6

Ann Pierson (Matson) 93
Noah Thomas Guymon 71
John Southhall 67

5

Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 89 died
Henry Dill Gifford 65
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 61
Bernard Snow 68
Alice Smith (Snow) 62
Jacob Killian 62
Susan Coons (Killian) 52
George Brinton Matson 63
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 52
Lott Russon 61
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 60
George Wilson 65
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 65
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 58

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 64
Joseph Jasper Powell 56
Bernard Snow (II) 34
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 30
John Sylvester Perry 38
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 33
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 72
Anders Peder Jensen 65
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 62
Elijah Peck Sr. 40
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 39
Lawson Green Wilson 43
Elmina Green (Wilson) 37

3

William Nephi Lowe 21
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 11
Charles Eben Snow 6
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 9
Martin Peterson 25
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 29
Elisha Peck Jr. 19
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 14
Sugar factory built in Lehi – commentary given by Elisha Peck Jr.

General

Population: 1.51 Billion*

• Entertainment: Art includes the Art Nouveau movement, Cezanne paints "The Cardplayers", Frederick Leighton paints "The Bath of Psyche", Giobanni Segantini paints "Plowing in the Engadine"
  Music includes Strauss, Bruckner, Borodin, Mascagni, Tchaikovski's Sleeping Beauty
  Writers include Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, Tolstoy, Hall Caine, Wilde writes "The Picture of Dorian Gray", Alfred Marshall, William Booth, JG Frazer, William James
• Medicine: Rubber gloves used for first time in surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in MD
  Global influenza epidemics
• Science: Excavations produce Java man skeletons
  TG Curtius produces azoimide from organic sources
  Weismann speculates regarding meiosis and describes it
  Emil von Behring announces discovery of antitoxins
• Weather: End of little ice age – start of rise of temperatures 0.18 degree Fahrenheit every decade
• Death: Cardinal John Henry Newman, Novelist Gottfried Keller, Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Composer Cesar Franck, Sitting Bull, Poet John Boyle O'Reily, Vincent Van Gogh, Circus proprietor Charles Forepaugh, Banker Junius S. Morgan

Africa

• General: Britain gives Germany Heliogoland in exchange for Pembra and Zanzibar - Britain controls Uganda and Nyasaland too
• Cape Colony: Cecil Rhodes becomes Premier
• South Africa: Drought
• Southwest: Hendrik Witbooi leads first Nama rebellion against Germans

Americas

• General: Pan-American conference held
• Chile: Natural nitrates exported for use in fertilizers and explosives

Asia

• General: Cheap cotton goods produced in India, China and Japan undercuts European industry
  End of Russian expansion in Asia
• Indonesia: Excavations begin in Java, producing hominid skeletons
• Japan: General election first held

Europe

• General: William II and Alexander III meet at Narva
• France: Protective tariffs adopted
• Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm II rules as emperor
  Bismarck resigns over differences with Kaiser
  German Social Democrats adopt Marxist program at Erfurt Congress
• Great Britain: First English electrical power station
  Forth Railway Bridge near Edinburgh completed – enables railroad system from England to Scotland
• Netherlands: Accession of Queen Wilhelmina – Luxembourg separated from Netherlands
• Switzerland: Swiss government introduces social insurance

Middle East

Pacific

President:

Pres: Benjamin Henry Harrison

General

• Business: Sherman Anti-trust Act is passed to prohibit abuse of big-business power
  Junius S Morgan dies and son J P Morgan begins banking empire
  Vaudeville consolidates with Keith and Albee's "United Booking Artists" and "Vaudeville Manager's Association"
• Culture: Jacob Riis publishes pictures of urban slums, reform movement begins
  Christmas becomes national holiday in US
• Education: Start of reformation of US children's books
• Finance: McKinley Act passed
  Sherman Silver Purchase Act passes
• Law: US Supreme court upholds Edmunds-Tucker Act - Polygamy fully illegal
• Military: Captain Alfred Mahan writes book promoting U.S. sea expansion of its navy
• Natives: End of wars against US American Indians in Western US
  Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee kills 128
  US massacres 300 Lakotas and chief Big Foot in an attempt to suppress the "Ghost Dance" - Ghost Dance War until 1891
• News: Start of era of Yellow Journalism
• Politics: Decline of labor parties in US
  "Australian" or secret ballot voting adopted for US citizens
• Science: Start of first recorded US bee die-off with "Disappearing Disease"

East

• New York: Irish population reaches twice that of Dublin
  Ellis Island opened Dec 31
  First moving picture shows
  New Yorker Eugene Schieffelin combines love of birds with love of Shakespeare, and introduces every bird mentioned in the writings into the US... 40 pair of starlings reproduce
• Washington DC: Daughters of the American revolution founded

Midwest

• Illinois: First steel-framed building in Chicago
  Plans for Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Expo)
• North Dakota: Sitting Bull killed by US Authorities at Dec 29 Wounded Knee massacre

South

• Kentucky: TOrnado hits Louisville
• Louisiana: New Orleans flood
• Oklahoma: Oklahoma territory created from Indian lands

West and Pacific

• General: Government declares end of Western frontier
• California: Quake estimated as 6.3
• Idaho: Statehood as #43
• Utah: Free Public School Act passed
  Liberal Party wins UT elections
  Anti-mormons gain school-board vote in SLC and offices in SLC and Weber counties
  Sugar factory built in Lehi
• Wyoming: Statehood as #44

President

Pres: Wilford Woodruff

Membership: 188,263

Temples: 3

Other

• The Manifesto issued, declaring that no new plural marriages will be approved Oct 6
• Week-day religious education program (seminary) created in wards
• President Harrison suspicious as to whether Saints will follow "The Manifesto"
• Manifesto printed in US newspapers
• Limited amnesty follows acceptance of Manifesto by President Harrison