Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — REVIEW OF THE YEAR. [ARTICLE]

REVIEW OF THE YEAR.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE NOTAf>ENiNGS - Bead ttie ft 18»1—’Tis Briefly Told and Replete with Reminiscent SuggesttVonesK—Great Men Have Gone, Great Heeds .Been Hone. Tale of Twelve Months. tbe come, and a retrospeftivegfauce muy not be uninterestestfuSj, .Itrfitstory-.is winch the same a i that of-any year of. t!p> past decade, except that it .was, aw rlcod by ;he .'•outti American revaait o;>s , jielow \yi I be found an enumeration of the principal events: ** R " • Political. JA'UARV. 1 Balmaceda assumes die atnrehip of Chili. 1 7—Civil war. inaugurated in 'hilt. 8— Nebraska . an. aa.ffig Hoard declared Boyd (Dem.j elected. Governor; Thayer c.ep.) maintained Boyd’s indegiiiiity. and held ar.jiod possession of his official quarters until the sth, when he surrendered under protest; on the 181b,-the’ Supreme Court sustained Boyd's claims. 14 —Speaker H&aua o’ the Colorado House refused to vacate hi. seal to his successor. Mr. White; inilita edited out'on tho .5 li one of White s bodyguard shot at Hann : loquotiuf disturbance I'qfice Inspector Hawley v a, ia.a - lv shot; \Virftie was finally'seated tui 2-iih, by the Supreme Court. 21-David B. Hill chosen I'ni.ed States Senator from‘New York. 16—Henry H. Swan takes his Feat cs Dii'riet Justice United 'States oot in .Michigan, vice H. B. Brown, raised to upfeu.o-Cour.. 28— Peffpr elected be atur Irotn Kansas succeeding Ingalls. 29 Llluokalani proclaitnel Queon of the Sandwich Islands. FEBRUARY. 24—Chas. Foster confirmed Secretary of the Treasury by the senate. 27—Senator hlair of New Hampshire appointed Minister to elites. J)' MARCH . 5 Conservative party In Canada, iir John Macdonald lead.fj successful bjr reduced ma,orlty. Av iv . ,f, 11— pm. Jo at M, Poluier chosen Senator from ;IllinolS6>u.t.hAl>44ffi ballot. 30— fiaron-Efr-a recalled by Italy. ■ ■ ’’ APIUI-. 6 States Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, resigned. ,-p----10—Lorenzo Crouhse, of Nf bra ska, appointed Assistant Secretary of IhefiYeasury; 13—E. H. Nelbeker, of Indiana, appointed Uuited.States Treasurer, MAY. o—Gov Boyd of Nebraska declared inel'gible. 19 -I'ommUzU of People's Party at Cincinnati. 53 , ' .. '- SIIPTEVBEB. 2 The Jgtita assumes control in Chili. abkjr'nefe., r'dc.yßKn. 12— PbfitKol Robs Montevideo; many killed and hart, 20 —Minister Egan demands satisfaction Irorn ChUi fbrfcbe Baltiihdre iueident. 29—chili returns an impudent answer to Minister Egan. s OVEMB KB. 3 Flower elected Governor in New York, Boies in lowa, McKinley in Ohio, Kusseil in Massachusetts, Kepublican snccess in Pennsylvania. s—Fonseca proclaims himself Dictator of Brazil.... Admiral Jorge Montt elected President of chili. 9 Provinces rebel against Fonseca in Brazil. 23—Fonseca forced to resign in favor of Peixotto. Peace ensues. DECEMBER. V 7 Chas. F. Crisp, of Georgia, chosen Speaker. 9-President Harrison’s message submitted to Congress.

’ Crime. JIXCAHY. 19—Express robbers get 820,003 from a Bio Grande train, near New Orleans. 27 Nellie Griffin, 12 years old. killed by Kuaßell C. Canfield, Jh Michigan. Canfield sentenced to Jackson lot life. :*k*ubaby. 11—Geo. J. Gibson “nested charged with intent to blow Up S-chdfeidt’s distillery, Chicago. Indictkitiit followed i6th. ? -V MARCH. 1— Discovery of embezzlement, of 8400,000 by J. 1. Hill, deceased, President Ninth National Bank el New Yurie 10— Dfcvid H. Posteu, attorney, killed by H. Clay King, ftxtßrneyy Memphis, Tenn. MA V. 11— Attempted assassination of the Bussian Czarowitch at Otsu, Japan, two jinrikisha men fescuing him. 31-Greek brigand Ara-tasius captures a railway train in Turkey in Euro)ie, securing vast plunder anti the persons of English and German tourists, for wham he a seared 840,000 ransom from Germany. " JOVE. 16— lYah) wreckers kill three at Coon Eapids. lowa. JULY. 2- Bard-lev of Philadelphia, sentenced to fifteen years lor misappropriating funds, and finer $590,0.0. If AUGUST. 7 A band of West Virginia Italians kill a cian, hid wife aud five children, and burn their bodies. 8— Bank robbery a: Columbus Grove, Ohio In daylight; Farmer Vandemark killed by the thief.... W. J. Elliott, Cleveland, Ohio, editor eeutenced for life fjr murder of A. C. Osborn. 2J—Three killed at communion servioo in church at Glassy Mountain, s C. 26—Kendall-Jarvis feud in Kentucky results in tjiroe deaths. 28- Baxter, insane painter, killed his wife, two children aud himself at New York. SEPTEMBER, 6 —Sloan, lowa, bank robbed of 84,009. 10-A naan aud woman jump into Niagara cataract, going over the falls... .M. B. Curtis (Mautice StrelUngar)-"Sam l of Posen”-killa Policeman Grant, of San Francisco 12— Wiley, aged 15, kills hiß half-brother in a quarrel, with a shot gun, at Pratt, Kansas, and escapes to Indian Territory. 17— Hiscovery of dynamite under San Quentin (Cal.) prison walls; revolt subdued... .Everett Moore, Sulphur Springs, Texas, editor, killed by E. W. Tate of Hopkins County Echo. «?S^F5 8 W e r!.f! fc fe n lP fc 10 lynch tho Sheriff at GJuMdan, Ala.. .v. Jftrie uibrdere at Lulu, Miss. 30- Express trail! robbeft get 6)0,000 near Utica, N. Y. . , .McCartney’s Exchange Bank, Fort Howard, Wis., robbedof s&j,oou. ' o»;t< per. County (N. Y.) bank robbed of half a million...,Flight of Standiford Bros., Chrisman(lU.)bankers, withSJOO.UOu. ...Wm. Housen and Spencer Cameron kid eash other near Kenton, Ohio. 16—Bank at Enterprise, Neb., robbed of $3,500... .Whitecap troubles at Orangeville Kv result deaths. ' 22—Eugene Garcfa, teller at New Orleans embezzles $190,000. ’ sp-'lhree convicts tunnel out of Jackson (Mich.) prison. 31— Homer State Back at Dakota City, Neb robbed of $1,600. 3 V

NOVEMBER. 12— Express robbery near Milwaukee. SO—Attempted assa sination of Rev, Dr. Hall at New York, by a demented cermim. DECEMBER. I—lsaac Eawtelle,condemned to death in New Hampshire for killing his brother, confesses the crime, but alleges Maine as the scene, to avoid capital punishment*.. .Express-train robbery at Old. Orchard, mo. ; loss $30,006. Attempted lynching in Indianapolis. 4 Unknown men demands $1.25)1.000 of Russell 4age, and throws'a bofhb, killing himßelf and Sage’s secretary.zat.New York, 5 Hiram Saw elle’s head .found buried in Maine, confirming bis brother's POnfeseion 13- of-lour New York people at New bmyraa. Fla., by unknown parties. 16— Five men Fob a mail Wtgon at Chicago oi $3,000 cash and. $200,00 J securities. Disasters. JANUARY. 1 -Eleven girls burned to death at a church fair in Leeds, England. IS—Sbtamors Hear and Britannia in collision in Firth of Forth ; thirteen drowned. 18—Gas explosion at Findlay, Ohio: killing two, hurting twelve. _ „ 26 —Bnowstorm in the East does $6,000 000 damage. v7—Colliery explosion at Scottdale, Pa kills 151 miners. feSruabt 8-Steamer Chiswick foundered off Ecillv Islands; eleven drowned, 12—Roller explosion at Hare'Point, Quebec; twtniyaiiiCTi, twenty-nine wounded. 90 In NeW York , ity, on Boston and Albany, ■ix homed to death is collision; 120 I p«lU& ier7 exploßlou at Cumberland, N. S„ 29—At San Francisco, vessel Elizabeth wrecked} twenty drown. 98—Five miners rescued at Janesville, Pa , after eighteen days’ imprisonment.... .ParkersVa., flooued; damage $4,000,000. 93—Yuma, Arizona, submerged. MARCH. ' 8— Loss of steamer Buckeye on Puget Sound • *9 drosn....J. M. E. train near Havana, in’ derailed; many injured by burning. U-Ijhsehe asylum near Nashville, Tenn., 'U ;Steamer Roxburgh Castle •^^ .English Channel; sink 6 ironclad BttdDOT in Gibraltar bay, 566 Italians drowned. 24-Rteamship btrathairly wrecked off North WWwrt cOMi; nineteen perish. Virginia ceast, bftrk DleUtor; etfht k«2-4MwaUdas in Western mountains kjll CkHiSm&uaiM HoSwUh 1 * St ’ c ‘ thoriceß Ilfs K-gliWjlamp sxpSsion at Tamaqna. 1*4.; M m jsstll clerks and two »Ttgmaarn MM*, a Matron, Ohio. VMMMw to * Uarkebnrg <W. Yo. part of Mt. Vegjtan.)

JUNE. S—Six men from the United States cutter Bear drowned in Icy Bay, Alaska. 10— Unprecedented rise in the Red River; great loss of life and property in Texas and Inaian Territory. Floods become general throughout the Northwest. 14— Near Basle, Switzerland, 13T killed by a - train going through a bridge; hundreds hurt. 15— Swiss railroad "reck, killing 60 people. 24 At Long Branch, N. J., F/ederick Brokaw drowned whilo vainly attempting to rescue a drowning girl. JULY. 3—Twenty-one kill© l in a collision at Ravenna, O. 11— Tornado in Prussia kills fifty people. 21— Dr at-us from cholera at Mecca reach 380 in one day. 25- at St. Mande. France; fifty-one perish. 3) —Three hun red personi drowned near Bombay. AUGUST. 0-A West Shore accidbut ki’ls thirteen persona. 8 -Cy done kills throe people at ashburn, Wia , aud does $ 0,00) damag > at Ashland. 9 Suveii lives lost in Boston harbor, by capsizing of ft boat. 12— Thirteen people tilled on a stramboat by a hurricane au t old Spring Grove, Long 1 land ... Tornado causes great I< ss of life in Delaware. b-Two killed at Catlsttsburg, Ky., by powder explosion... .Twelve fata ly injured in a collision at Egg Harbor, N. J. 1-j T*vo nunlrid killed by a typhoon in Japan. 1- Excursion train wrecked in Switzerland, twelve killed.... Cloudburst in Austria; f .rty drowned. )8 Co.lisi min Prussian Poland, ten killed. 19 Cvclone as Martinique; twi-sty vessels wrecktnl, over 3j>eopte killed, 1,0.0 injured.... Thirty miners killed in Belgium. 22 » oliapso of building in Park Row, New York, killing sixty-se en people. 2» K gland ravaged oy storms.... Martinique appeals for a d. 'll Thirty killed at £t>tesvill ’, N. C., iu railroad v r«-ck.... loudburst at Troy, N. Y. i9—Much damage by a -cyclone in Newark, N. J....faulk ounty, North Dakota, swept by fire; much grain burned. 81—Five klb d, thlrty-ono injured, by de- i railed train at Troy, Ind Two killed at .swingles Station, » al., by derailed passenger train.... Alauzon Knot and two daughters killed at hliardou, Ohio, at a crossing.... i hroe fisher- 1 men drowned at Pctoskey, Mich., two at *<orrill's I-ak»*, N. d.. and two at Anuiaquam, Mass. ... .Four killed by lightning at Magnolia, Ark. SKIT MB r 11.

This month fearful floods occurrel in Spain, drowning over 4.U00 people. 3 -Sehxmer Pannonia wrecked on Hawaiian reefs; twelve perish... Dynamite factory at White Pigeon, Mich., explodes, killing sixteen 5 Two killed at a Lafayette, Ind. r railroad crossing. ts Steamer Arizona sunk an unknown schooner aud crew a sea. 9 Building collapsed in Berlin, killing eight. 10— Steamship collision pear Greece; fifty drowned. 11 - Four workmen killed at Saltsburg, Pa.... : Mrs. Wm. Klein, Barton (ounty, Kan., leaves four children in her home, and they burn to ; death. 1> -collision in the Mediterranean ; sixty-five lost. J 8 Empty whisky barrel explodes, killing three New York boys. la-Five killed in an Idaho railroad wreck.... John Schalk, wife, and four children burned to death at Chicago... .Seven fishermen drowned off Newfoundland. 20— Phil Cullen and wife lock two children at home; they Luru to death.... Terrible fires sweep Emmons County, N. D. 21— Five Arowned in the Hudron River going to a christening. 22 - Terrible forest fires in the Northwest. 24—Fourteen Italians killed by cannon explosion at Newark, N. J., during a celebration ....Ten firemen hurt at Minneapolis; 10-. s 8200,00)....5ix Italians killed in a wreck at McKin's Station, Pa.... Twenty-four killed, thirtv hurt in a collision in Spain. 23—Boiler explosion at Tionesta, Pa., kills three. 28—Fa’al forest fires in the Northwest.... Fatal storrns in Minnesota... .Eight Philadelphia firemen injured. 3o—lhree killed, eighteen hurt in a collision at Kent, 0hi0.... Six sailors lost in a Lake Superior gale. OCTOBER. 1— Four killed on the Harlem Road. 2 Twenty Newfoundland fishermen lost. 4—Boiler of tug Parker explodes at Chicago; eight killed, eight injured.... Nino miners killed by a cave-in at Pottsville, Fa. 6—Nows of loss of steamer Woleston; twentyone drowned.... Four killed by an engine at Crook’s Crossing, N. Y. 11 — Wreck of United States steamer Dispatch. 12,13, 14—Many vessels wrecked on the Atlantic coast. R~B. & O. fast mail wrecked at Hicksville, Ohio; two killed, eighteen hurt. —Fly-wheel burst at Manchester, N. H., causing the death of three, wounding ten.... Three members of the Chicago Inter Ocean staff killed at Crete, 111... .Terrific storms in Gi eat Britain. 16— Reports of many lives lost at sea in the ' storm. U>—Locomotive at Pottsville, Pa., explodes, killing three. 21— Wreck at Monmouth, 111., kills four. 22 Threstfer boiler bursts at May ville, N. D., killing six. 26 Collision at Thorsen Station, Minn., kills five. 27 Fuse factory explosion at Cleveland kills four ...Report confirmed at Boston of tho foundering of an unknown four-masted schooner with all hands.../Twenty killed at Lennox, Frauec, bv the falling of undermined buildings. 28— Cable reports of terrific earthquakes m Japan, thousands being killod by shock and floods. 29 Twenty perish by burning of steamer Beirne at Miliken’s Landing, Miss. NOVEMBER. 4—Seventeen killed by falling miner’s cage at Butte City. 8— Gas explosion at Nanticoke, Pa., mines, kills fourteen. 9 Four men and thirty-six horses burned to death at Denver. 13—Fiverperish in a fire at Columbus, Ohio. 22—Repprted loss of schooner Finney and twenty-fivn men on Lake Erie. 27 —Collision at Toledo. Ohio; ten killod. 30— Fivel killed by a falling bridge at Kalispell, Mont.... Ihirty ki lied by an explosion at Blackburn, Eng. > DECEMBER. 1— Reported loss of steamer Tahita, a slaver, in Drake'sißay, Pacific Ocean, with 400 souls, 2 Five/killed by dynamite at Haverstraw, N. Y... .lteis family of five burned to death at Detroit. | 4—Thrse kill d in a collision at Pennington, N. J.... Twenty drowned by overturning of barges Hudson River... .Two killed, four hurt, at jJHast Thompson, Conn. 6—Nine drilled by falling walls at St. Paul. o—Sixty miners killed by firedamp at Paris. 10— Thwe killed in a collision at Anna, 111. 11— Thrives sol Maggie Ross lost in the Pacific; 14xirowned. 12— Thne convicts killed at Anamosa, lowa, by falliifg scaffold.... Five burned to death at MoosejaWt Manitoba. * 17— Twenty-six sailors drowned in the Thames,

L Fires. MARCH. 1 ewYork, s2,’ Oz,OX). APRIL 12—Ai Ebieago, Smyth’s furniture establishment ; i 80,000. JUNE. 16— St (bright, N. J., 403 buildings, SBOO,OOO. AUGUST. G—Co tanebe, lowa, burned." 12—Oi wne, Hosick & Co.’s warehouse at Chicago ; 1< is *250,600. 18-At .Jacksonville, Fla. Loss $l,00O,CC0; sixty-fit pbuiloings burned. SEPTEMBER. 2—ThdDalles, Oregon; eighteen blocks; loss SI,COO,OJ*.. 11—Delaware Iron Works, Newcastle, Del., loss $3J0,w.0. j 15—Commercial Advertiser building in New York. Ttoee fatalities. Loss $503,600. 17— Tenn., theater, oldest in city; loss 2>—As Savannah, Ga, wholesalei grocery housesy/loss $350,600. 27—Eire flreß -n St. Louis; loss over*l,o3o,ooo. Two fatalities. . 1 OCTOBER. s—Squire & Co.’s packing-house. 1,500 live hogs, burned at Somerville, Mass.; loss sls‘ I ,OJO. 6—Divinity Hall, Y’ale College; loss $75,0X1 ... .Davis Co., Ind., court house and records}.... Business portion of Columbus Jnnotion, lowa, slsi^»J... .Times building, Lima, Ohio, aud surtonnding blocks, SIOO,OOO B—Cutting mansion and ait collection; New YortcN? 100.000. t “Paradise Park,” New York; 100 families homeless. and cotton at Birds Point, Mo., $150,-a*v-At Louisville, Ky., $500,000. ftb-At Lima, Ohio, $150,600. 133/-At Clinton, N. J., $ 3)0,C00. j , t ' NOVEMBER. . B—At Ybor City, Fla., $300,000. ",-17— At st. Lonis, $1,350,600. -dß—At Mlnneapohe, *4 K).OD. ' DECEMBER. ! - A 33—At Plainfield, N. J., $150,003. .<*>—At Philadelphia; $350,000. * ) : .Obituary. , •’ JANUARY. 2—Alexander ,W. Kinglake, English historian. @3 — A. J. Robbrtson, State Senator, Sidney, O. f -Mons. A.-Labelle. Canadian Minister Agrit sure, Quebec. i -Mine. Emma Abbott (Mrs. Eugene Weth--1), open singer. 7—Gen. Charles Devens, eminent jurist and B y J. H. Butler, famous in Canadian ellion; at Lafayette, Ind., suddenly. W. Root, famous Chicago architect, ge Bancrolt, thw venerable American aged 91. ax—rung Kalakaua 11., monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. 24—Prince Baldwin, heir to Belgian throne* »-Ex-Gov. George E. Crawford, of Kansas. ■SB—Hon. William Windom, Secretary U. 8. Treasury. 30—Hen. Charles Bradlaugh, eminent freethinker and member British House of ComlMSftrU< UU Bra ** t M#u,culer ’ to* famous

FEBRUARY. 8— Hon. Julius Houseman, Grand Rar ids. Mich. 10—James Kedpath, famous lecturer, abolitionist, and champion of home rule. 13 Admiral David Dixon Porter, U. S. N. 14-General William Tecumseh Hhirman, one of the foremost figures of the civil war. 19—General Henry Hastings Sibley, first Governor of Minnesota. 19 -Prof. Alexander Wincbell, Miohigan University. Ann Arbor. 21—G. C. Kood, Grand Kapids, Mich., capii tall st. 23 Gen. Bobert McAllister, noted cavalryI man, Belvidere, N. J. 24 U. b. Senator E. K. Wilson, of Maryland. I 23—Gen. Asa i-tone, Winchester, Ind. 28 - U. 8. senator George Hearst, one of California’s mining kings MARCH. 4- L ‘.onard W. Jerome, fan ous turfman, broiler, and diner-0ut.... William P. Welle, professor of law, University of Michigan, at Detroit 9 ltight ltev. Heuj. H. Paddock, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts. 10— John F. bwif , United States Minister to Japan, at Tokio. 12— D. Betbune Duffleld, prominent lawyer, at Detroit. 13— A. Minor Griswold, known to readers of humor as "The Fat Contributor.” 14 - Herr VMndthorst. leader of the Centrist or Catholic party in tlieG TUian Keichstag... .Hon. Henry Fralick, Grand Eapids, Mich. 17—Priuoe Napoleon, -on of Jerome Bonapurte, King of Westphalia. 2i—Lawrence Bairoti, one ol the foremost tragedians of tho period. 21—Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ex-Couteiorate leader. 2)—Ex-Gov. Lucius Robinson of New York.... Chas. F. ■ bickering, of piano forte fame, 2*—Dr. J. P. Wickersham. ox-United rtatea MinisUr to Denmark, Lancaster, Fa 27- M. Maltcheff, Bulgarian Minister of Finance. assassinated. 29—Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Presbyterian, New Yorg City. 31—IIou. Josialt B. Grinnell. founder of Grinnell, lowa. at Grinnell. API ir.. 2 Gen. Albert Pike, hea l of the Scrttiish Rite Masonry... .Ba ker Faring, Rome, Italy 7 Gov. Daniel G. Powle of North ( arolina.... Phtneas T. Bu-uum, tho renowned showman. 9—Win. Wallace, postmaster at luuianapolis, brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, and first law partm r of President Harrison 13— Ht. ltev. Hi hopGilmtur, Roman Catholic Bishop of ' leveiand. i diio. 14— Gen. F. B. Spioola, member of Congress from New York. lii-Milton H. Butler, of Detroit. Formerly active in public life. 17— Maj t has. 1). Wood, of Indiana.... John Mulligan, oldest G. A. It veteran... .Maj. Gen. C. H Hamilton, Milwaukee. 19 — Alansou bweet, one of tho twelve found ers of Chicago. 20— Rev. Henry Darling, D. D , LL. D., President of Hamilton ■ odege.... Mary E. Gough, widow of John H.Uough.... br. Jas. K.Thatoher, Professor Yale Medical rchool Congressman Melbourne H. Ford, of Michigan. 24—Count Carl Bernhardt Heimnth von Moltke, Germany's famous Field Marshal. 2> —Grand Duke Nicholas, the Czar's uncle, 29—Dr. Joseph Leidy, noted surgeon, Philadelphia. MIT. 3 Rev. Geo. Bothwell, Brooklyn, from a cork in his lungs... .Barry Sullivan, Irish tragedian. a—Most Rev. V\ in. Connor Magee, D. D., D. C. L., Archbishop of York. 8— Madame Blavatskv, theosophist. 21— Judge Alphonso i'aft, ex-U. S. Attorney General, and one of Ohio's most gifted sons.... Henry Shelton Sandfcrd, ex-U. S. Minister to Belgium. 26—Rear Admiral Carter, U. S. N. 27 —John M. Hale, collector of customs during. the administrations of tho elder Harrison and Tyler; Ellsworth, Me., aged9c 28— Judge 8. J. Hreckenrldge, of St. Louis, while addressing the Presbyterian General Assembly at Detroit; heart disease.

JUNE. 3 Dr. Benson J. Lossing, historian ; Poughkeepsie, N. Y\, aged 79. 6—sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada. B—Chief Justice Isaac G. Wilson, of Illinois, at Geneva. 15—Joseph K. Emmet, noted comedian. 17— Ex-Gov. Harrison Ludington, Milwaukee, Wiß. 21— Ex-U. S. Senator Joseph E. McDonald of India a. 24- Howell R. Price, of the M. E. Church, Camden, N. J. JULY. 4 Hannibal Hamlin, the famous Bon of Maine, and ex-Vioe President (during Lincoln’s first term), like John Aaains and Thomas Jefferson, expired on Independence Day. 20—Chief W. H. Ross, a leading statesman of the Cherokee Natiou. 25 Mrs. Mark Hopkins Searles, worth $lO,0,0,000. ■.7—Ex-Gov. Daniel Dillingham, of Vermont, aged 92. AUGUST. 3—Bishop Flasch, at La i rosse. Wi >. 12 — Geo. Jones, editor.of New York Times, at Poland Springs, Mo James Russsll Lowell American | oet, essayist, statesman, teacher aud cr.tlc, and ex-Mnister to England ; at Cambridge, Maas. 15— Matsada Sorakichl, Japane.e wrestler, at New Yi rk. 17 - Col. Geo. M. Chambers, Jacksonville, 111. 20—H. W. Beckworth.iUnlted states C'onsulat Bermuda, Hinsdale, 111, 24 Postmaster General Raikes, of England. at PTKUBEH. I—Rev. J. B. L. Soule, Chicago. 8— M. Bundy, editor New York Mail and Express, at Paris. 9 Ex-President Grevy, of France, at Paris. 18— Prof. Ferrel, meteorologist, Maywood, Kan. 19— Balmaceda commits suicido at Santiago. 25 Dr. 8. D. Burch->rd, at Saratoga. 30—Boulanger commits suicide at Brussels, oc ioßkr. I—Harvey M. Wa terson, at Louisville, Ky. 3 Gen. Alpheus Baker, at Louisville, Ky. 0— ltev. Dr. Benedict, Episcopalian, at tiucinnati, 0hi0....1it. Hon. Wm. Henrv smith, at lAmdon....King t harles of wurtemburg.... Chas. Stewart Parnell, ift Brighton, Eng....sir John Pope Hennessey, at Loudou. 10— Levi M. i ates, dry goods merchant at New York, drowned; life Insured for *160,000. 13— Supreme Court Justice Henry W. Allen at New York. 14— C. F. Heinrichs, inventor, at Chicago; suicide. 16— Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire. ' NOVEMBER. 12—Donn Piatt, journalist, at Cleveland. 19— W. J. Florence, comedian, at Philadelphia. 23 Gov. Hovey of Indiana. 24 Earl of Lytton, at Paris. 29 “Laud Bill” Alien) author ol the homestead aot, at Columbus, Ohio. 30— Josiah Carpenter,-aged 130, in Preston County, West Virginia. , DECEM BKB. 4 Dom Pedro. ex-Emperor of Brazil, at Paris. 20— Senator Plumb, of Kansas, from apoplexy, at Washington. E 22 J. 1. Case, Racine manufacturer!

Chronology. » JANUARY. 1— Skirmish on Whits,'River; four'lndiana killed. 2 -Earthquakes at San Francisco. 6—Phenomenal snowslormß iu Europe ; manv deaths from cold. B—Lieutenant Casey killed, on a reconnoissauce... .Rod Cloud deserts the hoitlles. 14—“ Block Death’’ rdgiug in Liberia; tLousands dying... .Jack Dempsey suffers his first defeat in tne ring, by Robt. Fitzsimmon s. 15 Hostiles surrender to General Milos. 24—Storm shuts off telegraphic communication with New York and the East. 27—Jamaica exposition opened... .Russell Caulfield, murderer of SNcllie Griffin, In Michigan, captured. FEBRUARY. 9 —Connellsvllle regioh coke strike, involving 18,010 men and 10,000 ovens. 10—Mardi Gras Carnival at New Orleans 12—Iquique and Plsagua bombarded by Chilian insurgents; surrender follows, 16thgovernment troops uusnccesstully attempt re-' capture, 20th, and then desert to insurgents 16—Minneapolis has 16,'0T0 cases of lagrippe MARCH. 6-Chilian insurgents gaiu control of Tarapaea provinoe by a decisive battle. 26 Tremendous business failures at Leghorn Italy, aggregating $16,6*0,000. 29—Massacre of 470 G. orkli&s in Manlpar followed by defeat of the irrltish force under Commissioner Quinton, and the massacre of himself, Col. Skone, Messrs. Grimwood, Melville, and Cos Bins, and Lieut Simpson, during a parley. This was foUowed by heroic resistance of the remnant of troops, and successful retreat led by Mrs. Grimwood and Mrs. Quinton to Lakhlpur, 120 miles. Both ladies were pensioned by British Government, and Mrs Grimwood decorated by Qu*en Victoria with the Order es the Royal cro s. After an arduous campaign, Britisu forces quelled the outbreak, and sentenced the leaders to death. In this campaign Lieut. Grant gained great renown. April 6 he repulsed repeated assaults by 4,000 Manipur# v ith a force of 8) men. 3C—Tremendous snowstorm in Colorado.... Coke-strike riots. APRIL. 2 Coke-Btrike riots at Morewood, Pa.; twelve Hungarians killed, fifty hhrt. 5 German pork embargo raised. o—Twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of tie G. A B. at Decatur, Hi. 8— Patent centennial Celebration at Washington. , 9 First train through Bt. Clair River tunnel. 23 Sinking of Chilian. insurgent iron-dad Blanco Encalada, by the Government torpedo boat Almlrante Lynch, ih Caldera Bay; 200 lives 105 t... .Germany admits American pork. 24 Chillsm Government naval forces defeated. 27 Ground broken at New York for Grant monument. MAY. This month marked by unusual persecution - of the Jews in Russia; many thousands leave the country. ; I—Fatal1 —Fatal collision of anarchists and authorities at Rome, Florence, Lyons, Marseilles and other point*. , 6 Insurgent Chilian steamer Itata escapes from United States Marshal at San Diego, Cal. convoyed by the Esmeralda.’ 9—United States cruiser Charleston pursues tbs Itata. 19 - Expulsion of Queen Natella from Servia; the populace protesting. ' of 103 d genferal assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Detroit, 28— Beginning of atrocities In HaytL In

quelling outbreaks 350 persons shot in streets by order of President Hippoiyte. „ „ JUNK. 3 Monument to Gen. Grant unveiled at Ga. Jena, 1U....( onfederate soldiers’monument unveiled at Jackson, Miss. 4 Cruiser Charleston arrives in Iquique harbor wheie Data is earrendere i with supplies. 25 Steamer Furst Bismarck makes western passage ind days 13 hours 10 m nuies....Cornell victorious over University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia boat crews. 26 Harvard beat Yale in four-mile eight-oai race on River Thames. jury. I— Six months'business failures number 6.C74, involving #12,600.600., ..Appearance of haitor Lake iu < olorado desert. 23—British syndicate formed to colonUo Jewi in Mexico. auous -. 5 - llako!a crops suffer from hail. 7 A flash of Ughinlng enables Montana officers to catch nine Chinamen smuggling themseives into the country. B—Columbus Grove, Ohio, bank robbed; s farmer. Vandemerk. killed. 10— Intense neat in Central and Eastern States ; many fatalities. Accompauylng storms ... .Gunboats order* dto China to protect American citizens... .Two hundred people baptized at Columbia, S. C. 11— onurcticut thermometers register 10( deg. in the shade . .Terrificstorms in Noithern Michigan. oAiisiueseveral deaths ...Many fatal ities and prostratims by heat in cities east ol th» Mississippi. 12 00l wave dispels heat in the East.... Russia appropriates ll,0x',00i) rubles to relieve fan lne. 13-Ciquiinbo evacuated by Balmaceda’s troops... Ed i’ardridge, Chicago Board of Trade mail, loses a million and quitH. 15-Aeronaut Oievedrowned at Syracuse, N. Y. 17—Wheat touched $1.14 at Chicago, and *l. 51s at Now York. 18 Ua'n-makers sene success at their first experiment nt Midland. Texas. 1 *—Celebration of tho battle of Bennington anniversary at Bennington, Vt Steamship Teutonic makes western Atlantic passage in 5 deys 16 hours 31 minutes—fastest time on. record. 2J— Holy coat exhibited at Treves; ninth time ill its history since the Savior’s death; first time since 1144.... Failure of the American wheel i ornpany; twelve plants involved. 22 Unveiling of monument at New Ulm, Minn., commemoiating Indian battle twentynine years ag0.... Reports from Russia of starving peasants selling their children 23 First fro-its In the Northwest. 24 Battle at Valparaiso, l hill, resulting in insurgents'partial success... .8. ol V, encampment at Minneapolis. 26—Ergland swept by a terrific storm. 28— Chilian insurgents capture Valparaiso in the final battle.... Bread riots In Russia. 29 Aeronaut Geo. Hogan falls one-lialf a mile to death at Detroit... .Four Treves pilgrims crushed to death in the crowd viewiDg the holy coat. :-l—Russia secqr.es privilege from Turkey to patrol the Dardanelles. SKPTKMBK.iI.

1 — Twenty thousand people view Knights Templars' parade at Saratoga. 2 Geo. Woods, spectator at a balloon ascension at Oswego, N. Y.. carried up I.UCu feet and dashed to death... .Mail reaches New York from Yokohama, Japan, in fourteen days... .Severe frost in Wisconsin and Minnesota. 3 Mammoth Scottish picnic at Now York. 4 Further reports of i hinese outrages.... Seventeen killed in Russian riots over infected cattle at Maikop... .The lie passed in the Tennessee Legislature; disgraceful row. 5 Four die, 20 made sick, by drinking from polluted well at Dundee. Minn Battle between Texas rangers and train robbers ; 13 of the latter killed... .*4,000 Btolen from Sloan, lowa, bank. 7—Universal observance of Labor Day in America. ...319th anniversary of Columbus’ departure from the Canary islands....U. S. Government recognizes the (.hilian Provincial Government.... Hurricane wrecks many vessels on Nova Scotia's coast.-. .American pork admitted to Germany and Denmark. 9 Judge X. M. Cooley resigus as chai man of interstate commerce cornml c tee.... Rev. Howard McQueary perpefuaUy sußjieiuled from ihe Episcopal Church, for heresy.... Suit ajainet Itata dropped, and the vessel delivered to Chili. 10— News of Chinese outrages on Americans. ....Registry in London of Baron Hirsch’s Jewish colonization society; capital, $1 ,006,000. 11— Bismarck surfers slight stToke of apoplexy. 14— of Edward Eggleston, author, to F’rauces E. Goode, at Madison, 1nd....N. Y. Central t aln tuns miles in 4iominutes, making three stops.... Report of British seizure ol ■ itylene i Bland, Dardanelles. 15— Judge Swan of Michigan decides contraband Chinese may not be sent to China if they have residence in any other country Turk sh commander slaughters rebels in Yemen. Arabia, and displays their heads on poles. 16— Starving peasants iu Southern Russia turn brigands. 17— Steamer Furst Bi marck breaks eastern Atlantic passage; time : 6-12-28. 18— Stallion Nelson trots in 2:10 at Grand Rapids, Mich. J9—stallion Allerton trots a mile at Independence, lowa, in 2:091,. 20—Earthquake shock in the Northwest. 22 — Oklahoma opened to settlers; wild scramble for 10t5....5. V. White, noted Wall street operator, fails for 42,500,000... .Chili celebrates her new independence. 24 -Tammany monument to New York troops at Gettysburg unveiled... .Nancy Hanks at Cambridge city, Ind.. trote in 2:0914. 25 -Shrinkage ol stocks $100,000,000 iu Wall street. 26—Earthquake shock in Central States. 2R-“Bonauza” Maekoy completes a trip from San Francisoo to New York in 4 days 12 hours 28 minutes.... Philadelphia cricketers defeat Lord Hawkes’ team. 29 Minister Egan at Valparaiso ordered to assert hie rights....live hundred killed in a Guatemala revolution... .Exeter Hall sends out 107 missionaries. 30— Wild rush for Oklahoma lands... .Nine thousand miners strike at Pittsburg... .SBO UOJ bank robbery, Ft. Howard. Wia. OCTOBK p . 1— Seventy-two shipwrecked Bailors land at New York....Venner & Co., New York brokers lose a million and fail... .Jay Gould has hysterics at a meeting of Missouri Pacific Directors.... Attempted lynching in Chicago... Hebrews celebrate their New Year. 2 Boston wins National League pennant. Seventy-day record from Yokohama to New York... .Speculation in grain futures declared unlawful by Minnesota Supreme Court Standiford Bros., cfcrlsman, 111., bankers, flee" 3 - A daughtsr horn to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. s—News ol destruction of vaßt forests by hurricanes in .Minnesota 7 Grant monument unveiled at Chicago. 8— Allerton wins SIO.U'J stake from Nelson at Grand Rap ds (Mich.) race-track. 9 The Cleveland baby is named Ruth 11— Burial of Parnell at Glasnevin.. .'.Earthquake shock In California. 12— Storms on Atlantic coast. 14— grippe appears in Eastern States. 15— Allerton out-tiots Delmarch at Lexington, Ky. 16— Collision between Chilians and United States seamen at Valparaiso. 17— F ilureof Harrison, Loring & Co., Boston for $375,060....5ta11i0n St. Blaise sold to has Reed, Gallatin. Tenn , for $100,000....1ta1y admits American ' ork. 20— Sunol trots in 2:08J4 at Stockton, Cal 21— Statue to Henry W. Grady unveiled ol Atlanta. £2—Sir Edwin Arnold landed at New Y'ork. 23 Renewal of terrific ocean storms. 24 Ignatius Donnelly awarded $1 damages from St. Paul Press ; suit was for $100,601 False reports of Victoria’s illness.... Martin rides 1,466 miles in six days on a bicycle at New York. 25 La Mareachale Booth-Cllbbom of the Salvation Army lands at New York. 26 Discovery that Geo. Heidecker was buried alive at Erie, Pa.... Sloseon defeats Schaefer at billiards at New York. 27 Coast-defense vessel M antonomih commissioned... .S. J. Tllden’B will declared void ....Election riots in Cork. 26 Cruiser Detroit launched at Baltimore. 29 Continuance of disgraceful riots iu Cork. 30— Gen. Grant’s remains placed in the unflm ished mausoleum. New York Police rule at Cork.... Miners release 300 convicts from Tennessee ttockadee... .Vessels ordered to Chill. NOVEMBER. 1— Failure of Maverick Bank, Boston, for $10,000,060, and President Potter arres’ed. 2 More convicts released by Tennessee miners. 4—Dr. Briggs acquitted of heresy. 9—Czar of Russia celebrates his silver wedding. 12— Startling reports of famine in Russia.... Western Union Junction, v\ is., express robbery. 13— Anarchist raids in Chicago. 15—Fighting in Brazil.... Parnell memorial meeting at New York. Hl—Water Bupply short in New York and Brooklyn. 17—Cold wave in Northwest. il—Big hotel failure at Missoula, Mont..., Five hundred miners strike at Washington Ind... .Russia prohibits exports of wheat. ’ 22 Mad dog at Newark, N. J., bites thirteen people... .Brooklyn totally without water. 23 Terrific storms throughout the East, doing great dimage at Washington and elsewhere ... Minneapolis b cures National Republican Convention.... Further reports of massacres In China. M—Twelve people killed at a Mexican ballfight. 25—Celebration at New York of 108th anniversary of British evacuation. “—Thanksgiving Day.... Yale defeats Princeton at football. 27 Fallmw of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co. at New York for $#,000,000. 28— Cornell defeats Michigan at foot-ba11.... Fist fight in Omaha's City Council meeting. »—Di»*npearance from New York of Edward M. Field and serious illness of his father, Cyrus W. Field.... The Shah of Persia bums captured rebels alive. DECEMBER. 2-Warship New York launched at Philadelphia. 4—Severe windstorms general.... Attack upon Bussell Sage, New York, by a lunatic demanding *1,900,000; the man killed by his own bomb. tk between police and Austrian and Italian miners in Colorado; seven miners killed. Help a man oat of a hole once and he may forget yon when he Is out; but he will not fail to call on you the next time he falls In. IHk always at lelaure to do good.