Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-06
CHRONOLOGICAL.
A Record of Principal Events
in 1874.
JANUARY
JANUARY
|. Destructive fire at Wilkesbarre. Pa.

ernment. Destructive fires at Cincinnati and
Nashville.
t. Large fire at Philadelphia Siege of Car
tagena, Spain, begun.
8. The United States Senate repeals the
Salary-Grab bill
3. Caleb Gushing nominated for Chief JUS
nce OF the United States Supreme Court The
city of Helena, Montana, almost totally de-
stroyed by fire.
IL. News of a terrible famine prevailing in
India.
IL. Allen G. Thurman reelected United
States Senator from Ohio Lieut.-Governor
Wlthers elected United States Senator from
virginia. Fire at the residence of Jacob
Stiner, a wealthy New York merchant, in which
he, his wife and dau yhter lose their lives. Sur
render of Cartagena, Spain.
IA. Nomination of Caleb Gushing for the
Office of Chief Justice recalled.
Is. Surrender of the Intransgentes at Bar
eelona, Spain. Large fire in BROOKLYN, n. Y.
10. Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio nominated
by the President as Chief-Justice.
20. Nine women killed by an explosion and
fire In 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.
%. British Parliament dissolved by royal
decree. Marriage. at st. Petersburg, Russia,
of the Duke of Edinburgh with the Grand
26. Disastrous fire in Yeddo, Japan.
81. Terrible railroad collision between Ed
mburgh and Glasgow, Scotland sixteen per-
sons killed. The City Treasurer of Jersey
City, N. j., absconds with 800, 900 of the city
funds.
29 Burning of Olympic Theater at Phila-
delphia two firemen killed.
FEBRUARY.
L. Large fire at South Norwalk, Conn
Siv 1ol lx-tI No fall of x>F
q factory in Lancashire England.
B. Large fire at Memphis, Tenn.
5. King koffee surrendered Coomassie, the
capital of Ashantee, and agreed to pay a war
indemnity of $500, 900.
g. Collision on the Great Western railroad,
England several persons killed. Four per-
sons killed by boiler explosion at Norfolk,
Va.
8. Boiler explosion at st. Louis, Mo-; three
men killed.
IL Sixteen men severely burned at Pitts
burgh by the capsizing of pot of boiling lead.
13 Eight men killed and several wounded
by the falling of brewery in Philadelphia
A. Large fire in London; two firemen killed
II. Gladstone rendered his resignation as
Prime Minister; Disraei summoned to form a
new Cabinet
Is. Lieut-Col. Buel attacked camp of
Comanches on Double Mountain Fork. and
killed ten Indians. Six citizens of Austin
Indians.
49, Official confirma. ion of new British
Cabinet, with Disraeli as Premier. Serious
railroad accident near Preston, Eng. two
persons killed and fifteen injured. Mutiny
and instruction among the soldiers at Lima,
South America. which ended by the surrender
of the rebels; thirteen killed and thirty
wounded.
%. Confagration at Avon. n. Y; nearly all
the business portion of the village destroyed
%. Report that 900 persons are suffer
ing for want of food in the district of Tirhoot,
Presidency of Bengal, India.
a. Mexican advices: quarrel between
citizens of Quimixtlau and Huascalesa, state
of Vera Cruz, resulted in the killing of seven
teen persons.
%. Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant.
convicted of perjury, and sentenced to four
teen years penal servitude.
MARCH.
l. Burning of a car of train IN motion on
the Great Western railroad, near London,
Ont. eight persons burned and suffocated.
2. Terrible explosion in Lancashire, Eng.
twenty persons killed.
5. Closing of churches in Eastern Poland.
by order of government serious riot in one
place, seventy persons killed and wounded.
s. Extensive confagration at Salonica Tur-
key eleven persons burned to DEATH Steam
ship Sedra. of Newcastle. Eng, lost at sea
Hoosac tunnel Mass /; several men buried in
the ruins.
9. Report that Capt. Bradbuin. first and
second officers, and two seanlen, of steamship
Pennsylvania were swept overheard In storm
at sea.
TO- Terrific boiler expl osion at Bnghampton
water works, n. Y.
IA. Wreck off the British steamer Queen
Elizabeth of Tarifa SPAIN fourteen persons
drowned.
15 Intelligence of destructive fire at Pan
anna losses $500, 900.
Is. Advices from Mexico of the killing of
Rev. John Stephens Congregationalist min
lister, by mob at Ahualulco.
IT, Shock of earthquake q. Bald Mountain,
n. c.
90 Overflow of the Thames at London ;
Lambeth and Rotherhithe inundated several
children drowned.
%. Disastrous fire at Elgin, H.; several
blocks burned, Pullman palace cars intro
duced in England.
"a. Explosion of Mississippi towboat: eight
men killed, four wounded. Indian battle in
Arizona between Maj. Randall and band of
Apaches; eleven warriors killed.
25. A mother and three children burned to
death at Morrisania, n. Y.
%. Jesuits expelled from Austrian territory
30. Loss of steamship Nil, from Hong Kong
for Yokohama, with all on board-eighty per-
sons. Henri Rochefort and Paschal Circus
seS escaped from The penal colony at new GALE
donia
81. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne
arrested for violation of the ecclesiastical
laws.
APRIL.
l. Destruction of Central Hotel at Millers-
town, Pa; seven persons burned to death
2. News of fearful ravages by cholera among
Dutch troops In Acheen.
g. The United States pass a bill fixing the
legal-tender and national bank note circulation
at 800, 600, 900 each
s. -Four men killed by a boiler explosion,
near Plattsburg, N. Y.
9. Terrible steam boiler explosion near Glas-
gov, Scotland part of the boiler thrown into
school-room, and number of children kill
ed. Boilers of the Polar steamer Tigress ex-
ploded near st. Johns, n. F.; % men killed
and others injured
Ia. The Atlantic cable of 1866 broken by a
storm near Vaentia.
]5. Terrible explosion IN coal mine in Lam
cashIre, England: So persons killed and many
wounded he remains of DR.. Livingstone
arrive IN London. Thirteen persons drowned
in the Mississippi below New Orleans, by the
capslZlng of a tow boat
l6. Joseph Brooks, rival claimant to the
GovernorshIp of Arkansas. took forcible pos
session OF the Governors office at Little
Rock, expellIng Governor Baxter by force.
IT. News OF the wrecking OF the Pacific
nvt,