Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
1874,
Brief Record of Important
Events in the World
at Large.


at Large.
JANUARY.
l Geo. Hudson, the English Railway
King, dies; Mr.. Roberts inaugurated
President of Liberia.
? Brigham Young arrested for mur-
der; public debt statement-decrease
s4,42,959.
3 Thirty persons killed by falling
floor of a court room at Kittycloghe, in
Leitrim, Ireland.
Earthquake felt at Sheffield, Eng
land.
5 Governor Washburn, of Mass, in.
augurated.
6 James Fisk, Jr., shot by Stokes
Jas. Gillot, English steel pen maker,
dies.
s Governor Noyes, of Ohio, inaugu.
rated.
0 Major General Halleck dies.
10 John Sherman elected q S Senator
from Ohio; Gov VIM P White, of Mary
land, inaugurated; home rule demon
strations in Ireland; Earthquake felt in
Canada and New Hampshire.
II The Russian Grand Duke leaves
st. Louis on buffalo hunt; Eleven
men killed by colliery explosion in
Wales.
II Gov Smith, Of Ge orgia, inaugur-
ated; Sentence of American DIR. How
ard to 8 years Imprisonment approved
by the Cuban Captain General.
Is Deer Lodge made capital of Mon
tana.
15 japanese embassy arrives in Sar
Francisco; Chas Sumner speaks in U
Senate on his supplementary civil right:
bill as an amendment TO the amnesty
bill; five Supreme Court judges affirm
the constitutionality of the legal-tendel
acts of Congress.
I6 VIM b Allison elected U S Senator
from Iowa.
10 Geo r Dennis elected U S Senator
from Maryland.
20 NJ Theirs tenders his resignation
to the French Assembly.
"a Snow at New Orleans, the first in
years, Missouri Liberal Convention
meets and calls the Cincinnati Conven.
ton.
25 Gen r S Ewell dies at Nashville
20 Intelligence received of destruc-
ton by earthquake of Schalachi, a
town in Asiatic Russia.
80 Gen NJ w Ransom elected q
Senator from North Carolina.
81 The Tribune opposes Grants re-
election.
FEBRUARY.
l Public debt ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS So,
sG3, ,5l2; Baron Won Offensburg ap.
pointed to succeed Russian Minister
Cataeazy.
4 Hon III Fl Hunter dies at Lancaster
o; excitement over Treaty at Wash
,ington.
8 Attempted Assassination of NJ
Theirs.
Z Death of Archbishop Spaulding
primate of the Catholic church in Amer.
lea.
8 Earthquake at Cairo, Ill; Earl o
Mayo, Goy-Gen of India, stabbed tc
death by convict.
1G Steamer Electra sunk in Englisl
channel and is persons drowned.
II Earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal
investigation and discussion OF sale Of
arms to France opened in U S Senate.
10 Grand Duke Alexis starts fo1
Cuba.
20 Prussian General Van Moltke and
Van Room created life peers.
% Judge Davis, of Illinois, nomin'
ated for President, and Gov. Parker, o.
NJ, for Vice President, by Nationa
Labor Convention at Columbus; ia!
Black of Pennsylvania, for Presiden
and John Russell, of Mich, for Vice
President by the Prohibition Conyen
ton at Oberlin.
"a Legrand Lockwood, n Y broker
dies; flood in the Tay Valley, Dundee
Scotland; the Spanish Government
wants to part with U S Minister Sickle'
p Bishop McCloskey, Viear-Genera
and administrator of the diocese of Bal
timore, dies; thanksgiving celebrations
in England over recovery of Prince o.
Wales.
% Alfred O'Conner, Fenian, at
tempts to assassinate Queen Victori
with an empty pistol.
MARCH.
l Public debt statement decreas'
$12 1891, SOL.
4 DIR Jayne's granite block, Philadel
phia, burned,-loss 81 100000.
VIM Lowther. Earl of Lonsdale, L
NJ General of England, dies.
The Tichborne claimant sent to jai
for perjury.
z Earthquake shocks in Germany.
IL Jay Gould ousted from the Fri
Presidency for John A Dix; Mazzini
the Italian patriot, dies.
II Republican victory in New Hamp
shire.
10 Sir Chas Dixie creates sensatio
by desiring to investigate the Englis
Crown expenses.
90 Dusseldorf art collection burned
U. 5 Senate passes Chicago relief bill.
% The Cambridge boat crew beat tn
Oxford in the annual race.
2G Earthquake in California, numel
ous towns destroyed; twelve men al
tempt to assassinate the Nikado of j;
pan.
% Gen Humphrey Marshall dies; 3
men fatally injured by II colliery explo
sion at Atherton, England.
APRIL.
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