Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — CHRONOLOGY. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY.

A. Record of the Notable Occurrences of 1883. i , .1 INfAKT. 1. Ferry-boat sinks near Frankfort, Gcrmany; thirty-five people drowned. Several white men killed by blacks in a riot at Oconee, Ga. 2. Fergy-boatin Jackson county, N. C., up-set-s, drowning nineteen negro convicts3. Destructive floods along the rivers Rhine and Danube; nearly' 100 lives lost. Bark Star of the West lost in the Atlantic ocean, fifteen people perishing. 4. Four meh killed at Muskegon, Mich., and three at Black Horse Landing, W. Va., by boiler explosions. United States Senate passes the Civil Service Reform bill. 5. Discovery—Of - a heavy, defalcation by State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee. 6. Remains of John Howard Payne shipped from Tunis to'thc Hnited States. 7. Steamer City of Brussels sinks in the English channel ; ten persons drowned. 9. Ten men killed by a mine explosion at Coulterville, 111. Five men killed by a bursting boiler at Bethlehem. Pa. Shin Empiresinks at sea: sixteen In io-t. ... 10. Burning of the New hall iron sc, Milwaukee; nearly lOOlivcs lost. Terrible floods in Hungary; over fifty people drowned. 13. Over 300 people burned to death in a circus building at BerditsehctT, Russia. 14. Twenty people killed by a railway accident at Camerlata.lt aly. Four persons lost their lives by a lire in the Planters' house, St. Louis. 15. Attempted assassination of the Sultan of Turkey. 16. Prince Jerpinc Napoleon arrested in Paris for issuing a manifesto claiming the throne. Five persons...burned to death in a Lpndon'tenement house. 17. Eight people killed by a boiler explosion on a steamer in Port Susan Bay. Pacific coast. Meeting of the National Republican committee at Washington. - 18. lowa Supreme Court pronounces the State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four, men killed by a boiler explosion at Mansfield, la. Phenomenally’ cold weather in the West. 19. Steamer Cimbria sinks in the German ocean; nearly 400, people drowned. Forty people killed by a poyvder explosion at Muiden, .Holland. Robberies in Southwestern Nevada, involving the killing of five citizens and two highway meiii "' 20. Six men drowned off a Gloucester fishing schooner. Twenty-five people killed by’ a railway accident near Los Angeles, Cal. In tensely cold weather thrdugliout the Nortlr . west, lasting five day s. 21. N*ine people drowned by the sinking of ship Forwarts. oil Lisbon. Portugal. Several persons killed by a bojlerJ2xploslcit.atElliton, Md. Thirty Chinamen blown to atoms by an explosion of giant powder near Suh' Frartcisco.— ■ 22. Several lives lost by the sinking of the German bark Meta. ell the Mexican coast. 23. The French cabinet resigns in a body. Twelve persons killed by a railroad smash-up near Keyser. W. Va. - A -mother in Milwaukee murders and carve-rtri pieces her three little children. Fight yersi ns drowned by ttie sink-, jng of the. brig Mariposa in Long Island sound. Political excitement in France; exEmpress Eugenie ordefetl to quit the ’republic. 24. News of the butchery of forty shipwrecked sailors by savages in New Guinea. Davitt, Healy and Quinn found guilty at Dublin of using seditious language. j- 25. Burial at Milwaukee of the forty-three unidentified victims of the Newhall house horror. 26 Four men accidentally drowned at Shreveport, La., and four killed at Reading, Pa., by the caving in of a mine. 27. Wreck of a steamer near Swansea, Wales; nineteen lives lost. . 28. A caving mine at Budksville, Pa., kills ibe labt rers. A new - cabinet formed in France. 29. A family of nine persons in Laurens county, S. C., eat a goose that had been bitten by a mad dog. and all of them die of hydrophobia. Five negroes drowned while trying to cross Georgia river. A hurricane at Denver, Col., destroys $200,090 worth of property. The steamer Black Watch lost on the Welsh coast; twenty-six persons drowned. 30. Eight men killed bv snow-slides in Cbloi rado. Seven men killed by a fire-works explo- . 1 ...A. 31. Four children burned to death at Daseel, Minn. Discovery .of a debjileatioim.of, 1250,000 by the -Alabama State Treawu er. Steamer Ansoltia lost on the coast of Tripoli; twenty people drowned. FEtHRVAItV. 1. A panic in a woolen factory at Bombay, results in the death of thirty people. 2. The Steamdr Tacoma lost on the Oregon —coast; twelve l ecple drowned. The steamship James Gray founders on the English 3. Disastrous floods throughout the Middle States. News of 7 the lynching of ten men in Montana Territory. Failure of the Union Iron and Steel company at Chicago. 4. Thirty-two lives lost'by the sinking of the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay of Biscay. . ’ Capt. ‘‘Oklahoma” Payne and his followers arrested in the Indian Territory-: , 1 8. A steamer wrecked pff Harwich, Eng.,' •nd all on board, twenty-six in number, lost. 9. Seven men killed by a> boiler explosion at Taylorville, 111. 10. Brig Zion lost in the ', Atlantic: ten people drowned. Five lives lost by the burning of the steamer Gem. bn the Oregon coast. The authors of the Phlaenix Park (.Dublin) murders brought to light. 12.. Fourteen fishermen drowned at Yarmouth, Eng. • 13-15. Floods cause great destruction of property along the Ohio river. 16. A mine flooded by a caye-in at Braidwood, 111., causing the drowning of eighty colliers,' Four children burned to death at Brackett, Texas. -- - 17. Dr. Hugh the largest farmer in the World, murdered in Calif of nia. 19. .A panic in a Catholic school in New York, results in the deatb of 19 children. 20. Fourteen sailors drowned by a collision on the Scotch coast. Dorman B. Eaton, John M. Giogoryand L. D. Thoman appointed Civil Service Commissioners. 21. Jules Ferry organizes a new ministry hi France. U. S. steamer Ashuelot sunk off Hongkong and eleven of the crew drowned. Germany prohibits the-importation of Amerloan pork. Perry H. Smith, a Chicago millleoalre, adjudged insane. < 1

J Ftjur sick .persons poisoned at Corsica,pa, Tekas. Attack' on Parnell and the Land .Eeagwe in the British HouSe of Commons. '23. Mutiny in th 6 Missouri State Prison. Six pepfons drowned at Wolf Island, near Cairo. Steamer lost in the Bosphorus, 22 persons drowned. Parnell replies to: his assailants in the House of Commons. 21. The freight steamer Glamorgan- lost in the Atlantic; eight persons drowned. 26. Three children burned to death at Moritague, Mich. 28. Prohibition killed Ipthe Missouri and Texas Legislatures. Woman suffrage killed in the Massachusetts Legislature. Maine restores the death penalty. 0. H. Platt,, of Connecticut, made a member of the National Republican Committee. ” MAUCH.;- ' ', - I. Jim Elliott, the prize-fighter, killed at Chicago by Jerry Dunn. , The long Senatorial contest ended iit Michigan by tile election of Thos. W. Raimer. .Marriage.at Washington of Senator Tabor, of Colorado. • : / 3. Steamer Yazoo sinks in the Lower Mississippi : I'l lives lost. 4. The Riddlel-erger law declared unconstitutional by the Virginia Legislature. United States Treasurer Gilfillan resigns. 7. Train robbery near Fort Smith, Ark. Marriage of ex-Gov. William Sprague, of Rhode Island. Imprisonment for debt abolished in Noviti Scotia. ; - ‘ —— 7. Three persons cremated at Frederick', Md., by the burning of a house. it. Seven men drowned opposite Jersey City-by the sinking of a ferry-boat. 10. Eleven men cremated by the burning of a boarding-house at Brownsville, Dakota. 11. The day set apart by Prof. Wiggins for his great, storm, which failed to materialize. 12. Patrkdc Egan, Treasurer of the Land League, arrives at New York.13. The Missouri Legislature enacts a stringent high-license liquor law’. 14. Judge David Davis married to Miss Burr, of North Carolina, 15. Startling explosion in London, attributed to Fenian agents. A. N. Wyman appointed United Stages Treasurer. 17. Excitement in England over the alleged assault on Lady Florence Dixie. 20. Tennessee enacts a law abolishing public executions.. 21. Six lives lost by tile sinkiugof anoystqr boat at Baltimore. ? 22. Mount Vesuvius in a’statc of eruption. 23. Six mi-n killed imri-fight-between cattle herders in Arizona. Indian outbreak in Arizona. Several people slaughtered. The rcTitm'ns vof John "Howard—Rayne,—author— of“Hdme, SWbet Homearrive at New Fork from Tunis. Africa, where he died in 1852. Six miners killed by a gas explosion at Lost Creek. Pa. 25. Rcciivery of the bodies of a large number of the victims of the imhe disaster on Feb. Bi, near Braidwood, 111. ; 28. The Massachusetts Legislature passes a law providing for biennial elections in that State. 29. Count VOn Szekhcly, TresidcntAtf the Hungarian Court of Cassation, murneretF. 30. News of fresh Indian massacres in Arizona. Several persank-kiilciL-by a collision on the Cincinnati Southern railro.id. 31. 'l'wer.ty-thr'-e people drpwnesJ by a shipwreck at- Ht>l\ la-ad; Englanm APUII.. 1. Six persons killed by a boiler explosion on the steamer Polar Star, Mississippi river. 2. l-'ilty people killed by the explosion of a powder factory near Paris, France. Excite-' ment in England over the discovery of dynamite plots. 4. Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, appointed Postmaster General. The President starts on a So’.ithern tour for tl-.e lenefit of his health. 5. Four persons burned to death at Hartwick, N. Y.. and three at Elsbury, N. Y. News of if great fire at Iquique, Peru. News of a war of races on-the line of the Panama Canal. Michael L'avitt writes_ a Jet ter denouncing the dynamite policy of the Irjsh. 6. Tl-.e Coroner's jury in the Braidwood mine disaster exonerates the mine owners from blnme. 7. Disastrous floods in Austria and Poland. ,8. A hotel burned at. Greenville, Texas, and eight guests cremated. 11. Judge Gresham, the new Postmaster, General, enters upon his dyties. The bill for local self-government in Ireland defeated in the British House of Commons. 12. Prohibition defeated in the Connecticut Legislature. Earthquake shocks in Southern Illinois. Wisconsin’s fliet cotton factory opened at Sheboygan Falls. McDCi-m.otU ATI;,, and three burned to death in Griiut, co u a ty, • Ark..^Discavery,aj£=ju.ch "Silver mines in East Tennessee. The first Iron sailing vessel, ex er built-Jii Atnerica launelied at .Pliil'adelphfa-. Charles Smith, of Delaware county, lowa, kills his wife and two dtildren and commits suicide; Brady, one of the Phienix Park murderers, sentenced to death at Dublin. —l4. I-'iist- toi'uadoeg "m the scasoft felt in Arkansas, lowm and Nebraska. tiiree guests at Albia. lowa. 16. Twentv-si.x Nihilists sentenced at Odessa. Russia. Three children Larned to death, at Portsmouth, Texas. 17. Prohibition in the. Delaware Legislature. The Scott liquor license law passed by the Ohio Legislature. 18. Many i;Oople drowned by a flood in the Yahuashua river, Mexico. Daniel Curley, , : ■* •- •' : . ■■■ .• • another of the Pho nix Park murderers, sentenced to death in Dublin. Senator Kellogg indicted at Washington. The dynamite plots laid bare at London by the confession of Lynch- > 19. Eighteen Nihilists sentenced at St. Peterson rg. 20. Four men drowned at Seattle, W. T., and four at Williamsport. Pa., by the upsetting of boats. Prohibition voted down by the Pennsylvania Legislature. Eight people killed by a falling wall at Sacramento, Cat. 21. Bloody fight between citizens and circus men at—Dover. Del. Five persons drowned at New Bedford, Mass., mu! seven at San Francisco, bj’ the upsetting of boats. .__of President Arthur fiom his Southern tour. A cyclone in Missi-sippi and Georgia kilis h'nd maims hundreds of people. 25. Meeting in Philadelphia of the IrishAmerican convention. , 27. Michael Fagin sentenced to death at Dublin. Congressman Phil Thompson kills' Walter Davis at Harrodsburg, Ky. MAY. I , ' . ’’t 1. Four men killed in a riot at Marshall, Tex. 2. Acquittal of Fitz Harris, the fifth man tried,at Dublin for the murder of Lord Cav- - / ' ': ' x ... L

3; Four people run over and killed by a train at Goxyun, Mich, .'•'even,men killed by a mine accident at New Glasgow, Nov a Scotia. Seventy Chinamen drowned by the wrecking of the steamer Grapplor oil the Paeifl - coast, -fl. Moody and Sdnkpy return frbm Europe. Battle between Mexican troops andMpaclie Indians, in Mexico. Q 7. Arthur Sullivan, aifthor of 9Pinafore,''_ made a Knight. 11. Suicide of Ainasa Stone, the wealth e.-t man ini Cleveland, Ohio.13. Destructive tornado in Missouri. Bonanza Fair, the Nevada Senator, divorced from his wife. 14, Joe Brady, one of »the Plityiil.t Park murderers, hanged at Dublin. 16. Fit/. Harris, the cab-driy.t-r,..conviyt£fl.:rL Dublin—Mooting at-Washington .of : the=society of the Army of the-Eplpmae. Congressman Philip Thompson aeqi;itt“d‘at llai-rods-burg, Ky. A. series of cycloii.-s in Illinois and Wisconsin kills upward of seventy pc-o-plo and d.estio.rt niuqir property. Daniel Curley, one-of the Ph enix Park ,assassins.' hanged—ar’Dtrblin. steamier Granite State burned oii the Con'm-et .’cut ri-, .-r; live lives lost. 19. Carby, the informer, turned loose at Dublin. 20. Hea’yygal'epn the Northern lakes; many vessels wi-eckcd, with eonsid.-rttliie loss of life. -— f J'he Czar enters —Moscow —with —great pom p. 23. The ceremony of blessing tile Russian imperial flag performed at Moscow. 24. Opening of the great East River -bridge,■ 25. A boiler of the steamer Pilots explodes at Shn Francisco, killing eighteen News of a battle in Mexico between Gen. Crook’s forces and Apache Indians. 27. Coronation of the Russian Czar at Moscow. 28. Michael Fagin, one of the Phoenix Park conspirators, hanged at Dublin., 29. A tornado in Central Indiana kills many people and destroys much property. 30. Decoration day. Many peopleJctlled by a crush on the Brooklyn Bridge. Five firemen killed at Lynchburg,; Va. Seven men drowned in Boston harbor. Five men killed in a shooting affair at Salida. Cal. JUNE. 2. Destructivt> cyelor.e al Greenville? 7 Texas. Thomas Caffrey, the fourth of the Phoenix park conspirators, hanged in Dublin. Healy and Da vitt released from imprisonment iii — 6. Democratic State convention of lowa. Republican State convention of Ohio. 7. Lynching bee at Waverly. lowa. —“ 8. One hundred and fifty people killed by a powder explosion at Scutari, Albania. 9. Timothy Kelly hanged at Dublin for tho murder of Lord Cavendish. Suleiman Daoud executed at Alexandria. 10. Five men killed by a boiler explosion at College Point, L. I. 11. Five persons drowned at Benjamin, Utah, by jhe capsizing of a-luat. -Violent storms In lowa and AVisconsim—vGen; Crook returns to Arizona from a su<-e< Sfl'til Indian hunt in Mexico. . • -- 13. N. L. Dukes killed by young Nutt at t nointown, Pa, Greenback eonveution in Ohio. Arguments concluded in the starroute trial; the jui'y render a verdict of am quit till. - 14. The dynamite conspirators, Gallagher and others, conx:icted and sentenced at—London. 15. The high license liquor law passes the Illinois Legislature. 16. Meeting of the Ohio Prohibition convention. Great ex cit ement on the -Chicago Board of Trade, caused by the failure of Peter McGcoch. 17. Destructive rain and wind storms in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and, Nebraska, Over 200 children killed at Sunderland. England, by a panic and rush in a public hall. Fourteen people drowned by floods near Seneca, Kas. 21. Ohio Democratic convention. Destructive tornados in Missouri and Kansas, 22. Four train-robbers executed -in Arkansas. Two men lynched in Tennessee. 23. Twenty-tix e lives lost by the sinking of the steamship Wailara, off Portland, England. 24. Great damage in the region of St, Louis by an overflow of the Mississippi river. 25. l.ouise Michel, the female socialist, convicted of r ot at Paris and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. News of the breaking out of the cholera in Egypt. Eighteen Chinamen killed by a railway collision iff Montana. 26. The Ohio Supreme c ohrt decides the Scott Liquor law constitutional. The Cabinet at Washingion derides to aid in pie'.entmg ►Alm lam.im.g_ e.cu.i,aar.i3;.itteismm York. . -2t>. A-family of live pcrsons-drewiM';! near Madison, Ind., by the upsetting of'a boat. News of the.drowning by floods of seventeen qjer-ons in Nemaha county, Neb. JULY. ’ 1. Duel-between two Richmond <Va.) editors, Bcii-ne and Elam. Terrible ravages of the cholera at I'amietta. Egypt, Six peQons killed by a railroad a-. <id -nt at Roselas, Pm 2. .Opening of tho celebrat on, at Santa Fe, settlen.ent of the town. Tornadoes in Wisconsin, Connecticut and Mas.-a-.-lu setis. War v.-aged on the trade dollar. - el, 3. Aloat 150 i eople drowned by an accident while launching a new steamer at Glasgow, Scotland, SjX persons rundown and killed by a Ira n near Clneinnati. 4. National Anti-Mono poly eonveution, at Chicago. News of the murder of four oH'rcials of Grand county, Col. 5. Emeute in the Oregon penitentiary;,six convicts killed. Six , people drowned at Whiteville, N. Ci, by the overturning of a boat. .7. Female suffrage rejected by the British House of Commons. Alarm in Europe over the spread es cholera in Egypt. 10. A British Parliament committee reports against building the! channel tunnel. De I.csseps arranges with, the English Government for a sri-<Hiii Suez ca'nal. Destructive storms in Minnesota. Wiscotlsfti and Kansas. ' ■ ■ ' i >. ' . ' It. Thirty people drowned at Londuii, Ontario, by a sadden overflow, in the night, of tlie river Thames.' . K of colored editors at St! Lous. Me. Andrew White, a wealthy citizen of Dwight, 111., while insane, murders his wife and children and epnimifs suicide. 1 13. Destructive, tornadoes in Missouri, Kansas, lo« a, Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana. —I t. Twenty people burned to death during a fire-in a Hungarian village: Exciting and bloody hunt fdr the assassins of Postmaster -Clingan. of Polk (?rty, lowa. 16. Disastrous storms in Wisconsin, lowa, niinois and Indiana. 17. News of the sacking of the American consulate at Mentdrey, Mexico. —— -—a-

. bgj- 1 2 7)' Ts .' 18, Accident to < hlQf Justice Waite.j in Montana. I’rbst in sonic sections df lowa. 19. Inauguration .of' the great strike of teh-gi-aph operators tlirouchoul. the country. ’~2T. A"cyclone kills a number .of people and destroys muc|i property in Dakota and Minnesota. . 23. Eight mon kijled by falling briqks while i-e]>aii-ing a blastdvmnalee at Syracuse; N, Y. I.’i-astrqfis tqi-nadp in Ingham county, Mich. 24. Aljout eighty, people drowned by the giving .way of a steamboat pier near- Baltimore. Md. i apt. Webb, the famous swimmcr. drpwneil at Niagara l-'ajls. Hard;; , One of ih.e Folk county J lowa ■ assassins, executed ■ by a inol>. ■ " 25. Eight colored people drowned at. Claremont. \a.. 23. Ex-'l i-casurm-M .T. I'olk sentenced to ,Uweut-y years in-tli+speaiteiiihii'y at Nashville, T’eiin.' 1 '1 Ihi-i >-six pepsonS kille-l by a mine explosjun in :-icily. (Jyeu 5, | .'OO pi.-iiji'c killed by ati.enrtli'iuakemi the Italian island of Isc'.urt. 29. T'.veilfy-tlx e. ifeoiplKktllr'd .by a t-ailwmy. aceideill near Albany, N. Ten colored, people drowned at Mayersyilie, Miss. The Spanish Minister to the United States commits suicide in New l'o . 30. President Arthur leavesAVashington on an mvteadcxl We-slom -tour, James-Carey,, the Irish, informer, killed in. South xlfrica, august. , 1. Eight people killed by a railroad collision near Pownall; V|, 2. The New Hampshire Legislature cleets Austin F. Pike, V. S. Senator, after balloting nearly two months. 3-5. Heavy failures in the leather trade in the New England cities. 6. Serious revolt in Spain. Formidable anti-Jewish riots in Russia and Hungary. 7. A general local-option liquor law enacted in Georgia. President Arthur smokes the calumet of. peace, with the Arapahoe and Shoshohe'c’nieTs at "Fort Washakie, Wyoming Territory. 8. Thirtc.cn sailors drowned by the sinking of a bark off Dover, England. 9. Four Irish dynamite conspirators sentenced for life at Liverpool. 11, Burning of the Kimball house, the largest hotel in the South, at Atlanta. ,12. Tv/clvc men aecideiitiillj’ killed m'a'railroad tunnel in Montana. 13. Suicide .of the wife of Senator Allison, of lowa. The Mayor and other officials indicted at Baltimore" Tor malfeasance. 15. Twenty men killed by a mine accident at Cornwall, England. JT.~Sevcn7'pbfseti~ff’M'leflrtJy'>t~ railway" edi-*; lisiori at Lexington, Ky.” . 1 18'. End of the long strike of the telegraph operators. 21. A tornado kills upward of forty people and -destroys avast amount of property in and about Rpchesfer’ Minn. Opening- of the Knights Templar triennial conclave at San Francisco. r . •i?.. News of a ft ari'itl massacre of Indians' by Cliiii.ans in Peru. Completion ol tracklaying on the-Northern Paeitie rai 1 t oad. 26. Five men perish in a burning building at Boston. Eighteen sailors drowned by a collision in the English channel. 27. News ol the th atb of the Queen of Madagascar, 28. 29. 30. Volnmic erupiimis in the island of Java cam’C frightful destruction of lite and property; upward-Qf 100,069 people killed. 31. The Czar of Russia cisits tho King of Denmark. The steamship Ludwig, from ■Antwerp for Montreal;-wit h seventy people on boaid given up as lost, SEPTEMBER. 2. Six persons killed by.a boiler explosion at Franklin, Dakota. 3. A single higfliwayman robs the passengers on a Utah railway train. A priest and six of his 'congregation killed by a thunderbolt in a church at Lagos, Mexico. Eleven working girls burned to death in a factory at Cineinnatr. Over killed by a railway train near Berlin, Germany. 4. King All'onzo issues a pro; Lunation restoring tee constitutional guarantees in Spain. 7. President -Arthur ret unis to Washington after an extended-trip to the far West. Acquittal of Frank James, the Missouri outlaw. 8. Formal opening of li e-NorthermEaeific-ralh-oad. ; 9. Sale of the Horace llicelcy (arm at Chappaqua, N. Y. 11. Serious riots at Canton; China. r 12. Oklahoma Payne again arrested in the Indian Territory. 13. News of. tho disaster to ’be Greeley Ai-< t search . expemtron; i wc.ve prop o clrow’ie I by the sinking of a Norwegian ship in the' English Channel. Celebration in Germany,of Martih Luther's 100th l —111 the Dakota .Constitutional conveiitioii. The. Black Flags defeated by the French in a. buttle at'ion-' quin. 6 . 15. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, discovers the nQw comet, lii. The seventy-third anniversary of MexiMexico. 17. Yellow lever epidemic ' in Mpxieau cities. Bark Britannia lost near Halifax, N. S.: twelve people drowned. IS. King Koflee defeated in Ashantee after a bloody battle. 19. Great weavers' strike at Ashton. En gland. National convention of postal rail, wav clerks at St. Paul. Hurricane in Bahama islands; many vessels wrecked and sixty-five people drowned. 20. Fifteen coal miners killed in Westphalia by fire-damp explosion. Statue of Zachary Taylor unveiled at Louisville, Ky. Seven persons killed by a boiler explosion at Pitts, burgh. 21. Return to Sweden of Nordenskjo'd, the Arctic explorer. Lord Chief Justice' Coteridge, Of. England, banqueted at Chicago. 22. France fprti up over the Chinese question. 23. A boiler explosion at Shreveport, Lai, kills seven people. Extensive inilitary prCparations i;i Russia. 21. Return to England of the family of -C'ai-ey’. Jte'lrish- inftyrtner.' ■ ■At;lrti!ioirby''tli;e Land Leaguers -reopened in Ireland. Henry M. Sfanley, the African explorer, heard from. 25. Destructive gale on Lakes Dntarid and Erie. The Emperor of Germany appoints King Alfonso, of Spain, Colonel of a German regiment, which causes much ill-feeling, in trance. I Terrible railroad accident in Roumania. New York morning newspapers reduce tireir price®. - ; 28. Heavy express robbery on a train at Laketon, Ind. 29. Attempted train robbery in Western Kansas.. Snow-storm in Minnesota.

I ... , J; 30. Forty Chinamen killed hear San Francisco by the explosion of a powder-mill. The Spanish King hooted by a mob in Paris, ‘ which causes much excitement in Spain. OCTOBER. L ( Snow-storm In MAine, , . '2- E.\ augelists Moody and Sankey sail for Ireland. Burning of the Pittsburgh Exposition buildings, 3. The authorities of Stratford-upon-Avon refuse permission to exhume the remains of Shsikspeare; Meeting at Philadelphia of the I thirty-third convention of the Protestant ' Epigeopal Church of the United States? tional Convention of the laundrymcn at Chicago. 4. A woman -at Lampasas, Mexico, nml’ders JterJlxe-.qlulxh-ori and kills-herself.-—-Thmen-tirc Ministry of Norway impeached. 7- Niltilisi proclamations issued in Russia s<-nt< ncing the Czar to death. 9. The pacing horse Johnson makes the ifastest-time ai Chicago ever known, a mile in 2:10. New's of thei discov<-ry in Alaska of an j immense river. ■ i- 1 (| - Earthquake in < alii'orn ia.- -Show-s tor ms ! in NebrtUku ami ( olorado. t .11. Meeting- at. Brooklyn of the Woman i Suffi age National Convention. The bankers 1 me-'i in national convention at Louisville. pEgrtFEoriTe ami l'i in yes- I.'-uise leave Canmla for England. The Spanish Ministry resign in a body. Heavy snow-storm in Manitoba. Forty people drowned in a flood in Spain. Aniversary of the discovery.of America celebrated its Spain. IE Seven persons drowned by the foundering of a schooner near Boston. War preparations in Prussia. Mysterious murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111. 15. The United States Supreme Court decides the Civil Rights law imebnstitutional. Forty women killed in a crush in a Ji-wisli .Bynagogue-iU-Russia,-<atltSfitUt>yjul«lse alarm of fire. 16. Epidemic of trichinosis in Saxony. Disastrous storms on the English coast. 17. Over 200 lives dcstroye/l by an earthquake in Asiatic Turkey. 18. Reappearance .of the cholera in Egypt. 19. Twenty-five lives Jost by a mine explosion in England. "20: News of- the signing of a treaty of peace between Chili and Peru. 21. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrives at New York. Snow-storm in Minnesota. Discovery of gold deposits at Lisbon, Dakota. 22. Heavy snow-storm in Colorado. 23. The Marquis of Lansdowne, new Governor General of Canada, arrives .at Quebec. Ten girls IbseTHcTr Ilves by the: explosion ofi" a squib factory at Kingston, Pa, 24. Snow-storm in New England. Destructive gale along the Massachusetts coast. Slosson beats Sexton for the billiard championship. A farmer name 1 ITai'.er, of Xewcom; erstown, Ohio, kills his wife, three children, and himself. J: . 25. News of the loss.of live vessels on tlse New England coast, anxbrttin -drowning el twenty-seven p-rsons. — 7 —2ti,—N e ws of—war pre;-,a*;at ;qtts in. Russia .and Germany. 27. Intelligence of. more earthquakes in Asia Minor. Chief Justice Coleridge sails for,. England 29.''Destrueflvo cyclones in_Louisfima and Kentucky,. Disastrous rain-stprms in Illinois and Indiana, Seven lives sacrificed by >’. 11 explosion of dynamite at Brooks' Tunnel, Pit. Henry Irving, the a. tor, begins an engagement at New .York. 39; Mysterious exp'osiohs in the nnderground railway tttniu Is in London, England, 31. Loss of the steamer Holyhead and fifteen lives in the Irish gea. Disastrous conflagration at Savannah, Ga,; ten lives lost. XOVEMBEIt. i n J’ike co uii ty,. I nd. Orange disturbances at Tbii'donderi-y, Ireland. Conclusion of the Coroner's inquest into the Z< ra Burns murder mv'sterv at Lincoln, 111. Snow-storm in New York. 3. Moody begins a six months’ evangelizing engagement in London. Eoliliehl riot at Dauville, Va., in which seven negroes are "killed. _?4. Mary Churchill, the. long-mi-sing st. Louis girl, found at Indianapolis. 5.1 Nows of the loss of the. whaling bark Loujise and her crew in the Arctic toccan. Train l Obl ery m ar Daii\ i'le Junction, 111. fl, Se\’en people kiHcd-ahd >2(>iijiutl v.orth of property de.-troyed by a... cyclone at Spring- , field, Mo. 7. A colliery expjofion in Lancashire, Eng- | [land, kills sixty-three inen. Adi lina l atti arrives at New York. 2 portiort of the roof ol jthe Wisconsin tapltol . | tmild-i-Hg-at Madismu . A rt — j 11. (•’rrin .A, Carpet/'f!, arrested tor the ; l murd-r-of -Zwii-41HFHS- ! charged from custody.. Celebration <>t I Lather's 400th birthday. ' 12-11. Disastrous gales on the ilutin 0!..i lakes, resulting in the wrecking ot over | thirty craft and the diowning of upward of fifty people. 15. Destructive storm on the Chesapeake Eay; many lives lost. 17. Eight lives sacrificed in a railway aecident at Streator, HL 18. Lynching of Jacob Nclling at Oxford, Ind., for the murder of Ada Atkinson. f 19.-I.oss of~the bark Tlormimden, witrt i eleven of her.crew, off Halifax, Neva Scotia, ! and of the steamers Condpr and Hymethus, l.in the English channel, forty people going J I down. A hurricane on the Newfoundland , i eoast wrecks many vessels and causes great I loss of life. . - I 21. Ex-Senato}’ S| oncer ai rested in Nevada !an 1 taken to Washington. Disastrous rainstorms in Indiana. Illinois, and Missouri. «.A cyclone in Missouri and Arkansas-kills several people, v 22. Jacob D Crouch? a millionaire farmer, and three other persons murdered near JackYon. Mich. Intelligence of the massacre of Hicks Pasha's Eg; pt lan u.rmv. in the Soudan. Minister Lowell chosen rector of St: Andrew's academy, in Scotland. Butchery -of the -Rud'ly-, fa mi ly of to urpersons as laconia, N. H. Train-robbery .jinear .Deming, N. M, Maion, -thg, weuld-be slayST of Guiteiuk pardoned by the Pn silent. 25. Sinking of the steamer Rome and di’-ownihg of t-wehty people in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. 26. Celebration, j n New York of the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of that pity, by the British. Loss of the steamer Eclipse, on Lake Ontario; eighteen people drowned, I 27. Loss of the Dutch bark Judith, oh the Norwegian coast; eighteen lives lost. Sixteen- persons drowned by the loss of' the schooner Ruso, in the- Gulf of Mexico. r- ' - i k : s « "•>

France removes the prohibition on American pork. Cyclone at Prairie du Chien, Mis. , 29. Ex-Senator Blaine unfolds to the-public his scheme of allied Federal and State taxation. Disastrous railway accident at Worcester, Mass, u News- ot the loss of six Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners, carrying seventy-five men. 30. Bloody fight between burglars and officers at Shelby, Ohio. Mrs. Riall, of Baltimore, kills her two children and commits suicide. DECEMBER. 1. Patrick O’Donnell, the slayer of In- - former Carey, convicted and sentenced to death at LSndon. 2. Eighteen people killed in a raihvay collision in France. , 3. Meeting of Congress at. Waehipgton. 4. Loss of tho steamer Princess Louise arid nine of her crew, on the coast of Newfoundland. —. 02-00 5. Attempted train robbery near Memphis, Tenn. 6. Dynamite explosion in Toronto, Canada. I.<iss of a 1 pilot boat and tcn persons iri Nexv York harbor. 7. Earthquake shock in Arkansas. Four men lynched in Brown county. Neb. News of the loss of seventy sailors belonging to the Glum-e-iti-r tMass.) fishing-fleet. ....... 8. Four Mexicans lynched at Fort Davis, 12. Meeting at Washington of the National Republican committee.