Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
1879.
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July !, 1865.
FEBRUARY.
3-Earthquake on the Island Of Samos.
fixing Amadeus abdicated.
15-Election reform bill introduced in
the Austrian Reichsbrath.
11-Thc Poland Committee recommend
to the House of Representatives the
expulsion Of Nessrs. Ames and
Brooks.
.s-lr:so p. NJ, Passage Of what is
known as the "salary grab" bill.
Grant.
The trouble between the Kellogg and
McEnery Legislatures began in
18-Gladstone introduces into Parliament
his Irish University bill, and is de-
feated bysa vote Of 287 to 284, Glad
stone resigns, Disraelli declines,
and, March 90, Gladstone resumes.
15-Death at Florence, Of the Ri. Rev.
Charles Petit Mc1lvane, ID.
e. Slavery abolished in Porto Rico.
Terrible fire at Hong Kong; A acres
burned.
@-Cambridge wins the a c
AG04As
eAtlantic sunk 100 lives lost
6-Brigham Young. resigns his position
al Trustee Of the. Church, and dc.
clares his intention TO 90 beyond
the reach of the telegraph.
11-Massacre of Major General E. Il. s.
Candy and the Rev: E. Thomas, d.
D., Peace Commissioners, by the
% s.1vodor 000 ,,er.ore and 40 IN M
destroyed by earthquake.
10 New charter of New York City
adopted by the Legislature.
20-First tight with the Modocs ~ killed
and s wounded.
8-Death Of Hon. James Brooks.
NAY.
1-Opening of the Vienna Exposition.
+Bridge falls at Dixon, Ill. Is killed.
7-Desth of Chief Justice Salmon p.
Chase, in New York.
eDeath of John Stuart Mill at AVG
non, France.
IS Fifty.nine lives lost in a collicry fire
ut Westville, n. s.
~ APPROXIMATION by President Grant,
commanding submission to to the
Kellogg government within twenty
days. .
l -OlSSOlutlOU ny tUc OEltlSu 6EAAd1Acut
Of the East India Company after it
had existed 173 years.
23-Surrender of Capt. Jacks band Of
Modocs.
24-Kesignation of President Theirs, and
the election of MacMahOn.
28-New French Government constituted.
27-1talian Chamber Of Deputies abolish
es religious corporations.
90-Sccond destructive fire at Boston.
Estimated loss $2,201,000,
Capture Of Capt. Jack, the Modoc
Chief.
7-President Figueras, of Spain, restores
the powers invested in him as Pres
ident, and on the 9Th of May the
10-Capture of Khiva by the Russians.
17-Susan B. Anthony tried for voting
and fined 500.
21-Death of Lewis Tappan in New York.
29-Earthqnake in Northern Italy.
JULY.
5000 wcavcrs strike in Berlin.
+Severe storm in Ohio, Indiana, Wis
consin and Missouri.
17-Shah started for home.
college regatta at Springfield, Mass.
Yale wins.
25-Fire in Baltimore. Loss over $1,,
100000.
I28-The Spanish Cortes vote to invest the
President with extraordinary pow.
crs. The Intransigentes withdraw
and civil war follows
AUGUST.
Fire re- i oo Portland Oregon. Loss, g.
4Mormon ticket elected in Utah.
International Patent Right Congress
meet at Vienna.
5-The Canada Pacific Railway begins
to trouble the government.
ePostal treaty with Japan signed.
8HHen1i Rociefort and 80 other con.
victs sail for New Caledonia.
Steamer Wswasett burned Is lives
lost.
17-Death of Joseph N. Saunders.
10-Lozada, chief of the Topic Rebellion
in Mexico, captured and shot after
opposing the government Is years.
M-Terrible gale off the Nsrth American.
25-Castelar elected President Of the
Spanish Cortes.
General Congress of the Internation-
ais ut Geneva.
Death of Beau Hickman ut Wash
ington.
3-Pcople's party carry California in
State election.
5-Terriblc fire in Havana, Cuba. Loss
100000.
7-Scnor CASTELAR, elected elected Presi-
dent of the Spanish Republic.
6-Kingsley, Republican, elected Cover.
nor In Maine.
0-$15,000,0OO award of Geneva Congress
paid to United States.
16-German evacuation of France com.
plctcd, the last of the idemnity
having been paid the 5th.
18-Financial panic begins by the failure
Of Jay. Cooke & Co., followed by
the speedy suspension Of some
twenty other firms.
20-Stock exchange in New York closed.
22-Conccrted action on the part OF the
banks to restore public confidence
and check the panic.
OCTOBER.
death Of Sir Edwin Landsecr, the
painter.
2-Execution of the Modoc Indians for
the murder of the Peace Commits.
si0ners.
6-Trial of Marshal Bazaine opened.
31-Capture of the American steamer Vir'
glnluS by the spanish Steamef lOr-
nadado, on the high seas near ia
Jamaica, and taken to Santiago.
NOVEMBER.
2-Vicnna Exposition closed.
Z, s. 9-Capt. Fry and some ninety 9TH
crs of the crew Of the Virginius put
to death by the Spanish authorities
in Cuba.
10-Wm. II. Tweed convicted on the ED,
and sentenced to 10 years imprison.
mcnt.
2o-Protocol between Spain and the U. s.
DECEMBER.
1.-The Vile du Havre goes down, 200
lives lost.
1O-Marshal Bazatne sentenced to death.
12-BaZaines sentence committed to 20
years ~seclusiOn and loss of rank.
18-The Virgininius with the surviving
crew surrendered to the U. S.
steamer Juniaba.
26-Strike of the, engineers and firc1nen on
the lines Of the Pennsylvania Com.
panv west Of Pittsburgh.