The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30


2S-C Collision on the Midland Railroad, in En-
land; persons killed and 40 injured.
SEPTEMBER.
PA railway train broke through a rotten
bridge near Goshen en- route for Kingston,
Canada; 20 persons injured.
Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, telegr&phed
to President Grant declaring that in that State
domestic violence existed in its most aggra-
waited form, aud that he was compelled to APP
peal to the General Government for assistance.
8-The New York State Republican Conven-
ton held at Saratoga; Frederick w. Seward
was nominated for Secretary of State.
9-Loss of the propeller Equinox, near Point
au Sable, Lake Michigan; 26 persons drowned.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven-
ton adopted platform similar to that adopted
by the Ohio Democrats, and nominated Cyrus
L.lPershins for Governor.
S10-Loss of the steam barge Mendoza on
Lake Michigan; persons drowned.
11-LoSS OF IL lives from poisonous gas In
the bennington Wood Coliery, Shropshire,
England.
Is The New York State Democratic Conven-
ton at Syracuse nominated John Bigelow for
Secretary Of State
17-19-Yiolent cyclone on the Gulf of
Mexico; in Galveston the water was driven
over the island alternately from gulf anu bay;
houses were removed, the railroad damaged
and numerous vessels driven ashore in In
dianola. on Matagorda Bay over 100 lives were
lost the place WAS flooded 80 feet deep, and
houses, stores, wharves and the lighthouse
were swept away nine-tenths of the houses III
town were destroyed.
GA dummy train near Philadelphia was
run into by an excursion train on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad persons killed and 90 injured.
The steamer Adler came in collision with the
Swedish steamer King Oscar Ii. near Grimsby,
England; the latter sunk, and IA persons on
bOard were drowned
SO-At the reunion of the Army of the Ten
nessee at Des MONIES, Iowa, President Grant
made speech memorable for its length and
for the stress laid upon the question of sec
tartan schools. fT
1.-THE Swedish steamer L. j. Poager, run
ming between Lubbock and Copenhagen burned
in the Baltic; "a of the passengers and IL Of
the crew persisted.
21-23-Severe gales off the Scottish coast !;
vessels lost, with their crews.
26-Great fire in Virginia City, New; the
business portion of the city completely de-
stroyed estimated loss "a, 100000.
NOVEMBER.
1.-The steamship Pacific foundered between
San francisco and Portland nearly 200 lives
lost.
Wreck of the British ship Calcutta, from
Quebec to Liverpool, on Crosse Isle; % lives
lost.
9-The steamship City of Waco burned off
Galveston Bar nearly 70 lives lost.
15-News in London of the wreck of the
British ship Astrida, near BOulogne, France !;
persons drowned.
i6-Joseph Guibord was buried in the Catho-
lie cemetery, Montreal; the coffin was laid in q
bed Of cement to preclude the possibility Of
its removal.
17-Unveiling of monument at Baltimore
to the memory of Edgar A. Poe.
Dali o%a horn holm N
Malmo, Denmark; 60 passengers killed or Sc
verely injured. #
20-Daniel OLeary, a Chicago pedestrian,
finished walk of sos miles in six days, beating
E. p. Weston So miles, for purse. News re-
ceived of terrible storm on the English coast;
Is vessels wrecked with loss of 80 lives.
Fighting on the Rio Grande River between Mex
lean cattle thieves and Texas militia; four of
the former killed; the Texans overpowered and
driven back from the Mexican side.
23-Storm on the English coast in the vicinity
OF Yarmouth; 40 vessels wrecked and many
lives lost Information received Of a great
battle in Asia between the Russians and the in
surgents in Khokand; nesrly q, 900 of the latter
killed.
24Iiberians at war with the native tribes
represent themselves in state Of starvation,
and petition our Government for aid.
25-Chas. D. Whyland (''Big Charley'l
proprietor of the st. Elmo restaurant, Chicago,
killed by drunken desperate named Henry
Davis, alias John Turner. Disastrous gale off
the coast of Hfeshire, Scotland; is fishermen
drowned, with IA missing, and a number OF
fishing vessels lost. Loss of six Canadian YES
sells bound for the Magdalen Islands, with sup
plies for the starving inhabitants; As lives lost.
The schooner Sunshine, from San Francisco,
found capsized at the mouth of the Columbia
River; 80 passengers and O. crew OF 10 all
drowned. Chavez, the California bandit, killed
in Arizona while resisting arrest.
29-Part of the Russian garrison at Khokand
massacred. Twelve hundred Egyptians sur
prised and killed by the Abyssinians.
DECEMBER.
Burial of Henry Wilson at Natiok, Mass.
Eleven lives lost by the sinking of the steamer
Sunnyside on the Hudson River-cut in two by
ice. Schooner J. G. Jenkins foundered on
Lake Ontario. near Oswego, and all on board, 8
persons lost.
4-Terrible explosion in coal mine near
Tredegar, Wales 20 miners killed. VIM. M
Tweed escaped from Ludlow Street Jail, New
York. VIM. Aden of Cleveland, o., killed his
wife, stepdaughter, and neighbor. Destruc-
ton by fire of La Jeunesse Hotel, at Back
River, Canada; 8 persons consumed In the
flames. Explosion of sugar house boiler near
Franklin, La; men killed, and dozen others
badly injured.
6-Another colliery disaster, more appalling
in it's results than any that has occurred for
many years. reported from Yorkshire, England;
14O miners killed. Congress organized; M. G.
Kerr of Indiana, elected Speaker of the House.
THE German passenger steamer Deutsch-
land wrecked on the English coast; so out of
the IT'S on board drowned or persisted from
cold.
s-Rt. Rev. W. f. McLaren consecrated
Episcopal Bishop Of the Diocece of Illinois.
9-Explosion III a coal mine near Leeds, En-
gland; men killed. Riot in Issaquena Coun-
ty, Miss; colored men killed by Sheriffs
posse.
1O-News received of the loss on Lake Mich
igan of the schooner Windiate, of Manitowoc,
Wis, with all on board.
11-Fifty persons killed and large number
wounded by an explosion of dynamite on quay
in Bremen harbor Germany.
12-Election Of Senators for life begun In
France; 8 chosen, all Republicans.
13-A great land swindle involving 800, 0OO-
900, developed in Missouri and Arkansas.
IA bill offered in Congress providing that
the President at the end of his term shall be-
come Senator for life. The cabinet shops at
the Whaaler & Wilsnn xKnrks in RridaanOrt.