The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

ter desperate fighting, III which 2,5OO Zulus
were slain.
more great races against the English horses at
Epson.
%. 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.
IS. The Army Appropriation bill, with the
political riders passes the United States Senate
after protracted debate, having previously
gone through the House.
&c. S. D. 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 a verdict of fourteen years impris-
onment for the accused.
81. Navigation on the great Northern lakes
opened.
49, Intelligence of destructive earthquakes
in Persia.
80 President Hayes vetoes the Army Appro-
priatlon bill.
&C. Great fire at Orenburg. Russia.
MAY.
1. Intelligence that the King of the Zulus has
sued for peace
2. F. B. Weber, Chicago merchant mur-
dered by Mrs Robert. family of six per-
sons drowned near Houstoa, Texas.
3. @. L. Freeman, q Second Advent fanatic,
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass
3. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500 900 worth
of property Congress passes the Army BILL
with the vetoed section relating to the use Of
troops at elections materially modified.
81. A convention of Southern planters at
Vicksburg, Miss, to take steps to check the
immigration of colored people.
8. The Ameer of Afghanistan makes over
lures to the British for peace. The American
horse Parole wins fourth great race at Ches-
ter, England.
TO- Destructive fires in st. Louis and Chi
cago.
~ President Hayes a second time vetoes the
bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls
H. Disastrous fires at 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.
IL. Three persons drowned in New York har-
Dor by the capszng of yacht.
IL. News of the conclusion of peace between
India and Afghanstan.
20. The United States Senate passes the Leg
islatlve Appropriation bill, with the Demo
cratic political amendments.
Il Meeting of the Iowa Democratic Con-
vention. Hermann Peer makes his great leap
from Niagara suspension bridge. A fishing
schooner and crew of twelve persons lost off
Gloucester. Mass.
%. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa.
rs The National House of Representatives
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill.
"a. Six persons drowned in Calcasien river,
La, by the capslzing 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 Washington House, Hagerstown, Md The
President vetoes the Legislative Appropriation
bill.
80 Treaty of peace ratified between India
and Afghanistan.
81 Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed.
JUNE:
2. Resignation of United States Circuit Judge
Dillon, to take effect Sept l.
g. Secretary of War McCrary nominated to
succeed Judge Dillon. Meeting Of the Ohio
Democratic and Greenback Conventions at CO.
lumbus. The formation of company to con-
strnct the Darien canal begun at Paris by M.
de Lesseps.
s. Six men killed by the falling of partially
burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio Four
men killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
Pa.
9. 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 revolution in
Mexico, and of a successful revolution in Par
aguay.
l5 Nine emigrants drowned by q food at
Buffalo gap, Dakota
16 International boat race in England won
by Hanlan, of Canada.
10 Destructive earthquake at Aci. Italy
II. e. Z. Weston, of New York, won the
ashley long distance cham piOnship belt in Lon
don.
%. Mine explosion in Eastern PENNSYLVANIA:
five men killed
70. 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 son Tewfik
n. Engineer aud three others killed by boiler
explosion III Philadelphia. Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Neb, by explosion on board
q Government steamboat
~. The Havana steamship City of New York
colllded with and sunk the iron bark Helen: five
lives lost.
I. Extra session Of Congress adjourned
g. Terrible cyclone in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa; twenty persons killed and much
property destroyed
4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa. Seven excursionssts drowned by
overturning of steamer on Lake Quinsiga-
mond near Worcester, Mass
g. Explosion of five tons of giant powder at
the Bodie (Cal mine: eleven persons killed
10. Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Memphis, where the
yellow fever broke out.
10. Eight people drowned by capsizing of
yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada
Il. Gen. Miles has fight with the Sioux in
Montana
81. Five workmen killed by railroad acct
dent to construction train at Waukegan, Ill
q. Great iuundation in the oil regions of
Western Pennsylvania; over $500, 900 worth Of
property destroyed
81. Destructive confagration at Hamilton,
Ont three lives and 81 ,OO0,0 600 worth Of prop
erty destroyed
AUGUST.
3. Fourteen persons killed by explosion of
powder magazine at Duralgo Spain.
4 Terrific storm extending over large area
OF England; immense damage inflicted to the
crops.
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