Year in Review Shows Crime and Charity in Flux
A retrospective survey details 1896 trends in crime and public welfare. The text notes shifts in murders, self harm, and executions, alongside large charitable bequests to colleges, churches, museums, and libraries. It also records executive changes, Cuba-Spain tensions, and disaster losses, offering a broad view of the year’s societal currents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
State Department
Misionaries
Turkey
Department
Congress
Spain
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Olney
Cubs
Justice Brewer
Judge Key
Andrew J. White
Frederic R. Coudert
D. C. Gilman
Venezuela
Edwin
Uhl
Germany
David 8. Jordan
Lieut. Morer
Leonard Stegniger
Frederick A
Uchs
C. H. Townsend
Behring Sea
Macgrane Cox
Guatemala
David R. Francis
Secretary of the Interior
Hoke Smith
Charles A. Prouty
Interstate Commerce
W.G Veary
United States
IBM
the Tribune
Gealnet Vt
Old Year Abroad Highlights of 1894 Across Nations
A retrospective of 1894 notes political and military events in Europe and beyond. It cites Irish leadership changes, the Nile campaign in Dongola, Cuba and Philippine unrest, and revolutions in Asia while summarizing French, German, Spanish, Turkish, and colonial dynamics. It also honors notable writers and figures who died, including Beecher Stowe and Dickens's son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dillon
Lord Rosebery
Dongola
France
Great Britain
Soudan
Ate
Chamber
Senate
Madagascar
M.meling
Dagnscar
Germany
Spain
Turkey
Macedonia
Crete
Greece
Netherlands
Switzerland
Scand Algavia
Portugal
Asia
Japan
China
Persia
England
Wepan
Ransvaal
Ashantee
Italy
Abyssinia
Bechuanaland
Cane Colony
Upper
Egypt
Zan~ghar
Rome
Qgath
Arrist Beecher Stowe
Mary Abigail Dodge
Gallon
Morris
H. C. Ersend
William Agar
Nyc
Carleton Coffin
Charles Dickens
Bernhard Giltag
Baron de Grimm
A Fatal Cyclone Hits Mooringsport and Benton
A southwest cyclone struck Mooringsport near Shreveport at 3:45 p.m. Saturday, demolishing most of the town, with 4 killed and 23 wounded. Homes including Goodman and Teat residences were wrecked, and several injured may die. Benton reported a cyclone at 6:40 p.m. tearing through South Benton and killing a tramp in an outhouse. Missouri, Minnesota, Chicago and Louisville dispatches noted floods, blizzards, and a Cahaba River bridge disaster probe reward offering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Egypt
Central America
Africa
South America
Philippine Islands
Shreveport
Mooringsport
Willie
Maud
Hall
Jesse Goodman
Alice
Claude
W. HL
Croam
Ivis
Fuller
Christian
Morgan
Milam
Goodman
Teat
Croom
C. W. Aiken
W. Croom
Benton
Ark
South Benton
Missouri
St. Louis
Dan
Sedalia
Warsaw
Bagnell
Clinton
Osage
Louisville
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
The
Southern Railway Company
Cahaba River
Llocton
Ala
Minor News Items From West Ending Dan
A roundup of brief events includes an Ottawa earthquake shock, multiple bank closures in Fargo Selma Grand Forks. deaths of Rear Admiral Skerritt and Samuel Young. mine fire in Pachuca with 14 dead. drownings at Faribault. a Nashville assembly and retired Iowa justice Rothrock. gas asphyxiation death in Struthers. zinc works fire in St Louis area.Deux Freres foundered with 15 drowned. Lebecks store fire in Nashville. Bulacan battle in the Philippines with insurgent losses and 25 Spaniards killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Citivens’ National Bank
Fargo
N. D
Joseph
Skerritt
Washington
Commercial State Bank
Selma
Ala
Santa Gertrusi
Pachuca
Mexico
Second National Bank
Grand Forks
N. C
Moses Dent
Arthur Clement
Faribault
Minn
Samuel M. Young
Toledo
Nelsonville
General Assembly of Tenjressee
Nashville
Rothrock
Supreme Court of
Iowa
Joseph Jietz
Struthers
Vollinsville
Mesker Bros
St. Louis
Lebeck
Tenn
Philippine Islands
Bulacan
HANGED BY HER HAIR IN STATE INSANE HOSPITAL DEATH
Streaming through the Columbus report is a remarkable death by self harm at the state insane hospital where a middle aged patient with long hair wrapped a braid around her neck and tied it to a chair post then slid to hang herself. Other items note bank note totals, a six day bicycle race finish, and government receipts and deficits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chloe
Columbus
H. A. Tobey
State Insane Hospital
Bushnell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tors
Wrabatte
Clay
Calhoun
Luelie Makrehild
Wisconsin
William B. Russell
Massachusetts
Greenhalge
Theodore Bunyan
James Lewis
Alexander Salvini
Alexander Herrmann
Katharine Klafsky
Henry J. Abbey
New York
Sir Augustus Harris
London
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Nooringsport
Minnesota
St. Paul
Chicago
Illinois
Grand Crossing
New Brighton
James Johnson Davidson
Pennsylvania
Phoenix
Treasury
Helen M. Gougar
Indiana
National Prohibition Party
Hiccoughs Eod
Pegun
Boston
Leyi P. Wyman
Wyman's Sandwich Depots
Alacco le Anye
Key West
Fla
Cuba
Antonio Maceo
Reading
Plins Packer
William Siebel
Losign
Dynes
Bank Ye
Comptroller of the Currency
Waller
Maddox
Ashinger
Lawson
Hunter
Forster
Danker Busidess
William A. Hammond
National Bank of Illinois
Lake Michigan
Charles A. Weyrich
Charles D. Carpenter
Jacksonville
Pla
Cienfuegas
New Suryrna
Fabra
Montreal
Can
Fabre
Deerfield
N. H
Jacob Witham
Georginia Rivers
Vriole
Los ‘Phel Joba
Milwaukee
Bivyera
Havana
Russ Rivera
Pinup del Rio
Agulrege
Neb
A. M. Conrad
Washburo
Wis
Matthew MusQlé
Willie Charbanga
Weex
Republic
PA Apaarl
Aral Radt
Inter Ocean
Alleghany Mountains
By Mail
Mail
Kingsford
Wrisley
Minnetonks
L. L. May & CO
Nurserymen and Seedsmean
St. Paul, Minn
Notary Public
Bancroft Insurance Agency
J. A. Frech
Kossuth
Kossuth County
International Cyclopaedia
Spopfard, L
L. Dy Librarian of Congress
Phila
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