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Notable Events of the Past
Twelvemonth.
J’HF BUSY IIANI) OF DEATH.
Fire ttiul Flood Slave Done Their Direful
\^ork—A Year of Political Change*.
Ixing L4nt of Strike*—MiaccIlancMma Mat-
tern at Home and Abroad.
Eere is the record of 1890: The year
was ushered iu by la grippe. The base
ball season was not a success. Pacing^
running and team racing records were
lowered. Football had a Ixxmi. Mary
Anderson married. The McKinley trill
was passed. Boulanger fell. The Dem
ocrats won the congress elections. The
Parnell matter dealt a severe blow to
the Irish causo. The financial world
narrowly escaped disaster. Stanley’s
revelations of the 1 horrors of the rear
guard convulsed the civilized world.
Tornadoes 4e1 enormous damage in parts of
Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana; at Ixhim
Tills *00 buildings were demolished, and bo-
teveu 75 and >00 lives lost; Bowling Green,
Ky., was practically wiped out of existence,
witli many fatalities; total loss of life about
TOO
URtL
2. Kme explosion at Nantiooke, Pa.; 5 Idllod,
6 hmt.
6. 42 buildings burned at Theresa, N. Y.; loss
$150,000.
9. Tornado in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and
Virginia; 12 killed; enormous damage.
MAY.
6. 3,TOO people thrown out of employment by
fire in Uie Ringer sewing machine works at !
Elizabeth, X. J.; loss tncs-o tlian $1,000,0X1. ,
Salt Creek, Tex., wrecked by tornado; many i
killed.
Insane asylum burned at Longue Point, Quo- j
bee; 91 killed; loss $100,000.
8. Chenango county poorbousc burned at Pres 1
ton, N. Y.; 10 billed.
1L 19 dwelling homes destroyed by a storm at
Akron, O.
Farm houses wrecked and 4 killed by a Kan
sas tornado.
Government storehouses at Willett's Point, N.
Y-, burned; loss, $.500,000.
15. Mine accident at Ashley, l’a.; SI killed.
Btt Fh.ll of a train thrmigli a drawbridge at Oak
land, Cal.; 29 killed.
JUNE.
4. Tornado at Bradshaw, Neb.; 15 killed; great
damage t« jn-operty.
15 Expiosibn In Farm Hill eeal mine at Dunbar,
l'a.; 39 killed.
19. dcudlmrst and tcruado In Potter County, R.
I).; IS killed; mormons damage to property;
disastrous sterms In Kentucky and Maine.
30. Allen-Dmdiey Distillery company's works at
1 /mixville, Ky, burned; kies, $150,000; also
Standard Oil company's refinery, same
city; seroral employes fatally hurt.
JULY.
7. Storm at Fargo, N. V.; 9 Lined; much prop
erty destroyed.
11. Explosion of steamboat Tioga's boiler at Chi-
eago; IX) killed. ,
Collapse of a ferry landing at Dartmouth, N.
S.; 12 killed.
15 Tornado capsized un excursion Bteamor on
Lake Pepin, SOmi.; 1C drowned; great dam
age to property in St. I'anl.
Wall paper factory of Carey Jtrxia. w4th a hren-
ber yard and pianiug Brill, homed ot Ihila-
doipftia; loss, $800,000,
M. Otttimsn on tbe Mpuvu mflroad, near Spring-
ville, Ilia: X) trilled.
Firs started in tierCkxrid btoeb at Gohvwton,
Tex.; konn, $1,000,000.
1ft. tWnrKy exopanyf* warehouse «t Mtnneapetts
burned; Visa, IkkXttCO
E.wploaien of Stag's powder mi9a, 29 miles
fresu < VuvnMft; 10 MDed, 000 tn$urdO, ft)
aerieesiy.
M. hnwkbKV, Hohk., almost -ecsapletefy hurte-d.
18 Five In ttaWo««^Uukn bufMing, New Ytrk
city; loss, $l,0SftnuO
01 Itwendiary lire siCflaneVails. Wash.; toss,
$160,000
(ft Ternedo at South Law retire. Mast.; 9 kOtrd,
10 seriously injurudaM lightly Injured, 600
rendered hnrmdaaa: loss, $200,003
*7. Waftao-, tunbr, BnrneXr, Ions, $C!3,»TOO; TOO
botmtaas.
88. Bxrursion ikmnui Lrwdaa onllided with the
Bay Lfne irfeamer Vl^takt near Tolehester,
Vs.; 14-kfned. 80 Injured.
80. Ihurimra feus of Seneca FXtflh, N. Y., tmrned;
k*s, $itri.«CXl
Doola, lumber yards «nd rnllroed property
burned tn Oiiongo; Ins, $300,0*0.
ATWW7BT.
3 Storm m Mmeeeato; damage at New Rich
mond. $150,00*; at Sioux Ftdls, $15,003.
71. Explosion of natural gas tore np ten acres of
land near Wstdeei, Shelby county, Ind.;
jricccr of t!io rfrer flat rock thrown half a
mile.
74. Keatucky distillery lit Louisville, Ky., burned;
loss, $3,000,000.
4C business houses burned at Austin, Potter
county, l'a.; loss, $500,000.
15. Storm at Colorado Springs; 2 killed; loss,
$200,000.
19. Express train wrecked on the Old Colony rail
road, near Quincy, Mass.; 20 killed, 3 fa-
, tally, and 25 seriously Injured.
A tornado doitrsyod900 houses at Wflkcsbarre,
Pa., and vicinity; 10 killed, 11 fatally in
juretl and many badly hurt; loss, $1,000,000.
All the luost important dates of the 21 • Web winds at Philadelphia; 4 killed; great
* x, t • . a . t .. iliimApQ at Baltimore. Wofcliimrton and
year follow under appropriate headings.
FIRES AND DISASTERS.
JANUARY.
& Snowaliil** in Sierra City, Cal.; 7 killed; ln-
teixso cold m tho southwest.
D 1C drowno<l iu a sinking caisson at I/>uiHvi!le,
Ky
12. A storm at St. Ixniis killed 3, Injured many
and did enormous damage to pn»pt».rty; simi
lar storms mfivhig eastward, did great
havoc in^ther states.
Stables of Macey Bros., nt Versailles, Ky.,
bunie«l with forty blooded horses, among
them Bell Boy; lorn, $350,009.
lft An elevator in Baltimore bufued; loss, $800,-
000; also the British steamship Socrobusco,
lying alongside; 3 killed; loss, $150,000.
Tornado at Clinton, Ky., killed lOund injured
65; damage by storms in Syracuse, Roches*
iter, Oswego, Buffalo and other New York
state cities; heavy snow in Kansas.
27 Oi&iiin, Coburn & Co.'s building in Boston
burned; loss, $vfl0,000i
Tl Reported that u storm In Washington killed
10 people and thousands of cattle.
22 Terrible storms on American, French and En
glish coasts
Natural gas explosion at Coluiabua, O , killed
, 10 and injured many; several hufldings
Vi recked.
27 Accident ou the Louisville, New Albany And
Chicago railroad near Indianapolis killed %
and injured many
FEBRUARY.
1. Explosion nt Plymouth, Pa.; killed six and
injured others.
2. Tenement house fire iu Boston; eleven killed;
loss $175, U00
Fire in Danbury, Conn.; loss $300,000.
2. A fti*e in the Washington house of Benjamin
F. Tracy, secretary of the United Btate* j
navy, resulted in the deuth of Mrs. 'Tracy, a 1
daughter and a woman servant. Mr. And ,
Mrs WLlmerding, daughUw and grand* j
daughter of r the secr»»tory, jump«ed from a
window and were sovendy iujurinL The
eecretaiy was unconscious when removed,
and was with difficulty restored.
4. A railroad feculent at The Dalles, Ore., killed
10 and injured 15.
t Floods in Oregou..
>2 FTre iu the dry goods lionto of J. V. For well A
C#., Chicago; loss $500,000
74. University of Toronto burned.
-22 A storage reservoir dam gave way in Hasa-
yarn pa. Am.; 50 killed and $1,000,000 dam
age done to proj>erty
HABCB
1. Floods along the Ohio riser.
2 Mine fire ut Wilkesbarre, Pa.; ^ killed.
V. Accident ou the l>tke Shore railroad at Ham
burg, near Buffalo, N. Y.; 0 killed, 15 in
jured
8. Alarming rise of rivers hi the Mississippi val
ley; tliis was the beginning of a series of
disastrous floods lasting fatly two months;
nearly every day levees were swept away;
at out: time New Orleans was in danger;
March HO the Yazoo delta was overflowed;
March 30 but one house was left unharmed
at Skipwith, Miss.; April 13 Sims Port, La.,
was overflowed, April 25 the river reached
the highest point on record at Vicksburg.
21. The oiothing bouse of Stern, Meyer & Oo n
Cincinnati, burned; loss $500,000.
2ft. Fire at Kirksvflie, Mo.; loss $200,000.
17. Fall ot burning walls at Indianapolis; lOkfUed,
15 injured; March 10 more walls ot same
budding fell; 2 killed.
Fire at Peoria, Ilia; loss, $250,000.
Mine Or© at Hurley, Wia.; 7 kfiled.
■ %. Floods along the Monoagahela and Alleghany
rivers iu Pennsylvania.
27. Explosion in a Chicago sugar reflnery; 9
damage at Baltimore, Washington and
other places.
Fire at Thousand Island park, N. Y.; 1 killed;
loss, $180,000.
22 Accident on Mount Penn Gravity railroad, at
Reading, Pa.; 4 kifltxi, 21 injured.
20. MoVicker's tbeatro burned in Cliicago; loss,
$200,000.
snpTRMinKt.
C. Prematuro explosion of a blast at Spokane
Falls, Wash.; 1$killed, 27 injured.
19. Pottsville express on the Heading railroad
wrecked near Shocmakersville, Pa.; 23 killed,
40 injured.
24. Explosion on a steamer at Newcastle, Pa.; 12
killed.
28. Fire in Fowler Tiros’, packing house, Chicago;
loss, $700,000.
OCTDDXIL
7. Explosion at the Imiwnt P«rwder works, ntiar
Wilmington, Del.; 12 killed.
9. Explosion in a gold mine at Rosario, Cal.; 10
killed
lft. Leland house In Syracuse, N. Y., burned; 5
killed, 15 injured; loss, $2Jfi,0(X).
90. Dry goods store of Frank Bros, at St. I^ouis,
Mo., burned; loss, $425,000.
21. P ire at East Pepperell, Mass.; loss, $300,000.
26. Mills, warehouses, cotton, steamboats, cars,
coal and wood yanla, wharves and a freight
depot, burned in Mobile, Ala.; loss, $650,000.
27. Storms and high tides did great damage on
the Atlantic coast.
80. Collision between steamship Vizcaya and
schooner Cornelius Hargraves off Barncgat,
N. J.; 65 drowned.
XOVBMBE&.
I. Business portion of Chillicofho, Ills., burned;
loss, $200,000.
8. Burlington hotel, Grand hotel and several
business buildings burned in Ban Francisco;
loss, $1,500,000.
4. Ware house stored with valuables burned at
New Rochelle, N. Y.; loss, $250,000.
ft. C. J. Wells’ elevator burned in Buffalo, N. Y.;
loss, $250, CVX>.
St. Elmo hotel and other buddings 1 Aimed in
Denver; 1 killed; loss, $109,000.
Business portion of Trnckee, Cal., burned;
loss, $110,000.
7. Rndd house and other buddings burned at
Owenifiwro, Ky.; 8 killed, many hurt; loss,
$250,000.
II. Fifty-five drowned by an Australian ferryboat
disaster.
TSL Wreck ot ttfe British cruiser Serpent on the
Spamcftj esast; 97B drowwed.
K H. Dutanl, comnMoi msrcdiaot. and others
bumed out in San Fvoocasco; kies, jGIfiOjXXI.
82, Si Hi mtti and oftker buiktrags-burned at Pater
Bon, aN. J.iioss, fdOCMWX
85. IjUu^hm yards burned at Cheboygan, Mich.;
loss, $400,000.
87. Fire in the Powers Dry Goods Oo.’s buildings
at St. Pauh loss, $KG;0U0.
D^CVMBKR.
1. Campbell Manufacturing company's mill
Inirninl at Mouayunk^ Pa,; ioes, $280,000.
ft. Fire in Scollop's tobacco works at Detroit;
loss, $800,lkKJ.
4. A bloat furnace feU at Johet, Ills.; 5 killed.
to be minister to thd Thifief States of~Bra- I
xil, sad Wir.Lxm H. Taft, at Ohio, to be so- I
lidtor (crocral.
ntpROARY.
8. A statement was prepared !»y Mr. Carlisle and
signed by nil the Democrats in the house at j
Washhkgton, stating their side of the dis
pute wer the quest km of certifying a quo- 1
rum.
4. Homing declared governor of West Virginia
by a vote in the legislature of 43 to 40.
Tho senate ratified tl*o Samoan treaty with 12
dissenting votes.
10. Tlie president signed the proclamation open
ing theffioux reservation.
Tbo president nominated Charles Emory Smith
to be minister to Russia.
13. The Oklahoma bill passed In tho senate, with
amendment including No Man's Land.
14. The house nriopted the new rode of rules.
15. The house ;massed the mortgage indebtedness
hill after amendment.
Secretary Wlndom ternilnate<l tho govern
ment contract with the New York commis
si oners of immigration. i
18. John K. liayborn eiecbrd to snreerfd the hito
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in congress.
The senate ratiflr<l the British extradition
treaty with two slight amendments.
24. The house at Washington voted for Chicago
as the site for the World's fair, tho eighth
ballot standing—Chicago, 157; New York,
107; St. Louis, 25; Washington, IS; Cum
berland Gap, 1.
25. nie president nominated Harold M. Sewnfl, of
Maine, to bo consul general at Apia, Samoa.
27. Hkj president nominated Henry C. Caldwell,
of Arkansas, to succeed Jndgo Brewer on
tho circuit bench.
28. Secretary Wtndom awarded tbo contract for
taking fur seals In Alaska to tho North
American Commercial company.
KAROO.
4. William B. Allison re-dcoted United States
senator by tho Iowa legislature.
20. Tbo Blair education bill defeated In tho senate
by a vote of 37 to 31. ^ . . . |
APRIL.
' 8. Tbo Idaho admission bill pawed by the house;
passed by tho senate July 1; signed by presi- ;
dent J«)y 8.
ft. Tho senate passed the anti trust bill.
9. The Canadian government doekksi to rooew
the modus vrvendl for another year
19. Tho Pan-American congress adjourned sine
die at Washington.
28. Joint resolutions passed by congress and
signed by thepvonMrat appropriating $Wd,
680f or relief of Itkariiisippl flood Bo/Terem. |
28. The United States supremo eowrt (Wciared the
Iowa Jaw for the seizure of Ikjaor ht “orqp-
nal porkspa" to be iiwrewrits ttonai.
Tbowri>ftnsriou treaty m»c»*d by representa-
Mves <4 ten American rvpwbttss.
ka^t.
t Governor FMfl, of Mew York, stgiM thaboi-
1st reform bill.
fuSernational syywgiit WW lest In the hcm»i
aClVashbigten.
80. Bloii&rtl Vanx rieated to flrsm Cho
Tbinl ParmHyKmnia dmrioeto tmooeed ft. J.
RsndaH.
81. TTi© bouse passed th% tariff bill.
mc».
81. Worth Dickerson elected to congress from tho
Sixth Kentucky district to mtoooed John O. j
Oarilrto.
86. IAewt. CoL Richard nwuiuated by the presi
dent to bo quar%«TTia.wer gworal of tho
United fttatmarmy.
27. Tivrsenafe^vtsod tkehtil admitting Wyoming
hitotlurUskm; sign-d hy pryakie»$t Jnty K).
The ysvtfiidoMt approved the depeedent peti
tion Mil.
jm.v.
2. The hotwo at Washington posnod tho Ixxlge
% fodurd riocUene bffl by a vote of 155 to 149.
ft. The president nominated Adnm King, «»f Mary
land, to bn consul general at Paris,
f. Governor Nieholle, of Ijoaislana, vetoed tho
bill passed by the legislature amending the
state constttrrtion and rechartering tho 1 Am- |
IMana lottery for 25 years at $1,000,800 a
year; passed oser his veto next day.
K president nominated Gen. A B. Nettleton,
of Minnesota, to ho assist tnt secretary of
the treasury, and Professor James Russell
Sotey, of MassachT»‘tts, to l»e assistant sec
retary of thexiavy.
AUGUST.
R, Tlio president approved tho “original pack- i
age” bill.
16. Elver and harbor hill passed by tho senate; it
appropriated $26,000,000.
The honso passed the anti-lottery hid.
18. The Chalmors-Morgan election contest set
tled by tho house iu favor of Mr. Morgan.
Mensrs. Beckwith, of Now Jersey, and Wilson,
of Washington, came to blows on th»* floor
i of the house during a heated discussion,
and muoh excib^menfc was caused hy a re
mark by Mr. Cannon concerning Mr. Me-
Adoo.
30. 'Hie president approved tho meat inspection ;
and agricultural colleges bill.
SEPTEMBKlt.
5. C. It. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, unseated in
the house by a vote of 105 to 62.
10. The senato passed tho tariff bill by a vote of
40 to 29.
16. The senate j»asscd tho anti-lottery bill.
19. The president signed tho river and harbor and
anti-lottery bills.
26. Tho president nominated E. Burd Onibb, of :
New Jersey, for tho Spdnish mission, and i
Edwin II. Conger, of Iowa, for tho Brazilian !
mission.
27. The house adopted tho conference report on
the tariff bfll-152 to 81.
29. The president approved the land grant for- I
foitupi bill.
The president nominated for members of tho 1
continental railroad commission A. J. Cas
satt, of Pennsylvania; George M. Pullman, |
of Illinois, and llenry G. Davia of West :
Virginia; also Smith A. Whiteflem, of Ohio, 1
to be first assistant postmaster general;
James Lowrio Bell, second assistant post- I
master general; Serrrpronius II. Boyd, min
ister to Siam; John N. Irwin, of Iowa, gov
ernor of Arizona; Alfred A. Freeman, of j
Tennessee, associate justice for New Mexico.
80. George S. Batcheiler, assistant* secretary of !
the treasury, appointed by tho president !
minister to I*ortugal.
The senate passed tho conference report on I
the tariff bill, three Republieaus roting with |
the Democrats against it.
OCTOBER.
1. Congress adjourned sin© die.
6. TUb new tariff law went into effect.
14. Jastin S. Morrill elected to the United Rfcates I
senate from Vermont for the fifth time.
KOVKtfBER.
4. Election day in thirty-nine states.
15. Delaaato Carey rioeted tJuifted States senator
from Wyoming.
18. Gen. John B. Gordon elected United States ;
senator from Georgia
Governor Francis E. Warren elected United j
Slates senator from Wyoming.
28. Janies L. Posh re-elected to S»e United States
senate from Alabama.
BHCflnCR.
1. Opening of oongress.
8. InU‘rnational copyright bfil passed by tfca j
house; vote, 180 to 25.
M. Cfis Dnfce of -Cbsia, ex king of Spain, at Tu
rin, aged 46.
». Ortow W. Choptnan, solicitor general of tha
United States treasury, at Washiiygton,
aged 66. )
Gen. M. G. Vallejo, at Sonoma, Cal., aged 81.
22. Jonathan Lena, junior trustee of the Econo
mic society, at Economy, Ta., afjed 90 years.
84. .Ex-Senator H. II. Riddlebergvr, at Woodsttjck,
Va., aged 46.
Adam Forepo«gh, tho famous showman, at
I’biladtilphiA aged 59.
88. Ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, at Chicago.
FEBRUARY.
2. Mrs. Alice R. Copping^r, at the home of her
father, James G. Blaine, at Washington,
*ged 20.
Nathan C. Burnett, a^eretary of state ot
Georgia, at Atlanta, aged 90.
4. Rear Admiral Stephen P. Quackenbnsh, U. S.
N\, retired, at Washington, aged 67.
8. Cardinal Pucci, tho pope's brother, at Rome,
aged 83.
22. John Jacob Astor. the head of the A<*tor fam
ily, at New York, aged 7S.
If ARCH.
2. Ex-Governor J K. English, of Connecticut, at
New Haven, aged 78.
4. E<lwln Cowles, e<litor ot Tho Cleveland Leader,
at Cleveland, a god 63.
5. Aliralmm Lincoln, son of the IT. S. minister to
England, at l-^ndon, aged 17.
21. Maj. Gen. George Crook, at Chicago, aged 61
23. Gen. It C. Sehenck. at Washington, aged 81,
26. James V Campbell, aasoefate justice of tho
stTpremo court of Michigan, at Detroit,
aged G?
Archbishop rictes, of Milwaukee, at Iw Crosse,
Wis., aged 72.
30. David Dows, financier, at Now York, aged 77.
Vico Admiral Rowan, at Washington, aged 85.
81. Hon. Charles Danforth, jjiMtic© of tho supremo
court of Maine, at Gardiner, Me., aged 74.
AFniL.
Tl. George Hay Stuart, at Philadelphia, aged 74.
13. United Stales Representative ftainoel J. Ran
dall, at hLn homo in Washington, age<l 62.
20. James Pollock, ex governor of Pennsylvania,
at Lock Haven.
William Warner Hoppla, ex-governor of Rhode
Lsland, at Provklence, aged 82.
26. Crowfoot, chief of the Black feet Indians.
MAT.
8. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, at Washington,
aged 68.
4. Bishop Borgren, at Kata memo, Mich., aged 65.
6. Kx-Gknvrnor Andrew ftbrernaan, at Chicago.
12, Gen. Julius White, ex-UbUM Stetes minister
to tbe /Vrgenrine Republic, at Evanston,
nUi_ aged 54.
27. James CTCotmer, Ronmxi CHtbello bl^hep of
Nebraska# at Omaha, aged 6ft
jvwn.
8. den. Lindsay Walker, at O^sbMjv, Va., aged
Vi. SeCT^kary Wladom announced tiiat be would
buy $16,000,000 4 per cent, bonds and prepay
the interest on the 6s In order to relieve
financial stringency.
OrJT/BR R.
7. Second flnoi>cial jMinic at Buenos Ayres.
14. F. H. Hogorty & Co., bankers at Aberdeen,
8. Dak., assigned; liabilities, $240,0O>;
$240,CW0
f&wniiio.
ft 1^00 cotton min weaverx struck at Kashas,
N. IK, against reduction; ended March 7.
Freestone cutters in Boston struck; lost Oct. 30.
MARCH.
10. 2,000 shtrttnakere struck in New York city;
won Mmrch 12.
12. 1,000 employes of the Lorrio iron mine struck
nt Ashland, Wis.; compromised.
80. Isaac L Kalk & Co., New York clothiers, ns- ls - 0.000 miners struck at Nottiugham, England,
signed; liabilities, $280,000.
Isidore Rosenthal, New York clonk manu
facturer, assigned; liabilities, $150,00); as \
sets, ^'.flOO.
31. Leopold Bros. & Co., Chicago clothiers, ns-1
signed; liabilities, $325,000; assets, $325,000. |
NOVEMBER.
11. Great excitement in Wall street, New York, ]
and fears of n panic; three failures an
nounced: Charles M. Whitney & Co., David
Richmond, and Decker, Howell & Co., with
liabilities of $10,000,000; assets moro.
John T. Walker & Sons, New York, import
ers, assigned; liabilities, $1,100,000; assets,
$1,300,000.
12. The NYn lh Itiver hank, of New York, closed
Its doors, and there were two small failures
on tho Stock Exchange.
15. Financial panic in England, and probably in
America, averted by tho Bank of England
and others guaranteeing £9,000,000 for the
firm of Baring Bros., embarrassed by drop
in foreign securities.
16. Tho Kansas City Backing and Refrigerator
com pony assigned; liabilities, $750,000.
TO. Barker Bros. & Co., Philadelphia bankers, sits
pended.
22. United States Rolling Stock company, of Illi
nois, Alabama and Ohio, liquidated; Uablli
ties, $3,818,0TO; assets, $8,058,000.
24. Thomas Fawcett & Co., coal dealers of Pitts
burg, assigned; liabilities, $300,000; assets,
$600,000.
15. Richard H. Allen & Co., bankers and commis
sion merchants. New York, assigned, liabili
ties $1,000,000; Thomas H. Allen & (>).,
Memphis correspondents of tlie New York
firm, also went under; liabilities, $750,000; as
sets, $1,500,000.
Receiver appointed In New York for tho Ore
gon Improvement company, Henry Y inartTs
pet uShtsne; liabilities, $2,000,000; assets
mtxfc larger,
*0. Beil & Byster, bankers, assigned at Duluth,
Mhm.; liabilities, $5.283,211; assets, $4,124,
110.
2R. B. K. Jamison & Co., Philadelphia bankers, as-
Mg oed.
use s mum
ft Baak erf Com niwee. at West Uupertov, Wla,
LEQtSt-ATlVE AND POLITICAL.
NSUlf.
ft T. C. Power Macted Uultad States senator
from Montana.
8. Ouogretd reoonvenad.
14. Cahrhi 8. llrieo alsottd to ttM United Eke tea
senate from Ohio.
E. K. Wftaoo re-etooted Unitad States swmtor
from Maryland.
«. Beginnkig af a bitter psrtiaaentary struggle
In tlie house of reprawBtattvca; cnowsi by
Speaker Reed eeautiag a quorum from
members jrosent, hot act vetlug.
SO Tbe sreafttpt mjmjpattd ISobct* M<nj». Jr.,
THE HANO OF DEATH.
JiSClRY.
2. George II. Doker, irwt, ex-minister to Russia 1
and to Turkey and president of tho Fair- j
mount Park commission, ut lTiiladelphia, I
a*r®d W. *
7. Dowager Empress of ftermeuy, Augusta, at
Berlin, aged 7». . I
8. Ex Senator Ebridgo (1 Lartlmm, at New York, j
aged 76.
Bear Admiral WIftmrn Radford, at Wauhiog-
tao, aged B).
ft Ocmgraiwuaa William D. KeBoy, of Pennsylva
nia, tha "Father of tho House," at Wash
tagton, aged T4.
JO. Dr. Boltingcr, hood of the “Old Catholic"
movement in aodthem Germany, at Uerltu.
14. Lord Napier of Magdala, aged 80.
15, toniker Blaine, son of the secretary of state
and examiner of claims in tho state depart
ment, at Washington, aged 35.
M. BlfcopPeter Nbnely, of tho Mennonlte church.
l^ojedW,.
84.
IS. Hon. FVanrin W. Hlfl, NMewHfl candidate
tor fprvrmor of Matrm, ut ftbretor, ajed 7l.
26. iJlwrr^vwmt (Vrvmror Archibald Vietnam, ot
Nova Scotia
JVWt.
3. Ofn. Oflbcrt at E*oter. N. Of^od 80.
8. P. O. Wtesmton, tho American party's can-
dKatfi for tho fMirmfVwy daring t>ho cam-
prrfyn of S3, at OfUthutd, Gal.
0. Gon. Cflnton B. Fhih, Ctwnoos probibitiorrist,
at New York, affed tft.
18. Maj G<m. John C. Premoot, at New York,
lyred 78.
18. ftehnykpr, A meric—ooswi geneml at
Cairo, at Cairo.
Aeowrp.
lft. John Boyle OTtoflly, Irish rwtric^; and port,
and editor of The Boston Pilot, aft Uni), Maas.
!1. CnriThiu-1 Jdhn Henry Ikwrata, in Eo^laud,
aped 90.
4. Es-Gcrvcrnor Notts, of OMo, jnd^e of the bo-
errart of Ctarinztftd, at CmHnnati.
ft. Hon. Isaac Christiancy, ox-emator, ex-U. S.
minister and ecc-jod^ tn Mlehlgtin.
IS. Maj. A. B. Thompson, secretary of state of
New Hampshire.
14. Newstoonived of tho drowning of Robert Ray
Hamilton, of Now York, In Idaho.
lft Dton Botieicank., actor and playwright,
New York, aged 68.
OCTOBER.
2. Ex-(>rr»'riior ami ex-Secretary of the Treasury
lTifl Francis Thomas, In Maryland, uged 80.
13. G<». Wnium W. Belknap, ex-secretory of
war, nt Washington, ftfred 01.
Assof'iate Justice Samuel F. Miller, of tho
Umtefl States enpremo court, at Washing
ton, aged 74.
NOVE3TB15R.
7. Oen. E. A. O'Neil, ex-governor of Alabama,
nt Florence, .Via.
13. Daniel Appleton, publisher, at Ne^v York. •
Rear Admiral dairies Steedraan (retired), at
Washington, aged 79.
23. R. M. Tobin, national vice commander G. A.
R., at Boston.
23. Right Rev. John Watrous Beckwith, IVotest-
ant Episcopal bishop of Georgia, at Atlanta,
ageil 00.
The king of Holland, %t tho Hague, aged 78.
21. August Belmont, banker and horse brooder, at
New York, aged 14.
25. Benjamin P. Shlfiaber ("Mrs. Partington”),
at Chelsea, Maas., age<l 76.
Jamca Milton Smith, ex-governor of Georgia,
at ColunVbus, Ga.
DBOUMBim.
5. Oen. J. Carnua Wilcox, at Washington.
4. Dr. Gedediah H. Baxter, surgeon general of
the army, at Washington, aged 58.
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
JANUARY.
12. Bank of South Dakota at Madison assigned;
assets, $150,000; liabilities not sfcafcxj; aa a
result tho I a Belle Ranch Horse Importing
company assigned; liabilities, $60,000; as
sets, $150,000.
16. L. II. Ston»\ S;in FrancLsco harness dealer, as
signed; liabilities, $2i>4,4)00; assets small.
28. John B. Lolande, cotton factor, assigned in
New Oriefins; liabilities, $561,000; assets,
$5 44,ODO.
80. Tho First National bank, the Lenox Hill bank,
and tho Equitable bank, all in New York,
closed by order of tlw United States bank
examiner; George H. Pell, a broker, and P.
J. Claasseu, president of the Sixth National,
arreste<l.
MARCO.
7. Monroe Eckstein and Leopold Wertheimer,
Nbw York brewers, assigned; liabilities,
$600,000.
Bolloe freres, bankers, San Francisco, failed;
liabilities largo.
10. John F. Plummer A Co~, one of tho largest dry
goods commission firms hs the business, as
signed In New York; IlabfMtiea, $1,000,000;
assets about the same.
Apart..
ft Manhattan bank, of Manhattan, Kan., failed;
Mobilities, $000,000.
17. Lento Franck© A Co., nifk tmixwterH, assigned
In New York; Itnbfltttea, $900,000.
30. The Bank ef America, a state tnstftntien, aft
rtrOadelpiria, a ns pended.
MAY.
1. The Gloucester Otov N«t4ona>l hank nt Glouces
ter City, N. J., earned under by failure of
Bank of America.
Fechhriraor, Rau <fc Co., shirt makers, failed in
New York; liabilities $300,000; assets, $2^5},-
000.
t. T^>© Fidelity, Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit
company of Camden, N. J., the Port Morris
bank, the Merchant#* t>ank of Atlantic, city
and Che Merchants’ bank of PleaeanCville,
N. J., suspemled pay meat; said to have been
Lweee^t by fafittre <*f Bank of America.
14. The bmtoerag** firm of Borun & Wright, of
New York, with branches in the principal
clUes, sn»i>rtided for $400,0061
JULY.
9ft. J. K. Tygort A 05.. manpfactw a of fer-
tfltwrs, lTifladelpWa, failed; ItoMfitles.
$WT,ftOO.
irooR.
tL Ftnanrial partie In Buenos Ayres.
anypBt
ft Htrle & MelVr, Imnber deaftora at OnGgo,
Wll., failed; fiaWhri.ss fBfftOOO.
4. Poftfter. Lcrvril-t Cb., pubttehers at Boston, sus-
Wvt Tfwdonzi hank ef Trxarkana, Axk^
pended; ftabOTttw, $180,006; assets, $2*0,000
5. Detamater A Co., bankers, MwutvfUp, Pa* as
signed.
V. A A Meyer, of Now Ortemis, assigned;
teiMUttos, $1.300,006; oeacts, $5; 600,000.
WDTWIJV VA*, JAJWHBIIVU3
peodadi; hablttWes, $3j00,«00.
8w;«, Wallaoe A Oil, eomudalan mer-
Aanta at Kbw Tort, Mgoedi'Batatfea,
HtJMAN NATURE’S DANK SIDE.
JAWUAKY.
?1. Two masked robbers held up a train on the
Southern Pacific road in California and se
mred $25,000; a tramp was shot and killed
24. G»g0 G. IjomtHberry, for many j-earn treas
urer ef tbo New York eity poetofftee, shot
bimneff at hto home In Hackeneiek, N. J.;
a Shoring© of $97,090 was found in his ac
count©.
FEBRUARY.
17. F. C Benwefl, a young EngTrshman, was mur
dered ky Reginald Blrdhall for purposes of
robbery tn a swamp npar Woodstock, Out.
57. Seamen made serious chic-pea at New York
against Commander MeOnTta., of tho U. S.
S!oop-of -w«r Eaterpriae; McOr.fia court mar-
• tialed and snspended from rank and duty
for three years May 15.
28. Ex-Congressman Taolbee was shot in tho Cap
itol at Washington by Oar>o.s Kincaid, a
newspaper correspondent; died JDu-ch 11.
MARCH.
4. William E. Pope, paying teller of the Louis
viJJe City National hank, obsconded with
$60,005.
27. Stcto Tnaairw Stevenson Archer, of Mary
land, defaulted m aboat $127,000.
APRIL.
7. A defalcation by Douglas nilclter, amounting
to $3<X),OOiX caused the suspension of bis firm,
which had headquarters tn Now York uik]
branches In several other cities.
8. Frederick Kimball, teller of tbe Peopled Sav
lngs bank, of Worcester, MasC, vras report
ed mtering with $^1,500 of tho bank’s funds
25. George B. Ives, cx-assistant district attorney
at Salem, Mass., arrestee^ charged with for
geries Amounting to $.70^000.
MAY.
lb, George P. Whitney, bookkeeper in tho Albany
(N. Y.) 09y National hank, arrested on too
charge of stealing $100,iXK) from the bank.
20. City Treasurer Peake, of Kansas City, de
faulted in $50,000.
21. Mlgnel Eyraud, who killed Notary Gouffe in
Paris in July, 1889, captured in Havana,
Cuba.
29. Gerhard Thaden and J. B. Toll, principals m
the great real estate forgery, sentenced
each to ton years’ imprisonment at St
Paul
AUGUST.
6. William Kemmler executed by electricity in
the state prison at Auburn, N. Y.; the af
fair was buaglingly conducted and pre
sented a horrible spectacle; it was too first
execution under the New Yorlr state law
requiring criminals condemned to death to
be kffltxl by electricity.
17. The limited Kansas express on the Missouri
Pacifio stopped by robliers, who secured
$90,000.
22. The teller of the Capital City bank, Nashville,
Tetin., confessed a defalcation of $41,000.
SEPTEMBER.
5. ITie Montreal express on the Now York Cen
tral railroad deraileil by train wreckers near
Greenbu&h, N. Y.; six persons injured.
15. Messrs. Potter and Ix>vell, of tho s»isi)ended
firm of Potter, Lovell & Co., arrested in Bos
ton charged with embezzlement.
OCTOBER.
9. Maiy Anderson's crazy lover, Jom*\s Dougher
ty, murdered Dr. George W. Lloyd, of the
Ftothnsh, L. L, Insane asylum.
15. David C. Hexmessy, chief of New Orleans po
lice, murdered by order of an Italian secret
society; a reign of terror lasting for more
than a month resulted.
20. A. B. MuUott, ex-sapervising architect of the
United States treasury, killed himself at
Washington, aged 56.
20. Charles W. Rcfotason, banker and broker in
New York, confessed forgeries amounting
to $100,000.
NOVEMBER.
4. Rollins Bingham disappeared from Kansas
City after forgeries aggregating $35,000.
M. Regixwdd Birr-hall hanged at Woodstock, Onft,
for the murder of F. C. Benwell.
16. Albert- H. Smith, of New York, confessed for
geries aggregating $350,000.
Harrison H. Weotworth, bookkeeper of the
Llm<i Rock National bank, Provkleoce, It. I.,
charged with embezzling $32,000.
20. Morris Marks, an erx-employe of a Rochester
(N. Y.) bank, stole a package of $25,000
from the United State's Expi-ess company;
he was am«tcd next day.
Dtsnyix-nrurfeo fmm Ran Francisco of Toon
Yoong & Co., Chinese merchants with 6C0
000.
25. Eva Hamilton, llobert Ray Hamilton's widow,
pmvlonod and released from Jail at Camden^
N. J.
MOBOB.
4. Joseph B. Abbott, booftkoeper for Henry W
Sap? & On., ef Albany, N. Y., defaulted la
$80,000 an^ eommltted suicida.
$10,000 in dJaraxxta, bclonglag to JIrs. Kirk B.
Anncvrr, stolen In Kansas City.
LABOR TROUBLES.
JAjrCABY.
6. Strike ou tho Martsay railroad system ended.
1L 0 shoo manufacturers at Havertilll, Mass.
kicked outthdr wurlcmen; ended Jan. 17
M. Cloalrmskcn struck In New York city; won
lltrch tft
81. COD Sew York cttydcaroiakers struck araimt
redoettoo; wou Fob, p.
for an Increase of wages; won next day.
25. Tho Glasgow doclcmen's strike collapsed.
27. 14,000 workmen of 1 laredonastruek for higher
wages and shorter hours.
APRIL.
1. 1,000 plumbers struck at Cliicago; arbitrated.
7. 7,000 carpenters struck nt Chicago; arbitrated
May 5.
Carpenters struck at New York; won May 4-
these strikes preceded others in nearly every
large city of the Union, embracing almost
every branch of tho building trade. In which
the men were generally successful
14. 5,000 dock hi borers, seamen and firemen struck
at Southampton ami Liverpool; won Sept,
13.
11AY.
1. The May day labor demonstration passed oft
without bloodshed in (he United States;
enormous parades of workingmen occurred
in Chicago, New York, Boston and other
cities, and hundreds of strikes were inau
gurated; in Enropo tho demonstration was
general, and minor disturbances took place 1 A
lu l'aris and Teeth. '
10,000 employes of sash and blind factories
struck nt Chicago; lost May 6.
IrrmmaMersstruck at Chicago; compromised.
9. Strike of 15,000 coal miners in northern Illi
nois ended, men losing. •
14. ft800 men Idle from strikes at tho National
Tube works at McKeesport, Fa.; compro
mised May 23.
19. General strike among cool miners of the Peo
ria and Canton sub-districts in Illinois; lost
June lft
JOltE.
13. ftOOO cutters and cloak makers locked out in
New York city.
10. 13,000 dock laborers at Swansea, Wales? struck
for higher wages.
23. l,E00cigarmftkersstrtick at Binghamton, N.Y.J
strike declared oft Oct. 6.
24. 1,400 men struck on the Illinois Central rail
road ; compromised June 27.
26. 1.200 miners struck at the Spring Hill mines.
Nova Scotia.
JULY.
lft 4,000 employes of the National Tube works, at
McKeesport, l'a., locked out; compromised
Aug. 1.
87. ftMO journeyman bakers struck at Chicago;
compromised.
AUGUST.
ft The New York Osotrol and Hudson Itiver
rnflroad temporarily paralyzed by a strike
ofthe Knights of Labor in its employ st
switchmen, trainmen and station agents;
strike declared off Sept. 17.
29. Writes In the Shipping trades in Australia sad
New Zealand; continued Intermittently
for months with varying results.
tncFTEKSUl.
1. 8,600 union carpenters struck in Chioago; lost
bept. 3.
12. Istbor troubles involving 1,000 men at tho H.
C. Frick company’s coke works, at Pitts
burg, compromised.
xovmiBxH.
1. Latx>r troubles closed all the coal mines In the
Morris, Ills., district.
18. ft000 girl hat trimmers locked out at Danbury,
Conn.
30. 2,000 men struck lu the Block coal mines at
Brazil, Ind.
80. Rochester, N. Y., shoo manufacturers locked
out 3,000 employe*.
DECEMBER.
ft ft000 coal miuers in Alabama struck.
IN OTHER LANDS.
JANUARY.
2. Mr. Parimll received citation as Co-respond
ent iu divorce suit brought by Capt.
O'Shea.
FEBRUARY.
3. rarnell's suit against Tho Times, of London,
compromised by jiayraent of £509 by Tho
Times.
7. The Duke of Orleans, son of tha Count of
Paris, arrested iu Paris for violating the ex
pulsion law hy returning to Franca; in his
pocket was the abdication of his father of
proteiisiou.s to the French throne in tho
son's favor.
llARCH.
14. Tlie French cabinet resigned; now French
ministry formed with 31. do Freycinet as
president of tho council and minister of
war, and M. Coustans os minister of tho
interim-, ou tho lGth.
17. Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bismarck
tendered their resignations to Emperor Will
iam. Prince Bismarck’s resignation was ac
cepted.
19. Gen. Von Caprivi appointed hy Emperor Will
iam to succeed Prince Bismarck as chan
cellor of the German empire.
91. The English house ef lords adopted tho report
of tho Parnell commission.
26. Tho annual English university boat race on
the Thames won by Oxford.
KAY.
8ft An American named Pottltt won tho world’s
championship at tennis from Saunders, the
Englishman.
JUNK.
ft President Carnot pardoned tbo Duke of Or
leans.
4 Sainfoin won the Englkth Derby.
14. Cholera appeared In tho Spanish province of
Valencia.
17. MtaTiago of Mias Mary Anderson to Antonio
Navarro at Hampstead, near London.
England ceded the island of Heligoland tc
Germany.
98. News received of tho death of President Fran
cisco Menedez, of Salvador, and of result
ing riots and panic iu which several officers
were killed.
JULY.
12. Marriage of Honry 31. Stanley to 3Uss Dorothy
Tennawt at Westminster Abbey.
24. 0 battles between Salvador and Guatemala re-
liorted to hove resulted in favor of Salvador.
ACOUBT.
ft^Iore than 400 deaths from cholera In 31ecca
In one day; on Aug. 4 500 died.
7. The warlike disturbances In South America
continued; several great battles fought, of
which but little was learned in the outside
world; President Crtman, of Argentine,
forced to resign; Miranda defeated In Sal
vador by Kzeto.
Paris Figaro began publication of the Boulan
ger exposure.
13. Cholera abated in Spain and Mecca, but ap
peared on the Black Sea and caused a paaio
at Cairo.
28. Agreement of peace signed by Salvador and
Guatemala.
eBETKMBKR.
B. Tbe Irish potato crop a failure and famine
feared.
18 John Dillon and William O’Brien arrested in
Ireland charged with conspiracy and incit
ing tenants not to pay rents.
otTOBEn.
K>. Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien escaped from Ire
land, starting for America via Frauco.
81. First announcement of cures by Professor
Koch's system of inoculation for consump
tion at Berlin.
NOT KM BEIL
17. Capt. O'Shea granted a divorce on the grounds
of criminal intimacy of his wife with Charles
Stewart Darnell.
19. John Dillon, William O’Brien and other Irish
leaders convicted, and each sentenced to
six months in ju.1l
20. Parnell declared his Intention ot remaining at
the head of the Irish National party.
25. TTie Irish National party decided fn favor ot
Darnell Gladstone protesting.
28 Parnell issued an address to tbe Irish peop^*
saying that ho woukl not voluntarily abdi
cate tbe leadership.
ft Emin Pasha reached Lake Victoria Nyanxa.
Dr. Hassell of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary,
announced that he had discovered the can -
cer parasite. _