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WHAT 1897 HAS SEEN
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF THE YEAR
Greeco Turtcish War and the Cuban
Insurrection The Great Strike in
the Coal Fields Political Chances of
Twelve Months
A Chronological Table
The year 1897 has been it might be Mid
almost a commonplace one since its com
mencement that is no events of over
whelming moment have taken place but
there has been no dearth of important
occurrences The vrr between Turkey
and Greece tbe struggle for freedom m
Cuba the costly and
strike in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal
fields the change of national
tionthe enactment of the Dingley tariff
law the disastrous spring floods in the
Mississippi valley and autumn fires in the
West and Northwest and the epidemic of
yellow fever in the Southern States are
clearly not matters of small importance
in the history of the world The year has
been an unusual one from tbe fact that
but few men of really great reputation
have passed from the stage of their earth
ly labors their number can be computed
upon the fingers of the two hands
The most important events of the year
ore recorded below in the order of their
occurrence
JANUARY
J Thirteen miners perlah at Pachuca
Mexico Extremely high temperature and
heavy rains in Northwest Plngree Inaug
urated Governor of Michigan
2 W A Hammond wrecker of Illinois
National Bank commit suicide Fatal
storm in Southwest Nashville Tenn has
400000 Are West and Northwest del
uged by rains
3 Snow and frost succeed rain
4 Furious blizzard In the West Gov
Scofleld Inaugurated at Madl6on Wis
Three St Paul banks fall
6 Gov Altgeld pardons 19 criminal St
Stanislaus parsonage at Bay City Mich
sacked by warring church factions Four
children die by Ore near Westneld Wis
three near Babcock Wis
0 Illinois Legislature meets Seven
sullne nuns perish by Are at Convent of Our
Lady of Lake St Johns Roberval Quebec
11 Tanner Inaugurated Governor of Illi
nois with much pomp and ceremony
Mount Inaugurated Governor of Indiana
with very simple style House kills Pa
cific funding bill American British arbi
tration treaty signed
12 Five children drown skating at St
Louis Four die In powder explosion at
Shamokln Pa
13 Five killed In a Pottsvllle Pa coal
shaft
14 News of capture of Santa Clara by
Cuban Insurgents Bombay India a city
of death and terror because of ravages of
bubonic plague black death and famine
thousands dying and city being depopulated
dead He unburied and vultures hover over
the town and country sky ablaze by night
with funeral pyres Europe greatly alarmed
19 Wm E Mason chosen Senator from
Illinois Three negroes lynched In Louis
iana
21 Nine sailors drown off Long Island
22 Mercury falls 30 degrees to zero at
Chicago Death of Sir Isaac Pitman at
London
24 Widespread cold wave Chicago tem
perature 17 below zero 500000 Are loss
at Northwestern stove repair works and C
J Barnes residence In Chicago
25 Twenty below zero at Chicago
26 Fourteen below zero at Chicago 700
poor families aided relief measures adopted
over entire city 2500000 lire at Phila
delphia 350000 fire at Chicago
27 Continued cold weather In Northwest
2S Lyman J Gage of Chicago accepts
treasury portfolio
31 Family of seven die by lire In Hobo
ken N J Cruiser Brooklyn on the rocks
FEBRUARY
2 Pennsylvania State capitol burned loss
1500000 Venezuelan treaty signed
8 Admiral Bunces squadron In a storm off
Hampton Roads three seamen swept awav
several Injured 200000 railroad shop
fire at Prlnceon I ml
10 Bradley Martin ball at New York costs
500000 Phenomenal drop in price of
steel rails
13 Aid OMalley acquitted of murder at
Chicago Death of J Randolph Tucker at
Lexington Va and Gen J O Shelby at
Adrian Mo both noted Confederates
14--Greeks bombard Canea island of
Crete under Tinkish rule
15 Appeal of Jos K Dunlop convicted of
Improper use of mails at Chicago to Supreme
Court faiN
10 Millionaire Duestrow hanged at Union
Mo for wife murder Peter Schmidt and
Sam Foster hanged at Clayton Mo
Greeks capture Turkish fort at Crete
17 Powers of Europe protest against ac
tio of Greece
IS -Two thousand Moslems slain in Crete
by Greeks Big shortage of State ofii ials
discovered in Nebraska
21 Canea bombarded by tbe powers
Baby slrl at the Harrisons
22 General observation of Washingtons
birthday Floods in Ohio Valley
25 Powers decide Greece must evacuate
Crete
MARCH
4 MeKinley Inaugurated Six killed at
Boston by gas explosion
Extensive tloads in Mississippi Valley
and in Ohio Kentucky and Indiana
Greece dodos the pernors
t Foundering of steamer Ville de St Na
zairc off Carolina 65 llvus lost
V Tremendous rainfall In central States
10 Six killed In a wreck near Princeton
Ind
12 Blizzard sweeps the Northwest 400
000 wholesale grocery lire at Chicago
15 1500000 lire at St Louis Floods in
Mississippi Valley make thousands of ne
groes iiomoless
17 Fitasimmons whips Corbett at Carson
City NeY 7S lives lost by foundering of
French steamer off Carolina
21 Powers blockade Cretan ports to Greek
ships
22 Cyclono kills eight and Injures 23 school
children at Arlington Ga family of five
killed in Henry County Ala
23 Heavy fall of slushy snow Iu North
west
30 Forty five killed by a cyclone at Chand
ler O T
81 House passe Dingley tariff bill
Powers bombard Cretans
APRIL
6 Carter H Harrison elected Mayor of
Chicago by 75000 plurality Alarming
floods in Mississippi Valley
8 1000000 Are at Kuoxvllle Tenn 17
people killed
9 Saow storm In Central States
10 Denial W Voorhaea former U S Sen
ator from Indiana dies at Washington
15 Riots la Indianapolis over 3 cent car
fare 500000 Are at New Orleans
17 War between Turkey and Greece
18 Fierce windstorm la Chicago 150000
Are
20 Desperate fighting in the Levant
First execution by electricity In Ohio
23 Osman Pasha assumes command of
Turkish troops which have met severe re
verses
24 Turks capture Larlssa Vast floods
In Missouri and Missslnpl Valleys
26 Hundreds of families at Ottumwa
Iowa and Qulncy 111 homeless by fioods
27 Dedication of Grants tomb at New
York 2000000 fire at Newport Xews Va
2S Greeks at Athens riotous because of
army reverses Flood at South Guthrie
O T kills over 70
29 Ralll headB new cabinet of Greece
Wild gale with loss of life and vessels on
Lake Michigan
SO Greeks win a big battle Seven ne
groes lynched by a mob of negroes in Texas
MAY
1 Snow at Chicago
2 4000000 fire at Pittsburg Pa
4 One hundred die by fire In a Parisian
bazar
7 Brutal murder of the Harris familv
near Waukesha Wis by Wm Pouch
8 -Sixteen dl bj fire on Malfcwy Line
steamship Leonn off Sandy Hook Greece
asks intervention of powers
14 Snow at Chicago
IS Czar intervenes to stop war in the
Levant
31 Severe earthquake shock in Cincin
nati and southeast Five of a picnic par
ty killed on Long Island
JUNK
2 Spanish cabinet resigns
8 Two of a moti of lynchers killed at
TJrbana Ohio and nine wounded by militia
under command of Sheriff McLean
7 Six killed In a wreck near Hudson W1b
9 200000 fire at Carlinville 111 Death
of Alvan Clark famous lens maker at Cam
bridge Mass
11 Wife murderer French hanged at
Rockford 111
12 Mayor Richards killed at Bunker Hill
111 by Editor Hedley
13 Attempt to kill President Faure by a
Paris bomb thrower
14 Suicide of Barney Barnato at sea
15 Temperature of 98 in Chicago 40 pros
trations
16 17 Northwest suffers from awful heat
18 Storm kills four children at Lincoln
111 Cyclones in many Western localities
21 Victorian Jubilee celebration com
mences at London
24 Cyclone in Kansas kills throe hall
bombards Topcka
25 Lynching at Crystal Springs Miss
Race war at Key West over attempted lynch
ing Cornell defeats Yale and Harvard In
college boat race Four legal executions
at St Joseph Mo Fayettevllle W Va
Atlanta Ga nnd Houston Texas
2C Seven killed In a wreck at Missouri
City Mo
29 Three killed in wreck of a Christian
Endeavor train at West Chicago 15 hurt
Five men drowned ut Chicago while bathing
to get relief from terrific heat Northwest
scorched
30 All districts report many fatalities
from heat
JULY
1 Continuance of fearful heat Cose of
Victorian Jubilee
2 One dead and 16 prostrated by heat at
Chicago In a temperature of 95 degrees
Cornell Boat Club defeats Columbia and
Pennsylvania
3 Awful heat In Chicago kills six and
prostrates 40 13 die at Cincinnati Snow
storm in Colorado Deluge at Duluth does
1000000 damage
4 Heat and fatalities continue east of Mis
sissippi Valley thunderstorm at midnight
relieves Chicago after eight have died
5 Twenty die at Ohlcago from previous
exhaustion by heat though temperature did
not exceed 78 degrees Celebration claims
five deaths there and scores of Injured vic
tims H B Stone of Chicago killed at
Nonqultt Mass
6 Ten killed by cyclone at Lowry Minn
Nine killed by boiler explosion at Harts
ville Tenn Coal miners strike becomes
general In the East
7 Continuance of extreme heat and con
sequent fatalities Senate passes tariff bill
Six killed at Bay City Mich by street
car plunging into an open draw
8 Ohlcago and Alton freight house burnH
at Chicago loss 250000 Heat and death
roll increases Death of Senator Harris
of Tennessee
10 Drop of 35 degrees in temperature at
Chicago change general
12 Death of Millionaire Columbus R Cum
mlngs of Chicago
15 Negro lynched for assault and murder
at West Point Tenn Illinois and Indiana
coal miners go out
17 News of fabulous gold finds In Alaska
19 Tariff hill passes the House Snow
storm in Chicago
22 Logan monument unveiled at Chicago
23 Four killed by explosion of naphtha on
steamer at Bridgeport Conn 1000000
grape sugar factory lire at Peoria 111
24 New tariff law enacted Congress ad
journs Cloudburst at Boston
30 Seven killed by cyclone at San Jose
111
AUGUST
6 Elevator fire at Chicago kills four fire
men hurts 20 more and does 500000 dam
age
8 Assassination of Premier Canovas of
Spain
15 Orleanist Prince Henri seriously
wounded by Italian Count of Turin In a duel
at Paris
16 Great boom in wheat Cold wave at
Chicago
17 Snowstorm in South Dakota Wheat
touches 98c ut Chicago
19 Unknown man killed by farmers near
Chicago for assault Four killed by glu
cose factory explosion at Davenport Iowa
21 Wheat reaches the dollar price In sev
eral cities and occasions great excitement
23 Three hundred Sepoys massacred by
Afridls In India
26 President of Uruguay assassinated
29 News of a great tidal wave In Japan
HO Steamer Portland arrives at Seattle
with Alaskan treasure
31 Yellow fever breaks out at Ocean
Springs Miss
SEPTEMBER
2 Crops reported greatly damaged by long
continued drought
7 Railroad collision near Emporia Kan
several killed Lake St Clair yacht cap
sized drowning six
9 Terrible head end collision near New
castle Colo kills 30 people and mangles
many others
10 Twenty two striking coa miners near
Latimer Pa shot dead by deputy sheriffs
many others wounded
11 Miners convention at Columbus set
tles the great coal strike
13 Tidal wave along the Texas coast took
many lives and did great damage to prop
erty
15 Five alleged burglars taken from jail
by a mob at Versailles Ind and Iym hcd
16 Anarchist assaults President Diaz of
Mexico death of the assaulter at the
hands of a mob
20 Outbreak of yellow fever in New Or
leans
21 President Ratchford of the United
Mine workers declares the coal strike ended
26 Nine men killed in a bloody riot at
Girardville Pa Mrs John Becker and
five children slaughtered near Carroll Iowa
Railway hold up at Moorhead Minn
29 1 000000 Are In Washington D C
Fall of Azcarraga ministry iu Spain
30 Resignation of the Ralli ministry In
Greece
OCTOBER
1 Five bandits held up a train in Indian
Territory Thirty persons hurt in railway
accident at Medford Mass
3 Death of Gen Neal Dow
ministry assumes control in
Spaiii Austin Pa almost entirely de
stroyed by fire
5 Connecticut votes an educational test
for voters
6 Alton train held up near Kansas City
Mo Thousands of lives lost and much
property destroyed by a typhoon in the Phil
ippine Islands 117000 fire at Chicago
stock yards Large fire in Detroit Six
girls burned to death at Planklnton S D
Disastrous Are at Medora 111
7 Two prisoners roasted in Opellka Ala
jail
8 Gen Weyler recalled from Cuba
Death of ex Senator McPherson of ftew
Jersey
12 Bandits rob a train near Austin Tex
as Death at Detroit of ex Senator Chas
W Jones of FlerMa
14 Four people killed in a railway acci
dent at Stlttsville Ont
15 Four person killed and many Injured
by caving In of a theater roof in Cincin
nati
16 Steamer Triton sank in Caribbean Sea
and 150 lives lost
17 Windsor N S fire swept and 3000
people left homeless Death of Chas A
Dana of the New York Son
19 Death of Geo M Pullman of Chicago
21 Jury In Luetgert murder caB in Chi
cago disagreed
24 Twenty lives lost in New York Cen
tral accident at Garrisons N Y Bank
wmfct at Blairshurg Iowa
27 Wabash Railroad offices In St Louis
burned
29 Henry George single tax advocate
died of apoplexy at New York
NOVEMBER
1 Sale of the Union Pacific Railroad
2 Thirteen firemen injured by a gasoline
explosion at a Are in Philadelphia Elec
tion day New York elected Van Wvck
Tammany Mayor Ohio Pennsylvania
Iowa and Massachusetts went Republican
Maryland Nebraska New York Kentucky
and Virginia Democratic Colorado was car
rledby silver men and in South Dakota Re
publicans and Democrats won over Populists
4 Chesapeake and Ohio train wreck at
Charlottesville Va in which four people
ure killed and many Injured Five men
badly burned by molten Iron in Milwaukee
and two die from their injuries
6 Train robbery near Grants N M
Fourteen lives lost by the sinking of tho
steamer Idaho on Lake Erie
11 Yellow fever quarantine declared off
In New Orleans Thieves steal 14000 In
money and jewelry from a Silver Creek N
Y bank
12 50000 fire at Fostoria Ohio
13 Three Indians lynched by a mob at
WilUamsport N D
17 Three people Injured In a rallwayi
wreck near Cleveland Ohio Panic In a
Cincinnati school caused the injury of four
children Rozel Kan sinks into the
prairie in a night
19 Three miners killed in railway wreck
at Coal Bluff Ind Great fire in London
England loss 25000000
20 Masked negro attempting to hold up
a Kansas City street car Bhot conductor and
motorman
21 Fire at Melbourne Australia In which
5000000 of mercantile property was de
stroyed Two motormen killed In a collis
ion la Baltimore Md Fire at La Grange
Ohio In which 25000 worth of property
was destroyed
23 F A Novak found guilty of murder
at Vinton Iowa
25 Capt Lovering found guilty by court
martial at Fort Sheridan Chicago
28 Resignation of the Badenl ministry in
Austria Three men asphyxiated In the
Grand Trunk tunnel at Port Huron Mich
30 New cabinet formed In Austria
Eleven persons killed in a railway accident
ut Warsaw Poland Martin Thorn con
victed of the murder of Wm Guldensuppe at
New York
DECEMBER
1 Thirty seven miners killed in Homburg
Bavaria by explosion of fire damp Furi
ous riots at Prague Bohemia
4 Three men killed and several persona
injured In u colllslou of trolley cars near
Detroit Mich
5 Resignation of the Italian ministry
0 Congress convenes In regular session at
Washington
11 Two men killed In railway collision at
Oakland Cal Hnytlan cabinet resigned
13 New Haytlan ministry formed
14 Resignation of Chilian cabinet
Rudinl cabinet reconstituted in Italy
16 Three men killed In C E I wreck
at Clinton Ind Death of Alphonse
det noted French author William
rlss English actor assassinated In London
Ratification of peace treaty between
Greece and Turkey New Chilian cabinet
formed
17 Six lives lost In flro at Ottawa Ont
Three persons perish In an 350000 fire at
Grand Forks Dak
18 Zero weather In Chicago Death of
Hon Washington Heslng of Chicago
20 Five train wrecks at Castle Rock
Colo two persons killed at Pontlac III
five persons Injured near Bensou Ariz one
man killed near Ripton Ala four men
killed at St Louis one man killed and two
injured
21 Suclde of Miss Leila Herbert at Wash
ington D O Three skaters drowned at
Tonawanda N Y Three skaters drowned
at Gardner Mass
JOHN W MACKAYS TOMB
Great Mausoleum Built in Brooklyn
at n Cost of 300000
John W Mackays home after death
is rapidly nearing completaoai The
Mackay tomb or mausoleum near the
Ninth avenue entrance of Greenwood
cemetery Brooklyn will soon be com
pleted This structure which Mr Mackay
has erected after the fashion set by sev
eral of New Yorks prominent men who
built their tombs before they died is one
of the noblest in the necropolis The ap
proximate cost will be 300000 The
mackays home after death
Mackay mausoleum is within like a min
iature church auditorium No evidences
of the real character of the place appear
It is lighted and heated with electricity
and at least fifty persons could attend
mass said in its space Yet in no way
is it catacomb like There are twenty
two crypts for bodies The interior is
lined throughout Avith marble with a
wainscoting of black Belgian capped with
fonnemarn green The roof is formed of
a tremendous slab of granite the largest
ever quarried in this country It came
from Maine and its dimensions are 22
feet square by IU inches thick Its weight
is iifty tuns
SAYS REBELLION IS GAINING
Report that Gomez Cannot Be Brought
to un Engagement
Tbe correspondent of the Madrid pa
per El Imparcial has cabled the state
ment telegraphed by Gen Parrado to
Gen Blanco that the insurrection in Santa
Clara province is triumphing and that it
is impossible to fight Gen Gomez as he
evades all engagements The Spanish
troops he says are without food Great
consternation has been caused in Havana
by the execution of Col Ituiz the emis
sary of Gen Blanco to Gen Aranguren
The Cubans declare they will execute all
emissaries who come in favor of auton
omy without paying any attention to who
they are
Forty three concentrados at work in the
country were captured by the forces of
Gen Maroto and put to death with the
sword Among them were women and
children The Spanish forces at Manza
nillo numbering 18000 men are without
food Gen Pando has sent word to Gen
Blanco to send beef to the troops as many
were dying of hanger
Told in a Few Unea
A Maryland man accused of Hrevpg a
pretty girl has prored an alibi Give him
the limit of the law
Charles Bwald aged 65 while switch
ing ears with his team at Daggett Mkh
fell across the track the carwheels pass
ing over him killing him
The firm of Morton Bose Co bank
ers at London will be reorganized on Jan
1 Mr Rose retiring The firm thereafter
will be known as Morton Chaplin Co
William C Woodward alias Bi Haw
ley who was convicted at New York odt
attempted blackmail on Samuel W Brig
ham was sentenced to five years impris
onment
The amount of damages cJafenea by th
owners of the steamer La Oanadiemi
which was in collision with the United
States cruiser Yantic is understood to be
about 10000
Whats this A dispatch from Maine
states that this seasons importation of
French sardines will be light owing b
the small catch of young herring ofithe
Maine coast Can it be
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