Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
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o-DuTuIHg Ol the steamer w aWdSSeI
on the Potomac River; seventy women
and children lost. Great fire in London,
England; loss, $5,000,OO0
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.
3O-Ierriflc hail-storm in Northern
Iowa, destroying the growing crops.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Six hundred pilgrims left London
for the shrine of Paray lie Monial.
o-tlnal payment Of debt Of So, 000,-
OOO,UOO 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.
1O-Return of the .. S. Steamer Juniata
from the search for the Polaris.
Il-Bursting of the Graphic balloon at
New York and abandonment of the ocean
voyage.
Robustness in Memphis stopped by
the yellow fever. Great fire in Havana,
Cuba; loss $5,000,000 The evacuation of
france by the German army completed at
$3.50 a. m.
18-Financial panic. Failure of the
banking houses Of Jay Cooke & Co. in Phil
adelphla and New York, followed by
great monetary distress and business de
preston throughout the country.
25-Opening of the Interstate Indus
trial Exposition at Chicago; $4,000 persons
present.
29-Pere Hyacinthe formally abandons
the Church of Rome
3O-New York Stock Exchange open
ed.
OCTOBER.
2-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 Enchantress wins the
cup in the Cape May race, making the
fastest time on record-90 miles in ten
hours.
l7-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, SpragUe & Co.,
extensive manufacturers of Providence,
R. |.
NOVEMBER.
Capture of the steamer Virginius by
II 10 IF
ton, jamaica
-Execution at Santiago de Cuba of
Generals Ryan, VarOna, CespedeS and
Del Sol, officers on board the captured
steamer Virginius.
5-Resignation of Sir John A. Mac
Donald and his Canadian Ministry. The
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie forms new
Cabinet
7-Execution of Capt. Fry and thirty
six of the crew of the Virginius at Santi-
ago de Cuba.
8-Arrival of portion of the Polaris
crew at New York.
14-The American navy and fortifca-
tions being placed in readiness for an an
ticipated war with Spain.
16-American uItimatum given to
Spain, demanding the return of the
steamer Virginius and her crew.
19-Death of Thomas Barring, the great
London banker, and Hon John P. Hale,
at Dover, N. H. VIM. M. Tweed con
victed in New York and sentenced to
twelve years in Penitentiary.
23-Loss of the steamship Vile du
Havre with 226 lives, after a collision in
mid-Ocea with the ship Loeb Erne.
27-Completion of the great tunnel
through Hoosac Mountain, Massachu-
sets.
28-The Spanish Government accedes
to the demands of the United States for
the return Of the Virginius and the unexe-
cuted part of her crew.
29-PrOtocol between the United States
ana Spain in regard to the Virginius af-
fair signed by the representatives of the
two governments at Washington.
DECEMBER.
1-Opening OF the Forty-third Congress
of the United States; message of President
Grant and reports of Department officers.
The Hon. James @. Blaine elected Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
2-San Domingo asks the United States
to establish a protectOrate over that coun-
try. Organization Of the Reformed Epis-
cOpal Church in New York
9-Re-election of Senator Matt Carpen-
ter as President of the Senate. A dense
fog in London; many persons killed and
travel impeded.
10-Bazaine, Marshal of France, con-
viCted of treason and sentenced to death
in Paris
14-Death of Professor Louis John Ru-
dolph Agass!z, the eminent scientist, at
Cambridge. Mass.
16-Steamer Virginius surrendered by
the Spanish authorities to the United
States Government at Bahia Honda.
26-Steamer Virginius sunk while in
tow of the Ossipee, off Wilmington, N.
c., in a gale.