The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
18. House appropriated So, 900 towards

a monument to Jefferson.
25. Bankrupt Law repealed by Senate.
Elizabeth Tilton confesses adultery with
Henry Ward Beeeher.
l6. Resignation of Bishop McC Closkrey,
seventy-five years old, on account Of
scandal. a
20. Senior Zamacona credited as Min
lister to Washington from Mexico.
%. Senate passed House Bill abolish
ing twenty cent pieces.
z rs. House passes bill repeating bank.
rupt law-206 to 39. Southern Con-
gressmen visit Boston. p
27. House passed Indian Appropria-
ton Bill, amounting to $4,772,O00.
House, by vote of III to 35, prohibits
further retirement of legal tender notes.
30. Fifty marauders, under Lerdist
Chief Rappel Lira. cross the Rio Grande
at San Isidore, and are driven back by
United States troops. ..
MAY 6. Opening of Welland Canal
for navigation. ~
Z. Senate pass Pension Bill.
9. Marriage of Senator Don Cameron
to Miss Elizabeth B. Sherman, at Cleve-
land, o. House passes Eight-hour Law
Enforcement Bill.
10. Senate fixed September as day
of operation of repeal of bankrupt law.
Is. Inroduction in House of Potter
resolution.
II. Potter resolution passed; Repub-
licans not voting. President sends
message to Senate in relation to Halifax
Fisheries Award. Spencer Bayard
elected Secretary Smithsonian Institute.
o. Francis Peralto rides three hun
dred miles in fourteen hours thirty-one
minutes at Fleetwood Park, L. /.
"a. Edmund's bill regulating count
ing electoral vote reported to Senate.
%. Senate passed House bill forbid
ing further retirement of legal-tender
notes.
80. Discovery of the body of Hon.
John Scott Harrison in the Ohio Medi-
cal Colleg', at Cincinnati.
JUNE l. First day of the Potter In
vestigation Committees session.
8. House passed Cox bill to reorgan-
ize Life Saving Service. Seven hundred
miners capture steamer Modoc, and
forcibly close mines at Charleston, West
Virginia.
8, dwelling of monument to Presi-
dent Andy johnson at Greenville, Ten.
nessee.
s. Senator Stanley Matthews refuses
to testify before Potter Investigating
Committee. General John G. Fremont
nominated by President, Governor of
Arizona, and John P. Hoyt, Governor
of Idaho.
IL w. S. Groesbeck appointed men,
Der of Silver Conference.
II. General J. c. Fremont confirmed
Governor of Arizona.
IA. By vote of 215 to 81 the two Houses
passed resolution preventing subsequent
Congre from interfering with Presi-
dents title.
Is. House pass Senate bill, giving
$500, 900 for Eads' Jetties. Louisville
receives from Congress $3.50, 900 for edu-
cation of the blind.
10. House passes bill au horizing pay
ment of custom duties in legal-tender
notes after October l. Senate confirmed
R. E. Fenton, VIM. S. Groesbeck and
Prof. s. Walker, as members of None
tary Commission. Both Houses pass
Halifax Fishery Award. Celebration
of centennial anniversary of evacu ion
of Valley Forge.
%. Mrs. jerks before the Potter Com
mi tee, claiming she wrote the Sherman
letter and forged the signature.
26. United States troops engage with
Indians at Curry Greek; eight soldiers
killed.
2S. Reports of Indian outrages on
Texas border; four hundred horses run
off near Fort Mason. Centennial cele-
bration of Battle of Monmouth at Free.
hold, N. J.
80. Bloody rot at East st. Louis be.
tween Mayor Bowman's Deputy Mar.
shals and metropolitan police force.
JULY s. Attorney General Devens
pronounces the Eight-hour Law void.
IA. Commencement of heated term in
st. Louis; thermometer 1902 in the sun
twenty-five cases of fatal sunstroke.
16. Thirty-seven fatal cases of sun
stroke at ST. Louis, and the heat intense
all over the country.
20. One hundred and forty-fve per
SOILS died in st. Louis from effects O.
heat, week ending this day.
o. Celebration of Soldiers and Sail
or's Reunion at Newark, Ohio, in com
memoration of death of General Nc
Pherson. Defalcation of John G. Tap
pen, treasurer of Boston Betting Com
pany, for $1,000,000.
26. Unprecedented rain fall in tn
West, and seven inches of snow in De
catur, Ill.
27. Serious labor troubles at Washing
ton, d. c.; police fire on the mob.
%. Quarantine established at Mem
phis.
29. Eclipse of the sun.
AUGUST 6. Six hundred ioCrneyme
shoemakers strike at Chicago. Deaf
of Willie Warren, of yellow fever, tn
first case at Memphis.
10. Yellow fever breaks out g
Grenada, Miss.
II. Over one hundred cases yello'
fever reported at Grenada, Miss.
/ 13. Cabinet at Washington apprey
postal treaty concluded at Paris.
16. General Mackenzie crosses th
Rio Grande with sone thousand mel
Publication of defalcation of Charl'
w. Angel, Secretary of Pullman Palac
Car Company, at Chicago. Lord Sail
bury writes to Minister Fish that Coz
don shall be released.
II. DR.. I. G. Minor, Health Office
establishes quarantine at Cincinnati.
20. Theodore Thomas accepts propo:
ton of Music Hall Directors to tai
direction of Cincinnati College of Mus;
} %. Desertion of the steamer John .
Porter at Gallipolis; total number
: deaths of the crew, eighteen.
II "a. End of shoemakers' strike at CT
, cago. Total number of yellow few
cases at New Orleans to date, 3,42
l total deaths, 5S4.
25. Seven cases yellow fever in Ci
cinnati, two fatal.
: 26. Chicago City Council votes do;
e resolution to give Hayes freedom
:. city. Week ending to-day, seven deaf
}. from yellow fever in Havana.
i SEPTEMBER l. Repeal of the bar
s rupt law goes into effect. 2.S77 cases
yellow fever in New Orleans, S67 fat
8. Firemen's reception to Pseside
Hayes at Chicago. House of BishC
depose Sam. A. McCoskey, late Bish
, of Michigan, at New York.
# 5. Formal reception to Presid,
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