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HILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1896.
NO. 42.
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EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemisphere Vresented In
t'oudensetl Form A Large Amount
of lufonuutlon In Small Npsoe,
Ruoout census figure show that iu
tea years Massachusetts baa lost iu
populatiou.
A aovore shock of earthquake was
recently folt iu New Westminster and
most portion of the Fraser vulloy.
The American bark Aroturus parted
her cable und went to pieces ou the
rocks at Santa Rosalia, C'al. Oue mau
wai drowned.
Fire iu the Chicago Forge & Bolt
Company plant did $76,000 damage,
The plant is owned by the American
Bridge Company.
The secretary of the interior has ap
proved the selection of 1,800,000 aorea
of luud iu the Bismarck, N. D., district
and 680,000 aorea iu Montana made by
the Northern Pacific.
The member of the Venezuela com
miaalou met in Washington aud re
eeived their ooniiniasions from Beoetury
Olney, aud wore administered the oath
of oflloo, and elected their offloers.
The Cboyenue nqrth-bound passenger
train waa wrecked at Chugwater,
Wyo., by running into abuuohofcat
tie in a cut Fireman Parker waa
killed aud Engineer O'Neill hurt
Four ooachoa were derallod.
The National Association of Manu
facturors of the United States will
shortly hold their annual meeting in
Chicago. Particular attention will be
given to the Nicaragua oanal, the con
vention favoring the government own
ership of the great waterway.
Mrs. , Nichols, station agent at
Farraiuston, Utah, and who lives
lone in an upper room of the station
house, discovered burglars in the act
of robbing the money drawer, bhe
plnckily pursued them and compelled
them to return every cent thoy had
taken.
A desporate battle hag been fought
near Colon. The Spanish troops were
routed, and suflered heavy loss. The
insurgents captured the Spanish artil
lery and have gained a position com
mandiug the overland entrance to
Havana. General Oliver wag killed,
and General Campos' son seriously
wounded.
The United States bureau of eth
oology expedition toTiburon island hug
returned to New York. The Zeri In
diang abandoned their ranches on the
approach of the party and hid in the
mountains. The expedition embraced
the first white peoplo who have visited
the island in fifteen years and returned
alive.
The invasion of the Transvaal by
Dr. Jumieson and the forces of the
British South Afrioa Company has
brought up all the latent feeling of
hostility to England. The Britons are
wratby because of the oharaoter of the
kaiser s message to Kruger and de
nouoe the telegram as a decidedly un
friendly aot
Warships flying the stars and gtripes,
and manned by American bluejackets,
may force the passage of the Dardan
elles and Bosphorus, anohor at Con
stantinople and show the sultan that
Uncle Sam is not to be trifled with
It transpires that the Bosphorus is
likely to be the destination of the
North Atluntio squadron of American
battleships, instead of the Carribean
sea.
The recent massacre at Ormah is
stated to have been terrible. Official
dispatches admit 000 Christians were
killed, but aooording to private ac
counts about 3,000 Christians were
killed. A massaore is said to have oc
curred nt Birejik, an important town
en the Euphrates. This outrage is be
lieved to have been oommited by Kurds
and Hamediog in the colony. The am
bassadors have received word that the
bloodshed there was xeoeptionally seri
ous. A large meeting of the Allegheny
County Bar Association was recently
held in Philadelphia to decide the ques
tion whether women should be ad
mitted to praotioe. The women were
victorious by a vote of more than 10 to
1, consequently they will be accorded
the same privileges as their male col
leagues. The question was decided
after a lively disoussion of a resolution,
whioh oalled on the judges to prohibit
women from beooming members of the
bar in Allegheny oounty.
Another uprising has ocourred in
Foromsa.
At a hotel fire in Altoona, Pa., three
people were killed by a falling wall.
Meetings are being held in Chioago
to devise means to aid the suffering
Armenians.
In a railroad wreok in South Africa
twenty-eight persons were killed and
twenty-three seriously injured.
Nearly 1,000 ohests of tea of the
oargo of the big tramp steamer
Afrida were damaged on the voyage
from Yokohama to San Francisco, and
some of the stuff will be a total loss.
An open switch, oaused by the oare
lossnesg of a oonduotor resulted in a
collision of a freight and passenger
train near Chilioothe.O. Six people
were killed and many, more were in
jured. a
A Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
train crashed into a funeral procession
at Plina street, Chicago, injuring five
persons. One of the oarriage drivers
was thrown fifty feet, but none of the
injured will die.
Mongignore Satolli, apostolio dele
gate to the United States, has been
raised to the rank of oardinal of the
ohuroh. The oeremony, whioh took
1 aoe at the venerable oathedral in Bal-
, berretta,siguiflnt of the high station. VUA OlAAriO
Two children, aged 7 and 8 years,
were captured by the polioe in San
Frauolsco, in the aot of robbing
store. They had been assisted by
largor boys in securing an entrance,
and confessed to having had previously
entered anothor store in the same man
nor.
At Albany., N. Y., the climax of one
of the most dramatic and sensational
orimlnal incidents of the state's history
was made publio when, just forty
eight hours prior to the execution of
the death sentence of Bartholomew
Shea, another man confessed to the
murder, and Shea stepped from beneath
the shadow of death thrown by the
eleotrio chair. Preparations for the
execution had been made, the state elec
trician was already upon the ground.
The whole Cuban island outside of
the city of Havana is now in the hands
of the insurgents. They have not an
nihilated the Spanish forces, nor have
they routed the whole army in any
single pitched battle; yot the situation
is practically in their hands, and so
completely have they outgeneraled the
Spanish that, to all appearances, Mar
tinez Campos' army might as well be
in Spain for any check it has upon the
movements of Gomez s army.
A special from Washington says: A
more important issue than that over the
Venezuela boundary may be raised be
tween the United States ana Great
Britain if recent reports from Nica
ragua shall be confirmed by later de
velopments. The substanoe of these
reports, sustained by important evi
dence, is that British interests are
reaching out for the control of the
Nicaragua oanal, and that the govern
ment ia being urged to annul the ohar
ter to the existing corporation.
Sooretary Carlisle has made publio a
circular on the subject of the new bond
issue. The loan will be a "popular"
one, and the circular, which is dated
January G, gives notioe that the gov
ernment will sell (100,000,000 80-year
4 per oent ooupon or registered bonds,
dated February 1, 1805, for whioh pur
chasers will be required to pay in gold
coin or gold certificates. This will be
the first issue by the present adminis
tration of such a large amount of bonds
at one time. The oiroluar also contains
an intimation of a possible further
issue of bonds should the issue
or sale of an additional or different
form of bond for the maintenance of
the gold reserve be authorized by law
before February 5.
Disastrous prairie fires in Western
Kansas have oaused great loss of life
and property.
An explosion of natural gas in a
Chioago tenement house wrecked a
building and injured three people.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Paoiflo for six months ended December
81, were (11,688,148 an iuorease of
(1,625,683.
Associate Justice Peckham, the
latest acquisition to the supreme bench,
has taken his seat Chief Justice Fuller
administered the oath.
A board of naval offloers has been ap
pointed by the navy department for in
vestigating the oondition of the nine
monitors lying at the League island
yard, Philadelphia.
Disorders have oocurred in the East
End of London growing out of the fact
that the German and Dutch sailors
about the docks were hissed. The
windows of the shops kept by German
Jews were broken, and several German
clubs were closed.
The London Times in an editorial,
reminds the United States that
'whether we have troubles in Europe
and Afrioa or not, we will not yield on
the Venezuela question. We have in
sulted nobody, but if we are oompelled
to fight we shall be ready to defend
what is worth fighting for."
Stephen V. Emmons, a prominent
gold miner of New York, has addressed
an open letter to President Cleveland,
setting forth a unique plan for main
taining the treasury reserve. His
suggestion is that if the seoretary of
the treasury will put himself in com
munioation with the owners of gold
mines throughout the country, he can
cauBe the entire produot of the United
States to be at the disposal of the gov
ernment in exchange for silver ooin.
He promises the co-operation of all his
interests.
At the request of Senators Mitchell
and MoBride the seoretary of the in
terior has direoted a special agent of
the department to proceed to Oregon
immediately, to make suoh investiga
tions as can be made at this season of
the year in relation to the alleged ap
propriation and oooupation of lands
within the Bull Run reservation (from
whioh Portland receives its water sup
ply), the pasturing of oattle and sheep
thereon, and the destruction of timber'
by forest fires and trespassers. This
agent is direoted by the seoretary to
oonfer with the chairman and other
offloers of the Portland Water Company
and their attorneys, to oo-operate with
them in every way.
THE CONTRACT SIGNED.
Bond Syndicate Is Now Beady to Take
the Government Loan.
New York, Jan. 8. The oontraot
has been signed by all the members of
the new bond syndioate, gubjeot to the
formal acceptance of the government.
The ayndioate agreea to furnish 11,.
600,000 ounces of gold, amounting to
about (300,000,000 in gold, the govern
ment to take half of this sum first, and
to have the option of taking the other
half and deliver 4 per cent 80-year
ooin bonds at about the same price as
paid for the last issue of bonds. The
managers of the syndioate are to re
ceive a commission of 1 per oent. The
price at which the last bonds were
taken wag 104.49, at which they yielded
8 per oent interest.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
OF THE NORTHWEST.
Manufacturing- Industrie! Make a Good
Showing Prosperous Outlook for the
Farmer New Manufacturing Plants
About to Be Erected Oregon.
A telegraph line is projected by
Bandon parties from that town to Gold
Beach. The people are asked to put up
tne poles ana wire.
About 200 men will be employed
next season on the Gold Basin project
in constructing a ditch twenty miles
long and tap the head waters of the
Checto.
The fanners of Wallowa have placed
on the market this fall about 4.000
head of hogs, which at the prevailing
low prices bave realized the owners
about 16,000.
The negotiations for the establish
ment of the cotton factory in Astoria
are reported to be progressing favor-
1 , M.1 .
amy. ine cnances oi success seem
almost astiurred.
An Oregon lumbering company is to
send an agent to the lumber import
ing ports of Mexico, Central America
and South America, to look into the
prospects for business in those places.
Long Croek school, in Grant county,
has just sold to a New York firm
bonds to the amount of 13,000, to pay
off claims against the district incurred
by the construction of the new school
building.
A mining deal of considerable im
portance Has just been consumated at
Ashland. The entire Golden Fleece
property has been bonded for a large
sum, and a milling plant is to be
erected at once.
The postoffice department has deter
mined to ascertain the cost of estab
lishing a mail servioe between Ashland
and Klamath Falls. Bids for carry
ing the mail daily over the route are
invited by the department.
An eleotrio plant for Canyon City
and John Day is talked of. The places
are only two mileg apart, and in ad
dition to the regular patronage the
Humboldt placer mine would be a
customer during the mining season. ;
The right of the Tillamook Boom
Company to charge for holding and
booming logs has long been denied by
loggers along the Tillumook river, but
a compromise has been agreed urjon
whereby the loggers will pay 10 cents
a thousand for all logs brought down
tne river.
A newly invented fishing apparatus
is nearing completion .Ptland. The
two narges wmcn const
ma ran have a space ben, ..
t Ci3ta-ior1ial
five feet, which is to be ntiTnun.i -,. r i
fishing-wheel built of gas pipe.
is considerable speculation as to
its
success.
Oregon will elect congressmen and
their legislature, which will elect a
United States senator in June next
The vote of the last election was as
follows; First district, Hermann,
Republican, 23,264; Weatherford,
Democratic, 10,790; Miller, Populist,
11,260; Hurst, Prohibitionist, 1,090;
seoond district, Ellis, Republican, 18,
875; Raley, Democratic, 9,018; Wal
drop, Populist, 10,749; Miller, Prohi
bitionist, 775.
The assessment tables as equalized
by the state board have been oompletep.
The gross valuation of all property, as
returned by the Beveral counties, is
(158,819,730. The gross amount, as
equalized, is (168,987,177, total ex
emptions, (8,621,751; net taxable,
upon whioh the state tax levy will be
made, (144,445,426. Census returns
so far made by Oregon oonnties show
an inorease in the production of hay of
206,907 tons, or over 65 per cent in ten
years. In 1885 there were 1,962,722
sheep in Oregon. Aooording to the
last census returns there are now 1.962-
723 sheep in the state, which shows an
inorease of 835,793 in ten years. When
the returns are in from all the oonnties
it is estimated the total inorease will
be about 750,000. The production of
oats in 1885 amounted to 6,116,780
bushels. The completed returns will
show an increase this year of 15 per
3UL.
Washington.
The dry kilns whioh were burned,
together with 60,000 shingles, at Ma
ohias, are being rebuilt.
Spokake is now advertising for bids
for (350,000 of bonds for the new
waterworks system there. The bids
will be opened on March 2.
The Colman ooal mine has been re
opened at Cedar mountain, after being
idle four years. Thirty men will be
employed, and the output will be
handled at Seattle.
The show of the Poultry Club, at
Seattle, January 23 to 38, will be one
of the best ever given. There will be
on exhibition over 1,000 birds from all
parts of the oountrv.
It is stated that a scheme is on foot
to start a new town east of the present
town of Mohler, to be known as East
Mohler. A large building is being
erected on the proposed site.
The rate war among Sound steamers
has ended. The Edith was taken off
for repairs, and the Sehome being in
the course of dismantling, the company
was unable to compete with the
Rosalie.
The oolony of Hollanders on Whidby
island is being inoreased from time to
time, and they are prepared to Bettle
and develop the rioh lands there. Some
of them visited Snohomish, but pre
ferred to locate on the island.
The sohool board of Taooma have de
cided to submit to the vote of the peo
ple the question of validating the in
debtedness, amounting to $38,000; also
of funding this indebtedness and out
standing warrants In short-standing
bonds.
The Northern Paoiflo Railroad is
erecting a number of new ice houses
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in expectancy of large fruit shipments.
and the ice will be used for refriger
ator cars.
An effort is being made in North
Yakima to have the saloon license re
duced to (750, the dealers claiming
that it was more difficult to pay that
amount now than it would have been
(1,500 a few years ago, when the
(1,000 rate wag established.
The board of trade of New Whatcom
have appointed a committee to investi
gate the establishment of a creamery
there. They have also under consider
ation a $350 bonus for a flax mill,
which would treat all the flax raised in
the oounty, if every farmer raised five
acres.
Glassworks is a new enterprise soon
to be in operation at Seattle. The
president of the company hag just re
turned from Europe, where he hag pur
chased machinery, and has brought
back an expert engineer from Belgium,
It will be the only establishment in
the United States to use wood gas.
There is a movement to secure a gov
ernment station in this state for testing
the timbers of the Paoiflo coast. The
Washington Chapter of Architects sug
gests having the machinery placed in
the state university building at Seat
tle. The tests would be made under
government supervision and all reports
would bear the impress of United
States officials.
Idaho,
There are 322 postoffices in Idaho.
The Alder Creek Gold Mining Com
pany has been incorporated, with a
capital stock of (1,000,000.
A mining department has been
established at the state university of
Idaho. There is no charge of tuition,
exoept for materials used.
Idaho Falls will vote on the proposi
tion to iasue bonds for (30,000 for the
purpose of erecting an electric light
and waterworks system.
A disoovery of opals has been made
on a tributary of the Big Camas oreek.
The field ia reported to be very exten
sive, and toe-opals have been examined
by prominent New York jewelers, wht;
say tney are nrst-class.
Ex-Governor Edward J. Curtis, of
Boise, is dead. He was 68 years of
age, having come to the Coast in 1848.
He was twice a member of the Cali
fornia legislature, and later removed
to Oregon where he served one term as
gtate representative. He was terri-
secretary of Idaho in 1869, and
Qrlvanr nf iYa of ara rt
Idaho during the reat t.
land in aid of the state agricurtnm,,
college, 8, 703 for insane asylum, 19,954
acres for penitentiary, 1,820 for publio
buildings, 23,383 for the scientiflo
school, 69,493 for ohari table institu
tions and 5,607 for the normal school.
Of the publio lands in Idaho there
were surveyed during the year 1,430,
895 acres.
Montana,
The Great Falls National bank has
reduced its capital stock from $350,000
to $125,000.
Helena parties are taking steps to se
cure a franchise for an electric rail
road in the national park.
A postoffice has been established at
Gold Butte, another name given to the
oamp in the Sweet Grass Hills dis'triot.
Mrs. W. R. Hearst has forwarded
another shipment of books from Wash
ington to the Hearst library at Ana'
oonda.
Senator Carter has introduced a bill
providing for the disposal of the aban
doned portions of the Fort Assinniboine
military reservation.
The most powerful hoisting engine
ever built for any mine in the West is
now in operation at the Green Moun
tain mine, hoisting from the 1,200'
foot level.
There are 321 prisoners in the pent
tentiary thirty-two miners, sixteen
cowboys, and other callings are pro
poraonareiy represented, mere are
thirty-three for murder in first degree,
eight for assault with intent to kill,
and thirty-eight for robbery. Lewis
and Clarke has eighty-one, the largest
number, and Dawson one, the smallest.
British Columbia.
A church will be built at Ashcroft in
the early spring.
Kamloops has organized aVifle oorps.
It is probable it will be mustered into
the militia.
The shingle mill and part of the jute
works at Vanoouver have been de
stroyed by fire. The loss is $40,000.
The Rossland Water Company have
the pipes from the reservoir laid to
within 1,500 feet of the town. This is
about two-thirds of the distance. The
pipe is all on the ground, and the work
of laying the mains will be pushed
until oompleted.
The engineers of the Red Mountain
railroad, says the News, of South
Fork, are now through with their
work, and the present possible final
starting place for the road is nearly
opposite the old mill site on the old
placer diggings.
Creede Bank Closes Its Doors.
Denver, Jan. 3. A special to the
News from Creede, Colo., says: At a
stockholders' meeting of the First Na
tional bank of Creede, it was decided
that the bank go into voluntary liqui
dation at the close of business today,
City Treasurer Henry Bolin, of
Omaha, Neb., is short more than $115,-
000 in his accounts. He offers no ex
planation for the defalcation.
A YEARS HISTORY.
' t
Chronological Record of Twelve
Months.
FULL REC0BD OF 1895.
An
Epitome of All Event, of
J importance-
i
The Usual Admlitnre ef Disaster,
Crime, Political Changes, Commer
cial Achievements, and Interna
ttonal Com plications-Atrocities of
Turks In Armenia the Most Shock
ing Psge In Modern History Pow
rre of 'Europe Unite In Demanding
Beform-Cuban Revolution Meat In
Public Interest,
With but two exceptions, the nature of
the events which go to make up the his
tory of the past year Is not startling.
The butchery of thousands of Armenians
by Turks has aroused the European
powers, and at the close of the year active
preparations were In progress which sug
gested the probable dismemberment of
the Ottoman empire. The revolt of
Cubans against Spanish rule was the
next most important affair, and that, too,
was in full sway at the close of the year.
Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every
energy toward Its suppression. Popular
sympathy is largely with the Cubans, and
their success seems not Improbable. In
American politics the year has been ex
citing, and one of the grtat parties has
suffered such reverses as to leave the
chief executive unsupported In political
faith by a majority In either house of
Congress. A chronological record of
events follows:
January.
1. Michigan's first public Installation of
state officers... .Ooy. Morton, of New York,
sworn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef...
Tom Blair lynched at Mount Sterling, Ky...
Fire perish in an Incendiary Br at Lancas
ter, Ky. m
2. Death of Col. Edwaid M. Hcyl, Inspec
tor general Department of the Missouri, at
Chicago. . . .Carnegie's Homestead men strike
against reduction of wages.
Fires: $75,000 at Springfield, Ohio; $105,
000 at Coffey vllle. Kan.; $180,000 at Cleve
land; $300,000 at the Southern Illinois In
sane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland enter
tains Bill at a Cabinet dinner.
4. Scores of villages and cities nnlte In
sndlna aid to destitute people In Nebraska
7. EXET09H
120. .. .High water In Ohio Ilk-of tnurn.
8. Starving men pillage stores at St John's,
N. F
9. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South
Dakota, embezzles $350,000; bis bank at Red
Aeld closes.
10. Two lives lost In a Toronto fire; prop
erty loss, $000,000. "
11. Coldest day of the season In Chicago
12 below.... storms Iu the East
in "Rln "I! n"r Ottmnwa, Iowa. '
13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at
Bradford. Pa.: xiMOnon du,,
gland's coast; fifteen sall-
ora drown.
TV-ujdred miners trapped by rising wa-
""ire, r-ag. ; tu arowned.
' i -aueMont.
17. m. ii?f!x''aww.Hr ' .
France. "ww-. p - -
18. News of rebellion In Hawaii..". ".Delta
ter Mllltla ordered out to protect Brook
lyn trolleys.
x,1?' of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill,
Neb., defaulter, found In the river, with rope
arouud uls neck. .. .Sinking of steamer
State of Missouri In the Ohio; forty lives
21. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm,
with temperature of 54 degrees and a spring
breeze, followed by a hurricane blowing 64
miles an hour, temperature falling to 10 de
grees above sero; many people hurt by fall
ing timbers, blown from new buildings
23. Steamer Chleora and 25 people lost off
South Haven, Mich.; financial loss, $185 000
....Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at
London.
25. Seven killed by Mendota, III., boiler
explosion. .. .Guatemala concedes Mexico's
boundary claim Fearful wind aud snow
storm In the West.
28. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Ju
dith, Conn.
27. Mercury below sero all day In Chicago
... .Snow blockades many Western roads.
28. One killed, 43 hurt, In Vandalla wreck
at Coatsvllle, Ind President Cleveland's
vuiiem-jr message sent to (jongress.
20. Receivers named for the whisky trust
80. Steamer Elbe sunk In collision with the
Crathle, in North Sea; 814 lives lost
81. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of
New York s society.
February.
8. News of kidnaping of ofilcers from Uni
ted Statea guuboat Concord, by Chinese, for
accidental shooting of a native. ,. .Chicago
temperature 18 below.
4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car
running Into an open draw Thirty French
miners killed by explosion. .. .Ohlcago tem
perature 17 below.... Queen HI abdicates
Hawaii s throne.
6. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. .. .
Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gas
cogue. f. Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20
below at Chicago. .. .Nine men lost In open
boats at Milwaukee Report of annihila
tion of Chinese fleet nt Wel-Hal-Wel Ad-
mlulstiatlon's currency measure and Reed
and Cox substitutes defeated In the House.
8. President announces the sale of $62 -
400,000 In bonds Coldest day of the year
In Chicago.
10. Schooner Clara and 15 men lost off Liv
erpool, N. 8.
11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue,
makes New York harbor with disabled ma
chinery: great rejoicing.
12. $200,000 street car bnrn fire at Chicago.
13. Five firemen killed, 16 hurt, at Lynn,
Mass.
19. Death of Isaac P. Cray, Minister to
Mexico New Orleans haa ten Inches of
snow.
20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored
orator, at Washington Quick sale of late
bond Issue.
26. Riot at Savannah, Qa., because of ex
Prlcst Slattery's lecture; troops called,
27. $400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at
Halifax. .. .Scores of miners killed Iu New
Mexico. .. .Postmaster General Bissell re
signs. March, .
1. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.
Five killed, 19 hurt, by falling walls at New
York. .. .Rebellion gains ground In Cuba.
2. $1,000,000 fire In Toronto; $350,000 at
Sallna, Kan.
8. Chicago Times Issues Its last number
before consolidation with the Herald. .. .Ter
rific snowstorm In Northwest.
4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns.
5. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt divorced at New
York.
6. One robber killed, one captured, and
four citizens womded during raid ou the
Odell, Iowa, bank.
8. Harry Hnyward convicted of murdering
Catherine Glng nt Minneapolis. .. .Steamer
Longfellow sluks at Cincinnati; twelve
drowiH d.
10. Spanish war vessel Relna Regente
founders; 400 lost.
11. Six men killed In New Orleans riots.
12. Seven Italians lynched by miners for
muruer in vjoioraao.
13. Western Ne
at Kansas City . ,
ed In Colorado.
Western Newspaper Union plant burns
.two more Italians lynch-
16. Five killed In round-house fire at To
ledo; KcIIork ready-print plant at Cleveland
burns; $200,000 fire at St. Louis. ,. .Report of
sinking of American schooner and crew of
16 by Spanish gunboat,
20. Mine explosion In Wyoming kills
miners. .. .$100,000 fire in Peoria, lit
00
21. (400.000 Are It Sioux City
new unean.
24. LI Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japan
ese; not fatally $1,000,000 Are at Kansas
City, Kan., packing-house.
25. Furious dust storm over Central and
Western States.
26. $1,000,000 flrt- In Milwaukee.
27. Three train robbers killed OB Queen
and Crescent route.
29. Japan declares armistice. .. .Hottest
March day ever known la Chicago; tempera
ture 78 degrees.
80. Death of A. O. Heslng, editor of Illi
nois Slaats-Zeltung.
April.
1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn,
Mass five die In Kentucky forest fires.
2. Republicans successful In Ohio, Michi
gan, Wisconsin snd Chicago,
8. Death of Mrs. Parau Stevens, society
queen of New York. , . .Grand Paoiflo Hotel
of Chicago closed .. .Fifteen killed by explo
sion In New Orleans.
8. Buprenie Court makes changes In In.
eome tax law ...Train wrecks In Ohio and
Illinois kill eight.
8. Discovery of counterfeiting of postsge
stamps, ...21 miners killed at New What
copj. Wash. ,. .Collapse of six-story brick at
Wheeling, W. Va; 6 killed; loss $200,000. . . .
BlUxard of sand and snow in the West.
- . -
ban rebels whip Spanish troops.
10. i,ruae oil sells at $2 In Pittsburg. .. ,CU-
14. Death by aDODlexr of James W.
Bcott,
of Chicago Times-Herald, in New York.
i.uuo.uoo hotel Are st Pasadena, Cal,
15. Conclusion of peace In the Orient,,,,
Cuban rebellion crushed. ,. .Cattle admitted
free from Mexico.
19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago ship
yards, 20. H. H. Kohlsaat buys Chicago Times
Herald. ,. .May wheat sells at 60 cents,,,.
All grain advances strongly. .Oil goes
higher.
21. Five negroes lnched at Butler Springs,
Ala..,, 15 Inches of snow In Colorado.
23. Supreme Court decides in favor of Debs
In the famous contempt of court case.
May,
1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone
....Bandits kill an Alton engineer. ...Big
Ohio coal strike on.
8. Awful death roll In Iowa and Wiscon
sin storms. ,. .Five killed by powder mill ex
plosion at South Acton, Mass. .. .Hottest 8d
of May on record in Chicago; temperature
88 degrees: one man aunstruck,
8. South Chicago and Jollet steel workers
strike, ,, .Oriental peace assured.
10. Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off
Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost;
pecuniary loss, $400.000. .. .Temperature at
Chicago drops from 88 to 43, ., .Twelve peo
ple hurt by gaa explosion at Chicago; four
13. Killing frosts from Nebraska to the At
lantic Snow stops the Chicago-New York
ball game at Chicago. ., .Eighteen lives and
twelve vessels lost In storms on Lake Mich
igan. 18. Great flurry In corn and wheat
18. $1,000,600 Are at St, Albans, Vt. .. .Ter
rible earthquakes In Italy.... Killing frost
In fifteen States.
20. Income tax declared Invalid. .. .Wheat
sells at 74 cents.
21. Jose Msrte, President Cuban Insur
gents, killed.. ..14 killed In San Francisco
powder house explosion.
25. Two men lyuched for assault at Dan
ville, 111 Wheat reaches 82 cents.
M. supreme (Jourt agalnat Debs.
28. Death of Gresham. Secretary of State.
29.
nemarxame military reunion at Uhl-
80. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago. . . .Ded
ication at Chicago of Confedente monument
81. Cloudbursts In Texas, pa Vj droughts
In middle Western States, a the
shade in Dakota, six Inches V
orado, balmy weather on t
mm aasii a a v-
uiuujr ui-auis irom neat prostration,
ture St sg0 ' 40 der! tempera-
5. Silver convention at Sprlngfleld, 111,
-J. Olney appointed Secretary of State.
Harmon Attorney General.
8. $200,000 tire at Kalamasoo.
9. $750,000 Are at Milwaukee. -13.
Whisky trust declared Illegal.
W. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 Are. .
17. H. J. Aldrlch falls for $1,000,000 at
Denver Deadly storms sweep the Mis
souri Valley..,. Opening of Harlem ship
canal.
20. Opening of Kiel ship canal.
21. Bosebery's ministry defeated. ,. .Two
fata ly, ten badly hurt, by explosion on
whalebaek excursion steamer Christopher
Columbus at Chicago.
"Jsli firemen killed at Minneapolis; $100.
.i.naaonflre at San Francisco.
1
7. Terrific storm at
ed at Lake Geneva, Wis. .
by forest fires.
10. Christian Endeavor assi
ton.
14. Destructive storm In North Dakota. .
Three drown at South Haven, Mich. .. .Seven
accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine
killed by storm in New York and New Jersey.
18. Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at
Chicago.
17. First appearance of bloomers at a bait,
In Chicago. .. .Three Cincinnati firemen
killed.
18. Nine miners Imprisoned by cave-In at
Iron Mountain. Mich British ship Prince
Oscar and unknown vessel alnk in collision:
40 perish.
19. Rescue of Iron Mountain miners....
Cleveland baby named Marlon.
21. Drowning of 148 Italians, by sinking
In collision of steamer Maria P. ...Four
killed at grade crossing at Wllllamston,
Mass. .. .$400,000 fire In National Linseed Oil
Company s Chicago warehouse.
22. Report of killing of seventeen Indiana
near Jackson's Hole, Wyoming; grave trou
ble Imminent,
23. Furious storm in Pennsylvania coko
region L. S. & M. S. train held up in
Ohio; $7,000 Btolen.
25. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion
In Westphalia.
81. Sixteen perish in a cloudburst In Col
orado and Wyoming. .. .Menominee, Mich.,
has a $500,000 fire.
August
4. False report of race war at Spring Val
ley, HI., between Italian and negro miner. , .
Murder of British missionaries In China....
$1,000,000 Are at Sprague, Waah.
7. Death of Goorgo F. Root the famous
composer,
8. Thirteen killed and manv Inlnred hv full
ing building In New York. .Death of Supreme
Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee.
iu. kuu.uuu nre st zoospore, 111,
11. $500,000 Are at Newark, N. J Four
killed in a wreck at Balnbridge, Ohio.
13. $300,000 Ate at Philadelphia.
18. Holocaust In Denver hotel; 25 killed... .
Seven drown at Ocean City, Md.
20. Trains hid up on the O. & W. M., near
Fennvllle, Mich., and on the Union Pacific
near North Platte, Neb.. ..Eight killed and
eight Injured by explosion at Braddock, Pa.
22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by Are
Gentry loses stallion pacing championship
to Patthen.
26-7-8. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe
storms accompanied by fatalities In Illinois
and Ohio.
29. Fifteen miners drown at Central City.
Col.
Feptember.
2. Oce hundred people hurt on the Sea
Beach road, Long Island.
8. Furlouu atorm In central Northern
States.
4. $300,000 fire at Boston.
6. Triple murder In Sullivan County, Ind.
7. Forty-two mlnerp perish In a burning
mine at Calumet, Mich. .. .Defender de
feats Valkyrie In Arst cup contest by nine
minutes.
8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque.
Iowa.
9. Opening of Q A. R. encampment at'
Louisville.
10. Valkvrle fouls Dpfpnrtpr nf tfc .....
and wins second heat of yacht race by 47
seconds; race giveu to Defender on protest
....Temperature 97 degrees at Chicago.
11. Seven killed by exploding caisson at
Louisville. .. .Six killed In colllalnn nn r.m.t
Northern.
12. America Clin coes to Defender Volt..
rle refusing to sail. ., .Seventy-five hurt by
fall of a grand stand at Louisville. Kv....
News of death of 8(H) by earthquake In Hon
duras. .. .Ex-Queen Llliuokalanl pardoned by
Hawaiian Government.
18. Six killed In a wreck at Lynchburg, Va
17. Atlanta Exposition opened. .. .Phenom
enal beat In Kansas: 107 degrees.
18. Dedication of Chlckamauga-Chatta-noogn
National Military Park.
19. Spanish cruiser and 48 men lost In col
lision off Cuba. . .Steamship Edam sunk In
collision; all saved. .. .Six die of heat In Chi
cago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by atorm.
28. Death of Pasteur at Pari.
29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster
In a storm. .. .Retirement of Gen, Schotteld
80. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner
Elma and eight people lost on- Pictured
Rocks. .. .Mammoth mass meeting at Chi
cago declares sympathy for Cuba. .. .Nation
al League season closed, Baltimore winning.
October.
1. Destructive gales on British coast. ..J
Cuba declares her Independence.
2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pa
glllBUJ.
8. Million dollar Are at Warns, ft. I.
7. Seven killed by explosion In a Wilt
?llkM
occeaM
Carre, Pa., mine. .. .Masked bandit sue
fully hold up a Chicago eUctrla car,
v. Anniversary or d i uniceso an
die by Are In Cincinnati. .. .Steamer Africa
and crew of eleven lost In Owen Bonnd , , . ,
Geoigla father kills his nine children. .. .SU
children burned to death at Snider, Oat
12. $100,000 Are loss at Duluth.
13. Four killed, twelve hurt, on a PIttrbura
trolley csr. .. .Five burn to death In Maak
toba prairie Are; Immense property loss. .
IB. 1150.000 saw-mill fir at Minneapolis.
20. Haif-mllllon dollar Are at New Orleaasii
1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm ot)
season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., ha a fall of tsnl
Inehe.
22. President Cleveland welcomed to AM
lanta.... $175,000 lusted oil mill Are at CuH
cago.
21. Lake Shore train run from Chleegi iff
Buffalo, fiio miles, In 7 hour 60 mlnutss 20
second, running time, beating world' rec
ord. 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler
at Chicago. .. .Sheriff and posse at Tlflln,
Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob. .. .Burning)
of Virginia's State University, !
29. Negro criminal burned at the stske la
Texas. ..,$200,000 fire In Springfield, Ohio,
, ,,.To killed, three fatally hurt, In a eoW
llslon in St, Louis, j
81. Earthquake throughout the central Ml
ot the United States; bo fatalities, little AAart
age. I
November,
1, Earthquake at Rome, .. .Durrant foonol
guilty of murder at San Francisco,
a. a. a. Holmes found guilty
Benamln Pitsel at Philadelphia,
8. Four killed In B. A O. wreck near Wheel
ing. w, va..,,Four burned to death in '
xorg tenement bouse fire,
5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago
$300,000 fire at Decatur. 111.
5, Republican landslide. .. .11,800,000 Art)
In New York,
6. Forty killed by boiler explosion la Den
trolt, Mich., Journal building. .. .Ryan fsm-j
lly of six die In their burning house all
Brooklyn.
11. Cblcazo dallies reduce to 1 cent
16. Twenty killed In street car accidenl
at Cleveland, Ohio, ,, .Death of Dr. 8. f,
Smith, author of "America." at Boston....
News of another massacre bv Turk In Ar
menia: 800 slain. ...Consolidation of Chicago;
Journal and Press, I
19, Furlou snow and wind torm In NortlM
west,. ..Lowell, Mass.l Dallas, Texas; and'
I'll reel I, I. T., have big Area
21. $000,000 fire In Springer Building. Ohl-'
engo, ., .Eugene V. Debs released frenv
Woodstock. 111., Jail.. ..Sultan of Turkey)
forced to a peace policy by the powers, after
ub unu cuunteuancea many Armenian mas1
crea.
22. Five firemen lose life In a 1500,000 Ohl
casro blaze. .. .Release from tall and enthusi
astic reccntlon of K. V. Debs, labor leader.
at Chicago. ,, .Foreign fleet rendezvous In
the Dardanelles. J
2o. Tremendous damage at Chicago by,
atorm of snow, sleet and rain; all car llnea
blocked, wire down, .. .Fire at Chicago doew
$200,000 damage. .. .Seventy killed by explc-i
slon in cartridge factory at I'alina, Island of!
Majorca,
20, Three vessel go ashore at aiencoe, 111.1
crews of 28 men saved. .. .Blot Iu Jackson,
Mich., prison,
27. Death of Alexandre Duma, Jr., at
Paris.
28. Day of doom for the turkey. .. .Foot
ball games: Michigan beat Ohlcago; Boston'
and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cor-,
--Puat defeat Illinois; Loulvlll win
jw: Columbia Athletic down Oo-t
-ljrJ!Brown defeat Dart-j
2. AssemW
i
Reed elected Spevw.
weather In Northwest. .
7. $350,000 Are In Ssn FranelacoT:?
storm-swept; British boat and twenty-sev
sailors lost off Rcntlnnil.
6. $600.000 fires In Chlcaro Dnetti of n n,
A. Sala, London Journalist. ., .Tug Campbelll
aud seven men lost in Lake Superior. - . J
' 8. Chilton, Wis., razed by fire. ' -
10. St. Louis gets next National Republic
Convention. ... Sultan permit guard ship
to pass Dardanelles Harry Hayward -
hanged st Minneapolis.-. . t
11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Ayrnm at
Milwaukee; 200 children rescued. .. .Steamer
Qcromnlc sluks the Cambrae, at London t no.
lives lost Mob threaten Kansas Medical, - -
College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing.!
12. Death of Allen O. Tburmnn at ColunM
bus, Ohio. 1
15. German ship Athena with a csa..ot..
teTOltfsTon'onllrier S"tPaul killed sis
men and Injured five. ,, .House paase $100,.
000 appropriation for Venetuela commission
Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street
railway service suspended. . . .Death of Oapt1
Isaac Bassett, doorkeeper of the Senate.
19. Thirty-six lives lost In Newfoundland!
fishing fleet by storm. .. .Forty-three killed;
In a North Carolina mine. .. .Tremendous1
rainfall at Chicago. ,
20. Panic on Wall street. .. .Senate unanh
mousiy passes House bill for Vaneznelanl
commission. .. .Cleveland sends financial
message to Congress. ., .Twenty-four miners'
at Dayton, Tenn., killed. .. .Unprecedented'
flood at Chicago.
PUFFING THE PLAY.
'A New
York Success "Abase
of
Press Courtesy.
The United States is a broad and frusyj
country, and it is well supplied with ex-j
cellent Journals, says tne Forum. As la)
natural and unavoidable, these genets
ally take their tone In treating draJ
matic affairs from those of the metropo-l
lis. What is said and done In Neva
York about plays and actors Is publish?
ed all over the union aa quickly aa thai
wires and press can spread Che newaj
Consequently the theatrical business ofi
the entire country Is managed from
New York. That is why actors, man
agers and the minor personages orj
stage life flock to New York. That Is)
why for many years past it has been!
possible for the wily speculator In rot
ten dramatic lumber to set up a fllmayj
stage structure, held together only byl
the adbeslve qualities of paint and
printers' ink, and by keeping a NevH
York theater open and empty for its
exhibition for a stated term of week
at the expense of $3,000 or $4,000 at
week, and by a continual pestering of)
the good-natured Journalist to obtain
a sufficient amount of notice of hhj
"great New York success!" to enable
him to travel throughout the country)
with his "show," and gather a rich hais
vest from those who are eager to sea
what sort of plays please the people of
the great city.
Of course the "show" soon falls to!
pieces from the weight of Its owaj
worthlessness, and the seeds of general
contempt for New York's good taatej
In theatrical matters are sown broad
cast But no matter. The enterprising
speculator, now well In funds, return
to New York and Is soon upon the full
tide of another like venture. Year af
ter year this sort of thing goes on. But
the people of the East, South and Weal
are becoming wise and wary. The
"business" Is not so good now aa II
once was lu those often-deluded sec
tions. One of the roots of our theatri
cal troubles upon which the ax should
fall quickly and sharply Is this abuse
of the press courtesy first extended In
good nature toward the struggling ar
tist, but now demanded as a right bg
the brass-band "ahow boomer."
Our hardest battles are those we fight
with ourselves.
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