Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-07
CHRONOLOGICAL.
A Record of Principal Events
in 1874.
JANUARY.
1. Destructive fire at wilkesbarre. Pa.


eminent men of all parties to form a new
government Destructive fires at Cincinnati
and Nashville.
A. Large Are at Philadelphia. Siege of
Cartagena. Spain, begun.
s. The United States Senate repeats the
Salary-Grab bill.
8. Caleb Cushing nominated for Chief-Jus-
tice of the United States Supreme Court Tie
city of Helena, Montana, almost totally de-
stroyed by FIRE.
IL. News Of a terrible famine prevailing in
India
13- Allen G. Thurman reelected United
States Senator from Ohio. Lieut.. Gov. With
ers elected United States Senator from vir-
ginis- Fire at the residence OF Jacob Stiner,
a wealthy New York merchant, in which he,
bis wife and daughter lose their lives. Sur
IA. Nomination of Caleb Cushing for the
Office OF Chiet-Justice recalled.
Is Surrender OF the Intransigentes at Bar
-cslona, Spain Large fire IN Brooklyn, N. Y.
10 Morrison Il. Waite, Of Ohio, nominated
by the President as Chief Justice.
20. Nine women killed by an explosion and
fire in a knitting mill at Bennington. Vt. Will
liam Pinckney Whyte elected United States
Senator from Maryland
%. Morrison r. Waite confirmed by the
United States Senate as Chief-Justice.
o. British Parliament dissolved by royal
degree Marriage. at st. Petersburg Russia,
of the Duke eff Edinburgh, with the Grand
Duchess, Maria Alexsndrovna.
26 Disastrous fire in Yeddo, Japan
81. Terrible railroad collision between Ed
inbwgh and Glasgow, Scotland; sixteen per-
t hs Sy WITH os oo f .; sSs
city funds.
20. Burning of Olympic Theater at Phila-
-delphia; two fTenen killed
FEBRUARY.
2 Six persons killed by the fall Of floor of
3 factory in lancashire, England.
8. Large fire at Memphis Tenn
5. King hoffee surrendered Coomassic. the
capital OF Ashantee, and agreed to pay a war
Indemnity of $500, 600.
6. Collision on the Great Western railroad.
England several persons killed. Four per-
sons killed ny boiler explosion at Nor
folk Va.
8. Boiler explosion at st. Louis, No.; three
men killed
IL. Sixteen men severely burned q. Pitts
burgh by the cspsizing OF pot OF boiling
lead.
IL. Eight men killed and several wounde
by the falling OF brewery in Philsdelphia.
IA Large fire st London; two fremen
killed.
Il. Gladstone rendered his resignation as
Prime Minister; Disrseli summoned to form
q new Cabinet.
IS Lieut.-Col Buel attacked q camp of
SCemanches on Double Mountain Fork, and |
killed ten Indians. Six citizens OF Austin, |
Texas, robbed OF ali their horses by Kiowa |
indians.
Is. Official confirmation of new British !
Cabinet, with Disrseli as Premier Serious |
railroad accident near Preston, Eng; two |
persons killed and fifteen in ured. Mutiny |
and instruction among the soldiers at Lima,
South Americs which ended by the surrender
Ct the rebe.ss thirteen killed and thirty
wounded.
o. Confagra ion at Avon, N. Y; nearly all
%. Report that $50, 600 persons are suffer.
ing for want of food in the district of Tir-
boot. Presidency OF Bengal, India
"a Mexican sdvicea: quarrel between
citizens of Quimixtlan and Huascaesa. State
OF Vera Cruz resulted in the killing of seven
teen persons.
% Arthur Or.on, the Tichborpe claimant
convicted Of perjury, and sentenced to fourteen
years penal servitude.
L. Burning of car Of q train in motion on |
the Great Western railroad, near London, |
Ont; eight persons burned and sufocated.
2. Terrible explosion in Lancashire, Eng: |
twenty persons killed
s. Closing of churches in Eastern Poland, |
by order Of government; serious riot in one |
place. seventy persons killed and wounded.
Turkey; eleven persons burned to death. |
Steamship Sedra, Of Newcastle, Eng, lost at |
sea; thirty passengers drowned Explosion |
IN the Hoossc tunnel, Mass; several men |
buried in the RUNE.
9. Report that Gait. Bradburn. first and |
second officers. and two sesmen, OF steam
ship Pennsylvania, were swept overheard in
Ia storm at sea-
10. Terrific boiler explosion at Bipghamton
water works. Y Y.
Il. Wreck Of the British steamer Queen
Ehzabeth of Tarifa. Spain fourteen persons
drowned.
Is. Intelligence of destructive fire at |
Panama; losses, $500, 900.
16. Advices from Mexico of the killing of |
Rev. John Stephens. Congregationalist min |
ster, BIZ mob at Ahualulco.
IL. Shock of earthquake at Bald Mountain, |
NC.
90. Overflow Of the Thames lat London
Lambeth and Rotherhithe Inundated; several |
hi dren drowned.
q. Disastrous fire at Elein. H.; several |
blocks burned. Pullman palace cars intro |
fuced in England.
"a Explosion of a Mississippi towboat;
light men killed, four wounded. Indian battle |
II Arizona between Maj. Randall and band
II Apaches; eleven warriors killed.
Is. A mother and three children burned to
ssath At Mcrrisania, n. Y.
%. Jssuits expelled from Austrian terri
Dry.
30 Loss of steamship Nil. from Hong Kong
for Yokohsma- with all o Dboard-eiehty per-
sons. Henri Rochsfort and Paschal Grousset
escaped from the penal colony at New Gale
ionis-
81. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne |
arrested for violation of the ecclesiastical |
laws.
APRIL.
/. Destruction Of Central Hotel a. Millers- |
Hown, Pa; seven persons burned to death.
2. News Of fearful ravages by cholera |
Somong Dutch troops IL Acheen.
6. The United States pass bill fixing the |
Iegal-tender and national bank-note circula-
'tion st S400. 000. 900 each.
s. Four men killed by . boiler explosion,
near Plattsburg. n. Y.
9. Terrible steam-boiler explosion near
Glasgow, Scotland; part of the boiler thrown
INTO . school-room, and number Of children
lied Boilers of the polar steamer Tgrees
Exploded near st. Johns, N. F.; 20 men killed, |
/ and others injured.
IA. The Atlantic cable Of 1866 broken by
form near Vslentia-
Is. Terrible explosion in Q coal mine in
Lancashire. England; So persons killed, and
many wounded The remains Of DR.. Living |
stone arrive in London. Thirteen persons |
1rovped in the Mieeissippi below New Or