Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — RECORD OF THE YEAR [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE YEAR

Important Occurrences of a Twelvemofttb Arranged in Chronological Order. A Brief Synopsis of the Most Notable Politieal, Social, and Financial Happenings. Necrology of 1886 -Death* Busy Work in the Ranks of thA World’s ' Distinguished People. The Casualty Reoord—A Catalogue of Aocidents Involving Loss of Human Life. CHRONOLOGY. The World'* noteworthy Social and Political Happenings in 1880. JANUARY. In a gvmnuinm at BiDßhnmt.m, N Y.,'Wni. Dale ivunc 7-lb Indian cluFs 4 hours 50 minutes. In a bicycle contort at Minneapolis. Woodside covered S»o nulcs in .ti hours. -(six liundited Arab* slain in battle with British forces near Koehch. The twenty-tilth anniversary of Em* peror William s acc< *»io 1 to the throne of Prussia »#* fitly commemorated at Ihrlinon the "d. It was estimatf-d that 7,000 coal-miners of the Pittsburgh district. «ho hail been on a (Dur months strike, lost in wages nearly 82,000,000; Operators suffered to a large amount by tbe prolonged suspension. Mis* Sarah Althea Hill. , of Sharon divorce notoriety', was married at Stockton, CaJ., to Judge David S. Terry, who killed Senator Broderick in a duel in 1859.Austria spent 530.000.ii00 in arming her infantry with a m-w repenting rifle, the invention of a railway engineer. Prinoe Charles of Monaxi expelled the Jesuits from his petty domain because they printed a list of suicides at the Monte Carlo gaming-ta-bles. A blizzard swept over the Eastern States on the 10th that was partidhlarly sever * i eight ▼easels were; driven ashore at Brovincetowu and Truro, Mass, fell to-the depth of live feet in many places in Maine and Vermont, the tide along t ajw Cod was the highest known for years, and it was estimated that more damage was done op that part of the coast in fortyeight hours than for the previous decade. The Massachusetts Suj reme Court dec id ini that the autbor.ties could prohibit preaching on Boston Common. Six inenes of snow fell at Galveston, Texas, on the 12th, the greatest that had been witnessed in that vicinity since tbe foundation of the citv in 1*18; the mercury at Moretown, Vt. fell to 4.) degrees below Zero. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, was permitted to take the oath and qualify as a member of the British l'arliotuent at its opening on the Pith. Pour children who were sent So Paris from Newark, N. J.; to bo treated f*r hydrophobia by M. l’asteur, reached home •afely and in good health. A Russian ukase ordered the expulsion from that conntry of all persons not naturalized, numbering 103,003. Gold mine, yielding from 860 to S3tX) a ton, discovered at Leaky, Texas. The tunnel between Liverpool and Birkenoead, under the Mersey, ESSO yards long, and costing *7,000.0 0, i was formally opened by the Prinde of Wales on the filth. Cincinnati theater man gers acreed- to give no more Sunday performances. The Mississippi River was gorged with ice seventeen inches in thickness, from the mouth of the Illinois to Ste. Genevieve—a distance of sixty-five miles. FEBRUARY. The Ice Carnival was inaugurated at St. Paul with imposing ceremonies, there was a procession of uniformed clubs, numbering 5,000 persons, the city was thronged with visitors, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Mr, Gladstone visited Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the Ist, kissed her hand, and was commanded to form a Cabinet. The great feat of telephoning a distance of 2,4(75 miles—the terminal points being - Boulogne and St. Petersburg—was performed in Europe. Notices were posted in the- cotton mills at New Bedford. Concord, Manchester, and Lowell of a general advance of 10 per cent, in wages. The lowa Legislature passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities to solemnize mar- .. «*hqpa. ■; ■ -■ ■ '' V•. ■' MARCH. On the Istinst. President Cleveland sent to the Seuate a special message declining tq furnish unofficial documents relating to suapenaions from office, and claiming the right to destroy tuern. Owing to a threatened boycott, a Rt_ Louis street-car line advanced wages of employes and reduced hours of labor. Owing to a strike of employes on Gould s Southwest lines Of railroad, not a single car of freight crossed the St. Louis bridge for a week. The lowa Seuate passed a bill making drunkenness a misdemeanor punishable with severe penalties. Employes of the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest engaged in a strike which resulted in bloodshed at East St. Louis, 111., six pessons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who were protecting railroad property; as usual, Innocent parties suffered, ono of the slain being a woman returning from a shopping expediliou. . .The Jxipg of ...Corea, abolished slavery in his kingdom, where one-half the people had hitherto been held in bondage. APRIL.

The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago on the 7tb, with clearance papers direct from Mobile, having made the trip via the Gulf of Mexioo a»d the M ississrppi and Illinois Rivers. A number of the survivors of the steamer Sultana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, on the 27th, the twenty-first anniversary of the event; near Memphis, on the morning of the 27th ot April, 1565, the boilers of the vessel exSloqed, and 2,141 persons perished ; the ill-fated ransport was loaded with released, prisoners on .their way home from; .Rook—lsland. John Dubois, of Dubois, Pa., who, in consequence of illness, retired from business, sold an estate valued at $15,006,000 to his nephew,’ John E. Dubois, for Si. MAT, The rule that few office-holders die and none resign (has its 'exceptions ; day Noblock resigned the Lieutenant Governorship of. Loui-i----ana Chi the 3d silver in loudon reached the lowest quotation in the history of the metal--45 15-16 pence per ounce. At Chicago, on the evening of-the 4th, a squad of policemen endeavored to disperse a meeting of anarchists and socialists, when a lemb was thrown among the officers of the law, whereupon they opened fire upon the incendiaries, the result being fourteen deaths—eight of them )X}liceineh, the other six being rioters or Innocent spectators ; about seventy-five were wounded. The Governor of New Turk signed the bill, permitting women to practice law in the 'Empire State. President Cleveland decided that officers of “the army found incapacitated for active service by retiring boards were not eligible lor promotion JPXE. The United Presbyterian Genera] Assembly, in session at Hamilton, Ohio, settled a longstanding tight by voting in favor of instrumental music in church worship. The Supreme Court of Indiana decided that a man accused of a capital offense cannot waive trial bv jury. Frosts in Northern Dokot/i and Minnesota, on the 7th, injured the wheat crop 2 > per cent. The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed a decision Disking the conducting of 'bucket-shoos' a misdemeanor. Mr. Gladstone's home-rule bill defeated pn second reading in the British House of Onnmona Iby a vote of 341 to 311. Physic .ans examined King Ludwig of Bavaria, and reported him insane. Great excitement prevailed in Belfast, Ireland, over the defeat of Gladstone's home-rule bill, and the loyalists celebrated their victory by sacking the public houses, pouring liquors into the gutters, and behaving in a riotous manner generally ; the constabulary, who sought to preserve order, were pelted with stones, and they In turn fired upon the rioters, the most daring of whom were factory girls; scores of lives were lost: The issue of secession was voted upon in Nova Scotia and resulted in the choice of 38 members of Parliament, 29 of whom favored annexation to the United States. The New York statute regarding imprisonment for debt was amended so as to release all debtor prisoners who have been incarcerated over six months. Providence, B. L, celebrated on the 23diust its SOth anniversary. v ._—. —; —, nr.kUe,-"/ JULY. On Sunday, the 11th, C.D. Graham, a Pennsylvanian, Successfully ‘shot" the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, in a wooden barrel of hia own contrivance. James Julior, of London, waa placed in a lunatic asylum for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria and calling at Windsor- Castle for an answer. A bootblack named Brodie leaped from the Brooklyn bridge Into the East River, 120 feet, and was taken from the water almost uninjured. IBs steamer Waeriand, when two days out from Antwerp, •truck a sleeping whale eighty feet long, which

lit cut nearly in two ; the ship was backed to free Itself from the oaroas*. A resolution was passed In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies providing that the Government free as soon as possible the remaining £O,OOO slaves in Cuba. A balloon, fitted w ith a patent steering and propelling apparatus, made a journey from Cherbourg, 1 ranee, to London lu eeveu boura. AUGUST. Snow fell in H«v York and New Hampshire on the 3d. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast, Ireland, and in the pitched battles that ensued between the Orangemen and tbe Catholic* the killed numbered scores and the wounded hull-* deeds. A Boston surgeon opened the altdouien of a patient, drew up and cut open-Id* stomach, took therefrom a set of .teeth which had Inn there for a year, ami sewed up the aperture with | tine silk, the operation being c.mphtod ill fortyfive minutes. P. J. Bcolt, afisbeillian, Sought | to achieve fame by swimming the whiilpo.il rapid* of Niagara nit iml in a su.t of cork ; he made a “moist, unpleasant corpse" of himself | instead. On the v.td Mr*. Cleveland, stopping at tho Sui amir Inn. among the Adlrondacka, tuuclird .the electric button that get tbe machinery In motidu i.t the jriilluiijTOli* Industrial Exposition. A fdotnee at London, England, distance ope mile, resulted In a Victory for George over Cummlng*. in I ll*f. the fastest time on record. Gov, Gray, of ludiau i, offered a reward of SLOW for the.conviction of any porsou engaged in lynching in that Ktute. SEPTEMBER. A series of International races for the Ann ilea's cup took place over the New York Yacht Club * course betwien the Yankee sloop Mayflower and the English cuttor Galatoa, resulting in a decisive victory for the former. J’rince Alexander signed tho doed of abdication and departed from Sollk, Bulgaria, ou the fcth. Geroidmo and other Apaclto Indian* captured by the forces of (Riii, Milks woro placed in Irirt Marion, «t St. Augustine, Ela. Excavators at I'ompeii discovered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs. OCTOBER. Snow foil nt Cheboygan, Mich., on the Ist; nipping weather throughout the Northwest was repHirted. The steamer Aluiodd made the rim from Sydney to Kan Francisco in id days ti hour* 3j minutes—the best recorded time. Gov. Patti son, of Penn syl vanJ#,. addressed a letter to Attorney General Cassidy on the action of the anthracite pool iu advancing tne pri"o of coal, and requesting him to move against it in court. Numerous letters received during .the month by tho Hydrographic Office ut Washington from the officers of Bteam and sailing vessels bore testimony to tho efficacy of pmriiig oil on the waters In storms, the b tttoww betrrg snaedity rednred to longand heavy but harmless swells. Tiio mercury rose to KOuegrees in the shade ip London on th-’ sth, a temperature unknown in October for nearly half a century. J. Juvoiiet, of New Orleans. sent a halo of ramie to tho Cotton Exchange and a bale of jute to the Produce Exchange, with letters stating that they wero the first bales of these products ever grown in tho United ‘States. A constant rainfall from a cloudless sky was reported from Dawson, Ga. NOVEMBER. Lawrence M. Don a van, a New York pressman, leaped from the new suspension bridge at Niagara on the 7th; ho descended 190 feet in four seconds, and escaped without injury save the slight displacement of A rib. A meeting in Glas' ow, Scotland, resolved to erect a monument to Burns' "Highland Mary” ou Castle Hill, at Dunoon. Lieut, (leu. Sheridan's report showed, that the standing army of the country 1 consists of £.102 officers and 21,940 men. The Vermont Legislature passed a law requiring all hotels and restaurants usifig oleomargarine for butt r to post up large signs of notification to that effect. A special train On the Canada Southern track, carrying the Vanderbilt party to Chicago, covered 107 miles in 93 minutes. The Austrian Government issued an order prohibiting the playing of poker in its army. George Huzlett and Sadie Allen. 18 years old, wont through the Niagara whirlpool and rapids in a torpedoshaped barrel ; they wore in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of tho eddy on the Canadian side none the worse for their perilous trip The president of the Marquette. Ontonagon and Portage Road was credited with saving the lives "Of twenty-four men shipwrecked tiff Marquette in a storm-; he ordered the railway track cleared of trains, and appealed to the life-saving crew at Portage City, to travel TIQ miles with a special engine and car, at the greatest speed possible; the imperiled sailors were taken from the rocks in a terrible .gale. For the month of November tax was paid on 4,430,174 pounds of oleomargarine in the United States by thirty-four manufactories, - DECEMBER. A bill providing for trial by jury was presented in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies. Tho proprietors of eight hotels or restaurants in Hartford were arrested tar using ialeam.ftrg.ar. rine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the luw of Connecticut. The South experienced unusually severe winter weather during the first week of December; snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Carolina and Virginia; at Asheville, N. C„ the snow was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. Under the decrees of tho Plenary Council at Baltimore, the Catholio Aichbishop of Philadelphia prohibited balls for charitable purposes. The Alabama Senate passed a local-option law. On the waters of Niagara River. Aluhonso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a w ager of $3,000. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at the_ rate of a mile a minute ; it passed through the I'niou Depot at tho highest known rate, of speed, and exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in tho country. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet in thickness, was discovered in Georgia. No more large steamboats with costly cabins will be built for the Lower Mississippi trade.