6

George Washington Braffett 86 died
Ann Pierson (Matson) 90
Noah Thomas Guymon 68
John Southhall 64

5

Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 86
Henry Dill Gifford 62
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 58
Bernard Snow 65
Alice Smith (Snow) 59
Jacob Killian 59
Susan Coons (Killian) 49
Stephen Chadwick Perry 69
George Brinton Matson 60
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 49
Lott Russon 58
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 57
George Wilson 62
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 62
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 55

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 61
Joseph Jasper Powell 53
Almira Jane Gifford (Powell) 33
Bernard Snow (II) 31
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 27
John Sylvester Perry 35
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 30
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 69
Anders Peder Jensen 62
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 59
Elijah Peck Sr. 37
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 36
Lawson Green Wilson 40
Elmina Green (Wilson) 34

3

William Nephi Lowe 18
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 8
Charles Eben Snow 3
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 6
Martin Peterson 22
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 26
Elisha Peck Jr. 16
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 11

General

Population: 1.47 Billion*

• Culture: LL Zamenhof devises Esperanto
• Entertainment: Writers include Hall Caine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes A Study in Scarlet – first Sherlock Holmes book, Strindberg, Thomas Hardy, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Herman Suderman, Sardou writes "La Tosca" play, I Donnelly writes regarding Shakespeare
  Art includes Van Gogh
  Music includes Sir John Stainer, Chabrier, Richard Strauss, Verdi composes "Otello", Gilbert and Sullivan create "Ruddigore", Bruckner composes
• Fashion: Earmuffs patented
• Medicine: Phenacetin – analgesic drug – discovered
• Religion: Sir Thomas More beatified by Pope Leo XIII
• Science: Heinrich Hertz generates e-m wave
  Joseph Lockyer writes about the chemistry of the sun
  Boveri describes meiosis
  Hall creates electrolysis process for creating aluminum
• Technology: Flat records invented
  Celluloid invented by Goodwin
  Emil Berliner improves phonograph sound quality
  Edison and Swan combine to produce Ediswan electrical lamps
  Edison patents "kinetoscope"
• Deaths: Philosopher FT Vischer, Weapon maker Alfred Krupp, Novelist Joseph Ignatius Kraszewski, Physicist Balfour Stewart, Artist Hans von Marees, Writer Edward Rowland Hill, Composer Aleksandr Borodin, Industrialist Alfred Krupp

Africa

• General: Triple alliance with Italy and Germany stalls French expansion in N Africa
  Fall of Zulus to British
• Abyssinia: (Ethiopia) War with Italy to 1889 - Italians defeated at Dogali

Americas

• Argentina: First terror bird fossil found in the Patagonia region
• Ecuador: Cotopaxi erupts killing 1000

Asia

• General: Union Indo-Chinese organized by France
• Burma: Britain annexes
• China: Yellow River floods Kaifeng kills between 900,000 and 2 million - second deadliest

Europe

• General: German treaty with Russia
• Austria-Hungary: Ignace Paderewski gives first recital in Vienna
• Bulgaria: Elects Ferdinand of Coburg king and becomes leading Balkan state
• France: Gen. Boulanger fails in coup in Paris
• Germany: Legislation for industrial regulation
  Prince Frederick of Prussia develops larynx cancer – doctors claim it wasn't there
• Great Britain: Royal Jubilee
  Royalty sees Buffalo Bill and Wild West Show – due to competition Annie Oakley starts lying about age then leaves show
  Oscar Wilde and European royalty attend
  Theatre Royale fire in England kills 200
  Britain bans mines from hiring children
  Independent Labor Party started
• Netherlands: Holland (Netherlands) suffrage extended
• Russia: Attempted assassination of Tsar Alex III by Lenin's brother
  First Colonial Conference opens in London
• Spain: In Banjos, two greenish children with metallic clothes found near a cave – the boy died and when the girl could learn Spanish she said they were pushed from their land of twilight through "something" and into the cave

Middle East

Pacific

• Hawaii: Naval base established at Pearl Harbor

President:

Pres: Grover Cleveland

General

• Law: Edmunds-Tucker Act opposes polygamy - law without Cleveland's signature
  Hatch Act provides money for agricultural experimentation
• Natives: Dawes Act promotes individual ownership of Indians
• Politics: Interstate Commerce Commission formed to regulate railroads
• Technology: Edison patents "kinetoscope" for motion pictures

East

Midwest

South

• Mississippi: Turtle encased in ice falls over Bovina

West and Pacific

• Hawaii: Naval base established at Pearl Harbor
• Montana: Snowflakes "as large as milk pans" fall
• Utah: Women disenfranchised

President

Pres: John Taylor
Pres: Quorum of the Twelve - Wilford Woodruff president

Membership: 173,029

Temples: 2

Other

• Edmunds-Tucker act strips Church of resources, disincorporates Church, dissolves Perpetual Emigrating Fund and abolishes female sufferage
• Charles O. Card establishes Cardston, Alberta
• President Taylor dies in Kaysville
• Lawsuits filed against Church
• Church rents Temple Square from government
• Pres John Taylor dies in hiding
• Charles O Card heads to Alberta - establishes Cardston
• In court women forced to testify against husbands, all marriages recorded
• Nauvoo Legion in UT dissolved