The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-11
1876.
E,s,;,,, events of the Closing Yenr-.Its
'"'s and its Disasters and Deaths.

.,,3a.. arriVal i'll New York of the steam.
Dp oailef, with the survivors of the
Ii.Seiiland .,'i wreck and the dynamite
nAploslon. ,. Death in New Bedford of
oiuovernor j. II. Clifford of Massa-
'i,'seI.s slxty-sevcn years.
hopert Bulwer, Lord Lytton. ap-
Wp9lhteu to succeed Lord Northbrook as
leroy OF India. Death in London
:" solF Anthony Rothschld.
.. Death of Commodore John Pope,
"Seo elghty-seven years.
%. Wreck and burning of o railroad
rum near Odessa, Russia seventy per-
IONS KILLED. Death, i'll Boston, Of Com
moaore Stephen Decatur.
G. Howe. ~ ''''''''S-
~; Dion Boucicault appeals to Disraeli
'oI the release of the Fenian prisoners.
IL; Death, at Santa Fe, of General
Tort'on Granger. -. The jury III the trial
"a Hesorge ID. Lord, at Buffalo, disagree.
..''I Ihe Spanish steamer Algeria
wrecked off Cabra twelve lives lost.
IL. The United States Senate adopt
resolutions declaring that they have the
power to remove their president pro
tcn'pore at will.
22. Railway collision near Hunting
don, England thirteen lives lost.
~. Death. in Paris. Of Frederic
Lemaitre, the actor.
2S. Death, in Washington. of Repre-
sentative H. II. Stallweather, of Con
nectlcut. aged fifty years. Death, III
Hungary of Francis Deak, aged seventy
seven years.
FEBRUARY.
|. Death, in England, of John Foster,
biographer Of Dickens and Goldsmith :;
siXtv-fovr years.
4. One hundred and six miners killed
by fire damp explosion at st. Etienne,
Belgium.
.. The gallery of Robinson's Opera
House, Cincinnati, falls during Sun
day-school festival twelve lives lost.
Z. Death, III Brooklyn. of Rear-Ad-
mlral Stringham. aged seventy-seyen.
:. Great fire Oh Broadway n Y: loss
S3,000000.
10. Death, in Annapolis, Md, OF
Reverdv johnson, aged seventy-nine.
II. -Four men killed i'll collierv ex-
plosion, West Pittsburgh, Pa.
II. Death i'll Hartford. Conn. OF the
Rev. DIR. Horace Bushnell, aged seventy
three years Collision OF the Franconia
and Strathclyle (steamships) in the
English channel. Fifty persons drowned.
%. Death, In France, of the publisher
Ambroise Firmin Didot.
"a. Death, i'll Monroyia. OF ex-pres-
dent Roberts of Liberia.
%. Death, in New York, OF Charles
Edward Horsley, the English musician
tiity-one years.
MARCH.
l. Death, in England, OF Lady Au-
Susta Stanley. wife OF Dean Stanley.
9 The House of Representatives pass
es resolutions Of impeachment against
w. W. Belknap, secretary of war
&. Eleven persons killed in railroad
disaster on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road.
T. The Home for the Aged, Roman
Catholic, burned i'll BROOKLYN eleven
lives lost
16. Death of Prosper NJ Wetmore:
aged seventy-seven wears.
II. Death of the German poet, Ferli-
nand Freili9rath sixty-six years.
81. Death, in England. of Colonel
Charles G.. Chesnev the famous military
critic.
% Bursting Of the dam at Lynde
brook reservoir, Worcester, Mass. Loss
,+,, ,'o NJ ~ G .1'i - Piol
49, p,n-;ia,+ ,','a.a1 I, 49,
r r., ni,'ta. 'io't',',e ~ 45',1 w. H. i'''n'
'-'' 90 4-''''''''- - III '''-''''
APRIL
s. Election OF Mr. mgersoll. governor
of Connecticut.
f. Death, in England Of the Earl of
Sheffield, aged spventy-four years. ...
Articles OF impeachment Of Secretary
Belknap laid before the United States
Senate. ,. Rejection by the Senate of
the nomination Of Mr. Dana.
3. Death Of Protestant Episcopal
Bishop Johns, Of Virginia. Sinking
OF ferryboat ou the river Dee. at Aber-
deen, Scotland thirty-two lives lost.
The confession Of James Kerrigan,
IL sentenced Molly Mcguire " murderer,
exposes secrets Of the Order Of ndepen-
dent HibernionS Fatal explosion OF
powder magazine III Salt Lake City.
6. Convention OF " Greenback party
III Columbus, OHIO,
Z. Death Of Maximilian Tmnoczv, the
cardinal archbishop OF Salzhurg, aged
seventy years.
s, Cambridge wins the University
boat race 49,. Arrest or W. o. Avery, III
Washington, for alleged completely in the
frauds OF the whisky ring -. Fatal ex-
plosion OF boiler il Bmghamton.
lO. Aruva! III NeW York of General
pradG, president OF ferl. Death, III
NNy q. n StNVx