Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-15
Record OF Some Of the Leading Events
of 1873.
JANUARY.

JANUARY.
Prince Lunalilo elected King of the
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-N ews Of an earthquake in India, by
which 800 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.
l6-Death of Edward Bulwer Lytton, in
London.
22-Sinking of the ship Northfeet by
the steamer MmillO in the English Chan
mel, and loss Of over three hund ed lives.
23-C0ntract made with the Syndicate
by the United States to negotiate $780,
100000 of five per cent. bonds.
27-Repeal of the ranking privilege by
the Congress Of the United States.
FEBRUARY.
4-NeWs Of the destruction Of the city
of Lehree, Bel.ochistan, 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.
S-Deatn of the Dowager Empress Car
olne Augusta, Of Austria, widow of En-
per0r 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 Figucras as President.
l8-Between 100 and 200 persons
drowned at Smyrna, Asia Minor, by the
undermining and fall Of building.
2G-Ihe Spanish Republic appeals to
foreign powers for recognition.
MARCH.
3-Discovery of the Bidwell forgeries
TO the amount Of ;f2,000,000 on the Bank
Of England.
4-inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, at
Washington, as President of the United
States for second term. Close OF the
Forty-second Congress of the United
States. Passage Of the back salary bill by
Congress. Destruction of San Salvador,
South America, by an earthquake, with
loss of 500 lives and S12,000,0O0 of prop
erty
l4-Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio, died at
Florence, Italy
fudge Richardson appointed Secre-
taIy of the Treasury in place of Mr., Bout
well, resigned All the old members OF
President Grants Cabinet reappointed.
l9-Gladstone reappointed Premier by
Queen Victoria. He forms a new Cabi'
net
22-The Spanish Assembly pass q law
for the immediate emancipation of slaves
at Porto Rico
29-Tbe Cambridge crew defeat the
Oyfords in the boat race on the Thames,
England. Agramonte, a Cuban insur-
gent General, captures sixty Spanish
troops and shoots fiftynine of them.
APRIL.
THE steamship Atlantic, Of the
White Star Line, wrecked on MeagheI' 5
64b persons lost
11-Maior.GeneralE Err. 5. Candy and the
Kew. DR.. Thomas killed while holding a
peace conference with the Modoc Indians
N the Oregon lava beds.
Pm aws of an engagement with the
Apache Indians in Arizona, in which
twenty-five warriors we're killed. Death
at Paris, France, of NJ. Girardin, the
author
lS-Baron Justus Liebig died al Mu-
MICA, Germany.
2l-Great snow storm in Missouri, Kan
saS and Nebraska, in which a large num-
her at persons were frozen to death
25-The American Commissioners TO
lhe Vienna Exposition suspended Tor
bribery and corruption.
2j-The Mudocs surprise party OF
troops and kill nineteen Of them.
@-William Charles Macready, the
English actor, died, aged 50.
8o-H1n. James Brooks, member Of
Congress from New York, died.
MAY.
The International Exposition a
Vienna formally opened New penny
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