The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-12-20
CHRONOLOGY OF 1875.

glycerlne explosion at Negaunee, Mich 4.
News of the massacre of $1,000 Cinnamon at
Kashgar 5. Disastrous storms on the At
lantic coast. q. Call issued for National Con-
vention of National party at Toledo, Ohio.
10. Turks driven from Schipka pass. II.
Glover investigation resolutions passed the
House. II. million-dollar fire at London,
England. ID. Grand Duke Nicholas crossed
the Balkans. If. Thirteen lives lost by
wreck of schooner Little Kate off Duxbury,
Mass ID. George ii. Pendleton elected
Senator from Ohio. II. Four negroes killed
by a mob near Lexington, Ky; British Parlia-
Adrianople % William b. Allison elected
to the Senate from Iowa. % King Alfonso
and the Infanta Mercedes married in Madrid,
Spain 20 News of great famine in China.
%. English vessels entered the Dardanelles.
%. Stanley Matthews silver resolution passed
Congress. 81. Steamer Metropolis from
Philadelphia for Brazil, wrecked Off Kitty
Hawk, n. c.. 100 lives lost.
FEBRUARY. All hands lost by the wreck of
brig Overton, off Ocracoke, N. Q. 3 Armis-
tice between Russia and Turkey signed at
Adrianople T. Asylum burned at Tein- 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 -. British fleet entered the
Sea of Marmora. H. Steamer G. NJ Palmer
sunk by a collision off the English coast;
fourteen persons drowned. 20. Cardinal
Gioacchino Pecci elected Pope, under the
name of Pope Leo MIL % National party
organized at Toledo, Ohio. 23 Rande, the
murderer, sentenced to life Imprisonment, at
Galesburg, Ill 80 Silver bill vetoed and
passed over the veto.
MARCH, Peace treaty signed at San Ste
fano A. Tornado in Casey county, Ky. seven
persons killed. 5. Hot Springs, Ark, nearly
destroyed by fire. g. Seventeen persons
killed by colliery explosion near Glasgow,
Scotland. g. News of steamer Sphinx being
burned at sea 700 lives lost II. Colliery ex-
plosion near Bolton, England forty lives
lost IA. Thirty-sx eXcursionists drowned at
Brest, France. H. Treaty of peace ratified
at st. Petersburg -. Boiler explosion at
Richmond, Va; five persons killed. "hes-
salian villages sacked by the Turks. ~
Steamer Magenta burst her steam pipe near
Sing Sing, n Y. six persons killed. "a. En-
glsh training ship Eurydice lost off the Isle
of Wight $50 lives lost -. A million-dolar
fire in Philadelphia. rs. Fire in New York !;
loss $500, 900. -. Colliery explosion in North
Staffordshire England thirty miners killed.
APRIL-6. Twelve persons killed by an oil ex-
plosion at Slatington, Pa Z. Steuben county
IN. " insane asylum burned, near Bath;
fifteen inmates persisted. Is. Fifteen acres
of Clarksville, Tenn, burned over; loss,
S5OO,OO0. 10. Circassians massacred 500 per-
sons at Palatiza, Greece. A terrible tornado
in Kansas Az Three murderers lynched at
Huntsville, Ala Strike of 50, 900 cotton-spin-
ners in Lancashire, England. 1S Collision
between white and black miners at Coal Creek,
Ind. several killed. q. Many vessels and
1856 lives lost on Spanish coast -. Heavy
storm in Illinois and Iowa. Hurricane at
Tahiti, Sandwich islands, killed 120 people.
The Spanish coast visited by severe storm
215 lives lost %. Six persons killed by In
dians in Western Texas. %. Twenty persons
killed by boiler explosion at Dublin, Ireland.
20. Detroit Free Press Office destroyed by fire.
MAY. Paris Exposition opened 2. Five
Touring, mills destroyed at Minneapolis,
Mimi, by explosion and fire; several lives
and 81, 100000 in property destroyed IL.
Attempted assassination of the Emperor of
Germany. 13. Earthquake in Venezuela ;
900 persons killed Is Steamers purchased
by the Russian Government at Philadelphia
for privateers II. The Potter investigation
ordered by the House of Representatives.
20 Fenan scare in Canada. 81. Six men lose
their lives by coal-mine explosion in Nova
Scotia. % Pleasure steamer went over a
dam at Gait, Ont; nine persons drowned.
"A. Tornadoes in Illinois and Iowa; about 80
lives lost 81. Collision of German ironclads
Koenig Wilhelm and Grosser Kurfurst in En-
glish channel; the Wilhelm sank carrying
down 300 men.
JUNE. Great storm in Missouri nearly
100 persons killed and wounded Modelling
attempted to kill the Emperor of Germany
3 Four hundred Russians cut off by Pomaks
and killed. B. Great loss of life by flood in
China Z. Five negroes lynched at Bayou
Sara, La. Explosion i'll colliery at Haydock,
England 2SOlives lost O. 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 a storm. II. British fleet
withdraw from Constantinople. 20. Congress
adjourned An Indian raid into Texas %
Great destruction by floods in Peru. % Fight
with Indians at Curry creek Oregon ; 40 red
skins killed. 30. Tunnel caved in at Schwelm,
Germany, burying twentyseven persons.
JULY Steamer Capital City burned at Mem
phis, Tenn two lives lost. A. Ten persons
killed at picnic by falling trees near Pitts
burgh. g. Indian fights in the John Day val
ley and at Camas prairie, Ore Z. Big fire at
Mandalay, India; 400 houses burned. g.
Battles with the Indians at Willow Springs
and Beasleys mills, Ore England and Tur-
key concluded agreement for defense of Asia
Minor, and Cyprus coded to England 13
Large number of deaths from sunstroke in
St Louis and other places. Treaty of peace
signed at Berlin. lS Col Forsyth won
substantial victory in Oregon, killing seven
teen and capturing 100 redskins. train of
twenty-five cars fell through bridge at a
height of ninety feet near. Monticello, Ind,
killing several persons. 10 Intense heat and
many sunstrokes at the East % British
ship Loeb Ard lost with forty-seven lives.
~ Labor riot in Washington. Fourteen
children and three teachers drowned in Ire
land. q. Marquis of Lorne appointed Gov
ernor General of Canada. 20 Four colored
men hanged by mob at Monroe, La.
AUGUST-5. Nez Perces Indians surrendered
TO Gen. Howard Z. Collision on the Pan
handle road near Steubenville, Ohio; fifteen
persons killed aud forty injured. & Powder
magazine exploded at Fratesi Russia, killing
fifty-fve persons. g. Wallingford Ct, dew
astated by tornado; twenty-five people
killed. More fighting in Bosnia - Yellow
fever became epidemic at Memphis and Vicks-
burg. Russian torpedo boat exploded at
Nicoaieff; thirty-four persons killed IL.
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 fighting in Bosnia; Aus
TRANS defeated 81. Jackson, Miss. attacked
by the plague Independence of Servia an
nounced -. Relief funds being raised in
the North for yellow-fever sufferers Pow
der mills exploded at Negaunee, Mich sew
eral employees killed. %. More fighting with
Illicit distillers in Tennessee. %. Excursion
train on the Grand Rapids and Indiana rail-
road jumped the track near Lockwood, Mich. I;
several killed. 80. Another nitro -glycerine
explosion at Negaunee, Mich. 81. Miskolcz,
Hungary, laid waste by storm; 900 houses