6

Noah Thomas Guymon 77

5

Henry Dill Gifford 71
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 67
Jacob Killian 68
Susan Coons (Killian) 58
George Brinton Matson 69
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 58
Lott Russon 67
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 66
George Wilson 71
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 71
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 64

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 70
Joseph Jasper Powell 62
Bernard Snow (II) 40
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 36
John Sylvester Perry 44
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 39
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 78 died
Anders Peder Jensen 71
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 68
Elijah Peck Sr. 46
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 45
Lawson Green Wilson 49
Elmina Green (Wilson) 43

3

William Nephi Lowe 27
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 17
Charles Eben Snow 12
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 15
Martin Peterson 31
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 35
Elisha Peck Jr. 25
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 20

General

Population: 1.59 Billion*

• Culture: Five annual Nobel Prizes established in physics, physiology/medince, chemistry, literature, and peace
  First time "Jew" designation occurs in Henry Adams' "Democracy" showing growing anti-semitism trend
• Entertainment: Music includes Brahms, Puccini (La Boheme), Sidney Jones, Hugo Wolf, Giordano, Last Gilbert and Sullivan composition The Grand Duke, Edward MacDowell composes Indian Suite, Richard Strauss composes Also Sprach Zarathustra
  Art includes Gauguin, Frederick Leighton paints Clytie
  Cartoonist Phil May joins "Punch"
  Writers includes Pierre Louys, RM Riike, Chekhov, Henri Bergson, Foundation of Zionism as Theodor Herzl writes
• Fashion: Brooks Brothers introduce button-down collars for polo players
• Science: Ramsay discovers helium
  Rutherford finds magnetic detection of electrical waves
  Becquerel discovers radioactivity
• Technology: Zippers patented by Judson
  Lilienthal conducts glider research
• Deaths: Alfred Nobel, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compower Anton Bruckner, Chemist Friedrich August von kekule, Artist John Everett Millais, Archbishop Edward White Benson, Artist Lord Leighton, Artist George du Maurier, Historian Heinrich von Tritschke, Poet William Morris, Composer A Carlos Gomez, Philosopher Richard Acenarius, Poet Paul Verlaine, Aviator Otto Lilienthal, Author Edmond de Goncourt

Africa

• General: Military alliance between Transvaal and Orange Free State
  Final Anglo-Ashanti War – Ashanti defeated
• Congo: Sleeping sickness to 1906
• East Africa: British becomes protectorate
• Ethiopia: (Abyssinia) Menelik's defeat of Italians at Adowa (Adua) secures 40 years of independence
• Madagascar: French take island
• Rhodesia: Ndebele massacre whites and their African supporters in Matebeleland
  Matabele revolt in Rhodesia put down by Baden-Powell
  Starr Jameson surrenders at Doornkop
  Kaiser William II sends "Kruger telegram"” – Cecil Rhodes resigns premiership
• Sierra Leone: Made British protectorate
• Sudan: Kitchener begins campaign against the Mahdi
• Transvaal: Rebellious Uitlander (foreign) leader surrenders to Boers and British interfere
• Zanzibar: Shortest war with British - 38 minutes - British wins

Americas

• Canada: Beginning of Klondike gold rush at Bonanza Creek

Asia

• China: Through Li Hongzhang Russia permitted to build railroad across Manchuria
• India: Start of famine killing 19 million by 1902
• Japan: Quake and tsunamis - one measuring 100 feet kills 28,000
• Malay: States of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang are federated
• Siam: (Thailand) Anglo-French agreements

Europe

• Austria: First Alpine ski school founded
  German art magazines appear in Munich
• France: Hungarian Theodore Herzl calls for Jewish state and founds Zionism
  New evidence for the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus suppressed
• Great Britain: Royal Victorian Order founded
  "Persimmon" wins Derby – horse owned by Prince of Wales
  Alfred Harmsworth issues news "Daily Mail"
  First English all-steel building
  National portrait gallery moved to Westminster
• Greece: First modern Olympics in Athens – bronze medal winner found to have cheated
• Netherlands: Holland extends suffrage
• Russia: Czar Nicholas II visits Paris and London

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Further massacres of Armenians in Constantinople
• Persia: Nasr-ed-Din the Shah assassinated

Pacific

• Australia: End of heat wave killing 437

President:

Pres: Grover Cleveland
Pres: William McKinley elected over William Jennings Bryan

General

• Business: 8-hour work day becomes law
  Duryea Motor Wagon Co. makes first motor vehicle in US
• Education: Since 1796 topic of conformity increases from 18 percent of books to 54 percent of books for children
• Entertainment: First US showing of motion pictures
• Finance: End of minor US depression
  Charles Dow publishes Wall Street Journal
• Land: Statehood for Utah
• Law: Congress declares Jim Crow laws legal in Plessy v. Ferguson
• Politics: William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold" speech - free silver candidate
  Labor groups gain power in Democratic Party
• Transportation: Heavier than air flight achieved along Patomic river pre-Wright by Langley
  Henry Ford builds his first car

East

• Massachusetts: Dr. Arthur Wentworth does experimental spinal taps on 29 children in Boston
• New Jersey: College of New Jersey becomes Princeton University
• New York: Niagara falls electrical plant opens

Midwest

• General: Bad year for tornadoes in US - violent week in Great Lakes region
• Michigan: Tornado
• Missouri: St. Louis tornado drives wood through steel killing 306 injuring 2500
  Gospel repreached in Saint Louis
• Ohio: F4 tornado at Sandusky

South

• Louisiana: Plessy v Ferguson ruling in New Orleans claims "Separate but equal"

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Gold discovered in Klondike - Yukon prospecting begins
• Utah: Entry into union as 45th state
  83 percent of Utah votes for Bryan
  Miners limited to 8 hour day
  "Wild Bunch" formed in Brown's Park by Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid

President

Pres: Wilford Woodruff

Membership: 241,427

Temples: 4

Other

• Utah becomes the 45th state - Church celebrates
• Regular fast day set as first Sunday instead of Thursday
• Congress gives Church property rights again
• Church issues political manifesto asserting separation of Church and state
• BH Roberts and Moses Thatcher hesitate to sign political manifesto but BHR signs after prayer and Thatcher does not and is released from 12 but remains in Church
• Anti-Mormon (anti-BH Roberts) periodical "Lucifer's Lantern" published