Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — A YEAR’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

A YEAR’S HISTORY.

v- : - #• , • . ;• Chronological Record of Twelve Months. " • * rj__ [FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of AH Events of -v>- L Importance. Vhm Oi«tl Admixture of Disaster, | Crime, Political Changea, Commercial Achievement*, and International Complications—Atrocities of Tnrka in Armenia the Most Shocking Page la Modern Hiotory—Powers of Europe Unite In Demanding ; Reform - Cuban Revolution Meat In i Public Intercat. ! ——— , With but two ’exceptions, the nature of fth* exeats which go to inako up the his--1 lory of the past year is notr startling. The butchery of thousands of Armenians hy Turks has aroused the European powers, and at the close of the year act ire preparations were in progress which suggested the probable dismemberment of tha Ottoman empire. , Tift revolt of Cubana against Spanish rule was lit* ■ext moat important affair, aful that, too, was in full sway at the close .of tlwlyear. Spain seems to fruitlessly beiwi every energy toward its suppression, jyopniar sympathy isitirgejy with-the-Gubaus, 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 unsup(>orted in i*olilical faith by a majority in either house of Congress. A chronological record of •Tents follows:

January. I L Michigan'* first'public Installation of (State officers... :Gov. Morton, of New York, ■worn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef... jTom Blair lynched at Mount Sterling. Kyi*. in an Incendiary fir? at l.ancas2. Death of Col. Edwatd M. Horl, Inspector general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago... .Carnegie's Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. i. S, Fires: $75,*J00 at Springfield. Ohio; $105,•00 at Coffeyvllle, nt Cleveland; $300,0U0 at the Southern Illinois lu-, aane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland entertains Hill at a Cabinet dinner, j 4. Scores of villages ami eitlca unite In ■ending aid to destitute people In Nebraska 1... .JltJO.ooo tire In Milwaukee. I 0. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, Mflbllety degraded for selling war secrets. | 6. $1,000,000 fire at Toronto; two lives lost. I 7, 15 J plosion on steamer In Uio harbor kill* JJ20.,, .High water in Ohio Hirer towns. men pillage stores at St. John’s, kO. W. XV. Taylor. ex-Trensurer of South 'akota, embezzles $350,000; bis bank at Hedeld closes. j 10. Two Uvea lost In a Toronto fire; prepjarty less.-SOOO,OOO. i 11. Coldest day of the season In Chicago; (12 be10w...,. .Storms In the Fast. I 12. Train held up near Ottumwa, lowa. IH. Ono hundred firemen frost-bitten at [Bradford, Pa.; sl3o,ooo,damages. .. .Several {vessels lost oh England's coast; fifteen ' sailers drown. I 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising water In North Staffordshire, ling.: 20 drowned. • 15. C.iant ponder liorrugfat Butte, Mont.; •0 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French l’resl4ent resigns: Royalists awake. WJ7. M. Felix Faure eleeied President of ranee. f 18. News of rebellion In Hawaii.... .Death •f Mary, X'lce I'resldent Stevenson's daughter. ... MHIUa ordered out to protect Brooklyn trolleys. 19. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, •>'eh., defaulter, found in the riVcr. with rope ■ round hts neck... .Sinking of steamer State of Missouri tu the Ohio; forty lives Jest. 21. Chicago, has v thunder and rain storm, rwllh temperature of 51 degrees anil a spring Breeze. followed by a hurricane blowing til jtollea an hour, temperature falling to 10 defirees ntwve zero; many people hurt by' falias timbers,"blown from new Buildings, i 23. Steamer Clpcora nud 25 people lost.ofT Pouth llavea. Mich.; financial loss. $185,000' j... .Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at ILcndoa. ' •• I 25. Seven killed by Mendota. 111., boiler, ■xploslon—.Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim... .Fearful wind and snow •term In the West. 26. Thirteen Bailors dfowued off Point Ju41th. Conn. 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago .... .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed, 43 hurt. In Vandalla wreck ■t Coatsville, Ind... .l’realdeut Cleveland's ■urrency message sent to Congress. 29. Receivers named for the whisky trust. SO. Steamer Elbe sunk In collision with the Crathle. hi North Sea; 314 lives lost. ‘ 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of. Ktv York's society. Febrtta ry. I 3. News of kidnaping of officers from Uni-ted-Slates gunboat Concord, by Chinese, for accidental ihooting of u native. .. .Chicago temperature 13 below. i 4. Three drowned 4*y Milwaukee street car huuniug. Into «n open draw Thirty French laulaers killed by explosion... .Chicago temz>erature 17 below... .Queen Lil abdicates 15. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. ... {Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gascogne. i. Whole country suffers eitreroc cold; 20 ibelow at Chicago. .. .Nine men lost In open Boats at Milwaukee. . .wteport of aunlhllafttlon of Chinese fleet at Wei-Hai-Wel. .. .Ad(Zulnistiation's currency measure atnl Reed nd Cox substitutes defeated iu the House. 8. President aunounees the sale of $02.r l,0(K) In bonds... .Coldest day of the year Chicago. I 10. Schooner Clara and 13 men lost off LIv«rpool, N. S. 11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, •takes New York harbor with disabled machinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car barn fire at Chicago. L 13. Five firemen killed, 10 hurt, at Lyuu, Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray, Minister to Mexico... .New Orleans has ten inches of •now. 20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored •rator. at Washington... .Quick sale of late pond Issue. il [ 2*. Riot at Savannah. Qa., beeanse of exVrlest Slattery’s lecture; troops Called. ' I 27. $400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at (Halifax... .Scores of miners killed in New (Mexico... .Postmaster General Bissell •>CU»I March. [l. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.... Vive killed. 19 hurt, by falling walls at New York. . . .Hvlye}!ion gains ground iH-XhiUa. 2. $1,000,000 fire iu Toronto; $350,000 at Batina. Kan. JL Chicago Times issues Its last nnmber Before consolidation with the Herald..Terrtfle snowstorm In Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. \V. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New York. a One rolfber killed, one captured, and four citizens wounded during raid on the Odell, lows, bank. Harry Hayward convicted of murdering Catherine Ling at Minneapolis... .Steamer Longfellow sluka St ‘Cincinnati; twelve •mwntd. 30, Spanish, war .vessel Rein a Regente founders; 400 lost! 11. Six men killed In New Orleans riots. IZ-Seven- Italians lynyhcd Yty miners for In order In Colorado. Is. Western Newspaper Fnlon plant burns •t Kansas Cltji.. .Two more Italians lynchFWe killed In round-house fir* at ToBodo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland Karas; $200,000 firs St St. Louts... .Report of Making of American schooner and crew of )M by Spanish gunboat ( 30. Mine explosion -In Wyoming kills 00 Miners... .SIOO,OOO fire la Peoria, 11L

2L MOO.OOO Sir* at Won* City; $300,000 at New Orleans. 24. 1.l Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japanese; not fatally... .ft. 000.000 fire at Kansas dtr. Kan., packing house. 25. Furious Oust storm over Central and Western'Bta tea. . —c"" 28. $1,000,000 fire tn 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, 1 30. Death of A. C. HcSfng, editor of Illinois Staats-Zeltung. -,i April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Mass... .Five ale In Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans snccessfnt la Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago. . 1 $ Death of Mrs, l'aran Stevens. ifcletv "tjneen oi Acer York.. .44rfl'n<l I’aclnc liotcl of Chlcngo/closed .. .Fifteen killed by explosion in New Oi leans; it. Supreme Court makes change* llfijnwn« tax law,. .-.Train wrecks- In Ohio 4mF Illinois kill eight. 8, Discovery inf counterfeiting of postage stamps. .. .21 miners killed at New Whatcom, Wash... .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; 0 killed; loss $200.000..., Blizzard of sand and snow.ln the West. 13. Crude oil *?1 Is at $2 in PJttsburg Cuban rebels whip Spanish,troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of james W. Scott, of Chicago •Tline's-llerald, in New York.... $1,000,000 hotel Ore at Pasailctia, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in the Cuban'rebellion crushed... .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. . 19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago shipyards. 20. IT. H. Kohlsaat buys Chicago Tlmesfflerald. .. .May wheat sells at 00 cents All grain advances strongly... .OH goes higher. 21. Five negroes lynched at Butler Springs, Ain....13 Inches or snow In^Colorado. 23. Supreme Court decides In favor of Debs In tho 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 WlseonriaateMnw.., Five killed by powder mill explosion at South Acton, Mass. .7 .Hottest 3d of Slay on record In Chicago; temperature 88 degrees; ono man sunstfuck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet steel workers strike. .. .Orlentn! peace assured. 10. .Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off Mackinaw. Mich., by colliding: one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400,300... .Temperature at Chicago drops from 80 to 43. ~ .Twelve people hurt by gas explosion at Chicago;! four die. 13. Killing frostx from Nebraska to-the Atlantic. ~ .Snow stops the Chicago-New York ball game at Chicago... rKlghteen lives and twelve vessels lost in storms ou Lake Michigan. 18. Great flnrrr In corn and wheat. It). SI,OOO/4)0 tire at St. Albans, Vr... .Terrible earthquakes In Italy... .Killing frost lu fifteen States. 20. tax declared Invalid... .Wheat sells at 7t% cents; 21. Jose Ma'rte, President Cuban Insurgents,, killed... .14 killed in San Francisco powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Danville, 111... .Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Dchs. 28. Death of Gresham, Secretary Of State. 20. Remarkable' military reunion at Chicago. — 1 ' ~ 30. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago... .Dedication ut Chicago of Confederate monument. Si. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts In middle Western Slates, 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; niaity deaths ..front heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 4tJ degrees temperature. 5. Silver convention at Springfield. 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. $200,000 tire ut Kalamazoo. 9. $750,000 tire at Milwaukee. 13. Wlilsky trust declared Illegal. 16. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrich falls for $1,000,000 at .Deadly storms sweem the Missouri Valley.. . .Opeulug of Uarleia ship canal. 20. Opening of Kiel ship ennui. 21. Rosebery's ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whulebnrk excursion steamer Christopher Columbus at Chicago. 2G. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; SIOO,000 1055... .$2,000,000 fire at Sail Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Tbos, Huxley at London. July. 3. Daughter born to the .Clevelands. 7. Terrific stonn.at Chicago... .Six drowned at Lake Geneva, Wis.... Michigan swept by forest ttrPs. 10. Chrisilau Endeavor assembles at Boston. 14. Destructive storm In North Dakota.. Three drown ut South Haven, Xltch... .Seven iicetdentai fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine kHtod by storm In New York and New Jersey. 16. Beginning of Horr-Uarvey debate at Chicago. , 'IT. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, In Chicago... .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners Imprisoned hy eave-ln at Iron Mountain. Sllch... .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 I’. ...Four killed at grade crossing at Wllllamston, Mass... .$400,000 lire in National Linseed Oil Company's Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jut kson'a Hole, Wyoming; trouble imminent. 23. Furious storm In Pennsylvania coke region.... L. S. & M. S. train held up In Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed hy explosion lu Westphalia. . -—4; . 31. Sixteen perish In a cloudburst In Colorado and Wyoming. ... .Menominee, Mich., has a $500,000 fire. Atignit, 4. False report of race war at Spring Valley. 111., between Italian aud negro miners... Murder of British missionaries in China.... $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. 7. Death of George F, Root, the famous composer. 1 8. Thirteen kilted and many Injnred by fatting building in Now York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. $200,000 fire at I.ookport, 111. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark. N. J Four killed iu a wreck at Balnbrtdge. Ohio. 13. $300,000 file at Philadelphia. 18. Holocaust In Denver hotel: 25 hilled.... Scyen drown at Ocean City. Md. 20. Trains Iwld up on the C. & W. M.. near Fcnnviile, Mleh.. and oa the Union Pacific near Nohth Platte, Neb.. . .Eight killed and eight iujured by explosion at Braddock. Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by fire.... Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patcbun. 2C-7-S. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe storms accompanied hy fatalities In Illinois aud Ohio. 29. Fifteen miners drown at Central City, Col. Feptember. 2. One hundred people hurt on tha Sea Beach road. Long Island. •* 3. Furious storm in central Northern • States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. G. Triple murder tu Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty-two miuera perish lu a burning mine at Calumet, Mleh... .Defeuder 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. —4O. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, aud wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defeuder on protest ....Temperature 97 degrees at Chicago. Ilf Uexen 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 hy earthquake In Honduras. .. .Ei-Qmvn Liliuukalam pardoned by Hawaiian Goternmeut. JO. Six killed in a wreck at I.ynehbnrg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened Phenomenal beat In Kansas; 107 degrees. nopga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser aud 46 men lost In collision off Cuba.. .Steamship Edam sunk tn collision; all saved... -Six die of heat In Chicago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes hy storm. 28. Death of I‘asteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster in a storm. Retirement of Gen. Schofield. 80. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elina and eight people lost on Pictured Itock*. ...Mammoth mass meeting at Chicago declares sympathy for Cuba... .National League season dosed, Baltimore winning.

■ Oct'ben 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba declare* her Independence. 2. Texas special prohibits mglltsm. 8-.-; „ 3. Million dollar fire nt Warren. R. I. -■ 7. Seven kUled by explosion In a Wllkesharre. Pa., Buae... .Masked bandits sncceasfully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire... .Firs die by firwin Cincinnati.... Steamer Afrlea and crew of eleven lost la Owen Sound.... Georgia father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Out. „ 12. SIOO,OOO fire loss at Duluth: 13, Four killed, twelve hqrt, on a Pittsburg trolley car. .. .Five burn to death ln-a Manitoba prairie fire; Immense property loss. . 19. 515Q.000 saw-miH fire at Minneapolis. 20. Ilnlf-mllllain dollar fire at Net; Orleans] 1.000 people homeless... . Flrst.gnowstorm ox season"aUCßlcSgb rE?r<V,~P£d ESI' dftea Inches. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to At- < lanta... .$175,000 linseed oil mlllfire at Chimgn ' _ j 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles. In 7 hours 50 minntes 20 seconds, running time, beating world’s record. - 26. Three killed by explosion of tug bolle* nt Chicago... .Sheriff and posse Ft Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching robb... .Burning of Virginia’s State University. _ 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake la 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 States; no fatalities, little damage. - - . November. 1. Earthquake at Roirfe... ■Durra'HT v found J guilty of murder at San Francisco. r 2. 11. H. Holmes found guilty of murder of Benjamin Pi'tzel at Philadelphia. 3. Four killed In B. & O. wreck near Wheeling, W, Va... .Four burned to death In New York tenement house fire. x 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago.,.., $300,000 fire at Decatur. 111. 5. Republican landslide... .$1,500,000 fir* inNew York. 0. Forty killed by holler explosion In Detroit, Mich., Journal building... .Ityan family of six die in their burning house wt Brooklyn. 11. Chicago dallies reduce to 1 cent. 16. Twenty killed In u street car accident ct Cleveland, 0hi0... .Death of Dr. S. F. Smith, author of “America,” at Poston.... News of another massacre by Turks In Armenia; 800 slain.. 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. SOOO,OOO fire in Springer Building, Chicago... .Eugene Vi Debs released from Woodstock, 111., Jail... .Sultan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after lie had countenanced many Armenian massacres. 22. Five firemen lose life In a $500,000 Chicago blaze. .. .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 cud rain; all ear lines blocked, wires down, i. .Fire at Chicago does $200,000 damage. ...Seventy killed by explosion In cartridge factory at Palma, Island of Majorca.. 26. Three vessels go ashore nt Glencoe, 111. i crews of 20 men saved.. . .Riot lu Jackson, Mich., prison.' 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at Paris. 28. Day of doom for the turkey... .Football games: Michigan heats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cornell; Purdue defeats Illinois; Louisville wlna from Do Panw; Columbia Athletic downs Columbia University; Brown defeats Dartmouth. r December, 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congrcssj Reed elected Speaker of the House.;. .Zero weather In Northwest... .Further massacre* In Armenia. 7. $350,000 Are In San Frahclseo... .Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-seven sailors lost off Scotland. .8. $600,000 Arcs In Chicago... .Death ofGe.o A. Sala, Loudon journalist... .Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. 9. Chilton, Wis., razed by fire. 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 Cambfrae, at< Loudon; no lives lost. ...Mob 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 and astounds Great Britain... .Philadelphia In .the ha'nde of a mob during a strike. IS. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed six men and injured five... .House passes sloo,* 000 appropriation for Venezuela commission. ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended... .Death of Capt. Isaac Bassett, doorkeeper of tho ..Senate. 19. Thtrt-y-six lives lost In Newfoundlands fishing _fleet.br storm. ~ killed In n North Carolina mine... .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic on Wall street... .Senate unanimously passes House bill for Venezuelan commission. .. yClevcland sends financial message to Congress. .. .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed... .Unprecedented flood at Chicago.