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

by the bursting of a water-spout over the city;
vast amount OF property destroyed and over
100 lives lost.
81. Meeting of the international Congress
at Brussels.
%. Dr. Janizewski, Bishop of Posen, sem
fenced to fifteen months Imprisonment for
violation Of the German Ecclesiastical laws.
Theodore Tilton. in New York, arrested on a
charge of Ebeling H. w. Beecher
81. Great strike of operatives In the flax
mills at Belfast Ireland. Suicide of the no.
torious adventurer, Lord Gordon Gordon in
Manitoba
AUGUST.
l. Large fire at Muskegon, Mich; 200
places Of business, and 100 dwellings, de-
stroyed.
5. Burning of the steamer Pat Rogers on
the Ohio river; several lives lost.
7. Capture of two mail stages between
Wichita and Ft. Sill, Texas; passengers and
drivers killed and scalped.
10. Disastrous floods i'll Bombay, Escape
OF Marshal Bazaine from the Island of Ste.
Marguerite.
Is. Recognition of the Spanish republic by
Great Britain, France and Germany.
10. Collision on the Trenton railroad, in
New Jersey: four men killed and nineteen
wounded, The Cheney Whitehouse ecclesias-
teal jurisdiction case in Chicago decided in
favor of the Low Church party.
l6. Italy, Holland and Belgium recognize
the Spanish republic.
Is. Election in Ohio on the adoption of the
new Constitution; the instrument defeated
81. Terrific typhoon at Nagasaki, Japan;
great destruction of life and property Sc
rous fighting between whites aud blacks at
Lancaster XIV.
"a. Formal recognition of Spain by Sweden
A colliery explosion i'll Statfordshire, England
kills eight miners.
%. Destructive confagration at South Bend
Ind.
&c. Postma ter General Jewell assumes the
duties of his Office.
81. Earthquake in Porto Rico
%. Report of Plymouth Church Investigat-
ing Committee acquitting Mr.. Beecher Of the
charges of adultery ID presented and accepted
at a meeting of the congregation
80. Murder of six Republican officials at
Coushatta, La, by mob, while being con-
veyed to Shreveport as prisoners.
81. Return to Fort Lincoln Of the Black
Hills expedition, after all absence of two
months. Violent eruption of Mount Etna
SEPTEMBER.
2. Six surveyors from Lawrence, Kansas
murdered by Indians near Fort Dodge.
3. The steamer River Belle burned at her
wharf in New York.
5. News of the safety of the Austrian polar
expedition, which had reached the northern
most point ever attained by man, the SD deg.
parallel.
+. Terrible confagration in Meiningen. Ger
many News of the settlement of the threat
ened war between China and Japan.
8. Destructive fires in the pine forests of
New Jersey.
H. Collision on the Cheat Eastern Railway
England; twenty persons killed and fifty
wounded.
r. The Washington grand jury brings in
indictments against prominent officials in the
safe-burglary case.
10. CT eat strike of cotton operatives at Boil
ton, Eng.
IA Mass meeting of citizens in New Or
leans Gov. kellogg requested to resign; he
refuses to receive any communication from the
meeting; afterward proclamation of d. B.
Penn, claiming to be Lieutenant Governor,
called the people to arms barricades erected
in the street, and sharp fighting between po-
lice and citizens, in which some fifty of the
former were killed. Excitement produced by
the reported discovery of gold in the Black
Hills
15 The officers of the state government in
Louisiana surrendered to D. B. Penn; Gov
Kellogg takes refuge in the Custom House,;
President Grant issues proclamation order
ing the belligerents to dispense within five
days.
II. President Grant decides to uphold the
Kellogg government and orders troops to New
Orleans.
10. Burning of cotton mill at Fall River,
Mass; twenty-three operatives burned to
death or killed by jumping from the upper
stories; thlrty-four wounded. Gov. Kellogg,
OF Louisiana, resumes his gubernational
functions.
~. The RUSSIAN government, alarmed at
the extensive emigration Of Mernonltes. ex-
empts that sect from actual military SCI vice.
26. Irish and American rifle contest at New
York; the latter victorious.
n. A frgh'ful typhoon passes over Hong
w ooE aH
number OF houses DESTROYED, aud over l,GUo
persons killed. The RIVER LPgre. IN Spain,
over flows it's banks, causing great loss OF lite
and property.
nent tween tarllsto and Republicans. IN the
u ovluce Of Navarro, Spain, reprlse Of the
CarhSts with heavy loss
OCTOBER
2, The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y, de-
troyed by fire.
2. Great gunpowder explosion On Regents
canal, London; houses and bridges shattered
and several persons killed. News that revo-
luton has broken out in Buencs Ayres.
4. Count Won Arnim arrested in Germany on
charge of embezzling important state papers.
Lively times in New York, caused by herd of
Texas steers careering through the streets;
many people knocked down and gored, and sew
eral wounded by pistol-shots of the policemen,
who erected barbados to oppose the progress
of the cattle.
5. Carlist mutiny at Durango, Spain; Don
Carlos wounded by one of the mutineers.
g. The International Postal Convention sign
ed at Berne, Switzerland. The Archbishop of
Cologne liberated after an Imprisonment of six
months
10. Nineteen persons killed at Aspeitia,
Spain, by an explosion in cartridge factory.
Is. Elections in Ohio, Indiana. Arkansas
West Virginia, Nebraska and Dakota. Conven-
ton of Southern Republicans at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
. 10. Destructive fire at Montreal, Canada
90. Terrible gale on the north of England
and Scottish coast; many lives lost. Marriage
at Chicago of Col Fred Grant, son of the
President, to Miss Honore.
81. Destructive forest fires in Indiana.
%. Advices Of the massacre of Christians
by Turks in Montenegro. News of the cap
ture, in India, Of a person supposed to be
Mana Sahlb the Sepoy chleftain.
25 Intelligence of a terrible cyclone at Bonn
bay, India 1000 persons killed. Steamer
Mary foundered between Glasgow and Trini-
dad IS lives lost.
81. Thousands of people in the grasshopper
district of Nebraska reported in a starving con-
dition.
20. England has established a provisional
government in the FIJI Islands. Count Won
Armin released from prison. Great fire at
Greencastle, Ind. Ten persons lose their
lives nv the burninp of a. cOttOn-mll in CheS-