The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-01

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20. Intelligence of great floods in the Mis-
sissippi Valley, caused by the breaking OF the
| levees.
81. Fighting in the streets OF Little Rock
| Ark, between the Brooks nd Baxter factions
% President Grant vetoes the Congress
sional bill for expanding the currency. Truce
between the gubernatorial col tesants IL
| Arkansas.
%. Intelligence of much suffering in Lou
isiana caused by the overncw many OF the
finest plantations under water.
"a Three men killed and several wounded
by the falling OF building in Brooklyn.
| 25. Two railway accidents in England, caus'
ing the death and injury OF twenty persons.
g. Heavy snow ia New England.
%. Several persons killed by the falling
Of three buildings in London. Sovereignty
of the Fiji Islands rendered to Queen Vic
toria.
30. Collision in Jefferson county, Ark, be.
tween partlsans Il Brooks and Baxter nine
men killed. Murder and burning of the Ham
nett family, consisting OF six persona, near
Pittsburgh.
2. Several persons killed by boiler explo-
sioe at Shawangunk. N. Y.
7. Tho Arkansas Supreme Court decides in
favor OF Brooks as Governor.
3. Fight at Little Rock between Brooks
and Baxter partisans 6 men killed and
badly wounded.
8. Skirmish in the streets of Little Rock
between Baxter and Brooks men; men
killed, and several wounded.
II. The town of Ridgway. Iowa, destroyed
by fire.
IL. Large fire at Paris, France; several
persons burned to death. Another encounter
between the Baxter and Brooks partisans in
Arkansas several killed and wounded
H. The Gar or Russia arrived in England.
Is. President Grant issues proclamation
declaring Elisha Baxter legal Governor Of Ar
kansas.
16. Terrible destruction of life and proper
ty in Hampshire county, Mass, caused by the
breaking away of the dam of the reservoir on
Mill river; towns of Williamsburg, Hayden
vile and Leeds flooded over 80 houses and
II mills destroyed; l60 lives lost.
IT, Brooks surrenders his forces and Bax-
ter installed Governor OF Arkansas.
10. Great fire in Constantinople. Warrant
for the arrest Of Gov. Moses, Of South Caro-
lima, on a charge Of larceny he refuses to be
arrested, and calls out the militia in his de-
Tense.
90. Carlists badly defeated near Bilboa,
Spain.
81. Departure of the Gear from London for
Russia. Marriage, at Washington, of Miss
Nelly Grant the Presidents daughter, to Mr..
Sartoris, OF England.
"a A man and wife burned alive at Jacobo,
Mexico, for alleged sorcery. Ministerial
crisis at Rome.
25. Arkansas Legislature impeach Chief
Justice Mcclure aud other officials connected
with the Brooks rebellion,
26. Diplomats relations between Spain and
Mexico formally resumed. Six persons
drowned near Toronto by the capsizing of a
yacht.
81. The Spanish General Concha badly de-
feated by the Oarlists. News of fresh re-
bellion iii Paraguay.
90 The village Of Elmwood, H., almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Large fires at
New Orleans and Pittsburgh.
80. Decoration-day generally observed
throughout the country.
81. Serious riot in Limerick, Ireland.
JUNE.
/. Intelligence of the loss Of the ship Brit
ish Admiral from Liverpool to Melbourne,
with 70 persons on board. Attempt made in
London to shoot the Prince of Sake Weimar.
Three persons killed by collision on the In
dianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad.
Five raftsmen drowned while descending the
rapids Of the st. Anne river, Canada. Resig-
nation of Mr.. Richardson, Secretary OF the
Treasury; BENZ. II. Bristow, of Kentucky,
nominated as his successor.
2. Extensive inundations in Hungary
many villages swept away. Cornerstone OF
the American Museum OF Natural History
Grant.
3. Four persons killed by train on the
Erie railroad while crossing the track in a
wagon.
4. Inauguration Of Gov. Weston, of New
Hampshire.
6. The Italian Senate gives it's approval to
treaty of commerce with Mexico and pos
tai convention with Brazil.
T. Manifesto of the Left Center of the
French Assembly calling for declaration OF
the republic or dissolution Of the Assembly.
revolution attempted in Costa RIGA. TWEEN
ty-seven persons drowned during storm on
Oneida and Onondsga Lakes, New York
Fierce tornado in Illinois and Minnesota.
g. Stormy scene in the French Assembly
Gambetta and the Bonapartists in collision
10. French government defeated in the AS
sembly on the clause of the Electoral bill fix
ing the age of electors violence threatened
IL. Gambetta insulted by mob at Yer
sailles.
IL Continued excitement in Versailles anc
Paris. Vote Of censure in the Assembly
against the government lost. Seven persons
drowned by the wrecking of the schooner
Rover. off the coast Of North Carolina.
Is. Eighteen Carlist officers shot at Tolosa,
Spain, for mutiny Resolutions in the Frerct
Assembly declaring France monarchy Ie'
| iected by 100 ms jority.
16 Six horse-Jhisves hung in the Ind .ar
| Territory by a vigilance committee.
H. Four persons killed and several woundeC
| by an acc dent on tho Carolina Central rall
road.
Is. Carlists defeated by the Spanish troops
| in an engagement at Altoona, Spain.
%. Completion of the telegraphic cable be
tween Brazil and Europe.
20. Fourteen persons killed and 100 injured
by the fail Of floor in room in Syracuse
n. Y, where a strawberry festival was being
he'd. Adjournment OF United States Con
gress.
"a Serious rupture between Turkey ant
Persia Resignation of Postmaster Genera
Creswel Office rendered 10 Eugene Hale, o
| Maine.
25. Contract closed for placing Pullman
palace care on the railways Of Upper Italy
Ratification by France OF postal treaty between
that country and the United states.
81 The Russian Gear banishes his nephew
the Grand Duke Nicholas, for theft OF hi
mothers diamonds.
90 Marshal Concha killed in an attack o.
the Carlsts near Estella, Spain he il sue
ceeded by Marshal Serrano.
80 Sixteen persons drowned near Havans
Cuba, Dy tho capsizing of lighter. Fiv
persons killed and several MANNED by boile
explosion at Carrollton, Mich.
JULY.
/. Social Mills, Woonsocket. II. J., dc
stroyed by fire lose, 500, 900. Eugene Hal
declines the Postmaster-G eneralshiP tendere
him by President Grant.
4. One hundred houses burned in Alleghen
City, Pa. Tho great bridge across the MIS-