The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29


drivers killed and scalped.
10. Disastrous foods in Bombay. Escape
OF Marshal Bazaine from the island OF Ste.
13. Recognition of the Spanish republic by
Great Britain France and Germany.
ID. Collision on the Trenton railroad, In
New jersey; four men killed &nd nineteen
wounded. The Cheney-N hitehouse ecclesias-
ticaI Jurisdiction case in Chicago decided in
favor of the Low Church party.
16 Italy, Holland and Belgium recogoize
the Sp&nieh republic.
1s. Election in Ohio on the adopt N of the
new Constitution; the instrument defeated.
II. Terrific typhoon at N4gasaki, japan;
great destruction OF life and property. Be-
rious fighting between the whites and blacks
at Lancaster, Ky.
"a. Formal recognition OF Spain by Sweden.
coliery explosion at Ssaffordshire, England,
kills eight miners.
25. Destructive copiiagrstion at South Bend,
Ind.
26. Postmaster-GeneralJ Jewell assumes the
duties of his office.
81. Earthquake in Porto Rico
%. Report of Plymouth Church Inveatiget-
ing Committee acquitting Mr.. Beecher of the
charge of adultery is presented and accepted
at meeting os the congregation.
80. Murder of six Republican officials at
Coushatts, La, by mob, while being con-
veyed to Shreveport as prisoners.
81. Return to Fort Lincoln of the Black
Hills expedition, after an absence of two
months. Violent eruption Of Mount Etna.
9. 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
parallel.
6. Terrible confagration in Meiningen,
Germany News of the settlement of he
threatened war between China and Japan.
& Destructive
New Jersey.
IL. Collision on the Great Eastern railway
Eng twenty persons killed and fifty
10. The Washington grand jury brings in
indictments against prominent citizens in the
safe-burGlary case.
Is. Great strike OF cotton operatives at
Bolton. Eng.
Il. Mass-meeting OF citizens in New Or
leans; Coy. Kellogg requested to resign; he
refuses to receive any communication from
the meeting; afterward a proclamation by
d. B. Penn. claiming to be Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, called the people to arms barricades
erected in the streets, and sharp fghtipg be-
tween police and citizens, in which soma fifty
of the former we're killed. Excitement pro-
duced by the reported discoveries of gold in
the Black Hills.
Louisiana are surrendered to D. b. Penn Gov.
Kellogg takes refuge in the Custom-House
Pres dent Grant issues proclamation order
ing the belligerents to disperss within five
days.
IL. 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; tkirty-foNr wounded. Gov. Kellogg,
OF Louisiana, resumes hiss gubernatorial
functions.
%. The Russian government, alarmed at
the extensive emigration of Mennonites, ex-
e1npts that sect from actual military service.
ATnari0a0 riff a nnf OF Naxr
York the latter victorious.
q. frightful tophoon passes over Hong
Kong. China; many vessels wrecked ; a great
number of houses destroyed, and over / OOC
persnos killed. The River Legre. in Spain,
overtiowes it's banks, causing great loss OF life
and property.
ment between Carlists and Republicans in the
province of Navarro, Spain; repuise Of the
Carlists with heavy loss.
OCTOBER.
1. The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y, de
stroyed by fre.
| 2. Great gunpowder explosion at Regents
canal, London houses and bridges shattered
and several persons killed. News that
/ revolution has broken out in Buenos Ayres.
| 4. Count Won Arnim arrested in German,
! on charge OF embezzling important statt
papers. Lively times in New York. caused by
a herd of Texas steers careering through the
streets; many people knocked down anC
gored, and several wounded by pistol-shoti
OF the policemen, who erect barricades to op-
| pose the progress Of the cattle.
8. CArlist mutiny at Durango, Spain; Dor
| Carlos wounded by one of the mutineers.
8. The International Postal Convention
! signed at Berne, Switzerland. The Arch
bishop of Cologne liberated after an imprison
Inent 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. Con
| vention of Southern Republicans at Chatta
nooga. Tenn.
10 Destructive fire at Montreal, Canada.
20. Terrible gale on the north of England
and Scottish coasts; many lives lost. Marriage
at Chicago. of Col. Fred Grant, son of th,
President, to AT ss Honore.
81. Destructive forest fires in Indiana.
%. Advices of the massacre of Christian
by Turks in Montenegro. News of the cap
ture, in India. of Mana Sahib, the Sepo.
chieftain.
25 Intelligence of q terrible cyclone a
Bombay, India; 2 600 persons killed. Steame
Mary foundered between Glasgow and Trini
dad; 18 lives lost.
81. thousands of people in the grasshor
per district of Nebraska reported in stary
ing condition.
IS. England has established provisions
government 10 the Fiji Islands. Coun
Won Armin released from prison. Great hr
st Greencastle, Ind. Ten persons lose thei
lives by the burning of cotton-mili in Ches
ter. England.
So Kullnnaun, who attempted to assassin
|
imprisonment.
NOVEMBER.
8. Elections in many of the States result
ing very generally in favor Of the Democrat
| party.
J g. The difficulty between China and Japa
settled.
9. Capture of Lone Wolf. the great Kiow
chief, near Fort Cobb.
10. English rteamer King Leopold four
dered at sea 90 lives lost. Rnssis resolve
. to introduce the system of compulsory edu
ton.
IL A renewal of the Arkansas politica
: troubles threatened; Y. v. Smith proclaim
himself Governor; Gov. Garland offers a re
ward for his arrest.
Is. Intelligence OF q terrible typhoou i
China; estimated that tue loss of life. in an
about Hong Kong and Macao will reach 80
600 persons, and $50, ,006, 900 worth of proI
erty destroyed.
16. Troubles in the Penneylvania coal II
gions six men murdered.
; II. Six lives lost by the bursting OF th
! boiler Of the stesm-tug Lily, nesr New Ycrl
90. Thirty-sevsn Spanish prisoners She
by Carlists at Oarello, Spain. Twenty-for
! miners killed by colliery explosion in Yorl
! shire, England.
%. Intelligence that the Spanish gunbo.
: Prosperiad, with 200 men, has been lost
. see.
%. Tuscumbie. Ala, devastated by to
nadO: half the town deafroyed and tvrel,