The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
26. Heavy snow in New England.


| toris.
so. Collision in Jefferson county, Ark, be-
| tween partlsans .f Brooks and Baxter; nine
| men killed. Murder and burning of the Ham
nett family, consisting Of six persons, ne ar
Pittsburgh.
Several persons killed by boiler explo
sioc at ShawaDgunk. N T.
z. Tho Arkansas Supreme Court decides in
favor of Brooks as Governor.
8. Fight at Littlo Rock between Broo Ks
and Baxter psrtisans men killed and
9 skirmish in tho streets Of Little Rock
| between Baxter and Brooks men; men
killed, and several wounded.
II. The town of Ridgway. Iowa, destroyed
by fire.
persons burned to death. Another encounter
| between the Baxter and Brooks partisans in
Arkansas several killed and wounded.
IS. The Car OF Russia arrived in England.
49, President Grant issues proclamation
declaring Elisha Baxter legal Governor of ar
| kansas.
! 16. Terrible destruction of life and proper
| ty in Hampshire county, Mass, caused by the
| breaking away of the dam OF the reservoir on
| Mill river; towns of Williamsburg, HAYDEN
vile and Leeds flooded; over 80 houses and
| II mills destroyed; 160 lives lost.
II. Brooks surrenders his forces, and Bax-
] ter installed Governor of Arkansas.
10. Great fire in Conetantinople. Warrant
/ for the arrest of Gov. Moses, of South Caro-
lima, on q charge of larceny he refuses to be
arrested, and calls out the militia in his de-
| fense.
20. Carlists badly defeated near Bllboa,
| Spain.
| a. Departure of the Gear from London for
Russia Marriage, at Washington, of Miss
| Nelly Grant, the Presidents daughter, to Mr..
! Sartoris, of England.
"a. A man and wife burned alive at Jacobo,
Mexico, for alleged sorcery. Ministerial
crisis sJ Rome.
25. Arkansas Legislature impeach Chief
| Justice Mcclure and other officials connected
with the Brooks rebellion,
26. Diplomats relAtions between Spain and
drowned Toronto by the capslzing OF q
yacht.
27. The Spanish General Concha badly de-
feated by the Carlists. News of fresh re-
| bellion in Paraguay.
30. The village Of EImwood, ILL.,, almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Large fires at
Now Orleans and Pit: sburgh.
| 80. Decoration-day generally observed
| throughout the country.
81. Serious riot in Limerick, Ireland.
1. Intelligence of the loss of the ship Brit
| ish Admiral, from Liverpool to Melbourne,
| with 73 persons on board. Attempt made in
London to shoot the Prince of SAKE Weimar.
| Three persons killed by collision on the In
! dianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad.
/ Five raftsmen drowned while descending the
rapids of the st. Anne river, Canada. Resig-
nation of Mr.. Richardson, Secretary of the
| Treasury; Benz. H. Bristow, of Kentucky,
/ nominated as his successor.
2. Extensive inundations in Hungary
| many villages swept away. Cornerstone of
! the America2 Museum Of Natural History
laid at Central Park, New York, by President
! Grant.
g. Four persons killed by train on the
Erie railroad while crossing the track in a
wagon.
4. Inauguration of Gov Weston, of New
| Hampshire.
6. The italian Senate gives its approval to
| a treaty of commerce with Mexico and pos
! tai convention with Brazil.
| Z. Manifesto of the Left Center of the
French Assembly calling for declaration of
the republic or dissolution of the Assembly.
| A revolution attempted liz Costa Rica. Twen-
ty-seven persons drowned during storm on
| Oneida and Onondaga Lakes, New 1Srk.
| Fierce tornado in Illinois and Minnesota
9. Stormy scene in the French Assembly
| Gaubetta and the Bonapartists in collision
| 10. French government defeated In the AS
sembly on the clause of the Electoral bill fix
ing the sge of electors; violence threatened
IL. Gambetta insulted by g mob at Yer
| eaiIles-
IL Continued excitement in Versailles and
Paris. Vote of censure in the Assembly
sgainst the government Lost. Seven persons
drowned by the wrecking OF the schooner
Rover. off the coast Of North Carolina.
Is. Eighteen Carlist officers shot at Tolosa,
Spain, for mutiny, Resolutions in the Frenct
Assembly declaring France q monarchy re-
jected by 100 ma jority.
16. Sax horse-Ihieves hung in the Indiar
Territory by vigilance committee.
/ H. -Four persons kllIeQ ana several WOunuet
by an accident on the Carolina Central rail
road.
IS. Carlists defeated by the Spanish troop
in an engagement at Aicona, Spain.
22. Completion of the teiegraphio cable be
tween Brazil and Europe.
%. Fourteen persons killed and 100 injured
by the fAI of a floor in room in Syracuse
n. Y, where a strawberry festival was beinl
he'd. Adjournment of United States Con
gress.
II. Serious rupture between Turkey ant
| Persia. Resignation OF Postmaster Genera
: Creswell Office rendered TO Eugene Hale, o
Maine.
25. Contract closed for placing Pullman
palace cars on the railways of Upper Italy
Ratification by France of postal treaty bet wee
/ that country and the United states.
) 81. The Russian Gear banishes his nephew
the Grand Duke Nicholas, for theft of hi
{ mothers diamonds.
%. Marshal Concha killed in an attack O
the Carlists near Estella, Spain he is sue
: ceeded by Marshal Serrano.
80. Sixteen persons drowned near Havans
Cuba, oy the capsizing of lighter. Fiv
persons killed and several maims by boile
!; explosion q: Carrollton, Mich.
i JULY.
i /. Social Mills, Woonsocket. r. l., dt
; stroyed by fire; loss, $500 GOO. Eugene Hal
declines the Postmaster Generalship tendere
!. him by President Grant.
4. One hundred houses burned in Alleghen
j City, Pa. The great bridge across the NJ ts
siesippi at st. Louis opened with q gran
q fete. Terrible hurricane in the vicinity c
| Lewistown, Pa; seven persons killed.
: z. The French Assembly pass the Electors
bill.
q 10. Great oil conaagration at Weehawker
!. N. j.; 125. coo barrels burned. Five person
4 drowned near Atlantic City by the capsizin
!, OF the yacht A. B. Thomps n. Great grass
hopper plague in the Northwest; crops {
a entire counties DESTROYED.
i Is. Cariists defeated near Bilbo2, Spain
Attempt to aseaesinate Prince Bismarck
Kissingen. Half of the business part
Streator, ILL.,, destroyed by fire.
= IA. Advices of nineteen persons killed b
rowing bands of Indians in Colfax count.
q Kan. Extensive confagration at Chicago
SAG buildings destroyed, and loss estimated
70 over -, 600, ,060; seven lives lost.
= Is. Forty-fve buildings destroyed by fire
Iowa Falls, Iowa.
|. IT, Terrible storm passed over Lowell
Mass, doing great damage. Large fire
II Constantinople.
n 18 Great University regatta ut Saratogs
N the Columbia College crow victorious. Fiftee
q miners killed by cOlliery explosion at Wigal
England.
is. ministerial crisis in France. The Spanis
government declares the whole OF Spain in
n 21. The Beecher-Tiiton scandal made puI
d lie BY the publication of Theodore Tilton
8 statement to the Investigating Committee
Ii Plxunoukh Church.