6

Noah Thomas Guymon 73
John Southhall 69 died

5

Henry Dill Gifford 67
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 63
Bernard Snow 70
Alice Smith (Snow) 64
Jacob Killian 64
Susan Coons (Killian) 54
George Brinton Matson 65
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 54
Lott Russon 63
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 62
George Wilson 67
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 67
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 60

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 66
Joseph Jasper Powell 58
Bernard Snow (II) 36
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 32
John Sylvester Perry 40
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 35
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 74
Anders Peder Jensen 67
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 64
Elijah Peck Sr. 42
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 41
Lawson Green Wilson 45
Elmina Green (Wilson) 39

3

William Nephi Lowe 23
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 13
Charles Eben Snow 8
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 11
Martin Peterson 27
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 31
Elisha Peck Jr. 21
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 16
Lott Russon Sr. on committee for Lehi Old Folks

General

Population: 1.53 Billion*

• Entertainment: Music includes Bruckner, Dvorak, Lleoncavallo's I Pagliacci, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, English music-hall star Lottie Collins sings "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay"
  Art includes Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge, Monet begins series of pictures on the Rouen Cathedral
  Writers include Knut Hamsun, Gerhart Hauptmann, Bernard Shaw, Kipling, Israel Zangwill, Zola, Maeterlinck, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Emily Faguet, GJ Romanes
• Fashion: Abercrombie and Fitch begins operation
• Food: Shredded Wheat invented
  First cans of pineapples
• Sports: Modern Olympics proposed
  "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett defeats John L Sullivan to win heavyweight boxing title
• Technology: Jesse Reno patents first escalator
  Diesel invents engine
  First automatic telephone switchboard introduced
  CF Cross and EJ Bevan discover viscose (manufacture of rayon)
• Deaths: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Composer Robert Franz, Electrical engineer EW Siemens, Preacher Charles H. Spurgeon, Financier Jay Gould, Explorer Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), Philosopher George C. Robertson, Twefik Khedive of Egypt, Walt Whitman, Historian Ernest Renan

Africa

• General: Drought at Horn of Africa ends
  White Rhinos thought to be extinct
• Cameroon: Britain and Germany agree on Cameroons
• Dahomey: (Benin) French occupation
• Egypt: Twefik Khedive of Egypt dies – Abbas II rules
• Mali: France destroys the Tukulor Empire
• South Africa: Cape-Johannesburg railroad completed

Americas

• Cuba: US tariff increases sugar trade

Asia

• China: Drought
• Indonesia: Mt. Abu near Java erupts
• Japan: Prince Ito becomes Premier

Europe

• General: Germany and France ally
• France: Landslide
• Great Britain: Heir Prince Albert Victor "Eddy" dies
  Gladstone returns as Prime Minister
  Socialist Keir Hardie becomes labour member of Parliament
• Italy: Marriage age raised for females to 12
  Giolitti becomes Premier
• Poland: Pan-Slav conference in Krakow
• Portugal: Great storm off coast
• Russia: Witte named Minister of Finance

Middle East

Pacific

President:

Pres: Benjamin Henry Harrison
Pres: Grover Cleveland re-elected over President Harrison

General

• Business: Homestead Steel Strike involves riots and Pinkerton detectives
  Federal employees given 88 hour workweeks
  Iron and steel workers strike in US
  Rival firms controlled by Edison and Westinghouse combine to form General Electric
• Finance: McKinley Tariff Act allows Cuban sugar into the US, promoting Cuban trade
• Politics: Pledge of Allegiance written
  Populist Party grows from US farmer's discontent
  US Federal Bureau of Immigration opens
• Technology: Long-distance call by AG Bell

East

• Maryland: Baltimore's Afro-American publication founded
• Massachusetts: Basketball invented in Springfield
  Mrs. Hessie Donahue while acting as a challenger to heavyweight boxng champion from Boston John L. Sullivan got angry and punched him out
• New York: Immigration center on Ellis Island opens
  Dvorak becomes director of New York National Conservatory of Music
• Pennsylvania: Oil City flood

Midwest

• Illinois: World's Fair opens in Chicago

South

• Oklahoma: Three million acres of land belonging to Cheyenne and Arapaho opened for white settlement

West and Pacific

• California: Three notable quakes - largest 7.8
• Utah: Democrats win power
  Harrison tells U.S. Marshal in Utah to listen to Mormons
  Butch Cassidy works as butcher in Rock Springs

President

Pres: Wilford Woodruff

Membership: 200,961

Temples: 3

Other

• Brigham Young Academy dedicated
• Articles of incorporation for Relief Society filed- "National Women's Relief Society" until 1945
• Harrison asks Mormons to pray for dying wife – she dies anyway, and condolences are sent
• Church members encouraged to vote Republican to keep Democrats from being "Church Party"
• Salt Lake Temple exterior completed and special fast issued to complete interior
• Ward conferences start