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

payments by the United States Government.
2-3 Intensely cold weather throughout the
East and West, causing q total suspension OF
business
4 Cork, Ireland. refuses to "receiye" ex-
President Grant Chicago Postofice burned.
5. Unprecedented cold weather in the South
ern States Senatorial elections in France re-
suit in a great victory for the Republicans.
z. Reassembling Of Congress.
O. Slaughter of forty captive Cheyenne Indi-
ans by the military at Fort Robinson, Neb.
13 Colery disaster in Wales; sixty miners
killed. Reno Court of Inquiry convenes at
Chicago
IA. Railway train precipitated into the river
Arda, in Turkey; over 200 Russian soldiers
drowned Big fire in Grand street, New York;
loss, 100000
II. Another great fire in New York; loss,
$4,000,000.
is. Decree in France pardoning 1900 Com
munists
90 Steamer Oberon lost on the coast of En-
gland
81. Five men killed at Bradford, Pa, by the
explosion of q locomotive boiler. A maniac at
Mortville, Me-, kills three people, and is him
self shot dead
80 Seven colored people killed by tornado
at luka, Miss. Two men hanged at Indianap-
oils.
30. Resignation by Marshal MacMahon of the
presidency of France, and election of NJ
Grevy. Five persons killed by boiler explo-
sion IN Woodford county, Ill.
81 Alms-house at Louisville Ky, burned;
several inmates killed and burned to death
M. Gambetta elected President of the French
Chamber of Deputies. John j. ingalls, elected
Senator from Kansas, and B. f. Jonas from
Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
4. Alarm in Europe over the spread of the
plague, and preparations to stay its progress.
5. The U. S. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds' resolutions affirming the validity of the
later constitutional amendments.
.. Gov. Illden testified as a witness before
committee of Congress at New York, denying
any knowledge OF the famous cipher tele-
grams The Reno Court of Inquiry concludes
the taking Of testimony atChicago
y Oetnltive treaty of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
10. British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa. Senator Christisncy, of Mich
Igan, resigns.
10. Six .railroad laborers killed by an earth
slide at Kansas City, Mo.
Ia. O'Kelly, the last of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities.
Is. The lower house IF Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration
To- family OF three persons burned to
death at Somervile, Me.
IL Turkey effects $4,000, coo loan.
Is. Russians begin the evacuation of Turkey,
Several persons killed by q railway accident
near Selma, Ala.
~. boiler explosion at Stockton, Cal, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty-six others.
70. A bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and
thirty five lives lost
81. An avalanche at Marburg, Austria. kills
twenty people.
70. man named Lunsford and six of his
children burned to death at Carbon Hill. Ohio.
MARCH.
l. News Of the death of Shere Ali, Ameer of
Afghanistan.
q The town Of Reno, Neb, destroyed by fire:
five people burned to death
4 Adjournment Of Congress.
B. Nineteen persons killed by a coal-mine ex-
plosion in England
g. family of five people burned to death
In their house at East st. Louis, I'LL
IL. News of the loss of fifty Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing boats, and the drowning of $50
fishermen.
IL. A flood in the River Thesis, in Hungary.
Overwhelms the city of Szegedin; immense de-
struction of life and property.
Ia. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
in pond at Matte, Ct Archbishop Purcell
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors
Is, A pilot boat sunk in the English Chan
mel, and her crew Of eight persons drowned.
END OF the six-days' pedestrian match for the
of England, the victor
IS. Congress meets in special session.
IL; Many people killed by series of ava
lanches in the Austrian Tyrol. The Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by collision in the
West ladies'; sixty people drowned.
~. 3. G. Porter, well-known actor, muir
dered at MarshalI, Texas
81. The French floating battery Arrogante
lost In the Mediterranean, and forty-seven of
her crew drowned
80. Discovery of 100000 defalcation bv N.
Up. Pratt, savings bank treasurer, at Reading.
Mass
25. Four people burned to death in wharf
boat at Hickman KY.
Court of Appeals, murdered at Frankfort, KY,
Sby Col Buford News of dreadful famine in
Upper Egypt. Violent earthquake in Persia.
10y which many people are killed
q. Judge Edwards, a leading lawyer of Al
bany, N. Y, commits suicide
20. Five persons burned to death in hotel
at Claremont, N. Fl. The European powers
agree upon the joint occupation of Roumelia
30. Two thousand Afghans defeated by
force of British troops
81. Five seamen drowned by the upsetting of
q boat at Eastport, Me.
APRIL.
1. A body of French troops overtaken by a
snow storm IN Algeria, and many frozen to
death. Fifty British cavalrymen drowned
while trying to cross a river in Afghanistan
2. Five persons drowned by the capsizing Of
a boat at Newborn, N. G.
3. The British in India defeat 5, 900 of the
enemy in battle,
d The city Of Miragoane, in Hayti, destroyed
by fire.
6. News of the massacre of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa.
.. Disastrous fires in st. Louis and Phila-
rdelphia.
IL. Horrible massacre of Nihilist prisoners
by Russian soldiers, at Kieff, in Russia.
ID Attempted assassina ion of the Gear of
Russia.
15. News of horrible ravages of pestilence
and famine in Morocco. Destructive tornado
at Collinsville, Ill.
16. Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people.
IL. The American horse Parole wins the New
market handicap in England.
Ii. Russia inaugurates extraordinary re-
.pressive measures against the Nihiliss Mr..
Thurman elected President>pro tenn. of the
United States Senate. Secretary Sherman Of
fers $3.50, COO of 4-per cent bonds. ami the
entire amount subscribed for by New York
bankers.