Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

Dora Mcdonald shoots and kills Webster
s. Gusrin in Chicago.
22-PennsyIvania railroads 1S-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa.
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
fFifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die. Three changes in Presidents cab
met take effect.
7-Strother brothers in Culpepper, Va,
acquitted of murder under '.unwritten
law"
9-Death of John Alexander Dowie...
viii j. Davis freed of responsibility for
lroquois theater disaster by Judge Kim
broush of Danville, III.
12--Death of NJ. Casimir Perier. for
mer president of France. +. Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing 80 and i~njuring 500 persons.
14-Death of Maurice Grau, impress
sario.
16-Burning of TIelicon Hall. Upton
Sinclair's colony, near Englewood. n. j.
1S-Greater Louisville exposition open
ed.
19-Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
22-Many persons killed in riots in
Moldavia.
25-Death Of Alexander Beaubien, first
white male born in Chicago.
31-Death of Galushar A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
APRIL.
2-Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican. Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 33,126.
4-Hotel fire in San Francisco kills II
persons 49,. Lunacy commission declares
Harry X. T7haw sane. #aa IA
9-Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
saret Leslie in Chicago. ,&
11-Lord Cromer, British ruler in
Egypt. resigns.
13-Standard Oil Company convicted
in Illinois court of rebating.
14-Death of James II. Eckels of Chi
cago... Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpancingo, Mexico.
15-Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, n. d. g.
16-19-Volcanic eruptions in Chile.
20-Great fire in native quarter OF
Manila.
2e-opening of Jamestown (Va,) EH-
position. ...
3O-Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
200 people.
% MAY.
Great loss of life from explosion in
Canton, China.
Sir Alexander Swettenham retires
as Governor of Jamaica.
CDR. John Watson Clan Maclarcn)
dies in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas. . ...v ...s
1O-Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
11-Mystic Shrincr special wrecked at
Honda, Cal, and 81 lives lost.
12-Mine fire at Velardena. Mexico,
kills 90 men. Earthquake in China
kills 1000 persons.
1I-Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
25-Death of Theodore Tilton in Paris.
26-Death of Mrs. William Mckinley.
Oscar II. resumes reign as King of
Sweden.
6-Sudden death of Mrs. Helen NJ.
Cougar.
Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illinois and In
diana.
9-Death of Julia Magruder. novelist.
1O-Great strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. . /. 800
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater
in Hongkong.
of Alabama.
line Islands.
13-Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
convicted of extortion.
. - In,,r 1Nl,ao n. la. r r. -, CL;a.-.
16-Czar dissolves the Duma.
1S-Death of Prof. Alexander S. Her
schel, English astronomer.
2O-Mayor Mcclellan of New York
breaks first sod for construction Of great
Catskill aqueduct.
26-Fire destroys block of buildings ad-
joining jamestown exposition.
3O-Death Of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
JULY.
3-Fatal windstorm sweeps western
Wisconsin.
6-John D. Rockefeller appears as wit
ness in court in Chicago.
Tornado damages Long Pine, Neb.
S-Death of James McGranahan, Cos
pei song writer.
ASSASSINATION of President Fal-
Heres attempted in Paris. @
15-Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills s seamen and Injuries 10.
1S-Emperor of Korea abdicates.
800 killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich. aI1
21-Steaner and freight boat collide
of California coast and $50 lives are lost.
23-Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer. 1T.
27-Death of Senator E. W. Pettus of
Alabama. Eya.
2S-Jury in Boise, Idaho. acquits Will
liam D. Haywood of murder of Gov.
S~teunenburg. big fire at Coney Island,
N. Y.
AUGUST.
standard Oil Co. fined s2e, 100000
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
X. NJ. Lands of Chicago.
S~--Beginning Of telegraphcrs' general
strike.
12-Death Of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at
Jamestown exposition.
26-Great fire in Hakodate. Japan.
2T-Ne:son Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
29-Great bridge over st. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 81
workmen to death.
30-Death of Richard Mansfield.
SEPTEMBER.
death of Edward Grieg, Norwegian