The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
Prominent Eyents OF 1875.

umph of Conservative Republicans. 81.
Conviction OF VIM. Mckee, senior propri.
etor OF st. Louis Globe. Democrat, Of whisky
frauds.
FEBREARY--l. Terrible explosion by fire.
damp in Jabin Mine, Belgium. 8. Fatal ca.
tastrophe at Robinson's Opera-house, Gin.
cinnati. 0. Opening of Moody and Sankey
at Barnum's Hippodrome, New York City.
s. Great fire at 444 Broadway, New York ;
two fremen killed; loss 100000. Open.
ing of English Parliament. Trial of General
.. Il. Babc0ck commences at st. Louis. 8.
j. X. Holman, Wooster, Ohio, County Treas
prer, defaults $4,000. IL. Pesach N. Ru.
bernstein, Jew, convicted of the murder of
Sara Alexander, December II, 1875. Explo-
sion in Exeter Mine, near West Prison, Pa.
IA. Arrest of Winslow, Boston forger, at
London. Release of Lands, the Vineland
lunatic. 10. Opening of the Spanish COrtes
by the King. II. Collision between the
steamships Franconia and Strath Clyde in
the English Channel; ffty.twO lives lost.
Weston, the pedestrian, completes one hun.
bred and eighty and a half miles in forty.
eight hours in London. IS. Abolition of
death penalty in Maine. "a. Acquittal of
| General BabcOck at st. Louis for alleged
completely in whisky frauds. Burning of
sleeping car near Rutland, Vermont, on
Harlem extension. Mr.. Bissell, proprietor
fremont House, Chicago, and son, killed.
impeachment of Governor Ames, of Mis-
sissippi. %. Tornado at st. Charles, Mis-.
souri,; several lives lost. Lord Lytton
appointed Governor-General of India.
| MARCH,. Hon. Hester Clymer, of Penn.
| sylvania, submits to House report of Score.
sary Belknap's frauds. 6. Train on Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad drops one hundred
and eighteen feet; fifteen lives lost. Empress
of Austria arrives in London. 7. Judge A..
Taft appointed Secretary of War; Burning
| If fnr IN
lives lost. Desperate battle between Abys.
sinians and Egyptians at Goodras. 8. Yer.
dict of Sc, 537, 117.3S against w. M. Tweed in
Court of Common Pleas, New York City.
War between Japan and Corea. Pyomulga-
ton OF royal decree allowing return of Car
lists in forty days. 0. Twenty-Five houses
blown down in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.
10. Arrest of Eugene X. de Rovdenbeke at
Queenstown, charged with $4,000, 900 rob-
berry of Bank of Brussels. Terrific storm
near Galena, Illinois, and Dubuque, Iowa
forty lives lost. IL. Failure of Daniel Drew,
New York stock operator, for 81, 500 900.
| IL. Twelve persons burned to death at Nor
wich Comm Almshouse. Is. Impeachment
of Lieutenant-Governor Davis, of Missis-
sippi. II. Burning of Springfield Gil. J
Opera-hOuse; loss $16S,O0O. Hesing and /.
Rehm plead guilty to whisky frauds in Uni.
ted States Court, Chicago. 10. Wreck Of
steamer Isabel OH Pendever'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. III. Dana,
Minister to England. National Convention at
I Nashville. 5. Thirty-two lives lost by ferry
| boat disaster on Dee, near Aberdeen, Scot
| land. -Four powder magazines blown up at
Salt Lake, Utah; two lives lost. II. Avery
sentenced to two years and General Nc
Donald to three years in the penitentiary,
Tor st. Louis whisky frauds. Lincoln
statute unveiled at Washington ID. G. IA.
Thirty thousand striking GOLFERS in York
shire and Derbyshire. 10. Reception of
Dom Pedro III, Emperor of Brazil, in New
York City. Coal riots break out at Massillon,
| Ohio. Indictment Of General O. L. Bah.
cock for conspiracy, at Washington, ID. G..
Is. Five people killed by Indians in Red
Canon. Steamer Dictator wrecked near
Hannibal, Missouri; twelve lives lost. H.
Riot in Dublin and Limerick. Expulsion of
President Dominique from Hayti. 81. Tun-
mel explosion in Wales; thirteen lives lost.
Close of the New York Hotel, after an ex-
lstence OF thirty years. %. Destructive
hail-storms in Kansas, running fruit. "a.
Riots in Barbados. Joe Goss challenges
Tom Allen for championship. 2S. Founder.
ing at sea of steamer Onessant, and loss of
twenty-one lives. Queen Victoria pro claimed
Empress of India. 20. Convention of
Gypsies at Joliet, Illinois. 80. Thirty.five
lives lost by the collision of two steam ferry
boats near Bingen on the Rhine.
MAY-2. Heaviest mill failure in Western
Massachusetts,, Harvey, Arnold & Co., at
North Adams, for $l,5U0,000. &. Religious
riot at Salonica, Turkey, and assassination
of the French and German Consuls. Dyn.
amite explosion in Jersey City, caused by
discharged workmen. 9. Opening OF the
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. I'm.
yelling of Schiller Memorial Statue on the
anniversary of the poets death, at Marbach,
Wurtemburg. IL. Steamer Pat Cleburne
explodes near Shawneetown, ILL.,; twenty
lives lost. Is. Expulsion of Henry &. Bowen
from Plymouth Church. 81. Eight miners
killed by an explosion in Virginia Coal Pit,
Chesterfield County. %. J. ID. Cameron
appointed Secretary of War, A. Taft Attor.
ney.General, and +. Pierrepont Minister to
England. "a. Foundering of Guatemala
gunboat, General Barnos, sixteen lives lost
%. President issues Centennial Proclama-
ton. rs. Destruction by fire of the cele-
brated painting, "The Prodigal Son." at
Melodeon Hall, Cincinnati. 81. The Pan.
dora sails from Cowes for Arctic regions.
30. Dethronement of Abdul Aziz, and
Murad Efendi proclaimed Sultan of Turkey.
One thousand houses burned in Quebec. 81.
Peter Cooper accepts the Greenbackers'
nomination.
JUNE-1. Blaine scandal in the House. 4.
Suicide of Abdul Aziz with pair of scissors.
Jarrett & Palmer's lightning express reaches
San Francisco from New York in eighty
four hours. ID. Republican National Con.
vention at Exposition Hall, Cincinnati. Mrs. |
ex.President Lincoln discharged from in.
sane asylum. Is. The Turkish Ministers of
War and Foreign Affairs murdered in the
Council Chamber. 16. Great FIRE in Garnet
manufactures at Aver, England; twenty
four lives lost. Trustees of Vanderbilt |
University, Nashville, Tennessee, receive |
another $4,000 from their founder. II. |
General Crook encounters the Sioux at |
Rosebud Creek. Is. Destructive fire at st. |
Johns, Canada. Loss, 5, 100000. "a. A. |
Hesing sentenced to two years, and $4,000 |
tine, at Chicago, for whisky frauds. %. |
Indian village, forty miles below Little Horn, |
attacked by General Custer. General Custer
and entire command slaughtered. q. |
Democratic National Convention at st. Louis |
nominated for the Presidency, at the Demo. |
cratic Convention, on the second ballot.
Murad Efendi dethroned and his younger
brother appointed regent. 20. Dutch steamer
Lieutenant General Hosen wrecked near
the Straits of Sueda; twenty-five lives lost.
Election oil senior Anlbal Pinto as President
of Chilli.
JULY-4. Hamburg massacre. 0. Burning
of Castle Garden, New York City. Steamer
st. Clair burned on Lake Michigan, nine
lives lost. 10. Resignation of Marshal
Jewell, Postmaster General. IL. Departure
Of Don Pedro on the Russia. 10. Loss of
the yacht Mohawk, and drowning of Com.
modore Garner and wife and three others.
26. Two persons burned to death in Phila-
delphia shoddy mill.
AUGUST. Nine persons drowned at q
picnic, at Clearwater, Mich. Acquittal Of
General Belknsp-3 SO to 25. Close OF inquest
On victims of Hamburg massacre; verdict
Of murder against General M. G. Butler and
others. Message of President Grant on the
massacre. 10. Breaking away Of Beaver
Creek Dam, Montana; twelve lives lost.
10. Issuing Of Secretary Csneron's order to
General Sherman In reference to troops sent
south. 20. Steamer Colon explodes her