The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-11

of Governor Ames of Missis-
siPpi. %. Tornado at st. Charles, Missouri;
lives lost. Lord Lytton appointed
Governor-General of India.
MARCH,. Hon. Hester Clymer, of Penn
.sylvania, submits the House report of Secre-
tary Belknap's frauds. 6. Train on Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad drops one hundred
and eighteen feet; fifteen liveslost. Empress
of Austria arrives in London. z. Judge A.
Taft appointed Secretary Of War. Burning
of Brooklyn Home for the Aged nineteen
lives lost. Desperate battle between AbYs-
and Egyptians at Goodras. s. Yer
dict of $685., 117.38 against W. N. Tweed in
Court of Common Pleas, New York City.
Wa between Japan apd Corea. Promulga-
ton of royal decree allowing return Of Car
in forty days. 9. Twenty-Five houses
10. Arrest of Eugene K. de R~ovdenbeke at
Queenstown, charged with $4,000 900 rob-
berry Of Bank of Brussels. Terrific STERN
near Galens, Illinois, and Dubuque Iowa;
forty lives lost. IL. Failure of Daniel Drew,
New York stock operator, for 81, 800, 900.
II. Twelve persons burned to death at Nor
witch Conn., Almshouse. IL. Impeachment
of Lieutenant-Governor Davis, of Missis-
sippi. II. Burning of Springfield (In.)
Opera-house; loss S16S, 000. Hessing and /.
Rehm plead guilty to whisky frauds in Uni
ted States Court, Chicago. 10. Wreck of
steamer Isabel on Pendeyer's Rocks, near
Lands End thirty lives lost. 20. Snow in
New Orleans and heavy snow-storms all over
the country. Large fire in Charleston, South
Carolina. 25. Law abolishing death penalty
in Maine took effect. 80. Breaking away of
dam at Lyndebrook Reservoir, near Worces-
ter, Massachusetts.
APRIL. Senate rejects r. Il. Dana,
Minister to England. National Negro Con-
%vention at Nashville. 5. Thirty-two lives
lost by fe~rry-boat disaster on Dee, near
Aberdeen, Scotland. Four powder mag.
azines blown up at Salt Lake, Utah; two
lives lost. Is. Avery sentenced to two
years and General Mcdonald to three years
in the penitentiary, for st. Louis whisky
frauds. Lincoln statue unveiled at Wash
Ington, D. c. IA. Thirty thousand striking
GOLFERS in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. 10.
Reception of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of
Brazil, in New York City. Coal riots break
put at Massillon Ohio. Indictment of Gen.
y. E. Babcock for conspiracy, at Washing
in Red Canon. Steamer Dictator wrecked
near Hannibal, Missouri; twelve lives lost.
II, Riot in Dublin and Limerick. Expul.
sion of President Dominique from Hayti.
81. Tunnel explosion in Wales; thirteen
lives lost. Close of the New York Hotel,
after an existence of thirty years. %. De.
structiye hail-storms in Kansas, running
fruit. "a. Riots in Barbados. Joe Goss
challenges Tom Allen for championship.
%. Foundering at sea Of steamer Onessant,
and loss of twenty-onel lives. Queen Victoria
proclaimed Empress of India. 20. Conven'
ton OF Gypsies at Joliet, Illinois. 80. Thirty
five liyesilost by the collision of two steam
ferry.boats near Bingen on the Rhine.
~ n ELL. = uTuzA---
MISUNDERSTANDING, Arnold & Co., a
North Adams, for $I,50O,OOO. 6. Religion:
riot at Salonica, Turkey, and murder Of the
French and German Consu]sj dynamite ex
plosion in Jersey City, caused by discharged
workmen. 9. Opening of the Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition; dwelling of Schil
Ter Memorial Statue on anniversary of thu
poets death, at Marbach, Wirtemburg. II
Steamer Pat Cleburn explodes near Shaw
neetown, Il..-twenty lives lost. IS. Expul
sion of Henry c. Bowen from Plymouth
Church. "a. Eight miners killed by an ex
plosion in Virginia Coal Pit, Chesterfield
County. %. J. D. Cameron appointed
Secretary of War, A. Taft Attorney-General
and E. Pierrepont Minister to England. "a
Foundering of Guatemala gunboat, Genera
Barnes-sixteen lives lost. %. Presiden
issues Centennial proclamation. 26. Dc
struction by fire of the celebrated painting
"The Prodigal Son" at Melodeon Hall, Cir
cinnati. 81. The Pandora sails from Cove
for Arctic regions. 80. D~ethronement o
Abdul Aziz, and Murad Efendi declare
Sultan of Turkey; one thousand house
burned in Quebec. 81. Peter Cooper accept
tine Greenbackers' nomination.
JUNE. Blaine scandal in the House.. I
Suicide of AbdulAzi with a pair Of scissor
Jarrett & Palmer's lightning express reache
San Francisco from New York in eighty-fou
hours. IA. Republican National COnventio
at Exposition Hall, Cincinnati. -. Mrs. e.
President Lincoln discharged from insan
asylum. Is. The Turkish Ministers of Wa
and Foreign Affairs murdered in the Cour
Gil Chamber. 16. Great fire in carpet mani
factories at Ayre, England; twenty-fou
lives lost. Trustees Of Vanderbilt I'm
versity, Nashville, Tennessee, receive al
other $500, 900 from their founder. II. Gel
eral Crook encounters the Sioux at Rosebu
Creek. Is. Destructive fire at st. john
Canada. Loss, s., 100000. "a. A. b. HesiD
sentenced to two years, and $1,000 fine, {
Chicago, for whisky frauds. 25. India
village, forty miles below Little Horn, a
tackled by General Custer. General Custe
and entire command slaughtered. q
Democratic National Convention at ST. Lou
Chamber of Commerce. S. ]. Tilden nom
mated for the Presidency, at the Dem
cratic Convention, on the second ballo
Murad Efendi dethroned and his younge
brother appointed regent. 20. Dutch steamt
Lieutenant General Hosen wrecked mes
the Straits of Sueda; twenty-five lives los
Election of Senior Anibal Pinto as PresideI
of Chill.
JULY. Hamburg massacre. 9. Burr
ing of Castle Garden, New York Cit
StaonarS 81 Hloir hurpad nm TaEa MinhiOar
nine lives lost. 10. Resignation of Marshi
Jewell, Postmaster General. II. Departul
of Dom Pedro ON the Russia. 10. Loss
the yacht Mohawk, and drowning Of Cor
modore Garner and wife and three other
26. Two persons burned to death in a Phil
delphia shoddy mill.
AUGUsT--1. Nine persons drowned at
picnic, at Clearwater, Michigan. Acquitti
: of General Belknap-35 to 25. Close OF tt
inquest IN victims of Hamburg MASSACRE
verdict of murder against General NJ.
Butler and others. Message of Presidel
Grant on the massacre. 10. Breaking awe
of Beaver Creek Dam, Montana; twely
lives lost. 10. Issuing of Secretary Can
eron's order to General Sherman in refe
ence to troops sent South. 20. Steamt
Colon explodes her boiler at sea, 1852 mil,
from New York; two persons killed, re
rescued ny stedIltr LcGHh. on. OulLdu Ildlul
proclaimed Emperor of Turkey. Horati
Seymour nominated for Governor of Ne
York by the Democratic State Convention
81. Defamation of Il. Seymour.
SEPTEMBER-3. Six hundred houst
burned at St. H~yacinth, Quebec. 5. Acc
lent at He'll Gate by explosion of nitr
glycerlne; three persons killed. 6. Ina
guration of Lafayette statue, New Yor
city. Negro riot at Charleston, South Ca
olina. Z. Allen and Goss fight in Kel
lucky; Goss wins on a foul; twenty-on
rounds in one hour and fifty-two minute
8. Capture of VIM. NJ. Tweed and cousil
VIM. Hunt, at Port Vigo, Spain. 9. Generi
Crook engages hostile Sioux, destroying a
Indian village. 16. Prince Milan pr
claimed King of Servia, by General Tche
nayef's army. II. Riot at Ellenton, Mort
Carolina. %. Treaty signed with Sioux
Spotted Tail agency; they agree to leay
the Black Hills. Accident on Pan-Handl
Railroad at Black Lick Station. Thirty-or
deaths from yellow fever at Savannah, G
%. Great fire in Baltimore; loss $4,000
"a. He'll Gate blown up by General Newton
Six hundred cases of yellow fever at Brun
wick, Georgia.
OCToBER-7. Burning of bark Europa Q
! New York dry dock; five lives lost. s. Di