Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-06

causing the death and injury of twenty per-
| sons.
| 26. Heavy snow in New England
| %. Several persons killed by the falling of
| three buildings in London. Sovereignty of the
| Fiji Islands rendered to Queen Victoria
80. Collision in Jefferson county, Ark, be-
| tween partisans of Brooks and Baxter: nine
| men killed Murder and burning of the Ham
nett family, consisting OF six persons. near
Pittsburg.
g Several persons killed by boiler explo-
sion at ShawanSun N. I.
Z. The Arkansas Supreme Court decides in
| favor of Brooks as Governor
8. Fight at Little Rock between Brooks and
Baxter partisans; 6 men killed and 5 badly
wounded
9. Skirmish in the streets of Little Rock be-
tween Baxter and Blocks men two men killed,
and several wounded
II. The town of Ridgeway, Iowa, destroyed
by fire.
r. Large fire at Paris, France; several per-
sons burned to death Another encounter be-
tween the Baxter and Brooks partisans in Ar
kansas; several killed and wounded.
ID. The Gear of Russia arrived in England.
Is. President Grant issues q proclamation
declaring Elisha Baxter legal Governor of Ar
kansas.
16. Terrible destruction of life and property
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 Baxter
Installed Governor of Arkansas.
| 10. Great fire in Constantinople. Warrant
| fer the arrest Of Gov. Moses, of South Caro-
ina. on a charge of larceny; he refuses to be
arrested, and calls out the militia i'll his de-
| Tense.
90 Carlists badly defeated near Bilboa.
Spain.
81. 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
at Rome.
25. Arkansas Legislature impeach Chief
Justice Mcclure and other officials connected
with the Brooks rebellion
| 26. Diplomatic relations between Spain and
Mexico formally resumed. Six persons
| drowned near Toronto by the capszng of
yacht.
~. The Spanish General Concha badly de-
feated by the Carlists. News of a fresh re-
belhon in Paraguay.
| 20. The village of Elwood. ILL.,, almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Large fires at New
| Orleans and Pittsburg.
| 30 Decoration Day generally observed
/ throughout the country.
| 81. Serious riot in Limerick, Ireland
JUNE.
| 1. Intelligence of the loss of the ship Brit
| ish Admiral. from Liverpool to Melbourne
with 70 persons Gu board. Attempt made in
London to shoot the Prince or Saxe-Weimar
Three persons killed by collision on the H.
dianapolls, 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 his successor
| 2. Extensive foundations in Hungary ::
| many bridges swept away. Cornerstone of
the American Museum of Natural History laid
at Central Park. New York, by President Grant.
3. Four persons killed by train on the Erie
railroad while crossing the track in wagon.
4. Inauguration of Gov. Weston, of New
Hampshire.
6. The Italian Senate gives it's approval to
a treaty of commerce with Mexico and pos
| tai convention with Brazil
! Z. Manifesto of the Left Centre of the
| French Assembly calling for declaration of
the republic or dissolution of the Assembly.
A revolution attempted in Costa RIGA. Twen-
| ty-seven persons drowned during storm on
Oneida and Onondaga Lakes, New York.
Fierce tornado ia Illinois and Minnesota.
| 9. Stormy scenes in the French Assembly;
| Gambetla and the Bonapartists in collision.
| 10. French Government defeated in the AS
sembly on the clause of the Electoral bill fix
IL. Gambetta insulted by a mob at Ver-
sailles.
II. Continued excitement in Versailles and
| Paris. Vote of censure in the Assembly against
the government lost. Seven persons drowned
| by the wrecking of the schooner Rover off the
coast of North Carolina.
10. Eighteen Carlist officers shot at Tolosa,
Spain, for mutiny. Resolutions i'll the French
Assembly declaring France monarchy ject-
ed by 100 majority.
16. Six horse-thieves hung in the Indian
Territory by vigilance committee.
| II. -Four persons killed and several wound
ed by All accident on the Carolina Central rail
road.
49, Carlists defeated by the Spanish troops
| in all engagement at Alcona Spain.
". Completion of the Geographic cable be-
| tween Brazil and Europe.
! %. Fourteen persons killed and 100 injured
by the fall of floor in room i'll Syracuse,
n. Y, where strawberry festival was being
held. Adjournment Of United States Con-
gress-
"a. Serious rupture between Turkey and
Persia. Resignation of Postmaster General
| Creswell office rendered to Eugene Hale of
Maine.
%. Contract closed for placing Pullman pal
ace cars on the railways of Upper Italy. Rati
| ication by France of postal reaty between that
country and the United States
n. The Russian Car banishes his nephew,
|
mothers diamonds.
49, Marshal Concha killed in an attack on
the Carlists near Estella Spain he is succeed
eddy Marshal Serrano.
80. Sixteen persons drowned near Havana
Cuba, by the capsizing of a lighter. Five per-
sons kille; and several manned by boiler ex-
| plosion at Carrollton, Mich.
1. Social Mills, Woonsocket, R. l., de-
stroyed by fire; loss, 100000. Eugene Hale
declines the Postmaster-Generalshipt rendered
him by President Grant
4 One hundred houses burned in Alleghe-
ny City, Pa. The great bridge across the
Mississippi at st. Louis opened with a grand
fete. Terrible hurricane in the vicinity of
LeWlstown. Pa; seven persons killed
Z. The French Assembly pass the Electoral
bill
10. Great Oil conf1agration at Weehawken.
n j.; $4,000 barrels burned Five persons
drowned near Atlantic City by the capsizing of
the yacht A. b. Thompson Great grass6op-
per plague IN the Northwest crops of entire
counties destroyed
ID. Carlists defeated near BiIboa. Spain.
Attempt to assassinate Prince Bismarck at
Kissingen: Half Of the business part of
streator, Ill, destroyed by fire.
IA. AdVlCeS of u noteen Dersons killed I,v