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

l. Destructive storms along the Brltisn,
French and Norwegian coasts. Disastrous
floods in Great Britain. Resumption OF specie
payments by the United States Government.
2-3. Intensely cold weather throughout the
East and West, causing total suspension OF
business.
A Cork, ireland, refuses to receive" ex-
Pres 'eut Grant. Chicago Postoffce burned.
Unprecedented cold weather IN tho South
ern States Senatorial elections in Franco re-
srh in great victory for the Republicans.
Z. Reassemblng of Congress.
u Slaughter of forty captive Cheyenne lndi-
ana by the military at Fort Robinson, Neb.
IL Colliery disaster in Wales; sixty miners
killed. Reno Court of Inquiry convenes at
Chicago.
a. Railway train precipitated into the river
Arda, I'm Turkey; over 2)0 Russian soldiers
drowned Big fire in Grand street, New York;
loss, S2,000,0O0.
II, Another great fire in New York; loss,
s4,000,000.
Is Decree in France pardoning 1900 Com
munists.
% Steamer Oberon lost on the coast of En-
gland.
u. Five men killed at Bradford Pa, by the
explosion of locomotive boiler. A maniac at
Mortville, Me-, kills three people, and Is him
eeH shot dead.
20 Seven colored people killed by tornado
at Iuka, Miss Two men hanged at Indianap-
obs
~. Resignation by Marshal MacMahon of the
Presidency of France, and election Of M.
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. L. Jonas from
Louisiana
4 Alarm in Europe over the spread of the
plague, and preparations to stay its progress.
s The U. S. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds' resolutions affirming the validity OF the
later constitutional amendments
d Gov. Tilden testified as witness before a
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 at Chicago
q Defnitive treaty of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
10 British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa Senator Christiancy, of Mich
igaD, resigns.
II Six railroad laborers killed by an earth
aide at Kansas City, Mo.
IA OKely, the last of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities.
Is The lower houseof Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
III family of three persons burned to
death at Somerville, Me.
H. Turkey effects sac, DOC, 600 loan
rs Russians begin the evacuation of Turkey.
Several persons killed by a railway accident
near Selma, Ala.
% boiler explosion at Stockton, Cal, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty-six others.
20 A bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and
thirty five lives lost.
a. An avalanche at Marburg, Austria, kills
twenty people.
Is A man named Lunsford and six OF his
children burned to death at Carbon Hill. Ohio
MARCH.
l. News of the death of Shere ALL Ameer Of
Afghauistan
9 The town of Reno, Neb., destroyed by fire;
fve,people burned to death.
Adjournment OF Congress-
s Nineteen persons killed by coal-mine ex-
plosion in England.
o A family Of five people burned to death
In their house at East St. Louis, Ill.
10. News of the loss of fifty Gloucester
Mass fishing boats, and the drowning of $50
fishermen.
II flood in the River Thesis, in Hungary
Oyerwhelms the city OF Szegedin; immense de-
struction OF life and property.
IA. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
in q 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
worlds championship, at New York; Rowell,
OF Eogland, the victor.
1S Congress meets in special session.
10 Many people killed by series OF ava
lanches in the Austrian Tyrol The Hayt
steamer Michael sunk by a collision in the
West Indies; sixty people drowned
20. b. G. Porter, a well known &c or, muir
dered at Marshall, Texas.
u. The French floating battery Arrogante
loet in the Mediterranean, and forty-seven Of
her crew drowned.
%. Discovery of a 500, 900 defalcaton by N
p. Pratt, a savings-bank treasurer, at Reading,
Mass
I,,r 10 do ~, In a
boat at Hickman, ny.
26. Judge J. M. Elliott, of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, murdered at Frankfort, KY,
by Col Buford News of dreadful famine in
Upper Egypt Violent earthquake in Persia,
by which many people are killed.
u. Judge Edwards, leading lawyer of Al
bany N. Y, commits suicide.
% Five persons burned 10 death in hotel
nj Claremont, n. II. The European powers
agree upon the joint occupation OF Ro9%olia.
30 Two thousand Afghans defeated by
force OF British troops.
81 Five sesmen drowned by the upsetting OF
Aboat at Eastport Me.
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
abost at Newbern, N. O.
3. The British in India defeat 5000 OF the
snemy in battle,
A The city Of Miragoane, in Hayti, destroyed
by fire.
G News Of the massacre Of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa
g Disastrous fires in St Louis and Phils-
delphia
No. Horrible massacre of Nihilist prisoners
by Russian soldiers. at Kieff, in Russia.
Ia. Attempted assassination OF the Gear oil
Russia
m News of horrible ravages Of pestilence
and famine in Morocco. Destructive tornado
At Collinsville Ill.
Nc Tornadoes in Texas Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people.
"a. The American horse Parole wins the New
market handicap in England.
18 Russia insugurates extraordinary re-
pressve measures against the Nihiliss. Mr.
Thurman elected President pro tenn. OF the
United States Senate. Secretary Sherman OF
fers $3.50, 600 coo of 4-per cent bonds. ann the
entire amount subscribed for by New York
bankers
10 Over 200 violaters of the revenue laws In
Tennessee accept Government amnesty. and
are discharged Steamship Great Rer ublic lost