Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07

JANUARY.

JANUARY.
1. Destructive storms along the British,
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.
4 Cork, Ireland, refuses to receive" ex-
President Grant. Chicago Postofice burned
8. Unprecedented cold weather in the South
ern States. Senatorial elections in France re-
suit in great victory for the Republicans.
9. Reassembling Of Congress-
ans by the military at Fort Robinson, Neb.
Ii. Oolliery disaster in Wales; sixty miners
killed. Reno Court Of Inquiry oonvenes at
Chicago.
Ia. Railway train precipitated into the river
Arda, in Turkey; over 300 Russian soldiers
loss, 81, 000, 900.
IL. Another great fire in New York; loss,
$4,000, 600.
Is. Decree in France pardoning 1900 Com
munists
90 Steamer Oberon lost on the coast of En-
gland.
q. Five men killed at Bradford, Pa, by the
explosion of locomotive boiler. A maniac at
Mortville Me-, kills three people, and is him
self shot dead
%. Seven colored people killed by tornado
Mt Iuka, Miss. Two men hanged at Indianap-
oils.
80. Resignation by Marshal MacMahon of the
Presidency of France, and election Of III.
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. T. Jonas from
Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
4. Alarm in Europe over thu spread Of the
plague, and preparations to STA its progress.
B. The q. s.. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds' resolutions affirming the validity of the
later constitutional amendments.
8. 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.
g. Defnltlve treaty of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
To- British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa Senator Christisncy, Of Mich
igan, resigns.
IL Six railroad laborers killed by an earth
slide at Kansas City, Nc.
L. O'Kelly, the last of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities.
Is The lower house nf Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
10 4 family of three persons burned to
death at Somerville, Me.
II Turkey effects $4,000, 600 loan.
IS Russians begin the evacuation of Turkey.
Several persons killed by railway accident
near Selma, Ala.
% A boiler explosion at Stockton, Gal, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty-six others
&C. 4 bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain and
thirty-fve lives lost.
81. An avalanche at Marburg, Austria, kills
twenty people.
Is 4 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;
Eve people burned to death.
4. Adjournment of Congress.
5. Nineteen persons killed by coal-mine ex-
plosion in England.
9. 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.
IL. flood in the River Thesis, in Hungary.
overwhelms the city of Szegedin; immense d.
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. pilot bcat sunk in the English Chan
End of the six-days' pedestrian match for the
worlds championship, at New York; Rowell,
of England, the victor.
is. Congress meets in special session.
19. Many people killed by series OF ava
lanches in the Austrian Tyrol The Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by collision in the
West Indies: sixty people drowned.
90. B. @. Porter, well-known actor, muir
.dered at Marshall, Texas
81. The French floating battery ArTogsnte
lost in the Mediterranean, and forty-seven Of
her crew drowned
%. Discovery of 800, 900 defalcation by N.
p. Pratt, a savings bank treasurer, at Reading,
Mass
25. Four people burned to death in wharf
boat at Hickman, Ky.
26. Judge J. NJ 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.
q. Judge Edwards, a leading lawyer of Al
bany, N. Y, commits suicide
90. Five persons burned to death in hotel
at Claremont, N. H. The European powers
agree upon the joint occupation of Roumelia.
30. Two thousand Afghans defeated by q
force Of British troops.
81. Five seGmen drowned by the upsetting of
q boat at Eastport Me-
l. A body of French troops overtaken by a
enow-storm IN Algeria, and many frozen to
death. Fifty British cavalrymea drowned
while trying to cross river in Afghanistan
2 Five persons drowned by the capsizing of
q boat at Newbern, N. c.
g. The British in India defeat 5, 600 Of the
enemy in battle,
l. The city of Miragoane in Hayh, destroyed
by fire.
g. News of the massacre of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus. in South Africa.
6 Disastrous fires in St Louis and Phila-
delphia.
10 Horrible massacre OF Nihilist prisoners
by Russian soldiers at Kieff, in Russia
ID Attempted assassination Of the Gear OF
Russia
Is News OF horrible ravages of pestilence
and famine in Morocco Destructive tornado
at Collinsville, I'LL.
To- Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people
IL. The American horse Parole wins theNew-
market handicap in England.
Ii. Russia inaugurates extraordinary re-
pressive measures against the Nihilists MIR.
Thurman elected President pro tenn. OF the
United States Senate. Secretary Sherman Of
fers $3.50, 000, 600 of 4-pe1- cent bonds, and the
entire amount subscribed for by New York
bankers.
10. Over 700 violaters of the revenue laws in