Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
YEAR 1907 LEAVESk
RECORD OF DISASTER
Natural Phenomena and Direful
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EP1ToME OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Recent Financial Disturbance-Okla-
homa q State-Fine and Gift
Of Millions.

The chrenicler who scans the record
Of 1907 that he may write Of it finds
himself col1fronted by an exhibit OF
destruction II disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day of the year the great ca
t%astrephes that have been accompan-
led by large loss Of life have numbered
&c, an average Of slightly more than
two for ZACH month. Several of these
have been great coavulsions Of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed KingsaSn, Jamaica, out of which
came the disagreeable SwettenhamN in
cident; subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in
Mexico, Chile and China. An earth
quake and msuntain slide that de-
stroyed the town Of Karatagh, Russian
Turkestan, sauffed out $4,000 lives, and
a frightful typhoon at Hongkong,
China, killed unknown hundreds Of the
Inhabitants. A hurricane in the Caro-
line Islands wiped out 200 lives; a
great flood in Japan caused 600 deaths.
Among the c~atnstrephes originating in
the operations and enterprises of hui
mainly there have been explosions
several Of them in mines, others in
blast furnaces and on shipboard-col-
lsisns Of ships and of railway trains,
the collapse Of the great u~ncompleted
bridge over the st. Lawrence river
near Quebec, and the blowing up Of
the Du Pont powder works in Fonta-
net, Ind All these produced long cas-
ualty lists.
The roll Of eminent dead is also an
extensive one Sweden has lately been
called upon to mourn the decease Of its
beloved king, Oscar IL, and his o
and successor has assumed the reins
OF government, In Persia, also, the
old Shah has died and a new one rules.
Not death, but abdication has also
changed the governmental head in
Kore2. Politics, art. science, letters,
and the platform have each paid it's
toll to death in the loss of some fore
most representatives. Among the
ma be recorded those of former Pres
ident M. Casimir Perier Of France,
Senators Morgan, Pettus and Alger,
Galusha A. Grow, James H. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield, Jo-
seph Joachim, Edward Grieg, James
McGranahan, Col. Will S. Hayes, Prof.
Alexander S. Herschel, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, DR.. John Watson Clan Mac
laren), Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Mary J.
Holmes, Francis Murphy and Mrs.
Helen NJ. Cougar. Mrs. Vim. McKin-
ley and JshR Alexander Dowie are also
in the list Of the well-known dead.
A financial disturbance of widespread
Influence has made itself felt during
the last three months of 1907. .s..
The number Of States in the Union
has been increased to 46 by the ad-
mission Of Oklahoma.
That modern minds are not appalled,
by large amounts is shown by two of
the years transactions. The Standard
Oil Company has been fined $4,000
600 by a Chicago judge, and John D.
Rockefeller has made donations Of $780,
100000 to educational projects.
Two great expositions have been
held. That at jamestown, Va, did not
receive the patronage expected and is
in the hands Of a receiver. The other
was in Greater Louisville, Ky.
A public work Of vast magniture was
begun when Mayor Mcclellan Of New
York broke ground for the construc-
ton Of the great Catskill aqueduct
which in a few years is to convey to
the metropolis an inexhaustible supply
of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial in New York
and the general strike Of te~legraphers
the country ever were subjects of nuch
interest to the public while they 0 n
tinued.
The principal happenings of 1907 are
briefly given below: q
JANUARY.
2-Wreck on Rock Island near Vol
ianh, Kansas, kills Be- persons. . Chas.
M. Floyd, Republican, elected Governor
of New Hampshire by Legislature.
rBonb thrown in Fourth Street Ma
tional bank, Philadelphia.
S-Death of Shah of Persia.
9-James Cullen lynched in Charles
City, Iowa....Gen. Vladimir Pavlof as
sassinated in st. Petersburg 5 miners
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fur
mace.
1o-Typhoon in Philippines kills 100
persons.
11-Fire near Strassburg, Germany,
causes 20 deaths. ..$1,OOO,0OO fire in
Lancaster, Pa.
14-Earthquake destroys Kingston, ia
maica.
19-.Sixty lives lost in two Big -Four
railroad wrecks in indiana. 49,. Moham-
med Ali Mira crowned Shah of Persia
....Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
By Gov. S~wettenham.
2O-Death of Josiah Flynt Willard,
tramp and author. :. I. England apologies
for Swettenham incident.
23-Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo. +. .Thaw trial begins
In New York.
2LDeatR of Senator r. A. Alger of
Michigan.
2S-Explosions in mine near Saar-
brueck, Prussia, kill 300 persons. 100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har-
Dor.
29-Ninety miners killed by mine explo-
sion near Thurmond, w. Va.
FEBRUARY.
John D. Rockefeller makes $50, 0O0,-
600 gift to educational work.
Poe lives lost by sinking of Joy
tine steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
r. L.. .Death of ex-Gov. Frank W. Hig-
gins Of New York.
1e Ok ncrs,ns ki1led and 1O0 niured