The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
CHRONOLOGY OF 1878.

yention of National party at Toledo. Ohio.
10. Turks driven from Schipka pass. H.
Glover investigation resolutions passed the
House 70 !. \ million-dollar fire at London,
England Is Grand Duke Nicholas crossed
the Balkans. II Thirteen lives lost by
Mass. 15 George FL. Pendleton elected
Senator from Ohio H. Four negroes killed
by mob near Lexington, Ky; British Parlia-
lament opened 81 The Russians reached
Adrianople. 30 William B. Allison elected
to the Senate from Iowa. 30 King Alfonso
and the Infanta Mercedes married in Madrid.
Spain. 26. News of great famine in China
~. English vessels entered the Dardanelles
70. Stanley Matthews silver resolution passed
Congress 81. Steamer Metropolis, from
Philadelphia for Brazil, wrecked off Kitty
Hawk, N. c.; 100 lives lost
FEBRUARY-2. All hands lost by the wreck of
brig Overton, Off Ocracoke, N. c. g. Armis-
tice between Russia and Turkey signed at
Adrianople 4. Asylum burned atTein-Tsin
China; 1000 lives lost 5. The Project of
st. Petersburg shot by Vera Sassulitch. s.
Tornado at Augusta, Ga. several persons
killed H. Ship British America and brig
Carrie Winslow collided off Sandy Hook sew
eral lives lost Ii. British fleet entered the
Sea of Marmora. H. Steamer c. M. Palmer
sunk by a collision off the English coast:
fourteen persons drowned 20 Cardinal
Gioacchino Pecci elected Pope, under the
name of Pope Leo XIII 20 National party
murderer, sentenced to life Imprisonment, at
Galesburg, Ill. 2S Silver bill vetoed and
passed over the Veto
MARCUS. Peace treaty signed at San Ste
fano. 4 Tornadoin Casey county, Ky. r; seven
persons killed. 5. Hot Springs, Ark, nearly
destroyed by fire. s. Seventeen persons
killed by colliery explosion near Glasgow,
Scotland. 9. News of steamer Sphinx being
burned at sea 700 lives lost IL. Colliery ex-
plosion near Bolton, England forty lives
lost. IA. Thirty excursionists drowned at
Brest, France. H. Treaty of peace ratified
at St Petersburg. %. Boiler explosion at
Richmond, Va. five persons killed TThes-
sahan villages sacked by the Turks. %.
Steamer Magenta burst her steam pipe near
Sing Sing, N. Y; six persons killed a. En-
glish training ship Eurydice lost off the Isle
fire in Philadelphia. 26 Fire in New York
loss $500 900. r. Colliery explosion in North
Staffordshire, England j: thirty miners killed
APRIL-6 Twelve persons killed by an oil ex-
plosion at Slatington, Pa. Z. Steubcn county
IN. W insane asylum burned, near Bath;
fifteen inmates persisted. ID. Fifteen acres
of Clarksville, Tenn, burned over; loss,
$5OO,00O 15 Circassians massacred 800 per-
sons at Palatlza, Greece. A terrible tornado
in Kansas. A. Three murderers lynched at
Huntsville, Ala. Strike of 80, 600 cotton-spin-
ners in Lancashire, England. 49, Collision
between white and black miners at Coal Creek,
Ind. several killed. 81. Many vessels and
1856 lives lost on Spanish coast %. Heavy
storm in Illinois and Iowa. Hurricane at
Tahiti, Sandwich islands, killed 100 people.
The Spanish coast visited by severe storm;
275 lives lost %. Six persons killed by In
dams in Western Texas 2S Twenty persons
killed by boiler explosion at Dublin, Ireland
49, Detroit Free Press office destroyed by fire.
MAY. Paris Exposition opened. q Five
Touring mills destroyed at Minneapolis,
Mimi, by explosion and fire; several lives
and $1,OOO,OOO in property destroyed. H.
Attempted assassination of the Emperor of
Germany. 13 Earthquake in Venezuela;
6OO persons killed. Is. Steamers purchased
by the Russian Government at Philadelphia
for privateers. II. The Potter investigation
ordered by the House of Representatives.
20 Fenian scare in Canada. 81. Six men lose
their lives by coal-mine explosion in Nova
90 Scotia. %. Pleasure steamer went over
dam at Calf, Ont nine persons drowned.
"a Tornadoes In Illinois and Iowa; about 50
lives lost 81 Collision of German ironclads
KOenig Wilhelm and Grosser Kurfurst in En-
glish channel; the Wilhelm sank, carrying
down 800 men. 5 M
june. Great storm in Missouri /; nearly
100 persons killed and wounded, Modelling
3. Four hundred Russians cut off by Pomaks
and killed 5. Great loss of life by flood in
China. 7. Five negroes lynched at Bayou
Sara, La. Explosion in colliery at Haydock,
England; 280ives lost. 9. Bulgarians burned
nineteen villages, and committed horrible
atrocities Earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal
10. News received of terrific STORM in Can
ton, China 10000 Chinese killed. Six lives
lost in Georgia by storm ID British feet
Withdraw from Constantinople. 20. Congress
adjourned. An Indian raid into Texas a.
Great DESTRUCTION by floods in Peru 25 Fight
with Indians at Curry creek, Oregon ; 40 red
skins hilled. 20 Tunnel caved in at Schwelm,
Germany, burying twenty seven persons
JULY. Steamer Capital City burned at Mem
phis, Tenn. two lives lost. f. Ten persons
killed at picnic by falling trees near Pitts
buTgh. g. Indian fights in the John Day val
ley and at Camas prairie, Ore. T. Big fire at
Mandalay, India; 400 houses burned 8.
Battles with the Indians at Willow Springs
and Beasley's mills, Ore. England and Tur-
key concluded agreement for defense of Asia
Minor, and. Cyprus coded to England. -
Large number Of deaths from sunstroke in
ST. Louis and other places Treaty of peace
signed at Berlin. Is. Col. Forsyth won
substantial victory in Oregon, killing seven
teen and capturing 100 redskins A train of
twenty cars fell through bridge at
height of ninety feet, near Monticello, Ind.
killing several persons. 49, Intense heat and
many sunstrokes at the East 25 British
ship Loeb Ard lost with forty-seven lives.
26 Labor riot in Washington Fourteen
children and three teachers drowned in Ire
land. ~. Marquis of Lorne appointed Gov
ernor General Of Canada. 80 Four colored
men hanged by mob at Monroe, La.
AUGUSTA Nez Perces Indians surrendered
to Gen. Howard. T. Collision on the Pan
handle road, near Steubenville, Ohio; fifteen
persons killed and forty injured 8 Powder
magazine exploded at Fratesi, Russia, killing
ffty44ive persons. g. Wallingford, Ct dew
astated by a tornado; twenty-five people
killed. More fighting in Bosnia. L. Yellow
fever became epidemic at Memphis and Vicks-
burg, Russian torpedo boat exploded at
Oregon Indian war ended State of siege, es-
tablished in 1874 in Havana, Cuba, raised
16. Hoedel beheaded at Berlin for attempted
assassination of the Emperor. Is. Memphis
being scourged by yellow fever; place nearly
deserted. Severe lighting in Bosnia; Aus
TRANS defeated d. Jackson, Miss, attacked
by the plague. Independence of Servia an
nounced. %. Relief funds being raised in
the North for yellow-fever sufferers Pow
der millsSexploded at Negaunee, Mich sew
eral employees killed. 25. More fighting with
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