Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-01-05
%. Departure Of the English Polar expedi-

1. Loss of steamship Vicksburg in ice fields,
en- route from Montreal to Liverpool. Forty
five lives lost.
10. Release OF Boss Tweed by the New York
Court of Appeals. on writ Of habeus corpus
49, EId OF the Iong strike in the Pennsyl-
vania coal mines Eae strikers surrendering to
tn EMPLOYERS.
IS. Great inund .tion OF the river Garome,
France Immense obstruction Of property, and
many lives lost.
d. Conviction of Won Arnim the German
diplomat, OF purloining state papers, and
sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
20. international Rifle match between Irish
and American teams at Dublin. The American
team the vlctors. ass 81
/. Robert Dale Owen. the great spiritualist,
insane.
g. End OF the Beecher- Triton trial, the Jury
failing to agree and are discharged, after eight
days elaboration. Jury stood 9 for Beecher;
ID. Balloon ascension from Chicago by Prof.
Donaldson and q newspaper man named
Grlmwood. Balloon and party Lost ia the lake.
~. Failure of the great banking house of
Duncan, Sherman & Co., New York. Liabili-
ties six millions
%. Extensive lockout of operatives in Eng
lish cotton mills
1. Breaking out OF insurect;on in Herzego-
vina, one of the Turkish provinces.
10. Assassination of Senior Gabriel Garcia
Moreno, President Of the Republic of Ecuador.
Is. Body of Grimwood, the reporter who
made a balloon ascension five weeks before
FROM Chicago with Donaldson, found at Point
Sable, Mich, on the beach Of the lake.
II. Capt. Webb swims the English Channel
from Dover to Ramsgate.
Is. The Royal yacht, with Queen Victoria en-
board, runs down sailing yacht, in the Chan
mel. Three persons drowned and one killed.
18. Fifty persons killed by powder explo-
sion at Barcelona Spain.
28. w. III. Ralston, President of the Bank cf
California, commits suicide at San Francisco.
September.
8. Foundering of the steamer Equinox on
Lake Michigan-25 lives lost. Also, on same
lake, propeller Mendoza, with Is lives.
10. jeff. Davis delivers an address before
the De Soto County (Mo.) Fair, to be followed
by addresses at other county fairs in that state.
IA. Indictment of 760 Socialist conspirators
in Russia.
IL. Opening of new direct Ocean cable, and
reduction of rates.
II. Meeting of Bonapartists at Arenenberg.
Switzerland, in the interest of monarchy for
France.
II. Final ceremonies at Rome of confer
ring the Cardinalate on Monsignor McCloskey.
Is. Inundation Of the city Of Galveston,
Texas; several lives lost and $20O, 600 worth
of property destroyed.
20. Destruction Of the town of Indianola,
Texas; $50 to 200 lives lost. Every building in
the place, except three, destroyed.
rs. Burning of the Rockland Print Works st
Haverstraw, n. r.; one man killed. LOSS,
$3.50, 900.
8. Robert Dale Owen pronounced recovered
and released from the lunatic asylum, whore
he had been confined since July.
4. Resignation of the Servian Ministry.
growing out of the Herzegovinian insured
ton.
Z. Failure of the proposed treaty between
the government and the Sioux Indians for the
purchase eff the Black Hills
IL. State elections in Ohio, Iowa and Ne
braska. Republicans victorious by 5000 ma
jority in Ohio, $4,000 in Iowa and 10, 900 in
Nebraska.
Is. Safe return of the English chip PAN
dora from Arctic explorations. The Pandora
reached King Williams Land.
90. Gerald Massey, the poet and spiritualist,
declared insane and confined in an asylum.
%. Death of Eli Caruth, the Vineland, N.
j., editor, shotin May last by Lands.
25. Destruction by fire Of Virginia City,
loss $82, 600.
26. dwelling of the statue of g stonewall /"
Jackson at Richmond Va. The statue was
the gift of English admirers of the General.
az. Renewal Of the Instruction. in Khokand,
and flight of the Khan.
%. council Of the United Irishmen meet
in New York, and condemn to death Thos
McGeoghegan. one OF their former members.
for treason to Ireland.
November.
/. Destruction by fire of the business por-
ton OF the city of Sherman, Texas. Loss
$34. 900.
8. Burning ea1 GO Of the city OF Iquique, Peru.
4. Foundering Of the steamship Pacific. and
100 lives lost
9. The Vice President taken seriously i'll at
his room in the Capitol. His life despaired ct
for several days.
10. Burning of the steamer City of Waco in
Galveston Bay. Forty lives lost
10. Burial of Guibord, the accommodated
Canadian, in the Catholic cemetery at Mon
treal. The anticipated trouble not realized
10. Spain comedies the demands OF the
United States On certain international ques-
tions, and war averted.
%. Failure of M. NJ. {BricD Pomeroy, the
newspaper man
%. Terrible storm on English coast. MANY
vessels wrecked, and great loss OF life
n. The Prince of Wales ordered home from
his Indian tour by the home government,
owing to his unfavorable reception by the na-
tive princes.
~. Henry Ward Beecher served with sub
psna in libel suit Of Henry g. Bowen.
~. Rumorsin Washington of impending war
between Spain and Guatemala.
%. The q. s.. naval vessels ordered ready
for service to protect South American repub-
lies against threatened entertainments of
Spain. Enlistments for navy ordered.
%. Massacre OF 1900 Egyptians BY Abys-
sinian insurgents al. Khokand
20. Discovery OF new force, light. as a
substitute for electricity
29. Boston rubber shoe factory burned.
Loss $500, 00e 800 operatives out Of employ
ment
%. Reported death of Charles O'Conor at
New York-courts throughout United States
adjourn in respect to his memory.
20. Schooner I. G.. Jenkins foundered in
gale on Lake Ontario. Eight lives lost.
Schooner Cornelia B. Windiate lost on Lake
Michigan in the same gale, with eight lives.
80. Death of O'Conor contradicted. Prayers
IN the Catholic church for his recovery
December.
/. Sinking Of steamer Hunnyside at West
Point, N. Y, by collision with ice. Five per-
sons drowned.
1. Burial Of Vice President Wilson, ct Natick,
Mass.
q. Sale Of Philadelphia navy yard to Penn
oul vania railroad FOR q mn mn