The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-26

90 The town of Eureka, New, nearly de-
stroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned-
~. News from South Africa that the be-
ter desperate fighting, in which $500 Zulus
we're slain.
22-3. The American horse Parole wins two
more great races against the English horses ut
EPSON.
30 Notre Dame University building at South
Bend, Ind burned. Seven miners suffocated
in q mine near Scranton. Pa. Attempted as
sassination of Edwin Booth on the stage OF
McVicker's Theater, Chicago.
%. The Army Appropriation bill, with the
political riders, passes the United States Senate
after a protracted debate, having previously
gone through the House.
20 s. ID. Richards, the author OF nine muir
ders, executed at Minden, Neb. Immense rains
and disastrous floods in Texas. The Stevens
murder trial ended at Chicago, after eighteen
days, with verdict of fourteen years impris-
onment for the accused
"a. Navigation on the great Northern lakes
opened.
p. Intelligence of destructive earthquakes
in Persia.
90 President Hayes vetoes the Army Appro-
priation bill.
So Great fire at Orenburg. Russia
MAY.
1. Intelligence that the King Of the Zulus has
sued for peace.
2. f. b. Weber, Chicago merchant, muir
dered by Mrs Robert. family OF six per-
sons drowned near Houston, Texas.
3. Q. L. Freeman, Second Advent fanatic
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass.
8. Dynamite explosion at Stratford Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500. OOO worth
OF property Congress passes the Army bill,
with the vetoed section relating to the use Of
troops at elections materially modified.
6-7. convention of Southern planters at
Vicksburg, Miss, to take steps to check the
immigration of colored people.
s. The Amer of Afghanistan makes over
lures to the British for peace The American
horse Parole wins fourth great race at Ches-
ter, England.
10 Destructive fires in ST. Louis and Chi
cago.
IL President Hayes second time vetoes the
bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls.
IA Disastrous fires ut Orenburg, Russia,
and Poonah, India. Destructive floods in Hun
gary. Three children burned to death at Tor
onto. Canada.
Is An international congress meets at Paris
to devise plans for an interoceanic canal across
the Isthmus of Darien.
Is Three persons drowned in New York har-
Dor by the capsiziDg of yacht.
10 News of the conclusion of peace between
India and Afghanistan.
20 Tie United States Senate passes the Leg
islative Appropriation ill, with the Demo-
| cratic political amendments.
p. Meeting of the Iowa Democratic Con-
vention. Hermann Peer makes his great leap
from Niagara suspension bridge. A fishing
schooner aud crew of twelve persons lost of
| Gloucester. Mass.
%. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa.
23. The National House of Representatives
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill.
"a. Six persons drowned in Calcasien river,
! La, by the capsizing of small steamer.
% An International Congress- at Paris, de-
| cides upon plan for ship canal across the
Isthmus of Darien, and adjOurns. Burning of
| the Vast iDgton House, Hagerstown, Md The
President vetoes the Legislative Appropriation
bill
30. Treaty of peace ratified between India
and Afghsnistan
81. Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed.
JUNE:
9. Resignation of United States Circuit Judge
Dillon, to take effect Sept. l.
3. Secretary OF War McCrary NOMINATED to
succeed Judge Dillon. Meeting Of the Ohio
| Democratic and Greenback Conventions at Co
| lumbus The formation of q company to con-
struct the Darien canal begun at Paris by M.
de Lesseps.
5. Six men killed by the falling of partially
burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio -Four
men killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
Pa.
g. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, Ga.
about dozen killed.
10. Meeting of the Minnesota Greenback State
! Convention.
IL. Disastrous confagration at Point Breeze
near Philadelphia. Meeting OF the Iowa Re-
| publican Convention
| IA. News of the outbreak of q revolution il
Mexico, and of successful revolution in Par
aguay.
IS. Nine emigrants drowned by flood a
Buffalo gap, Dakota.
| J6. International boat race in England woI
| by Hinlan, of Canada.
Is. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy.
| u. 4. p Weston, of New York, won the
Ashley long distance championship belt in LoE-
don.
%. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania
| i've men killed.
%. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
track near Buffalo, N. Y; eleven persons in
! jured, two fatally.
26. The Khedive of Egypt abdicates in favor
| of his con Tewtik.
81 Engineer aud three others killed by boiler
explosion in Philadelphia. Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Neb, by explosion on board
| Government steamboat
| 80. The Havana steamship City OF New Yorl
! collided with and sunk the iron bark Helen; five
lives lost.
JULY.
/. Extra session Of Congress adjourned.
3. Terrible cyclone i'll Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa; twenty persons killed and much
property destroyed.
4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa. Seven excursioD.sts drowned by
overturning of q steamer on Lake Quinsiga
mond, near Worcester. Mass
9. Explosion OF five tons of giant powder a
the Bodie (CA- mine. eleven persons killed.
l5 Quarantine established at nearly nj
Southern cities against Memphis, where tn,
yellow fever broke Out
1S Eight PEOPLE drowned By capsizing of q
yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada.
81. Gen. Miles has fight with the Sioux il
Montana.
20 Five workmen killed by railroad acct
dent 10 q construction train at Waukegan. Ill.
"a Great inundation in the oil regions o.
Western Pennsylvania; over s500,0O0 worth o.
property destroyed.
81. Destructive conflagrstion at Hamilton
Ont three lives and 81 ,0U0, 900 worth of prop
erty destroyed.
AUGUST.
3. Fourteen persons killed by explosion o
powder magazine at Duralgo, Spain
4 Terrific storm extending over u large ares
of England; immense damage inflicted to tn,
crops
8 The steamship Louis David wrecked of
Urhant, France, and twenty seven lives lost.
g. One thousand houses burned at Sersjevo
the capital of Bosnia.
IA Count Andrassy retired from the Austrian
Ministry. and Count Taafe succeeded him. Ire
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