The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-29
The RECORD or 1882.
The Notable Events or the Old Year,
Arranged in Chrome 'oglcal Order--An
Interesting Record.

Interesting Record.
We nresent below a record In brief of the
most notable events of the year lSSS, and
the date of their occurrence;
JANUARY.
1-Piyc nersons killed and many injured
nv the fall of floor at Shanesville Ohio
2-Three children burned To death Ut
Richburg, ~ Y.
"A fight between escaped prisoners and
citizens at Graham, Texas, results in the kill
ing of three of the former and two OF the
latter Nine Cinnamon massacred by In
dians at III Paso, Texas
Am affray in Montgomery county, NO.;
five people killed and several wounded
5-Churoh panic at Peoria, Ill several
persons crushed TO death. Three boys at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, blown to atoms by a gun
powder explosion. Congress reassembles
after the holidays
6-Hangman's day; seven executions In
the United States.
S.-Steamer Lion and forty three people
lost on the Newfoundland coast
10-A father and two daughters burned TO
death at Knife Falls, Mimi.
13-Colision on the Hudson River rail-
road at Spuyten Duyvil N. Y, several killed
Fire destroys 81, 600, 600 worth of property at
Galveston, Texas Five hangings in the
United States
l6-Seven persons drowned by the wreck
ing of the British schooner Weathergauge,
in the Gulf of Mexico Five negro convicts
drowned at Little Rock, Ark.
IA maniac named Wilmot, at Lancas-
ter, XIV, murders his mother, wife and two
daughters and hangs himself
ia mother and four children, named
Smith, burned to death near Canton, Mo.
20-News of the burning of theater In
Bucharest; a number of people cremated
Intelligence of serious revolt in Herzegov-
ina
2S-Three children scalded TO death by
escaping steam in factory at Celina, Ohio
4-Dynamite explosion in France kills
sixteen people Extremely cold weaaher In
New England
25.-The Guiteau trial ut Washington ends
in the conviction of the assassin. News of q
battle in Mexico in which ten Indians were
killed
26-Premier Gambetta and the entire
French Cabinet resign. -Four foundrymen
fatally burned at Burlington, Vt, by the up
setting of n ladle of molten metal
H-DestruCtiYe storm throughout the
Eastern States Heavy financial failures in
London and other foreign money centers
2S-Four men killed by boiler explosion
at Fairfield Me. Guiteau's counsel files APP
plication for new trial.
3O-A reservoir burst at Calais, France,
overwhelming a school-house and drowning
many children. Over 600 fishermen drowned
by gale at Astrakhan.
3l-DisaStrous fire in New York. several
people cremated
FEBRUARY.
3.-Thirty- two miners buried in coal-pit
near Richmond, Pa
4.-Guiteau, the murderer Of President
Garfield denied a new trial and sentenced
TO die on the 30th of June.
Mai ID. W. WaShburn a prominent rail-
road man, and three other persons killed by
O railroad accident in Texas
"A. NJ SoteldO, Washington journalist,
fatally shot in an affray in the Rcpublicdn
Office. Three persons killed by collision
on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Altoona
10-Seven persons cremated by the bum
ing of house near Huntington, Canada
13-Five railroad laborers run down by a
train and slaughtered in n tunnel at Balti-
more.
15.-News of the loss of the British steam
er Bahama and twenty-five people, bound
from Porto Rico TO New York.
16-Congress passes the anti-Polygamy
bill An explosion in coal mine Mt Dur
ham, Eng, kills many people.
1G-Seyenteen people Killed and seventy
wounded by the explosion of fireworks
factory at Chester. Pa boiler explosion
at Atlanta, Ga. kills six persons. Great fire
at Haverhill Mass
out the West flooding the lowlands and
causing great destruction of properly and
some loss of life.
@i-The new Apportionment bill passes
the House at Washington and becomes
law Mass meetings held at Chicago and
any
News Of the massacre of 600 defense
less citizens of Pisco in South America, by
Peruvian soldiers. Indictment at Washing
ton Of the star-route conspirators
2&-Michigan Legislature convenes in ex-
ira session An explosion in Vulcan Iron
Work ST Louis, Mo, kills half a dozen peo-
rple Five persons killed at New Carlisle,
"0hio, by a boiler explosion.
1.-The President nOminateS TO the Sen
ate Roscoe Conkling for Supreme Judge
Seven persons buried by a snow-slide in
Utah
battle between Austrians and Herze-
2 goviniau rebels, in which the latter are
routed.
IA mine explosion in Austria kills $50
speOl.e
Clarified memorial exercises in Con-
gress
MARCH.
2-Attempted assassination of Queen Vic