6

Noah Thomas Guymon 76

5

Henry Dill Gifford 70
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 66
Jacob Killian 67
Susan Coons (Killian) 57
George Brinton Matson 68
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 57
Lott Russon 66
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 65
George Wilson 70
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 70
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 63

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 69
Joseph Jasper Powell 61
Bernard Snow (II) 39
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 35
John Sylvester Perry 43
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 38
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 77
Anders Peder Jensen 70
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 67
Elijah Peck Sr. 45
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 44
Lawson Green Wilson 48
Elmina Green (Wilson) 42

3

William Nephi Lowe 26
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 16
Charles Eben Snow 11
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 14
Martin Peterson 30
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 34
Elisha Peck Jr. 24
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 19
Lena Jensen possibly gave birth this year to a boy later named Royal Washington Kendall - adopted out

General

Population: 1.57 Billion*

• Entertainment: Art includes Homer, Kathe Kollwitz Revolt of the Weavers
  Art Nouveau style predominates
  Music includes Richard Strauss, Mahler, Robert Newman, WIlhelm Kienzl, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
  Writers include Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Conrad, Sienkiewicz, Henry James, George Moore, HG Wells (The Time Machine), WB Yeats, Thomas Masaryk, Karl Marx (Posthumously - Das Kapital - Edited by Engels)
  Oscar Wilde's unsuccessful libel action against Marquis-of-Queensberry
  First motion picture shown in theater (Paris)
• Science: X-rays discovered by Röentgen
  Marconi works wireless radio
  Sigmund Freud writes
  Marie and Pierre Curie married Isiolkovksi formulates principle of rocket reaction propulsion
• Sports: Peter Latham of Britain becomes world lawn tennis champion
  American Bowling Congress formed to govern the game
• Technology: C von Linde constructs machine for liquefaction of air
  Gilette invents safety razor
  First slot machine built
• Deaths: Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels, Author Gustav Freytag, Alexander Dumas, Novelist Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, Historian Sir John Seeley, Novelist and masochist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Oscar Hammerstein, Scientist TH Huxley

Africa

• Abyssinia: (Ethiopia) Conflict with Italians at Amba Alagi - war to 1896
• Rhodesia: Formed from area south of Zambezi founded by Cecil Rhodes
• Transvaal: Starr Jameson raid on Boer republic

Americas

• General: Skirmish between British Guyana and Venezuela arbitrated by U.S. under Monroe Doctrine
• Cuba: Revolt against Spain - US supports intervention
  Cuban independence fighter Jose Marti killed in battle
• Trinidad: United Kingdom claims - later taken by Brazil
• Venezuela: US promotes Monroe Doctrine in conflict between Britain and Venezuela

Asia

• General: Chinese-Japanese war (Sino-Japanese War) ends with treaty of Shimonoseki
• China: Sun Yixan attempts revolution in Guangzhou - fails
  Treaty of Shimonoseki cedes lands to Japan
  Loss of war leaves China vulnerable to imperialists
• Formosa: (Taiwan) Republic forms and dissolves
• Japan: Treaty of Shimonoseki deeds Taiwan and Pescadores to Japan
• Korea: Japanese occupy, then independence after war
  Queen assassinated with Japanese help
• Malay: Rubber plantations begin production

Europe

• Bulgaria: Assassination of Prime Minister Stefan Stambuloff
• France: Unions super-organize
  Lumière brothers invent film projector
• Germany: Germany patents pith helmets that store water, but amoebic dysentery kills
  Kiel Canal opens
• Great Britain: London School of Economics and Political Science founded
  Cardinal Vaughan lays foundation stone of Westminster Cathedral
• Russia: Tsar Nicholas II coronated – thousands trampled – wife cousins to Kaiser
  Large earthquake in Slovenia

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Armenians massacred in Constantinople Turkey by Turks and Kurds – Sultan Abdul Hamid II promises reforms

Pacific

• Australia: Start of heat wave killing 437

President:

Pres: Grover Cleveland

General

• Entertainment: 196 shows by Wild West Show
• Law: US federal income tax declared unconstitutional
• Military: U.S. increases building of "Great White Fleet" of naval vessels
• Sports: First US Open Golf Championship won by Horace Rawlins a British professional

East

• New York: Department of Sanitation reached
  William Randolph Hearst purchases the New York Journal which specialized in sensational news stories
  Pediatrician Henry Heiman infects 4-year-old epileptic with gonorrhea as part of experiment
• Pennsylvania: First professional football game played in US at Latrobe
• Washington D.C.: Malaria outbreak

Midwest

• Illinois: First US auto race held in Chicago
  First auto race Nov 28 in Chicago
  HH Holmes aka Herman Mudgett captured – Chicago doctor who had "Murder Castle" in Chicago kills 27
• Missouri: 6.6 Quake

South

• Georgia: Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise speech, accepting segregation in favor of advancement economically
• Louisiana: 24 inches of snow falls in Rayne

West and Pacific

• Utah: Constitutional Convention held and Constitution ratified
  Male residents get vote
  Women vote

President

Pres: Wilford Woodruff

Membership: 231,116

Temples: 4

Other

• Member of Quorum of 12 named to Utah Constitutional Convention
• First Stake outside U.S. in Cardston CAN Jun 9
• First Russians baptized
• Utah ratifies constitution
• First stake in Mexico organized Dec 9
• Joseph F Smith criticizes members of Democratic Party and some members take this as Republican endorsement
• Elders Moses Thatcher and BH Roberts run for senator and are disciplined for not consulting with Church leaders. Neither are elected.