Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — CHRONOLOGY. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY.

JANUARY. 1. Destructive atoms along the British, French and Norwegian coasts. Disastrous floods in Great Britain. Resumption of specie payments by the United States Government 2—3. Intensely cold weather throughout the East and West, causing a total suspension of business. 4. Cork, Ireland, refuses to “receive ” exPresident Grant Chicago Postoflioe burned. 5. Unprecedented cold weather in the Southern States. Senatorial elections in France result in a great viotory for the Republicans. 7. Reassembling of Congress. 9. Slaughter of forty captive Cheyenne Indians by tho military at Fort Robinson, Neb. 13. Colliery disaster in Wales; sixty miners killed. Reno Court of Inquiry oonvenea at Chicago. 14. Railway train precipitated into the river Arda, in Turkey; over SOO Russian soldiers drownei Big fire in Grand street, New York; loss, 12,000,000. 17. Auother great fire in New York; loss, $4,000,000. 18. Decree In France pardoning 2,000 Commnnists. 20. Steamer Oberon lost on the coast of England. 27. Five men killed at Bradford, Pa., by the explosion of a locomotivo boiler. A maniac at Mortville, Mo., kills three people, and is himself shot dead. 29. Seven colored people killed by & tornado at luka, Miss. Two mon liaDged at Indianapolis. 3 >. Resignation by Marshal MacMahon of the Frctidtncy of France, and election of M. Grovy. Five persons killed by a boiler explosion in Woodford county, IIL 31. Alms-house at Louisville, Ky., burned; several inmates killed and burned to death. M. Gambetta elected President of tho French Chimbor of Deputies. John J. Ingalls elected Senator from Kansas, and B. F. Jonas from Louisiana. FEBRUARY. 4. Alarm in Europo over the spread of the< plague, and preparations to stay its progress. 5. The U. 8. Senate adopted Senator Edmunds’resolutions affirming the validity of tho later constitutional amendments. 8. Gov. Tildon testified aH a witness before a committee of Congress at New York, denying any knowledge of tho famous cipher telegrams. Tho Reno Court of Inquiry concludes the taking of testimony at Chicago. 9. Definitive treaty of peaoe between Russia and Turkey signed. 10. British troops defoated by natives in South Africa. Senator Christi»ncy, of Michigan, resigns. 12. Six railroad laborers killed by an earth slide at Kansas City, Mo. 14. O’Kolty, tho last of the imprisoned Fenians, roloasod by the British authorities. 15. The lower house of Congress passes the bill restricting Chinese immigration. 10. A family of three persons burned to death at Somerville, Me. 17. Turkey effects a $40,000,000 loan. 18. Russians begin the ovacuation of Turkey. Several persons killed by a railway accident near Selma, Ala. 32. A boilor explosion at Stockton, CaL, kills sixtoon people and maims twenty-six others. 20. A bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and thirty-five lives lost. 27. An avalaxche at Marburg, Austria, kills twenty people. 28. A man named Lunsford and six of his children burned to death at Carbon Hill. Ohio. MARCH. 1. Nr.ws of the death of Shere Ali, Ameer of Afghanistan. 2. Tho town of Rono, Nob., destroyed by fire; five people burned to death. 4. Adjournment of Congress. 5. Nineteen persons kiUed by a coal-mine explosion in England. 9. A family of fivo people burnod to death in thoir house at East St. Louis, 111. 10. News of the loss of fifty Gloucester (Mass.) fishing boats, and the drowning of 150 lishormon. 12. A flood in the River Thesis, in Hungary, overwhelms the city of Szogedin; immense destruction of life anti property. 11. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned in a pond at Niatic, CL Archbishop Purcell made an assignment for tho benefit of his creditors. 15. A pilot boat sunk in tho English Channel, and hor crow of eight persons drowned. End of tho six-days’ podestrian match for the world’s championship, at Now York; Rowell, of England, the victor. 18. Congross meets in special session. 19. Many people killod by a serios of avalanches in the Austrian Tyrol. The Haytian stoamor Michael sunk by a collision in the West Indies; sixty people drowned. 30. B. C. Porter, a well-known actor, murdered at Marshal l , Texas. 21. Tho French floating battery Arrogaute lost in the Mediterranean, and forty-seven of her crow drowned. 23. Discovery of a SIOO,OOO defalcation by N. P. Pratt, a savings-bank treasurer, at Reading, Mass. 25. Four people burned to death in a wharfboat at Hickman, Ky. 20. Judgo J. M. Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appoals, murdored at Frankfort, Ky., by Col. Buford. News of a dreadful famino in Uppor Egypt. Violent earthquake iu Persia, by which many peoplo are killed. "27. Judge Edwards, a leading lawyer of Albany, N. Y., commits suicide. 29. Fivo persons burned to do&th in a hotel at Claremont, N. H. The European powers agree upon tho joint occupation of Ronmelia. 30. Two thousand Afghans dofeated by a forco of British troops. 31. five seamen drowned by the upsetting of • a boat at Eastport, Me. APRIL. 1. A body of French troops overtaken by a snow-storm iu Algoria, ana many frozen to death. Fifty British cavalrymen drowned while trying to cross a river in Afghanistan. 2. Five persons drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Newberu, N. C. 3. The British in India defeat 5,000 of the enemy in battle, 4. The city of Miragoane, in Hayti, destroyed by fire. 6. Nows of the massacre of forty English soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa. 8. Disastrous fires in St. Louis and Philadelphia. 10. Horriblo massacre of Nihilist prisoners by Russian soldiers, at Kieff, in Russia. 14 Attempted assassination of the Czar of Russia 15. News of horrible ravages of pestilence and famine in Morocco. Destructive tornado at Collinsville, HI. 16. Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South Carolina destroy much property and kill many people. 17. The American horse Parole wins the Newmarket handicap in England. 18. Russia inaugurates extraordinary repressive measures against the Nihilists. Mr. Thurman elected President pro tern, of the United States Senate. Secretary Sherman offers $150,000,000 of 4-pei-cent bonds, and the entire amount subscribed for by New York bankers. 19. Over 700 violators of the revenue laws in Tennessee accept Government amnesty, and are discharged. Steamsnip Great Rep üblic lost on the Pacifio ooast; ten of* the crew drowned. 20. The town of Eureka, Nev., nearly destroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Communists pardoned. 21. News from South Africa that the besieged British at Ekowe have been relieved after desperate fighting, in which 2,500 Zulus were slain. 22-3. The American horse Parole wins two more greatjraces against the English horses at Epsom. 23. Notre Dame University building at South Bend, Ind , burned. Seven miners suffocated in a mine near Scranton, Pa. Attempted assassination of Edwin Booth on the stage of McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. 25. The Army Appropriation bill, with the political rioters, passes the United States Senate after a protracted debate, having previouslv gone through the House. 26. 8. D. Richards, the author of nine murders, executed at Minden, Neb. Immense rains and disastrous floods in Texas. The Stevens murder trial ended at Ghioago, after eighteen days, with a verdict of fourteen years’ imprisonment for the accused. 27. Navigation on the gTeat Northern lakes opened. 28. Intelligence of destructive earthquakes in Persia. 29. President Hayes vetoes the Army Appropriation bill. 36. Gieat fire at Orenburg, Russia. MAY. 1. Intelligence that the King of the Zulus has sued for peace. 2. £ B. Weber, a Chicago merchant, murdered by Mrs. Robert. A family of six persons drowned near Houston, Texas. 8. O. L. Freeman, a Second Advent fanatio. murders his child at Pooasset, Mass. 5. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada, kills several people and destroys WCXV&OO worth

of property. Congress paeeee the Army bill, with the vetoed section relating to the use of troops at elections materially modified. 0-7. A convention of Southern planters at Vicksburg, Miss., to take step* to check the immigration of colored people. & The Ameer of Afghanistan makes overtures to the British for peace. The American horse Parole wins a fourth great race at Chester, England. 10. Destructive fires in St Louie end ChiPresident Hayes a second time vetoes the bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls. 14. Disastrous fires at Orenburg. Russia, and Poonah, India. Destructive floods in Hungary. Three children burned to death at Toronto, 15. An international congress meets at Paris to devise plans for an interoceanio canal across the Isthmus of Darien. . . 18. Three persons drowned in New York harbor by the capsizing of a yacht 19. News of the conclusion of peaoe between India and Afghanistan. 20. The United States Senate passes the Legislative Appropriation bill, with the Democratic political amendments. 21. Meeting of the lowa Democratic Convention. Hermann Peer makes his great leap from Niagara suspension bridge. A fishing schooner and crew of twelve persons lost off Gloucester, Mass. , 22. Disastrous fire at Clinton, lowa. 23. The National Houso of Representatives passes the Legislative Appropriation bill. 24. Six persons drowned in Calcasien river, La., by the capsizing of a small steamer. 29. An International Congress, at Paris, decides upon a plan for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, and adjourns. Burning of the Washington House, Hagerstown, Md. The President vetoes the Legislative Appropriation bill. 80. Treaty of peace ratified between India and Afghanistan. 31. Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and much property destroyed. JUNE; 2. Resignation of United States Circuit Judge Dillon, to take effect Bent. 1. , a Secretary of War McCrary nominated to succeed Judgo DUIod. Mooting of the Ohio Democratic and Greenback Conventions at Columbus. The formation of a company to construct the Darien canal begun at Paris by M. deLessops. .. . .. „ 6. Six men killed by the falling of a partiallyburned building at Cincinnati, Ohio. Four men killed by a boiler explosion at Freedom, Pa. 9. Riot between negroes at Mclntosh, Ga.; about a dozen killed. 10. Meeting of the Minnesota Greenback State Convention. _ .. , „ . . _ 11. Disastrous conflagration at Point Breeze, near Philadelphia. Meeting of the lowa Republican Convention. 14 News of tho outbreak of a revolution in Mexico, and of a successful revolution in Paraguay. 15. Nine emigrants drownod by a flood at Buffalo gap, Dakota. 16. International boat raoe in England won by Hanlan, of Canada. ’lB. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy. 21. E. P. Weston, of New York, won the Astley long-distance championship belt in London. 23. Mine cxploeion in Eastern Pennsylvania ; five men killed. 25. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore track near Buffalo, N. Y.; oleven peisons injured, two fatally. 26. The Khedive o/ Egypt abdicates in favor of his eon Tewfik. 27. Engineer aud t/iree others killed by boiler explosion in Philadelphia. Four persons killed at Nebraska City, Neb., by explosion on board a Government steamboat. . 29. The Havana steamship City of New York collided with andeunk the iron bark Helen; five tives iosL july> 1. Extra session of Congress adjourned. 8. Terrible cyclone in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa; twenty persons kdled and much property destroyed. 4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus iu ' South Africa. Sevon excursionists drowned by overturning of a stoamor on Lake Quinsigamond,near Worcester, Masa 9. Explosion of five tons of giant powder at the Bootie (Cal.) mine; elevenDersons killed. 15. Quarantine established at nearly aU Southern cities against Memphis, where the yellow fever broke out. 18. Eight people drowned by capeizing of a yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada. 21. Gju. Miles has a fight with the Sioux in Montana. 26. Five workmen killed by a railroad accidont to a construction train at Waukegan, IIL 27. Great inundation in tho oil rogions of Western Pennsylvania; over $500,000 worth Of property destroyed. 31. Destructive conflagration at Hamilton, Out.; three lives and $1,000,000 worth of property de3trojod. AUGUST. 3. Fourteen persons killed by oxplosion of powder magazine atDuralgo, Spain. 4. Terrific storm extending over a large area of England; immense damage inflicted to the crops. 5. The steamship Louis David wrecked off Usliant, France, and twenty-seven lives lost. 8. One thousand houses burned at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia. 14 Count Andrassv retired from the Austrian Ministry, and Count Taafe succeeded him. TremontTemnlo, Boston, destroyed by fire; lose, $250,090. 15. Fight between sections of the Ship Laborers’ UnioD, at Queoec, Canada; six men killed. 18. Storm of wind aud rain throughout the Eastern Seaboard; much damage to shipping and crops. 23. Isaac S. Kalloch, candidate of the San Francisco workingmen for Mayor, shot in the street by Charles De Young, editor of the Chronicle; great excitement iti that city. 26. Castle Thunder, the Richmond (Va.) military prison, burned. 30. Statue to Gen. Custer unveiled at West Point. SEPTEMBER. 6. By the capsizing of a sail-boat near Saokett’s Harbor, N. Y., seven persons were drowned. 6. Maj. Cavagnari, English Resident at Cabul, Afghanistan, with his escort—seventy-nine men in all—massacred by Afghan troops. 7. Fire at Quincy, Ill.; loss, SIOO,OOO. On,e man and two children killod by the falling of a building at Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter. 10. Seven soldiers massacred by Cheyenne Indians in Southern New Mexico. 15. State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, at Delavan, Wis., burned down; loss, $250,000; uninsured. 18. News received of the capture of King Cetywayo, of the South Afrioan Zulus. Five persons burned to death by a tenement-house fire in South Boston. 19. A fight took place in New Mexico between two companies of United States troops and a party of Indians. Five soldiers killed 20. Gen. Grant arrived in ban Francisco from his two years and four months’ tour of the world. 22. Four men killed by tug- boiler explosion just outside Chicago harbor. 23. Alliance formed between Germany and Austria. 25. The business portion of Carroll, lowa, burned; loss, $200,000. 26. The mining town of Deadwood, Dakota, almost wiped out by the flames; loes about $2,000,000. Train blown up in Mexico by the explosion of 400 kegs of gunpowder on board, and ten passengers killed. 27. Rowell, the Englishman, won the fifth oontest at long-distance pedestri&nism, at New York. 29. Maj. Thornburgh and command were ambuscaded by the Ute Indians, near Milk river, Col., and the Major and thirteen others massacred. Ten bandits in tho Indian Territory killed. 30. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern Italy; a railroad bridge with passenger train carried away. OCTOBER. 2. Grand stand at Lenawee oounty fair, Mich., fell, killing six persons and injuring about 100. 5. Balloon and two occupants blown against telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out and killed, at San Francisco, Cal. 6. Fighting in front of Cabnl, Afghanistan; British loss toward 100. 7. Train robbed of about $50,000 by masked robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo. 10. Collision on the Michigan Central railroad, at Jackson, Mich.; about twenty persons killed. 11. Four persons killed by a collision on the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad near Wheeling, W. Ya. 6 ’ 12. Bodies of Agent Meeker and the employes of the White River Indian Agency, Colorado, killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merritt’s command. 13. The English troops, under Gen. Roberts, entered Cabal, Afghanistan. 15. News received of a Russian reverse in Central Asia; rout of the expeditionary forces. 16. Great floods in several provinces of Spain; about 300 lives and millions of property destroyed. 17. Further depredations by Indians in New Mexico; many settlers massacred. 22. The Uintah Indians, in Utah, go on the war path, and murder a number of settlers. 24 Heavy storm in the island of Jamaica, doing immense damage to property. 27. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the wife and daughter of Indian Agent Meeker from the Ute Indians, in Colorado, with several other captives. 29. Eleven Afghans, convioted of oomplioity in the massacre at the English embassy in Cabul, executed. J 30. Nearly 100 persons and a vast amount of property destroyed by another great flood in Spam. NOVEMBER. 2. One-third of the town of Mound City, HL, destroyed by fire. 4 Nineteen persons were killed and fortyfive wounded dv the sinking of a railway embankment in British India, three of the killed beingEnropeans. 8. By a collision between the steamship Champion, of the New York and Charleston line, with the Bhip Lady Ootavia, off the Delaware capes, thirty-two of the passengers and orew of the steamer were drowned. One span of the North Missouri railroad bridge oyer the Missouri, at St. Charles, Mo., fell, dropping a

train of seventeen stock-cars Into the river; four cattle men were killed. 9. Six survivors of the whaling schooner Petrel were saved from the hulk, the other fifteen having been washed off and drowned In the Atlantic. i 17. Thirteen persona were drowned while returning from a fair, attempting to croes a river cm the island of Daay, in Scotland. The new French cable landed at Boston. Mr. Beaman declined the appointment of Senator from Michigan, and ex-Gov. Henry P. Baldwin, of Detroit was appointed. 18. About forty Chinamen were killed by an explosion in anew railroad tunnel iu California. Twelve sailors were drowned in a gale on Lake Ontario. • 19. Statue of Gen. Thomas unveiled at Washington. The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah sunk in the Indian ocean; the vessel belonged to the Saltan of Zanzibar. 20. Great storm along the lakes'and seaboard; many vessels beached. The steamer Pallas, from .Amsterdam to Copenhagen, lost, with thirty lives. 24 The Peruvians were defeated in a battle with Chilians, near Iquique. 22. Three prominent irishmen arrested at Sligo, for seditious speeches; great excitement there in coa»equence. 25. New York Eighth avenue stables burned; 100 horses and $250,000 worth of property destroyed ; a fireman killed. 26. Wm. H. Vanderbilt sold 250,000 shares of New York Central stock to a syndicate for $25,000,000. 27. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texans massacred by Indians about 100 miles from El Paso. 28. Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General, and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in Bulgaria. 2a By the fall of a building in which twentyseven persons were dancing, at Naples, Italy, twenty were crushed to death. King Alfonso, of Spain, married at Madrid to Marie Christine, of Austria. 30. Three persons burned to death at the destruction of the Toronto (Canada) Opera House; loss, SBO,OOO. Cuban insurgents defeated, with a loss of twenty-threo killed. DECEMBER. 2. An unsuccessful attempt to blow up the train on which the Czar of Russia was traveling, near Moscow. 6. A tidal wave swept over an island in the Bay of Bengal, India, drowning several hundred persons. 7. Several shirt and collar factories at Troy, N. Y., burned; loss, $450,000. 8. Three children burned to death at Bellevue Hospital, New York- Five persons killed by boiler explosion on a steam tug near Blaok river, Lake Erie. 13. British troops under Gen. Roberts capture Bala-Hissar, the citadel at Cabul. Afghanistan. 16. The Chilians defeat the allies, with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded. Gen. Grant finishes his circuit of the world at Philadelphia. Twenty miners killed by explosion in a salt mine at Wurtemburg, Germany. 17. Meeting of Republican National Committee at Washington; Chicago, June 3, named for next convention. . . , 18. Twelve business houses burned at Bismarck, Dak. 19. Congress adjourns for the holidays.