The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-01
CHRONOLOGICAL.
A Record of Principal Events
in 1874.
JANUARY.

L.
g. Gen. Pavia, with a force of IA, 900 mon
dissolyes the Spanish Cortes and Summon
eminent men OF all parties to form new
government. Destructive fires at Cincinnati
and Nashville.
4. Large fire at Philadelphia. Siege OF
Cartagena. Spain, begun.
8. The United States Senate repeats the
Salary-Grab bill.
9. Caleb Cushing nominated for Chief-Jus-
tice OF the United States Supreme Court. tt Q
city OF Helena, Montana, almost totally de-
stroyed by fire.
India.
49, Allen g. Thurman reelected United
States Senator from Ohio. Lieut.-Gov. With
ers elected United States Senator from Vim
ginia. Fire at the residence OF Jacob Stiner,
wealthy New York merchant, in which he,
his wife and daughter lose their lives. Sur
render of Cartagena, Spain.
H. Nomination OF Caleb Gushing for the
Office OF Chief-Justice recalled.
l5 Surrender OF the Intransgentes at Bar
ocelona, Spain. Large fire in Brooklyn, N. Y.
49, Morrison Il. Waite, Of Ohio, nominated
by the President az Chief Justice.
90 Nine women killed by an explosion and
fire in knitting mill at Bennington. Vt. Will
liam Pinckney Whyte elected United States
Senator from Maryland.
% Morrison Z. Waite confirmed by the
United States Senate rs Chief-Justice.
20. British Parliament dissolved by royal
degree. Marriage at st. Petersburg Russia,
of the Duke eff Edinburgh with the Grand
Duchess, Maria Alexandrovna.
26. Disastrous fire in Yeddo, Japan.
~. terrible railroad collision between Ed
inburgh and Glasgow, Scotland sixteen per-
sons killed. The City Treasurer Of Jersey
City, n. j., absconds with 100000 Of the
city funds.
80 Burning of Olympic Theater at Phila-
tielphia; two fiIemen killed.
FEBRUARY.
l. Large fire at South Norwalk, Conn.,
2. Six persons killed by the fall Of floor of
a factory i'll lancashire, England.
g. Large fire at Memphis. Tenn.
8. King Koffee surrendered Coomassie the
capital OF Ashantee, and agreed to pay 4 war
indemnity of s200, 900.
6. Collision on the Great Western railroad,
England several persons killed. Four per-
sons killed by boiler explosion at Nor
folk. Va.
8. Boiler explosion at st. Louis, NO.; three
men killed
IL. Sixteen men severely burned at Pitts
burgh by the capsizing of pot of boiling
lead.
10. Eight men killed and several wounde
by the falling OF a brewery in Philadelphia.
ID. Large fire at London; two tiremen
killed.
II. Gladstone rendered his resignation as
Prime Minister; Disraeli summoned to form
new Cabinet.
IS. Lieut.-Col Buel attacked camp of
Cemanches on Double Mountain Fork, and
killed ten Indians. Six citizens OF Austin,
Texas, robbed of all their horses by Kiowa
Indians.
10. Official confirmation of new British
Cabinet, with Disraell as Premier. Serious
railroad accident near Preston Eng. two
persons killed and fifteen injured. Mutiny
a,,I ;,,au ON tho SOldiarz a Lima
south America, which ended by the surrender
CT the rebe,s thirteen killed and thirty
wounded.
22. Conflagra ion at Avon, N. Y; nearly al
the business portion OF the village destroyed.
% Report that $50, 900 persons are suffer
ing for want OF food in the district OF Tir-
boot, Presidency OF Bengal, India.
"a. Mexican advicea: A quarrel between
citizens OF Quimixtlan and Huascaesa. State
of Vera Cruz. resulted in the killing Of seven
teen persons.
% Arthur orion, the Tichborpe claimant
convicted Of perjury, and sentenced to fourteen
years penal servltude.
MARCH.
l. Burning OF car Of train in motion Oh
the Great Western railroad near London
Ont; eight persons burned and suffocated
2. Terrible explosion i'll Lancashire, Eng.
twenty persons killed.
5. Closing Of churches in Eastern Poland
by order OF government; serious riot in one
place seventy persons killed and wounded
g. Extensive connagration at Salonica
Turkey eleven persons burned to death
Steamship Sedra, Of Newcastle, Eng, lost a
sea /; thirty passengers drowned. Explosion
IN the Hoosac tunnel, Mass; several mel
buried in the ruins.
g. Report that Caot. Bradburn, first anC
second officers, and two seamen, Of steam
ship Pennsylvania, were swept overheard IL
a storm at sea.
10. Terrific boiler explosion at Bipghamtol
water works, n. Y.
a. Wreck Of the British steamer Queer
Elizabeth off Tarifa, Spain; fourteen person.
dro wped.
Is. Intelligence of destructive fire a
Panama; losses, $500, 000
1G. Advices from Mexico of the killing o
Rev. John Stephens, a Congregationalist min
lister, by mob at Ahusluco.
II. Shock of earthquake at Bald Mountain
NC.
90. Overflow of the Thames lat London
Lsmbeth and Rotherhithe inundated; sewers
children drowned.
81 Disastrous fire at Elgin, H.. sewers
blocks burned. Pullman palace cars intro
duced in England.
"a Explosion OF Mississippi towboat
eight men killed four wounded. Indian bsttl
in Arizona between Maj. Randall and ban
of Apaches eleven warriors killed.
rs. A mother and three children burned I
death at Moriisania, n. Y.
%. Jesujts expelled from Austrian terri
tory.
80. Loss of steamship Nil. from Hong Kon
for Yokohsma with all o nboard-eighty pc
sons. Henri Rochefort and Paschal Grousst
escaped from the penal colony at New Cal,
donia.
81. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologn
arrested for violation Of the ecclesiastic
laws.
APRIL.
1. Destruction of Central Hotel at Miller
town, Pa; seven persons burned to death.
9. News of fearful ravages by cholei
among Dutch troops in Acheen.
g. The United States pass bill fixing I'll
legal-tender and national bank-note circuli
ton at S400, 090, 900 each.
8. Four men killed by a boiler explosion
near Plattsburg. n. \.
@ Terrible steam-boiler explosion ne,
Glasgow, Scotland part OF the boilor throw
into a school-room, and number OF childre
killed. Boilers of the polar steamer ngre'
exploded near st. Johns, n. F.; ~ men kille'
and others injured
IA. The Atlantic cable Of 1856 broken by
storm near Valentia.
Is. Terrible explosion in a coal mine
Lancashire, England; SO persons killed, ar
many wounded. The remains Of DR.. Lvinj
stone arrive in London. Thirteen perso'
drowned in tho Mississippi, below New o
-. - ha nsizinO of n tOWboat