The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-28
1876.
From It's Entrance to It's
Exit.
The Old Years Record OF Great
Events.
1876
CHRONOLOGY.

Reassembling Of Congress after
tho holiday recess. 10. Exciting debate in
Congress on the bill granting amnesty to
JEFF Davis; the measure defeated. .21. First
heavy snow-storm Of the winter in the far
West; Union Pacific railroad blockaded. 4. :.
%. Thirteen persons killed by railway col
hsion at Huntingdon, Eng. e. d. Winslow,
owner of the Boston Neaos, aud Treasurer of
the Boston Post, having committed forgeries
to the amount of $780, 600, disappeared with
his family 26. Burglars rob the National
Bank of Northampton, Mass, of $500, 900 in
securities. Three men hung by mob at
Charleston, w. ~. The robbery Of
100000 from Chicago eastward-bound ex-
press car was neatly prevented near Toledo,
and the four robbers arrested. :. 81. -Four
outlaws hung by vigilants in Rocks county,
Kan. man named Simmons murdered, dis
sected, and his remains packed IN box, at
Greenpoint N. Y; arrest Of Victor Kretz, the
murderer. Speaker Kerr writes letter de-
claring that his name is not to be used in the
Democratic National Convention.
A man named Wilder, at
Lyndon VT, murders his wife,
father and mother, and then hangs
himself Fifteen of the whisky ring
at Indianapolis sentenced to prison for terms
of from six months to three years. William
Mckee, principal proprietor of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, convicted of conspiracy to
defraud the Government. +. . q. A stage line
opened from Cheyenne to the Black Hills.
Lower house of Congress refused to pass tho
one-term Presidential amendment to the con-
stitution. g. Colliery explosion in Belgium;
over 200 miners killed. Gen. Sherman writes
q letter, saying he will not be candidate for
President, and expressing preference for
GOV. Hayes, Of Ohio. 6. A fearful panic
occurred at Robinson's Opera House. Cincn-
Ixi11od o1N6 YIoaHa
injured .. s.. Opening Of the trial, at st.
Louis, of Gen. Babcock, Military Secretary
to President Grant, for conspiracy to defraud
the Government in connection with the
whisky ring. Great fire in Broadway, N. Y;
loss, $2, 500, 900. 10. National Bank of
Commerce, of New London, Ct., robbed of
$4,000; the teller subsequently confesses
the burglary and restores the money. :.
IA. The Sultan of Turkey signed the decree
granting the Andrassy reforms in the insur-
gent provinces. IT. Collision between the
steamers Straithclyde and Franconia in the
English channel the Straithclyde sunk and
81 lives lost. 49, The Maine Legislature
abolishes hanging 20. Indiana Republican
State Convention dominates G. S. Ortiz for
Governor and instructs for Gov. Morton for
President. Wisconsin Republican Conven-
ton indorses Blaine for President. 90. The
Connecticut Democrats nominate Gov.
Charles r. Ingersoll and all the State officers
for reelection. "a The trial of Gen. Bah
cock, on charge Of conspiracy to defraud
the Government brought to a close at st.
Louis, the jury returning verdict of mot
guilty.. %. News that Don Carlos, the
Spanish pKetender has fled to France viz
tual end of the Carlist war. Connecticut
Republican State Convention II. G. Rob-
inson naminated for Governor. Destruct-
i've tornadoes at st. Chnrles, Mo, and Prince
ton, Ind; many houses blown down, and
several persons killed and crippled:
AIARCH--2. Revelation of corruption in the War
Department at Washington; Secretary Bel
KNAPP tenders his resignation resolutions of
impeachment presented against him in the
House of Representatives and unanimously
adopted. 8. A committee of the House APP
pears i'm the Senate at Washington, and for
mally impeaches Mr.. Bellnap for high crimes
and misdemeanors. A life-boat crew of Is
drowned on the North Carolina coast while
trying to save the crew Of an Italian bark.
"A Arrival in London of Don Carlos, the
Spanish pretender . s.. Caleb P. Marsh the
witness against the late Secretary Belknap
fees to Canada. :. g. The President nomin-
ates Richard Henry Dana, Jr., OF Massachu-
sets, Mioister to England, vice Gen. Schenck,
resigned. The portfolio OF the War Office
offered to Senator Lot M. Morrill,, Of Maine
who declines....7. Burning of the Home for
Aged People at Brooklyn, N. Y; some 20 Of
the aged inmates per sh in the flames
Eleven persons killed and or wounded by
a train falling through q bridge across a
branch of the Shenandoah river on the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad News OF famine
in the Westmanna islands, near Iceland 500
people said to be starving to death. Judge
AlpDonso Taft, Of Ohio, appointed Secretary
of War. Exciting part san debate in the
" 30,
licans charged upon each the responsibility
for the fight of the witness Marsh whose
absence blocks the imr eachment trial. =. 8.
Belknap arraigned in the Police Court at
Washington and held to bail in $25, 900 to
answer to criminal charge OF bribery.
1'he United States Senate decided the three
years contest of P. B. s. Pinchback for q
seat in that body az Senator from Louisiana,
by the adoption OF resolution declaring
that he has no claim to the seat. TO- War
began between Japan and CCr3a. The United
States Senate pass the bill for the admission
of New Mexico as a State. A tornado killed
9 people, and wounded many more, at Hazel
Green, Wis. ID. Lieut.. Gov. Davis (col-
ored), Of Mississippi, convicted by the State
Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment of
high crimes and misdemeanors. News of q
severe battle between the Abyssinisn army
and the Egyptians, resulting in the total rout
of the latter J. IA, New Hampshire election !;
Gov. Cheney and the entire Republican ticket
elected, and Republican majority secured
in the Legislature. Is Severe storm in
England an on the continent numerous
shipwrecks and many lives lost. IT. De-
structive fire in Springfield, Ill. loss, $170,-
900. Great snow-storm in Scotland, causing
an embargo on travel. 10, Heaviest snow
storm of the wirter in the Western and
Southern States IL inches deep at Cairo
and 10 inches at Memphis. o. Caleb P.
Marsh, having been promised immunity from
prosecution, returns to Washington to tes-
tify against ex-Secretary Beknap. demo
cratic state Convention of Pennsylvania
meets at Lancaster. Republican Convention
of New York meets at Syracuse. .23. Seven
men killed and wounded by boiler explo-
sion at Laramie City, Wyo. Ter IA. Great
storms and floods in the Eastern States
property loss in New England estimated at
$1,000,000.. 49, Intelligence Of the foun-
dering of the steamer Jowad III the Arabian
sea, by which 500 pilgrims were drowned. !.
90. Republican State Conventions in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, and Indiana 80. The dam
of the water reservoir at Worcester, Mass,
breaks, precipitating q vast volume of water
into che valley below, causing an enormous
destruction of property. :. 81. A large num-
Der of city officials indicted and arrested in
Sr o1Jia for briharv and Y1arirrx-