6

Noah Thomas Guymon 79

5

Henry Dill Gifford 73
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 69
Jacob Killian 70
Susan Coons (Killian) 60
George Brinton Matson 71
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 60
Lott Russon 69
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 68
George Wilson 73
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 73
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 66 died

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 72
Joseph Jasper Powell 64
Bernard Snow (II) 42
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 38
John Sylvester Perry 46
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 41
Anders Peder Jensen 73
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 70
Elijah Peck Sr. 48
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 47
Lawson Green Wilson 51
Elmina Green (Wilson) 45

3

William Nephi Lowe 29
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 19
Charles Eben Snow 14
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 17
Martin Peterson 33
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 37
Elisha Peck Jr. 27
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 22

General

Population: 1.62 Billion*

• Entertainment: Music includes Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss
  Writers include Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac), Knut Hamsun, Anthony Hope, Thomas Hardy, JK Huysmans, Henry James (Turn of the Screw), HG Wells (War of the Worlds), Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Bismarck
  Published book "Futility" seems to foreshadow of Titanic sinking
  Art includes Auguste Rodin's The Kiss
• Politics: Spanish American War ends with Treaty of Paris
• Science: The Curies discover Radium and Polonium
  Ramsay discovers inert atmospheric gasses of xenon krypton and neon
  Shiga discovers dysentery bacillus (Shigella)
• Technology: Photographs first taken utilizing artificial light
• Deaths: Statesman William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, Novelist Theodor Fontane, Author Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Artist Gustave Moreau, Botanist Julius Cohn, Violinist Eduard Remenyi, Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Artist Felician Rops, Swindler Arthur Orton, Egyptologist Georg Ebers, Temperance crusader France E. Willard, Author Stephane Mallarme,

Africa

• General: Treaty signed for division of Portuguese colonies in Africa
• Kenya: Lion attacks in Tsavo kill British workers, halting railroad
• Sudan: Successor of Sudan's Mahdi dies
  Britain and France clash - Fashoda Incident
  Kitchener defeats Mahdists at Omdurman and Atbara river and defuses Fashoda incident
• Transvaal: Paul Kruger reelected President
• West Africa: Britain creates West African Frontier Force

Americas

• Cuba: Spain crushes rebellion invoking US response
  US sends Maine to Cuba which is blown up (possibly boiler explosion)
  Battle of San Juan Hill popularizes Teddy Roosevelt
  Yellow Fever kills 5000 Americans (only 968 die in combat)
• Puerto Rico: Becomes US territory

Asia

• China: Chinese "100 Days" reforms repressed – end of Emperor Kwanag Hsu
  Poverty leads to leasing of lands
  Dowager Empress Cixi crushes reform attempts
  Russia obtains lease of Port Arthur
  British obtain lease of Kowloon
  "The Boxers" anti-Western group forms in China
• Hong Kong: Leased to British for 99 years
• India: Drought and famine kill one million
• Philippines: General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims Philippines independent of Spain
  Spanish fleet destroyed at Manila
  Becomes US territory - Rebellion against US rule begins
  Independence declared with República Filipinato to 1902

Europe

• Austria: Empress Elizabeth murdered by Italian anarchist in Geneva
• Crete: Autonomous under Ottoman suzerainty
• France: Major Esterhazy acquitted in Dreyfus forgery trial – Zola publishes open letter to French President and is imprisoned – Colonel Henry admits forgery of a document in Dreyfus case
  Paris metro opens
• Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm visits Palestine and Syria
  Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds his airship
• Great Britain: Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow opens
• Italy: Toscanini appears at La Scala in Milan
• Russia: Social Democratic Party founded
  Port Arthur China ceded on lease
  Plague in Turkestan
• Spain: in Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines for 20 million

Middle East

Pacific

• Australia: First female cyclone named in Australia as Eline hits
• Guam: Becomes US territory
• Hawaii: Annexed by US
• Wake Island: Becomes US territory

President:

Pres: William McKinley

General

• Crime: Start of most fearsome time of "Wild Bunch" robberies – Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid to 1901
• Entertainment: Annie Oakley volunteers to lead women sharpshooters into Spanish American war
• Land: US acquires Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, Puerto Rico
• Military: Spanish-American war leads to US victories and lands
  Battleship Maine sunk in Cuban harbor - may have been boiler explosion
  Teddy Roosevelt leads and organizes the "Rough Riders"
  Battlecry of Remember the Maine used to justify war
• Politics: Secretary of Navy Roosevelt publicly criticizes McKinley for not declaring war
  Treaty of Paris 1898 ends Spanish American War

East

• New York: Following Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges the five boroughs decide to unite, forming New York City

Midwest

• South Dakota: Initiatives and referendums accepted for balloting

South

• Arkansas: F4 tornado strikes Fort Smith
• North CarolinaL John Merrick founds Mutual Life Insurance starting push for black businesses in Durham

West and Pacific

• California: Two noteable quakes
• Utah: Volunteers fight in Spanish American War

President

Pres: Wilford Woodruff
Pres: Lorenzo Snow

Membership: 267,251

Temples: 4

Other

• 50th anniversary of the Mormon battalion
• First pair of sister missionaries set apart
• First Presidency statement puts the Church on U.S. side of Spanish-American war
• Church bonds sold to lighten debt
• McKinley appoints George Albert Smith (not an apostle then) to U.S. Land Office in Utah
• New Zealand Mission splits from Australian mission
• President Woodruff dies in California
• President Snow sees Jesus Christ in Salt Lake Temple