Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-01-02
APRIL,
APHIL,
2. Earl Of Leitrim murdered in


rebellion in South Africa.
z. Steuben county IN. Y.) insane
asylum burned, near Bath; fifteen
inmates perished.
II. Army board ordered to take
new evidence in Fitz John Porter
case.
13. Fifteen acres of Clarksville,
Tenn, burned over; loss, $500, 600.
Is. Circassians massacred 800 per-
sons at Palatiza, Greece. A terrible
tornado in Kansas.
II. Three murderers lynched at
Huntsville, Ala. Strike of $4,000
cotton-spinners in Lancashire, Eng
land. Native troops sent from India
to Malta.
18. Collision between white and
black miners at Coal Creek, Ind. /;
several killed.
"a. Riot at political meeting at
Quebec. Many vessels and 1856 lives
lost on Spanish coast.
21. Heavy storm in Illinois and
Iowa. Hurricane at Tahiti, Sand
wich Islands, killed 120 people. The
Spanish coast visited by a severe
storm; 275 lives lost.
%. Six persons killed by Indians
in Western Texas. Hathaway, of
the Border City mills, Fall River
Mass, arrested for embezzlement.
"a. McLin and Dennis, of Florida,
confessed frauds in count of vote in
that State.
25. Riot between Young Britons
and Catholics at Montreal Canada.
%. Twenty persons killed by boil
er explosion at Dublin, Ireland.
20. Detroit Free Press office de-
stroyed by fire.
1. Paris Exposition opened. Tug
boat Warner exploded at Memphis,
Tenn. several persons killed.
2. Five Touring mills destroyed al
Minneapolis, Mimi, by explosion
and fire; several lives and $l,000,.
900 in property destroyed.
9. Senator Don Cameron married
to q niece of Gen. Sherman.
IL. A number of distilleries seized
at Cincinnati. Attempted assassina'
tion of the Emperor of Germany.
13. Earthquake in Venezuela
600 persons killed
I5. Steamers purchased by the
Russian Government at Philadelphia
for privateers.
II. The Potter investigation or.
dered by the House of Representa-
tives.
20. Fenian scare in Canada.
21. Six men lose their lives by 6
coal-mine explosion in Nova Scotia
%. Pleasure steamer went over 6
dam at Calf, Ont. nine persons
drowned.
"a. Tornadoes in Illinois and Iowa
about so lives lost.
81. Collision of German ironclads
Koenig Wilhelm and Grosser Kur'
furst IN Engilsn Cuxuucii, 49, WI
helm sank, carrying down 800 men
JUNE.
l. Potter inquiry commenced.
2. Great storm in Missouri; near.
ly 100 persons killed and wounded,
Modelling attempted to Kill the En-
peror of Germany.
8. Four hundred Russians cut of
by Pomaks and killed.
8. Indian troubles at Camas prai-
rie, Idaho. A man named Caldwell,
near Americus, Ca, killed his wife,
three children, sister in-law, and then
himself. Gilbert elevated railroad
opened to the public at New York.
international postal treaty signed at
Paris. Half of Rockville, S. c.,
burned.
5. A great loss oflife by flood in
China.
z. Five negroes lynched at Bayon
Sara, La. Explosion in collery at
Haydock, England; 230 lives lost.
8. Bulgarians burned nineteen vii
lagos, and committed horrible atroci-
ties. Earthquake at Lisbon, Portu-
gal.
10. News received Of a terrific
storm in Canton, China; 10000 Chi
nese killed. Six lives lost in Geor-
gia by storm.
IA. British fleet withdraw from
Constantinople.
20. Congress adjourned. An In
dian RAID into Texas.
%. Great destruction by floods in
Peru.
25. Fight with Indians at Curry
creek, Oregon 40 redskins killed.
29. Tunnel caved in at Schwelm,
Germany, burying twenty-seven per-
sons.
2. Steamer Capitol City burned at
Memphis, Tennessee two lives lost i.
4. Ten persons killed at a picnic
by falling trees, near Pittsburgh.
6. Indian fights in the John Day
valley and at Camas prairie, Ore.
z. Big fire at Mandalay, India
4, 700 houses burned.
8. Battles with the Indians at Will
low Springs and Beasley's mills, Ore.
England and Turkey concluded
agreement for defense of Asia Minor,
and Cyprus ceded to England.
IS. Large number of deaths from
sunstroke in st. Louis and other pla-
ces. Treaty of peace signed at Ber-
lin.
18. Col. Forsyth won a substan-
tial victory in Oregon, killing seven
teen and capturing 100 redskins. A
train of twenty-five cars fell through
bridge at height of ninety feet,
near Monticello, Ind, killing several
persons.
10. Intense heat and many sun
strokes at the East.
rs. British ship Loeb Ard lost
with forty-seven lives.
Sc. Labor riot in Washington.
Fourteen children, and three teachers
drowned in Ireland.
27. Marquis of Lorne appointed
Governor General of Canada.
20. Four colored men hanged by
mob st Monroe, La.
AUGUST.