Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-15

Parsons Kansas, VINO 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 a proclama-
ton commanding insurrectionists in Lou
isiana to disperse. Surrender of nearly all
the Modoc Indians
23-Burial of Gen. Z. r. S. Candy at
indianapolis.
4-Marshal MacMahon chosen Presi-
dent of the French Republic.
30-Several squares burned over in
Bos'on, Mass; loss, 100000
JUNE.
1-Capturc of Captain Jack and the re-
mainder OF the Modoc Indians.
arrival in Washington of Captain
Tyson and the survivors of the crew of
the Polaris.
Earthquake at Valparaiso, Chilli;
great damage to houses and churches and
many lives lost
9-Deshuction by fire ofthe Alexandria
Palace, near London; loss, S3,000,000
20-Death of Horace +. 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 church. Death of Jesse X.
Grant, the father Of President Grant, at
COvington, Ky.
1-Great strike of weavers at Berlin.
5-Great destruction of property by
storm and flood in Iowa, Wisconsin, Hi
nois and Ohio.
7-Steamer City of Washington lost off
the coast of Nova Scotia.
S-News of the finding of the dead
bodies of twenty-eight members Of the
German Arctic Company on one of the
Spitzbergen Islands.
14-Sailing of the Tigress for the re-
lief Of the crew of the Polaris in the
Arctic regions.
25-Great fire in Baltimore; ten blocks
burned over, with loss of 100000.
Treaty signed between Russia and khiva,
AUGUST.
2-Great fire in Portland, Oregon. Loss
Sl,500000.
Stunning of the steamer Wawasset
on the Potomac River; seventy women
and children lost. Great fire in London,
England; loss, 100000.
15-Great inundation of Eastern cities,
including New York, Philadelphia Bal
timOre, etc.
23-Sentence of death against the Mo.
doc Indians approved by the President.
30-Territic hail-storm in Northern
Iowa, destroying the growing crops.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Six hundred pilgrims left London
for the shrine Of Paray lie Monial.
5-Final payment of debt Of $1,000
100000 francs to Prussia by the French.
Final payment by Great Britain of the
amount awarded on the Alabama Claims
by the Geneva ArbitratOrs.
6--Castelar elected President Of the
Spanish Republic.
7-Evacuation Of France by the Ger
man army OF occupation commenced,
10-Return of the L. s. Steamer Juniata
from the search for the Polaris.
11-Bursting of the Graphic balloon at
New York and abandonment of the ocean
voyage
l6-Business in Memphis stopped by
the yellow fever Great fire in Havana,
Cuba; loss &5O00000 The evacuation of
France by the German army completed at
9 80 Il. m.
1S-Financial panic Failure of the
banking houses ofJay Cooke " Co. in Phil
adephia and New York, followed by
great monetary distress and business de
preston throughout the country.
25-Opening of the Inter State Indus
trial Exposition at Chicago; 10000 persons
present.
29-Pere Hyacinthe formally abandons
the Church OF Rome.
30-New York Stock Exchange re open
ed.
OCTOBER.
Capt. Jack and five other Modocs
hanged at Fort klamath, Oregon, for the
murder of Gen. Candy.
6-Trial of Marshal Bazaine commenc.
ed at Versailles, France. The Graphic
balloon starts for Europe, but comes down
near New Haven, Conn.
10-Famine in Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota from failure of crops.
1.-THE yacht Enchanress wins the
cup in the Cape May race, making the
fastest time on rccord-90 miles in ten
hours.
17-Abatement of the yellow fever in
Memphis.
24-The Secretary of the United States
Treasury decides TO begin paying out sill
yer dollar for dollar.
29-Death of King John of SaXony.
30-Suspension of Hoyt, Spragae d Co,
extensive manufacturers of Providence,
r. |.
NOVEMBER.
1-Capture of the steamer Virginius by
the Spanish gunboat Tornado, Oft Kings
ton, jamaica
4-Execution at Santiago de Cuba Of