Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — A YEAR’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

A YEAR’S HISTORY.

Chronological Record of Twelve Months. FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of All Events of Importance. 'The Usual Admixture of Disaster, Crime, Political Changes, Commercial Achievements, and International Complications—Atrocities of Turks in Armenia the Most Shocking Page in Modern History—Powers of Europe Unite in Demanding Reform—Cuban Devolution Next in Public Interest, • With but two exceptions, the nature of the events which go to make up the history 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 suggested 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 exciting, and one of the great 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... .Gov. Morton, of New York, sworn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef. .. Toni Blair lynched at Mount Sterling. Ky. .. Five perish in an incendiary fire at Lancaster, Ky. 2. Death of Col. Edwaid M. Heyl, inspector general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago. .. .Carnegie's Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. 3. Fires: $75,000 at Springfield, Ohio; $105,000'at Coffeyville, Kan.; SIOO,OOO at Cleveland; $300,000 at the Southern Illinois Insane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland entertains Hill at a Cabinet dinner. 4. Scores of villages and cities unite In sending aid to destitute people in Nebraska ... .$100,(100 fire in Milwaukee. 5. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secrets. 6. $1,000,000 fire at Toronto; two lives lost. 7. Explosion on steamer in Rio harbor kills 120. .. . High water In Ohio River towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores at St. John's, N. F. 9. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South Dakota, embezzles $350,000; his bank at Redfield closes. 10. Two lives lost In a Toronto fire; property loss, $(>00,000. 11. Coldest day of the season in Chicago; 12 be10w.... Storms In the East. 1— Train field up near Ottumwa, lowa. 13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at Bradford, Pa.; $130,000 damages. .. .Several vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sailors drown. 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising water In North Staffordshire, Eng. ;*2O drowned. 15. Giant powder horror at Butte, Mont.; 60 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French President resigns; Royalists awake. 17. M. Felix Faure elected President of France. 18. News of rebellion in Hawaii. .. .Death of Mary. Vice President Stevenson’s daughter... .Militia ordered out to protect Brooklyn trolleys. 19. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, Neb., defaulter, found In the river, with rope around his neck. ..'.Sinking of steamer State of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives lost.

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 def ;rees above zero; many people hurt by fallug timbers, blown from new buildings. 23. Steamer Chicora and 25 people lost off South Haven Mich.; financial loss, SIBS,(MX) ....Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at London. 25. Seven killed by Mendota, 111., boiler explosion. .. .Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim Fearful wind and snow storm In the West. 26. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Ju■dlth. Conn, 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago ... .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed, 43 hurt. In Vandalia wreck at Coatsvllle, Ind... .President Cleveland’s currency message sent to Congress 29. Receivers named for the whisky trust. 30. Steamer Elbe sunk in collision with the Cratbie, In North Sea; 314 lives lost 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of New York’s society. February. 3. News of kidnaping of ofiicers from United states gunboat Concord, by Chinese for accidental shooting of a native... .Chicago temperature 13 below. 4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car running into an open draw... .Thirty French miners killed by explosion... .Chicago temperature 17 below. .. .Queen Lil abdicates Hawaii s throne. 6. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest Alarm for the overdue French liner La Ga'scogne. 7. Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20 below at Chicago... .Niue men lost In open boats at Milwaukee... .Report of annihilation of Chinese fleet at Wel-Hal-Wel... .Administration's currency measure and Reed and ('ox 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 Liverpool, N. S. . 11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, makes New York harbor with disabled machinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car barn fire at Chicago 13. Five firemen killed, 16 hurt, at Lynn Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray, Minister to Mexico... .New Orleans has ten Inches of snow. 20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored orator, at Washington... .Quick sale of late bond issue. 26. Riot at Savannah, Ga., because of exFriest Slattery’s lecture; troops called 2L ¥400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at Halifax. .. .Scores of miners killed in New Mexico... .Postmaster General Bissell resigns. 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 tire In Toronto; $350,000 at Salina. Kan. 3. Chicago Times Issues Its last number before consolidation with the Herald... .Terrific snowstorm in Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New York. 6. One robber killed, one captured, and four citizens • wounded during raid on the Odell, lowa, bank. ■*’ 8. Harry Hayward ('Obviated of muixlering Catherine Ging at Minneapolis... .Steamer Longfellow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve drowned, 10. Spanish war vessel 'Reina Regente founders; 400 lost. 11. Six men killed In. New Orleans riots. 12. Seven Italians lynched by miners for murder in Colorado. 13. Western Newspaper Union plant burns at Kansas City. .. .Two more Italians lynched in Colorado. 16. Five killed In round-house fire at Toledo; Kellogg 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 60 miners SIOO,OOO fire in Peoria, 111. 21. $400,000 fire at Sioux City; $309,000 at New Orleans. 24. LI Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japanese; not fatally. .. .$1,000,000 fire at Kansas City. Kan., packing-house. 25. Furious dust storm over Central and Western States. 26. $1,000,000 fire In Milwaukee. 27, Three train robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route. 29. Japan declares armistice... .Hottest March day ever known In Chicago; temperature 78 degrees. 30. Death of A. 0. Heslng, editor of Illinois Siaats-Zeltung. April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Maes... .Five die In Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans successful in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago. ■ 3. Death of Mrs; Paran Stevens, society queen of New York... .Grand Pacific Hotel of Chicago closed .. .Fifteen killed by explosion in New Orleans.

S. Supreme Court makes changes In Income tax law ...Train wrecks In Ohio and Illinois kill eight. 8. Discovery of counterfeiting of postage stamps....2l miners killed at New Whatcom. Wash... .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; 6 killed; loss $200,000.... Blizzard of sand and snow in the West. 13. Crude oil sells at $2 in Pittsburg. ...Caban rebels whip Spanish troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of James W. Scott, of Chicago Times-Herald, in New York.... $1,000,000 hotel fire at Pasadena, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in the Orient.... Cuban rebellion crushed... .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. 19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago shipyards. 20. H. H. Kohlsaat buys Chicago TimesHerald... .May wheat sells at 60 cents.... All grain advances strongly... .Oil goes higher. 21. Five negroes lynched 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. 3. Awful death roll in lowa and Wisconsin storms. ...Five killed by powder mill explosion at South Acton, Mass... .Hottest 3d of May on record in Chicago; temperature 88 degrees; one man sunstruck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet 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 86 to 43... .Twelve people hurt by gas explosion at Chicago; four die. 13. Killing frosts from Nebraska to the Atlantic. .. .Snow stops the Chicago-New York ball game at Chicago... .Eighteen Ilves and twelve vessels lost in storms on Lake Michigan. 18. Great flurry in corn and wheat. 19. $1,000,000 fire at St. Albans. Vt... .Terrible earthquakes in Italy. .. .Killing frost in fifteen States. 20. Income tax declared invalid... .Wheat sells at 74% cents. 21. Jose Marte, President Cuban insurgents, ki11ed....14 killed in San Francisco powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Danville, lll....Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Debs. 28. Death of Gresham, Secretary of State. 29. Remarkable military reunion at Chicago. 30. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago... .Dedication at Chicago of Confederate monument. 31. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts in middle Western States, 99 degrees in the shade in Dakota, six inches of snow in Colorado. balmy weather on the Pacific coast, and 96 degrees in New York City. June. 1, 2. 3. Unprecedented heat in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indianapolis; many deaths from heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees temperature. 5. Silver convention at Springfield, 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. $200,000 fire at Kalamazoo. 9. $750,000 fire at Milwaukee. 13. Whisky trust declared Illegal. 16. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrich fails for $1,000,000 at Denver... .Deadly storms sweep the Missouri Valley... .Opening of Harlem ship canal.

20. Opening of Kiel ship canal. 21. Rosebery’s ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Columbus at Chicago. 26. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; SIOO,000 loss. .. .$2,000,000 fire at San Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Thos. Huxley at London. July. 3. Daughter born to the Clevelands. 7. Terrific storm at Chicago. .. .Six drowned at Lake Geneva, Wls. .. .Michigan swept by forest fires. 10. Christian Endeavor assembles at Boston. 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. 16. Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago. 17. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, in Chicago... .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners Imprisoned by cave-in at Iron Mountain. Mich. .. .British ship Prince Oscar and .unknown vessel sink 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 Marla 1’....F0ur killed at grade crossing at Williamston, Mass. .. .$400,000 fire in National Linseed Oil Company’s Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jackson’s Hole, Wyoming; grave trouble imminent. 23. Furious storm in Pennsylvania coke region.. ..L. S. & M. 8. train held up in Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion in Westphalia. 31. Sixteen perish in a cloudburst in Colorado and Wyoming.... Menominee, Mich., has a $500,000 fire. AllßllSt. 4. False report of race war at Spring Valley, 111., between Italian and negro miners... Murder of British missionaries In China... . $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. 7. Death of George F. Root, the famous composer. 8. Thirteen killed and many injured by falling building in New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. $200,000 fire at Lockport, 111. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark, N. J......F0ur killed In a wreck at Bainbridge, Ohio. 13. $300,000 fire at Philadelphia. 18. Holocaust in Denver hotel; 25 killed.... Seven drown at Ocean City, Md. 20. Trains held up on the C. & W. M., near Fennville, 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 fire.... Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patchen. 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. September. 2. One hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road, Long Island. 3. Furious storm in central Northern States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. 6. Triple murder In Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty-two miners perish in a burning mine at Calumet, Mich. .. .Defender defeats Valkyrie In first cup contest by nine minutes. 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque, lowa. 9. Opening of G A. R. encampment at Louisville. 10. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defender ou protest ....Temperature 97 degrees at Chicago. 11. Seven killed by exploding caisson at Louisville... .Six killed in collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender, Valkyrie refusing to sail... .Seventy-five hurt by fall of a grand stand at Louisville, Ky.... News of death of 300 by earthquake in Honduras. .. .Ex-Queen LUluokalanl pardoned by Hawaiian Government. 16. Six killed In a wreck at Lynchtfurg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened... .Phenomenal beat In Kansas; 107 degrees. 18. Dedication of Chickamauga-Chatta-nooga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser and 46 men lost In collision off Cuba.. .Steamship Edam sunk In collision; all saved... .Six die of heat In Chicago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by storm. 28. Death of Pasteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster In a storm... .Retirement of Gen. Schofield. 30. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elma and eight people lost on Pictured Rocks. .. .Mammoth mass meeting at Chicago declares sympathy for Cuba. .. .National League season closed, Baltimore winning. October. 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba declares her independence. 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pugilism. 3. Million dollar fire at Warren, R. I. 7. Seven killed by explosion in a Wilkesbarre, Pa., mine... .Masked bandits successfully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire... .Five die by fire in Cincinnati. .. .Steamer Africa and crew of eleven lost In Owen Sound.... Geotgla father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. SIOO,OOO fire loss at Duluth. 13. Four killed, twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley car... .Five burn to death In a Manitoba prairie fire; immense property loss. 19. $150,000 saw-mill fire at Minneapolis. 20. Half-million dollar Are at New Orleans; 1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm of season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fall of ten inches. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to Atlanta... .$175,000 linseed oil mill fire at Chicago. 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles, in 7 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds, running time, beating world’s record. 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler at Chicago... .Sheriff and posse at Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob,.. .Burning of Virginia’s State University. 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake In Texas. ...$200,000 fire in Springfield, Ohio ....Two killed, three fatally hurt, in a collision In St. Louis. 31. Earthquake throughout the central belt of the United Statesfno fatalities, little damage. November. 1. Earthquake at Rome... .Durrant found guilty of murder at San Francisco. 2. H. H. Holmes found guilty of murder of Benjamin Pitxel at Philadelphia. 3. Four killed in B. & O. wreck near Wheel-

ing, W. Va... .Four burned to death in New York tenement house fire. 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago....* $300,000 fire at Decatur, Hl. 5. Republican landslide. .. .$1,500,000 fire in New York. 6. Forty killed by boiler explosion in Detroit, Mich., Journal building... .Ryan family of six die in their burning nouse at Brooklyn. 11. Chicago dailies reduce to latent. 16. Twenty killed in a street car accident at Cleveland. 0hi0... .Death of Dr. 8. F. Smith, author of “America," at 805t0n.... News of another massacre by Turks in Armenia; 800 slain... .Consolidation of Chicago Journal and Press. 19. Furious snow and wind storm In Northwest.... Lowell. Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and Purcell. I. T„ have big fires. 21. $600,000 fire in Springer Building, Chicago... .Eugene V. Debs released from Woodstock, 111., jail... .Sultan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after be had countenanced many Armenian massacres. 22. Five firemen lose life in a $500,000 Chicago blase... .Release from Jail and enthusiastic reception of E. V. Debs, labor leader, at Chicago... .Foreign fleets rendezvous in the Dardanelles. 25. Tremendous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet and rain; all car lines blocked, wires down... .Fire at Chicago does $200,000 damage.,. .Seventy killed by explosion In cartridge factory at Palma, Island of Majorca. 26. Three vessels go ashore at Glencoe, Ill.| crews of 26 men saved ...Riot in Jackson, Mich., prison. 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at Paris. 28. Day of doom for the turkey... .Football games: Michigan beats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cornell; Purdue defeats Illinois: Louisville wins from De Pauw; Columbia Athletic dowus Columbia University; Brown defeats Dartmouth. December. 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congress: Reed elected Speaker of the House. .. .Zero weather tn Northwest. Further massacres fa Armenia. 7. $350,000 fire in San Francisco.., .Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-seven sailors lost off Scotland. 8. s6oo,ooofires In Chicago... .Death ofGe.o A. Sala. London Journalist... .Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. 9. Chilton, Wls., razed by tire. 10. St. Louis gets next National Republican Convention... .Sultan permits guard ships to pass Dardanelles... .Harry Hayward hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Asylum at Milwaukee; 200 children rescued. .. .Steamer Germanic sinks the Cambrae, at London; no lives 105t....M0b threatens Kansas Medical College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing. 12. Death of Allen G. Thurman at Columbus, Ohio. 15. German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17. Cleveland's Venezuelan message arouses great enthusiasm at home aud astounds Great Britain. .. .Philadelphia In the hands of a mob during a strike. 18. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed six men and injured five... .House passes SIOO,000 appropriation for Venezuela commission ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended... .Death of Capt. 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... .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic on Wall street... .Senate unanimously passes House bill for Venezuelan commission... .Cleveland sends financial message to Congress. .. .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed... .Unprecedented flood at Chicago.