Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — THE RECORD OF 1882. [ARTICLE]

THE RECORD OF 1882.

The Notable Events of the Old Year, Arranged in Chronological Order—An Interesting Record. We present below a record in brief of the most notable events of the year 1882, and the date of their occurrence: JANUARY. C—Five persons killed and many injured by the fall of a floor at Shanesville, Ohio. 2. Three children burned to death at Richburg, N. Y. 3. —A fight between escaped prisoners and citizens at Graham, Texas, results in the killing of three of the former and two of the latter. Nine Chinamen massacred by Indians at El Paso, Texaa A—An affray in Montgomery county, Mo.; five people killed and several wounded, s—Church panic at Peoria, HL; several persons crushed to death. Three boys at Oskaloosa, lowa, blown to atoms by a gunpowder explosion. Congress reassembles after the holldaya 6. Hangman’s day; seven executions in the United States. B—Steamer Lion and forty-three people lost on the Newfoundland coast 10.—A father and two daughters burned to death at Knife Falls, Minn. Id—Collision on the Hudson River railroad at Bpuyten Duyvfl, N. Y.; several killed. Fire destroys $1,000,000 worth of property at Galve-'ton, Texaa Five hangings in the United States. Id—Seven persons drowned by the wrecking of the British schooner Weathergauge, In the Gulf of Mexico. Five negro convicts drowned at Little Rock, Ark. 17.—A maniac named Wilmot, at Lancaster, Ky., murders his mother, wife and two daughters and hapgs himself. 10.—A mother ana four children, named Smith, burned to death near Canton, Mo. 20. News of the burning of a theater in Bucharest; a number of people cremated. Intelligence of a serious revolt in Herzegovina 28.—Three children scalded to death by escaping steam in a factory at Celina, Ohio. 24. Ds namite explosion in France kills sixteen people. Extremely cold weather in New England. 25. The Guiteau trial at Washington ends in the conviction of the assassin. News of a battle in Mexico, in which ten Indians were killed , 26. Premier Gambetta.and the entire French Cabinet resign. Four foundrymen fatally burned at Burlington, Vt, by the upsetting of a ladle of molten metaL 27. —Destructive storm throughout the Eastern States. Heavy financial failures in London and other foreign money centers. 28. —Four men killed by a boiler explosion at Fairfield Me. Guiteaii’s counsel files application for a new trial 30, —A reservoir burst at Calais, France, overwhelming a school-house and drowning many children Over (W 0 fishermen drowned by a gale at Astrakhan. 31. —Disastrous fire in New York; several people cremated. FEBRUARY. k—Thirty-two miners buried In a coal-pit near Richmond, Pa. 4.—Guiteau, the murderer of President Garfield, denied a new trial and sentenced to die on the 3<)th of June. 7. Maj D. W. Washbum, a prominent railroad man, and three other persons killed by a railroad accident in Texas. 9. A. M. Hotel do, a Washington journalist, fatally shot in an affray in the Republican office. Three persons killed by a collision on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Altoona 10. —Seven persons cremated by the burning of a house near Huntington, Canada. 13.—Five railroad laborers run down l*y a train and slaughtered in a tuuneltit Baltimore. 15. News of the loss of the British steamer Bahama and twenty-five people, bound from Porto Rico to New York. 16. Congress passes the anti-Polygamy bill An explosion in a coal mine at Durham, Eng., kills many people. 17. Seventeen people killed and seventy wounded by the explosion of a fireworks factory at Chester, Pa. A boiler explosion at Atlanta, Ga.. kills six persons. Great fire at Haverhill, Mass. 18-20.—Tremendous rain-storm throughout the West, Hooding the lowlands and causing great destruction of property and some loss of life. 21. The new Apportionment bill passes the House at Washington and becomes a law. Mass meetings hold at Chicago and fifty other cities to denounce Mormon polygamy. 22. News of the massacre of 1,000 defenseless citizens of Pisco, in South America, by Peruvian soldiers. Indictment at Washington of the star-route conspirators. 2-->.—Michigan Legislature convenes in extra session. An explosion in Vulcan Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo., kills half a dozen people »Five persons killed at New Carlisle, Ohio, bv a boiler explosion. 24. —The President nominates to the Senate Roscoe Conkling for Supreme Judge. Seven persons buried by a snow-slide in Utah. 25. —Battle between Austrians and Herzegovinian rebels,- in which the latter are routed 2u.—A mine explosion in Austria kills 150 people. -Garfield memorial exercises in Congress.

MARCH. 2. Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria 3. A boiler explosion at Stone Station, Ind., kills six men. (>.—Mr. Conkling announces his declination of the Supreme Judgeship, and the place offered to Senator Edmunds. # '<-B—Distressing accounts of the destruction caused bv the overflow of Southern rivers and suffering entailed thereby. 9. Severe snow and wind-stonn throughout the Northwest. 10. —Five men drowned by the sinking of a dredging boat at Rice Point, Mass. Sergt Mason sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau. 13. —Senator Edmunds formally declines the Supreme Judgeship, and Judge Blatchford is appointed 14. —The bill for the suppression of polygamv in the Territories becomes a law by act of Congress. 15. Five little boys buried alive in air earth cave at St Joseph, Mo. 18.—Twelve people buried by a snow avalanche at Genoa, Nev. 21.—E’ght men killed by an accident on the Northern Pacific railroad 23.—Five men killed by a boiler explosion on a tugboat at Philadelphia 25-6.—Reports of the subsidence of the waters in the flooded districts of the Mississippi valley. 27. —A powder explosion at San Francisco kills eleven men. Five people killed near Pittsburgh by falling buildings during a wind-storm. 28—Four men drowned by the swamptag of a boat at Layton’s Station. Pa A fire at Richmond, Va, destroys $50u,000 worth of property. 2ft —Tornadoes in Georgia cause great destruction of life and property. Five men killed by a mine explosion at Wilkesbarre, Pa 30. A woman in Lincoln county. Ark., kills her three children and commits suicide. Burning of the steamer Golden City, at Memphis, Tenn.; thirty lives lost Two sloops and thirty persons lost off the coast of Franca A life-boat and nine men lost at Havre, France. 31. Five cattle thieves hanged by vigilantes at Pueblo, CoL The Andre monument at Tappan, N. Y., demolished by dynamita Gen. Streelnekoff assassinated at Odessa, Russia

APRIL. ■ 1. Execution of the two assassins of Gen. Streelnekoff, at Odessa 2. —Burning of the Insane Asylum at Yankton, Dak., together with four inmates. Suicide of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, in New York. Three persons killed by r falling wail at Reading, Pa 3. —Jesse James, the noted bandit, killed at St Joseph. Mo. 4. Tne President vetoes the bill restricting Chinese immigration. a.—Disastrous tornadoes in Michigan and Kansas. Several persons killed by a steamboat explosion at Brownsville, Minn. 7.—A train robbed on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad in Texas. Henry M. Teller appointed Secretary of the Interior and William E. Chandler Secretary'of the Navy. 10.—Severe frosts injure the fruit pros-i poets throughout the country. 13. Seven people killed by a boiler explosion at Baltimore. 15.—President Arthur makes public his decision in the Fitz John Porter case. 17.—The Ford boys sentenced to be hanged at St Joseph, Mo., for the murder of Jesse James; Gov. Crittenden immediately pardons them. 18—A cyclone at Brownsville, Mo., kills and wounds many people 20. —The steamer City of Sanford burned at Jacksonville, Fla ; nine lives lost Train robberies ontheSantaFeroad tn New Mexico and the Pacific road in Texas. Oapt Howgate escapes from prison in Washington. 21. Fitz-John Porter again appeals to the President to carry out the recommendation of the Advisory Board. 22. A cyclone in Fayette county, Pa, kills pine people A similar visitation kills fifteen people at Monticello, Miss., and seven at be I ma, Ala News of an Indian outbreak and massacre of whites in Arizona. til—Destructive conflagrations at Lake City, Minn., Eau Claire, Wi& andDepere, Wis. O. M. Garrett, an acquitted murderer lynched at Greensburg, Ind. Horrible masl fiacre bv order of the King of Burmah. 24.—Mrs. Pearoe, of Richardson, Texas, murders her three children and commits suelide. 25-8. —News of fighting in Arizona; the Indians routed and scattered. 27.—Marriage of Prince Leopold and the

Countess of Waldeck. Exciting episode in the examination of Mr. Blaine by a Congressional committee at Washington! Four murderers lynched—two at Lake City, Col, and two at Brookville Kr. 28. Ten persons killed by a steamboat explosion at Kingsville, 8. C. Dr. Lamson hung at London, England. John McManus hanged by a mob at Minneapolis, Minn. 29. —lnfernal machines mailed to Vanderbilt and Field, at New York. 3).—Lynching of Frank Fisher, a negro, at Ga’ion, Ohio.

• MAY. 1. A light with cattle thieves in Colorado results in the killing of a Siteriff and three of the thieves. News of a battle between Apache Indians and Mexican troops, in which many are slaughtered on both sides. 2. —Official announcement in the British Parliament of a change of policy in dealing with the Irish question. Release of the Land League leaders and many suspects from prison. s.—News of the finding in Siberia of the dead bodies of Lieut De Long and companions of the Jeannette. (>.—Groat fil eat Janesville, Wia Assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke at Dublin, Ireland. Passage by Congress of the Tariff Commission bill President Arthur remits the unexecuted portion of the sentence against Gen. Fitz John Porter.. 7 —The President signs the amended Chine? e bill 9. —A tornado demolishes the town of McAllister, Indian Territory, and kills upward of a dozen people. 11.—A mine explosion In Westphalia kills nearly 100 men. 13. A cyclone In Montgomery county. Ark., destroys fifty houses and kills eight persons. 14. —Twelve men drowned by the upsetting of a sail-boat at Pullman, HL Four men drowned at Wolf lake, 111, and at White Bear lake, Minn., in a similar manner. I«.—A man and his three daughters drowned at New Comerstown, Ohio, while trying to ford a swollen stream 19. —Four people killed at Sandusky, Ohio, by a bailer explosion on a steamboat Bill to extend national-bank charters passed by the House at Washington. 20. —News of the loss of the ship Western Belle, by collision with an iceberg, in the Atiantic’ocean; fourteen lives lost 21. Five men killed by a colliery explosion at ghamokin, Pa. 22. The court en banc at Washington denies a new trial to the assassin Guiteau. 23. Serious crisis in Egyptian affairs. Very cold weather throughout the Northwest Destructive fires at Leadville, CoL, and Tombstone, Arizona. 24. Snow-storm in North and South Carolina. Conley and Reitzel, two well-known musicians, drowned at Chesterfield, N. H. 25. —Bloody fight in Southern Arizona be • tween American railroad laborers and Mexicans. 26-31. Partisan contest in Congress over the South Carolina contested-election case.

JUNE. L—The dead-lock broken in the national House of Representatives. 2.—News of a battle between Gen. Fiero’s Mexican troops and Apache Indians, in which many of the latter are killed. 4. Four men killbd by a boiler explosion at Norrie, Wis. 5. —Four children burned to death at.Hai ris Station, Mo. George Ellis, a convicted murderer, lynched at Catlettsburg, Ky. 6. Unsuccessful attempt to rob a Missouri Pacific passenger train at Denton, Tex A man, his wife and two children drowned in Orange county, Fla. 7. —Duel at New Orleans between Editors Burke and Parker. Three negroes lynched at Butlerville. Ark. Masked highwaymen rob the Brookfield (Mo.) bank. B—John Tribbets, a lli-year-old murderer, lynched at Perham, Minn. 9.—A woman in Chicago murders her four children and commits suicide. IL—Bloody riots at Alexandria, Egypt 12 -- .Destructive rain-storm at Denver, CoL 13. —A negro hanged by a mob at Rock Hill, 8. C. Four murderers Ivnched at Mesilla. N. M. 14. Four railroad workmen killed by an explosion near Portland, Ore. Fire at Montreal, Canada, burns $1,500, (XX) worth of propatrty. A negro lynched at Mount Sterl ng, Ky. Eleven railroad laborers drowned near Winchester, Ky. 15. —Serious railroad accident at Bedford, Ind Nine persons drowned by the falling of a bridge at Indianapolis, Ind. 16. News of the massacre of an exploring expedition of seventeen men in Bolivia. Six persons drowned while trying to ford a stream in Lime county, Ky. 17. Two desperados hanged by a mob at Rico, CoL Frightful tornadoes in lowa and Kansas; millions of property and upward of a hundred lives destroyed 20. —Four men killed bv a boiler explosion at Williamsfield, Ohio. Ship Escambia sinks near San Francisco; fourteen lives lott 21. Tidal wave from Lake Erie sweeps the shore about Cleveland Twenty-seven Apache Indians shot to death by the Mexican authorities in Chihuahua Destructive cyclone at Independence, lowa 22. —Battle between Indians and Mexicans in Northern Mexico; fifteen redskins killed 23. —Thirteen men killed bv a railroad smashup on the Manitoba road, in Minnesota 24. —The Cabinet at Washington decided against reprieving Guiteau. Destructive storms in lowa, Nebraska and other parts of the Northwest. 25. —A negro lynched at Elizabethtown. HL 26. —A Cincinnati lawyer named Cole murders his wife and child and commits suicide. 27. —A gambler named Bradley hanged by a mob at Raton, N. M. lowa votes to abolish the liquor traffic. 28. —Six men drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Mandan, Dak. 29. —Six persons drowned in Menifee county, Ky. 30. —Serious accident on the New Jersey Central railroad; several persons killed Charles Julius Guiteau, the murderer of President Garfield, executed at Washington.

JULY. 4. The excursion steamer Sciota sinks in the Ohio river, and about seventy people drowned 5. Four children fatally poisoned at Burlington, Vt, by eating green currants. A scout and three Indians murdered by renegade Indians at San Carlos Agency. 6. An affray between whites and blacks at Brooksville, Fla, results in the killing of several of the latter. 7. Two murderers Ivnched at Flagstaff, N. M. ’ ’ 8 —Fire at Dayton, W. T.; loss, $300,000. A netr I '' bnnged bv a mob at Henderson, Ky. 9. The Irish Repression bill becomes a law in Great Britain. 10. Twenty people killed in Paris by an explosion of gas. A railway accident in Russia causes the death of 200 persons. 11. —England inaugurates war against Egypt by bombarding Alexandria. 1-I—Over thirty people killed by a falling building at Texarkana. Aik. 13.—The city of Alexandria evacuated, fired and pillaged 16. Steamer John Wilson sinks in the Atchafalaya river, Louisiana; fifteen people drowned 17. —Great fire at Smyrna, in Asia Minor. 18—Battle with Indians in Arizona; twenty-six of them killed 19. Twenty persons killed by the falling of a church in Buenos Ayres. 20. —Four men killed in an encounter with desperadoes in Arizona 24.—Six negroes killed by a railroad accident near De Soto, Miss. 26.—Fourteen people killed in a riot near Vienna, Austria 28—A fire in Cherrv street. New York, destroys $1,000,(XX) worth of property. 30.—Two men lynched at Tompkinsville, Ky., for maltreating a white woman.

AUGUST. . I.—President Arthur vetoes the River and Harbor bill, and Congress passes it over his veto. • 8. —Six people killed by a railway collision at Oil City, Pa 4. Four persons drowned by the upsetting of a boat in South Park, Chicago. 5. —Thomas Kirkman, of Grenada, Miss., murders a woman and her four children and commits suicide. 7.—Twenty people killed by a steamboat explosion at Hickman, Ky. 8 —Adjournment of Congress. 10.—Five men killed in a riot at a campmeeting near Eastman, Ga, 12. —Several persons killed by a railway accident near Waseca, Minn 13, Intelligence of murderous work by Apache Indians in Arizona 15.—Excitement in Ireland caused by the imprisonment of E. Dwyer Grev, M. P. 17.—Six men overwhelmed by a cloudburst and drowned, in Arizona 18—Reports of the ravages of yellow fever at Brownsville and Matamoras. News of massacres by Apache Indians in Mexico. 20.—Two express messengers killed by stage robbers in Arizona Two of the latter hanged by a mob. 23.—Five men lose their lives in a burning grain elevator at Buffalo. 24—5.—Sharp fighting between English and Egyptians near Alexandria 2tl —Lynching bees at Madison, Fla, and Montgomery, Ala, the victims being three negroes. 27. —lnsurrection and massacre of officials in Corea News of fresh outrages on Jews in Poland 28. —Fearful rioting between Hindoos and Mohammedans at Salem, India News of fighting between Greek and Turkish troops. 29. —Dr. Bliss files a claim of $25,000 for medical attendance on President Garfield Intelligence of a fearful flood in Western Texas; nearly 100 people drowned More Indian massacres in Arizona and Mexico. 80. Snow-storm at Leadville, Col 81. —Judge Advocate General decides proceedings in Sergt Mason court-martial illogaL SEPTEMBER. I.—All the Dublin police resign in a body.

A man at Paris, Ark., murders his three children and commits suicide. K—British rifle-team arrive at New York. 5. —Chyenne and Arapahoe Indians break out of tfieir reservation at Fort Rena 6. —Over 100 persons killed and 300 wounded by a railroad accident In Germany. a—Ten thousand dollar bank robbery at TXnnipeg, Manitoba. 11.—Ending of the star-route trials at Washington. The Sheriff of Chattanooga, Tenn and his deputy killed by desperadoes. ia—Unsuccessful attempt to rob a Missouri Pacific train in the Indian Territory. ia—Great victory of the British troops at Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 14, —Cairo occupied by the British and Arabi Pasha captured. Steamer Asia founders in Georgian bay. and over 100 people perish. 15. News of the sacking of towns and slaughter of inhabitants in Peru. Iff—Many people drowned by floods in the Austrian Tyrol 18. Twenty persons killed by a mine explosion in Westphalia. 19. Stanley, the African explorer, returns to Europe. 20. Release of the last of the suspects In Ireland. End of the long strike of iron workers at Pittsburgh. 21-3.—Tremendous rain-storm In the East 24. Burning o? the Exposition Building at Sydney, New South Wales. 25. —Disastrous snow-storms In Switzerland. Thirty soldiers drowned by the falling of a bridge in Austria. 26. —A woman and her five children drowned at Heathville, Va. Rioting between whites and blacks at Lancaster, 8. C. 27. —The Khedive re-enters the capital of Egypt Duel between twelve cowboys in Arizona, resulting in the death of four. 28—Destructive explosion of an ammunition wagon at Cairo, Egypt 29. Twenty-one lives lost by the burning of the steamer It E. Lee on the Mississippi river. 30. —A passenger train on the Santa Fe road robbed at Grenada. CoL James Rhodes lynched at Charlottesville, Va

OCTOBER. I. Anti-Jewish riots at Pressburg, in Hungary. 4. —John Brooks, colored, hanged by a mob at Jacksonville, Ala 5. Frank Jarnos, the bandit, runenders himself to the Governor of Missouri (>. —George Huntington, his wife and four children drowned at Aniesburg. Mass. 7.—Steamship Herder wrecked near Cape Race. B—Hume Redman, a wife-murderer, lynched at Evansville, Ind. 9. Seventy people drowned by a tidal wave on a Mexican island in the Pacific. 10. —First cremations in England. 11. —Four workmen killed by a fall of rock in a mine at Republic, Mich. 13.—Editor Cockerill killed Col Slay back at St. Louis, Ma 15. The steamer City of Antwerp and ship Constantia collide and sink in the English channel; fourteen lives lost 17.—A Sheriff and two citizens murdered by desperadoes at Mandan, Neb. ’lß.—Four smugglers killed by Mexican customs officers at Lampasas, Tex. 19. —Three prominent citizens of Knoxville, Tenn., —Gen. Mabry and son and Maj. O'Conner—killed in an affray. 22.—Attempt to assassinate the King of Servla. 23-27.—Celebration at Philadelphia of the landing of William Penn. 24. —Six persons killed at Philadelphia by the explosion of a bomb mortar. 25. —Seven people, killed by a railroad accident at North Adams, Mass. 26-28. Riotous Socialistic demonstrations in France, 29. Destructive fire at Hull, Canada. A steamer sinks in the German ocean, and twenty-two lives lost. The tug Wetzel blown! to atoms near Racine, Wis., and all on board killed. 30. Bowling of the Park Theater, Ne' t York. A typhoon at Manila destroys 100 lives. Five children fatally poisoned at Houston, Texas, by eating’ locust beans. The wife of Dr. Seguin, of New York, murders her three children and commits suicide. 31. —Soldiers fire on a mob at Ashland, Ky., and kill half a dozen innocent spectators.

NOVEMBER. 4. —Two negroes lynched at Vienna La Thirty lives lost by tlie burning of the Poor Asylum at Halifax, N. 8. 5. Mrs. Langtry makes her debut at New York. 6. —Thirty men killed by a mine explosion at Derbyshire, England. 7. General elections result in Democratic victories. B—Earthquake shocks in the far West Terrible huiricane at Manila 9. —Severe snow-storm in England. 10. —Labor riots in Vienna 11. Snow-storms in the far North west, with intense cold. 13. Three men killed by a boiler explosion at Cleveland 14. —An unknown steamer sunk by a collision in the English channel, and all on board lost Six men killed by a collision on the Chicago and Alton railroad in Missouri 15. Several people killed by a collision on the St Paul road at Hudson, Minn. 16. Seven lives lost by a collision in East river. 17. —An electrical storm of unusual severity traveled over the United States and Europe. 19—The 2G2d anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. 23. —French st earner Cambronne sinks in the English channel; fourteen lives lost 24. Fifteen persons killed by the falling of a railway train from a bridge in Scotland Schooner Collingwood founders in Lake Michigan: several lives lost 26.—David Lee (white) lynched at Start's Landing, La 29. The President causes a sensation by removing a number of Federal officials ait Washington. 30. Frank Frayne, an actor, accidentally killed Miss Von liehren in a Cincinnati theater.

DECEMBER. 3. —Excitement in Chicago over the killing of Alien, a negro desperado, who had slain two men. Arabi Pasha sentenced to death at Cairo, and subsequently exiled 4. —Thirteen lives lost by the burning of the barge Peters, on Like ’ Michigan. Congress meets in annual session. 5. Schooner Henry Folger lost in Lake Ontario and nine men drowned Three negroes lynched at Bastrop, La. 6. Fourteen persons killed by the bursting of a boiler on the steamer Morning Star, near New Orleans. Transit of Venus across the sun. 7. Ten persons drowned by the foundering of a coal-carrier off Berwick-on-Tweed The British ship Fiona lost at sea with all on board The city of Kingston, Jamaica, nearly swept away by fire. 9. —Great fife at London, England 10. —Eijffit men killed by the bursting of a steam boiler at Shawneetown, HL 12. Seven men killed by the falling of a bridge near Sun Antonio. Texas. 13. Mr. Gladstone resigns the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. 14. Disastrous fire at Toledo, Ohio. 16.—A boiler explosion at Canton, IIL, kills nine men. 18—Two cotton thieves lynched at Hazel Dell, Tex Four men killed by a powder mill explosion at Slngock, N. J. 19. Great storm and loss of life on the Newfoundland coast. War rumors in Europe. Three vessels, and all on board lost on the Scottish coast Severe earthquake in New Hampshire. 20. —Five persons killed by a falling building at Huntsville, Ala 21. Twenty men killed by an accident in a Prussian coal mine.