Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
Record Of Some of the Leading Events
of 1873.

| 1-PrInce LunalllO elected King OF tne
Hawaiian nation.
7-Terrible snow storm in Iowa and
| Minnesota; many lives lost and railway
! trains blockaded.
9-Death of Louis Napoleon, ex-Em-
peror of France, at Chiselhurst, England.
13-News of an earthquake in India, by
which 1900 persons in Soonghur perish.
15-Buriel of eX-Emperor Napoleon at
| Chiselhurst. Wreck of the ship Chilling
| ham Castle near the island of Malta and
| twenty-siX persons drowned.
16-Death of Edward Bulwer Lytton, in
London.
22-Sinking of the ship Northfieet by
the steamer Murillo in the English Chan
mel, and loss of over three hund ed lives.
23-Contract made with the Syndicate
by the United States to negotiate $780,
100000 of five per cent. bonds.
27-Repeal of the Thanking privilege by
the Congress of the United States.
FEBRUARY.
News of the destruction Sof the city
of Lehree, Beloochistan, in Southern Asia
by an earthquake, and upwards of 500
persons killed.
5-News of an earthquake and great
loss of life on the island of Samos.
8-Deatn of the Dowager Empress Car
cline Augusta, of Austria, widow of En-
peror Francis |. Death of Ex-Governor
Geary, of PENNSYLVANIA, at Harrisburg
10-King Amadeus abdicates the Span
ish throne.
Establishment of a Republic in
Spain, with Figueras as President
1S-Between 100 and 200 persons
drowned at Smyrna, Asia Minor, by the
undermining and fall of building.
26-1he Spanish Republic appeals to
foreign powers for recognition.
MARCH.
3-Discovery of the Bidwell forgeries
to the amount of $2,000,000 on the Bank
of England
Inauguration of Ulysses s. Grant, at
Washington, as President of the United
States for q second term. Close of the
States Passage of the back salary bill by
Congress. Destruction of San Salvador,
South America, by an earthquake, with
loss of 800 lives and $12,000,000 Of prop
erty.
14-Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio, died at
Florence, Italy.
17-Judge Richardson appointed Secre-
tary of the Treasury in place of Mr.. Bout
well, resigned. All the old members of
President Grants Cabinet reappointed.
19-Gladstone reappointed Premier by
Queen Victoria. He forms new Cabi-
net
22-The Spanish Assembly pass a law
for the immediate emancipation of slaves
at Porto Rico.
29-The Cambridge crew defeat the
Oxfords in the boat race on the Thames,
England. Agramonte, Cuban insur-
gent General, captures sixty Spanish
troops and shoots f1fty-nine of them.
APRIL.
THE steamship Atlantic, Of the
White Star Line, wrecked on Meagher's
Head, on the coast of Nova Scotia, and
$40 persons lost.
1-Major-GeneralE Err. S. Candy and the
Rev. DR.. Thomas killed while holding a
peace conference with the MOdoc Indians
in the Oregon lava beds.
12-NGws of an engagement with the
Apache Indians in Arizona, in which
seventy-five warriors were killed. Death
at Paris, France, of NJ. Girardin, the
author
18-Baron Justus Liebig died at Mu-
mich, Germany.
21-Great snow-storm in Missouri, Kan
| sas and Nebraska, in which a large num-
Der of persons were frozen to death.
25-The American Commissioners to
the Vienna Exposition suspended for
bribery and corruption.
25-The Modocs surprise a party of
troops and kill nineteen Of them.
29-William Charles Macready, the
English actor, died, aged so.
30-Hon. James Brooks, member of
Congress from New York, died.
MAY.
THE International Exposition at
Vienna formally opened. New penny
postal cards issxed by the United States
Failing of the bridge at Dixon, ILL., !;
80 persons killed and drowned, and a
number injured.
7-Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died
in New York.
S-Death of Cakes Ames at North Eas-
ton, Mass. Discovery of eight bodies near
Parsons, Kansas, who had been murdered
by the Bender family.
10-Arrival of the steamer Tigress at
St. Johns, Newfoundland, with nineteen
survivors of Captain Halls Arctic expedi-
ton, and the news of Halls death on the
Sth of October, 1871.
12-Funeral of Chief Justice Chase in
Washington.
22-President Grant issues prOclama-
ton commanding insurrectionists in Lou
isiana to disperse. Surrender of nearly all
the Modoc Indians.
23-Burial of Gen. E. R. S. Candy at
indianapolis.
A-Marshal MacMahon chosen Presi-
dent of the French Republic.
30-Several squares burned over in
Boston, Mass; loss, 100000.
JUNE.
Capture of Captain Jack and the re-
mainder of the Modoc Indians.
5-Arrival in Washington Of Captain
| Tyson and the survivors of the crew of
| the Polaris.
S-Earthquake at Valparaiso, Chill;
| great damage to houses and churches and
many lives lost.
! 9-Destruction by fire ofthe Alexandria
| Palace, near London; loss, 100000.
! 2O-Death of Horace F. Clark, Presi-
dent of the Union Pacific and Lake Shore
Railways.
Establishment of the pass system by
the Illinois railways.
29-Earthquake in the north of Italy
and thirty-elght persons killed by the
! falling of a church. Death OF Jesse X
| Grant, the father Of President Grant, al
| Covington, KY.
Great strike of weavers at Berlin.
5-Great destruction of property by
storm and food in Iowa, Wisconsin, Hi
nois and Ohio.
7-Steamer City of Washington lost of
the coast of Nova Scotia.
! S-News of the finding OF the dead