The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-21


8. The Archbishop of Cologne set
at liberty, after six months imprison-
ment
II. Battles near Buenos Ayres be-
tween the Insurgents and government
troops.
IL. Newmarket races in England;
Aventuriere the winner. Threatening
note of Serrano to the French govern
ment
13. Elections; Democratic success in
Ohio, Indiana, etc. Republican success
in Iowa.
Is. The President visits Chicago and
the West.
II. FIJI Islands annexed by England.
90. Marriage at Chicago of Colonel
Frederick ID. Grant to Miss Honore.
81. Terrible storm on the Northern
coast of England; houses blown down;
II sailors drowned off Glasgow; many
other people killed.
%. Explosion at Detroit of the pro-
pellor Brooklyn; Is deaths.-False re-
port of the capture of Mana Sahib.
"a. Difficulties between Turkey and
the three Northern Powers, relative to
Roumanian treaties.
81. Count Won Arnim released on
bail.
%. Opening of the German Reichstag.
Trial of Kullmann, the assailant of Bis
marck. Death of John p. Laird, NJ. p,
the great shipbuilder
30. Kullmann sentenced to fourteen
years imprisonment.
NOVEMBER.
3. November election i'll New York
and other States large Democratic
gains.
4. Bombardment of Irun by the
Carlists.
6. Laying of the direct United States
cable.
s. Election in Italy the Ministerial
majority decreased.
10. News of revolution in Venezuela.
II. Irun relieved, after a great battle
between Carlists and Republicans.
Is. Railroad accident near Bologna,
Italy; 35 persons killed and wounded
10. Burning at sea of the English
ship Cospatrick, bound from London to
New Zealand; nearly five hundred lives
lost; three survivors.
20. Mr.. Boxer United States Minister
at Constantinople, protests against an
outrage done by soldiers upon American
missionaries i'll Syria. explo-
sion in a colliery at Warren Vale, York
shire twenty-four miners killed.
81. Bismarck violently assailed in the
Rsichstag on account of his religious
and foreign policy.
%. The thickest fog of the year in
England; many casualties.
%. Tremendous hurricane in Ala
bama, Maryland, ETC.; twelve persons
killed at Tuscumbia, Ala.-Strike of the
New York longshoremen.
25. Eleven persons buried by an avail
anche on the Great St. Bernard noun
tain.
27. Religious riots in Para, Brazil.
30. King Kalakeua, of the Sandwich
Islands, arrives at San Francisco. .-Foun-
dering off Ushant, France, of the cable
steamship La Plata; 60 persons drowned.
DECEMBER.
2. Fred. Dockray pardoned by the
Spanish government.
3. Meeting of the Quebec Legisla-
ture.
4. An annuity voted to Garibaldi by
the italian Parliament
6. The Lowell Boiler Works nearly
destroyed by fire.
7. Meeting of Congress. President
Message. of puddlers at Pitts
burg,-Attack against Vicksburg be ne
groes, 20 of whom are killed.-Drawn
battle in Venezuela between the Insur-
gents and the Government forces 700
to 800 men killed.
s. Express car robbed of $4,000 on
the Kansas Pacific railroad, by robbers
who stop the train.
10. Tranquility re-established at
Vicksburg.
u. King Kalakaua arrives at Wash
ington. End of the Argentine insurrec-
ton.
Is. Two burglars shot at Bay Ridge,
near Fort Hamilton, New York, sup
posed to be the abductors of the missing
boy Charlie Ross.
II. The Pacific Mail steamer Japan
burned near Hong Kong.-Adjournment
of the Mexican Congress.
10. Count Won Arnim sentenced to
three months imprisonment.-A food,
occasioned by the breaking Of the Mill
River dam, of Haydenville, Mass.
2l. Explosion of powder magazine
at Scutari, Turkey 200 persons killed
%. The U. S. Senate passed the
Specie Payment bll.-First three de-
cisions by the Alabama Claims Commits
sion at Washington.
%. King Kalakaua in New York.
25. Ex-Governor Warmoth kills, at
New Orleans, Mr.. Byerly, one of the
proprietors of the Bulletin.
27. General Concha orders lenient
treatment of ally insurgents, but the exc
cution of incendiaries and fillibusters.
%. Collision in the East river between
the ferry boat Alaska and the cattle boat
Golden. Death of Gerrit Smith.