The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-01-22
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the U. s. Senate.-A severe snow-storm
passed over the Northwestern States.
26. William M. Tweed resigns as q
New York State Senator. or.-Adjournment
of the U. s. Senate.-Death of Count
Won Bernstorff, Prussian Minister, il
LSndon.
27. Appropriation of 81, 100000 by
the Pennsylvania Legislature for the
Centennial celebration.
30. A wind and rain storm did much
damage in New York, on Long Island,
and the Hudson River.-The Bonaparte
family exiled by the French Assembly.
The English boat-race won by the
Cambridge crew.
l. The steamship Atlantic wrecked off
Nova Scotia 546 lives lost. Passage
of the General Railroad law in the New
Jersey Legislature.
2. State Convention of Illinois Farm
ers at Springfield to consider the
Transportation question.
4. Adjournment of the New Jersey
Legislature.-M. Louis Buffet elected
President of the French Assembly.
5. Portions of New York City without
gas on account of the strike.
8. Spring floods reported in the Mid
die and Western States, and snow
storms in Iowa and Kansas.
10. Adjournment of the PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature.
II. Gen. E. r. S. Candy and Rev. E.
Thomas, ID, murdered by the Mo-
docs at peace conference others of
the Peace Commission wounded.-Ex-
tensive forest fires reported in Virginia.
IL. A strong and persistent attack on
the Modocs ordered by Gen. Sherman.
Funeral of Gen. Candy and DIR.
Thomas at Lava Bed Camp.
ID. Bloody conflict between the whites
and negroes at Colfax, La; nearly 100
negroes killed.
Is. Two failures in Wall street,
United States troops ordered to Colfax,
La.
10. Railway train wrecked at Rich
mond Switch, r. l. a number of per-
sons killed and wounded. Large por-
ton of Canastota, N. Y, burned.
81. Reassembling of the British Par
lament riot at Frankfort -on-the-
Main II persons killed.
%. Annual session of the National
Board of Underwriters begun in New
York.
"a. Suspension of U. S. Commission
ers to the Vienna Exhibition for alleged
irregularities temporary Commission
appointed.
%. Appearance of cholera in Vienna.
26. Defalcation of the cashier of the
n. Y. Atlantic National Bank for $685.
000.-U. S. troops surprised by Mo-
docs; % soldiers killed and IS wounded.
MAY.
l. The Vienna Exhibition opened
Strike in the Rhode Island wooden and
cotton mills; strike of the New York
and jersey City coopers.-Resignation
of the Italian Ministry.
4. Over 80 lives lost by the falling of
the Dixon GIL } iron bridge.
5. The Italian Ministry resumed
Office.
8. Loss of the steamer Polaris of the
Arctic Expedition and death of Captain
Hall reported.-Panic on the Vienna
Bourse.
II. Funeral of Chief-Justice Chase
in New York.
12. Funeral of Chief-J Justice Chase
in Washington.
13. Operation of the Bank act sus-
pended in Vienna -Forty-eight lives
lost by colliery explosion in Nova
Scotia.
Is. One hundred additional failures
in Vienna.
II. Resignation of the French Min
istry.
18. A new French Ministry formed.
20. A convention of Governors favor
ing cheap transportation met at Au-
gusta, CAM. Louis Buffet reelected
President of the French Assembly.
%. President Grant issues a procla-
nation sustaining the Kellogg Govern
ment in Louisiana. of the
Hot Creek allies of the Modocs.
"a. Resignation of M. Thiers, Presi.
dent of the French Republic, and elec-
ton of Marshal MacMahou.
27. M. Thiers took his seat in the
French Assembly.
%. Meeting of the National Agricul-
tural Congress at Indianapolis.
80. The Modocs driven from their
stronghold in the Lava Beds.
80. Three acres of the business part
of Boston burned.-Decoratio Day
generally observed.
81. The Spanish Constitutional Cortes
assembled; Senor Orense elected Pres
ident.-Arrival of the Shah of Persia
at Berlin.
1. Surrender of Capt. Jack and his
band of Modoc Indians.
3. Murder of Mansfield Tracy Wal
worth, in New York, by his son, Frank
FL. Walworth.
5. Arrival of the Polaris survivors at
Washington.
6. Call for the redemption of $780,
900, 900, in United States bonds.
7. Senor Orense elected President of
the Spanish Cortes.
8. A Federal Republic proclaimed in
Spain the old Ministry resumes Office.
8. Four Modoc captives massacred
by white men. The Alexandra Palace,
London, destroyed by fire.
10. Capture of Khiva by the Russian
forces escape of the Khan.
IA. Strike of $50 Chinese workmen
at Beaver Falls, Penn.
shire Legislature.
IL. IHe oman OF TerSla arrived III
London.-Miss Susan B. Anthony con-
yicted at Canandaigua, N. Y, of voting
illegally.
21. Spread of cholera in Europe and
the United States.
"a. The Juniata sailed in search of
the lost Polaris.
29. Organization of a military COM
mission at Fort Klamath to try the
Modocs.