killed BY collapse Of
floor in city haii at london, Ont.
7--Theodorc Durrant hanged for murder at
ST. Quentin prison, California.
six men killed by explosion OF an OHIO
River towboat near Glcnheld, Pa. 49,
Fifteen men drowned OF Baudue BY
founderlng OF French steamer. SIX
lives lost In q mine explosion near Pitts
burg. Kan. Death OF Mai. Moses r.
Handy.
fe-Death Of Hon. Bsnj. Butterwcrtn. Uni.
ted States Commissioner Of Patents. at
Thomasvllle, Ga.
I9-Bread riots at Aucona, italy.
2o-Flre loss Of 100000 at East Grand
% Marriage MARI of Rev. r. Dewitt Tatmase
and Mrs. Col Collier. Destructive
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death In con.
nagration at Spokane. Wash. l.500,-
600 worth OF property at East st. Louis.
III, including Union elevator and Bur
ington freight depot, DESTROYED by ilre.
27-January wheat sells for $1.o5 In Chi.
cago. :. Steamer City of Duluth lost on
ST. Joseph, Mich.
2o-Seyeral persons killed In smash-up on
the Maine Central Railway az orone. -.
Ten men killed by cavlng In Of North
west land tunnel In Chicago.
February.
f-S,x lives lost by burning OF the Alvord
House, Gioversyille. n. r.. Schooner
Briggs wrecked OF Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
| 2-S5O0, 900 Ore loss in Winnipeg. Manitoba.
| 3-Sx persons killed in railway collision
| near Boston. Fire destroys $22o, 900
worth of property at Scranton, ia.
| 4--Seyen killed In railroad wreck at Glas
cow, Scotland.
| 6-$5o,O0O q are ut Albany. lad. Holland
American steamer yeendam wrecked In
| 9-AdoIph L. Leutgert sentenced to life i'm
| prisonment for wife murder In Chi
cago. I. Assassination Of President Bar-
rios of Guatemala. .S2o0,OOO tire loss
| at Fort Worth, Texas.
+ f1O-ThIrty- lives crushed out by fall
| Ing walls at Pittsbnrg.
| l1-Nassau Chambers In New York burned;
| loss, $500, 900. French ship Flachat
goes down on Canary Islands; 81 lives
| lost.
| 1T-Flre damp explosion In a colliery mt
Hammeerly, Prussia. Kills 30 persons.
| 100000 hre ut Pittsheld. Mass. Brit
| ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
| 1S-Death OF Miss Frances y. Willard In
| New York City. Large fire at Pitts
| burg.
20-New wharf and custom house at Tam
| plco, Mexico. burned; loss. $2.000.000
25-Natinnal Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville. KY, burned; loss. $4,000. 900.
| 26-Nlne lives lost In a tenement house dre
| at Charleston, s. C....Seyen persons
| killed at Blue Island, H.. by the coils,
ion Of train and an omnibus. ;. Ten
persons killed and Ave injured by an
explosion and hre In Hall Bros. labora-
tory at Kalamazoo. Mich.
| 27-Death OF VIM. NJ Singerly, proprietor or
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
| 2-Slx men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewton, Ala
| 3-Nine drowned by the laundering Of the
| schooner Speedwell OF the Florida coast.
| Fire causes $50 loss In Brownell 4
Field Co.'S building at Providence, Il: /.
| -. .$5,000.000 hre loss at Manila, Phil
lppine Islands
11-Death OF Gen. w. g. Rosecrans
l3-EieTeD men burned to death In Bowery
1 Mission, New York.
16-Death Of Aubrey Beardsley. the artist.
| -. Many persons killed In a 1re 4t 2l5
| Wabash avenue, Chicago.
17-Death Of Blanche K. Bruce, Register of
the Treasury.
10 slx conyicts killed In milne at Pratt
City. Ala.
IL Several persons killed in hotel fire at
| Butte, Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Almy on San Franclsco.
25-Death Of James Payn, English novel
| list. =. Death OF Truman r. Handy, of
| Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker In United
States. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged 100000
| by fire.
| 23-Forty eight seaIers Of steamer Green
| land perished on ice foes.
| 26-Seven persons burned 10 death at Kent,
/ Mlnn.
27-peath Of Congressman simpklns. Of
| April.
3-Fifty nves lost in food at Shawnee
| 4-Fifteen men killed by explosion Of pow
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
| 7-sudden death Of Margaret Mather, the
tragedienne.
i1-ozford Junction. iowa. visited by $780,
| 12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa,
burned; loss, $4,000.
| 15-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont, suffers $4,000 FIRE loss.
| 1T-Fire. following a dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss,
| 1890, 900.
1e-Death Of George Parsons Lathrop.
| 21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.
1
% Secretary Of state John Sherman re.
signs.
2e-Wm. n. Day appointed to MI the va
caucy. Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
S760,000 hre. !. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up. causing toss OF
eleven lives
| 2S-Atiantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover,
N. j., wrecked by an explosion.
| 30-Heayy 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 of 81. Johns,
~ r., and ii men drowned.
/ 6-S125, 900 fire loss Mt Cleveland.
7--Three hundred persons killed In riot
| at Milan, Italy.
| S-Duluth, MINI, suffers 100000 FIRE.
| lf-Woo warehouse burns at Ballardvllle,
| Mass; loss 100000.