The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-12-27
CHRONOLOGY.
A Record Of the Notable Occur
rences Of 1883.

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2 Ferry-boat in Jackson county. y. C., up
sets, drowning nineteen negro consicis.
3. destructive floods along the rivers thine
AMI Danube; nearly 100 lives lost. BARK Star
Of the West lost In the Atlantic ocean, fifteen
people pcrishing
4. Four men killed ut Muskegon. Mich,
and three ut Black Horse Landing, ". Va,
Il, boiler explosions. United States Senate
rasSes the Civil Service Reform bill.
!. Discovery Of heavy dcfalcation by
Suite Treasurer Polk, Of Tennessee.
u. Remains Of John Howard Payne shipped
from Tnnls to the United States.
!. Steamer City OF Brussels sinks in the
English channel: ten persons drowned.
9. Ten men killed by n mine explosion Mt
touierville, III. Five men killed Ivy a burst
ing boiler ut Bethlehem, PA. Ship Empire
sinks at sea: sixteen lives lost
~. Turning Of the Ncwhal house. Mil
Maukee: nearly ltolivcs lost Terrible Hoods
Iii Hungary; over nifty people drowned.
II. over 800 people burned TO death in II
circus building at Berditschcti, Russia.
II. Invent. people killed by a railway aec-
dtHt III iIIeTiutus TDut I0i9ohs No.
their lives by fire in the Planters house. st.
Louis.
Ii. Attempted assassination of the Sultan
OF Turkey.
IL. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrested III
Paris for issuing manifesto claiming the
throne Five persons burned 10 death la Il
London tenement house.
L al Iy ! nil - utaAlpu
On a steamer in Port Susan bay, Pacific coast.
Meeting Of The National Republican commit
tee nj Washington.
Is. Iowa supreme Court prononnees the
State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four
men killed by a boiler explosion at Mansfield,
In. Fhcnomenally cold weather in the far
West.
H. steamer Cmhria sinks in the German
ocean; nearly 400 people drowned. Forty
lcople killed hy powder explosion NJ Mu'-
den. Holland. Roblerics in Southwestern
Nevada. involving the killing Of five citizens
and two Aghwaymcn.
~ Six men drowned of ii Gloucester fish,
ing schooner. Twenty-Five PEOPLE killed hs a
III lwas accident near Los Angeles. tai. in
t.nsel. cold weather throughout the North
VEST lasting five days.
Il. Nine people drowned by the sinking oil
ship Eoraarts. oil Lisbon. Portugal. Several
p.rsons killed hs a boiler explosion III Eikton,
Md Thirty cinnamon blown To atoms by an
explosion Of giant powder near san Fran
rsce.
- Several lives lost ly the sinking Of the
German bark Meta, OF the Mexican coast.
- The French cabine. resigns in IA body.
Twelve persons killed hy railroad smash-ar
near kesser. ". Va. 4 mother III Milwaukee,
murders and .aiNcS IN pieces her three Little
children Eight persons drowned by inc sink
ng of the brig Mar;posa in Long Island
sound. Political excitement in France: ex-
Empress Eugene ordered 10 quit the repnh-
lie.
-. News Of the but,hery OF forty ship
wrecked sailors 10y savages in New Guinea.
Daviit. II. ally and Quinn found guilty at Dub
lin Of using ssditious language.
-. Burial nj Milwaukee of the forty-three
unidentified victims of the Newhal house
horror.
ea Four men accidentally drowned at Shreyc-
port Ia, and four killed al Reading, Pa, hy
the caying in Of mine.
-. Wreck of a steamer near swansea.
Wales: nineteen lives lost.
~ 4 caying mine at Bucksyille, Pa.
Kills i've lahorers. A new cabinet formed in
France.
20 4 family Of nine persons i'll Laurens
county. s. e.. cat Il goose that had been bit
ten by Il mad dog and all Of them die Of n.y.
iraSrnaI yyhila y
ing TO cross Georgia river. \ hurricane At
denver. Col. destroys 500, 900 worth OF prop
erty. The steamer Black Watch lost on the
Welsh coast: twenty-slx persons drowned.
so. Eight men killed by snow-slides in Colo
RADIO. Seven men killed by fireworks expo
sion at -Arnecameca, Mexico.
II. Four children burned to death at Das-
sci. Mimi. Discovery of a defalcation OF
sa50,o0o by the Alabama State Treasurer.
Steamer Ansonia lost on the coast Of Tripoli;
twenty people drowned.
FEBRUARY.
/. a panic i'm wooden factory at Bombay
results i'm the death Of thirty people
= The steamer Tacoma lost on the Oregon
coast: twelve people drowned. The steam
ship james Gray founders on the English
coast: tMcnty-four lives lost.
). Disastrous floods throughout the Middle
States. News of the lynching of ten men in
Montana Territory. Failure OF the Union
Iron and Steel company at Chicago.
1. Thirty-two lives lost by the sinking OF
the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay OF
Hiscay.
Capt ..Oklahoma" Payne and his follow.
ers arrested in the Indian Territory.
s. A steamer wrecked of Harwich, Eng,
ard all on board, twenty-six in number, lost
9. Seven men killed by a boiler explosion
1T Taylorsille, I'll.
10. Brig Zion lost in the Atlantic; ten PEG.
pie drowned. Five lives lost by the burning
OF the steamer Gem, on the Oregon coast
The authors of the Phoenix Park Dublin
murders brought 10 light.
L.. Fourteen fishermen drowned Ut Var
mouth, Eng.
l5-l5. Floods cause great destruction oil
property along the Ohio river.
III. A mine Hooded by a cavern at Braid
wood. ILL.,. causing the drowning of eight,
golfers, Four children burned to death a
Bracket. Texas.
Il. Ir. Hugh Glenn, the largest farmer il
the w.rld. murdered in California.
~. A panic in Catholic school In New
York. results i'm the death II - children
20. Fourteen sailors drowned hs a collision
TN the Scotch coast. norman Is. Eaton, JOIN
NJ. Gregory and l.. u. 1homan appointed tisi
Service Commissioners.
Il. Jules Ferry organizes new ministr
in France. L. :. steamer Ashuclot sunk o
Hongkong and eleven OF tic crew drowned
Germany prohibits the inn ortat.on of Amer
lean pork. Perry H. Smith, Il Chicago mil
ionaire, aajudged insane.
Four sick persons poisoned AT Corsicant
Texas. Attack on Parncll and the Ian
League in the Brit sh House OF Commons.
y. Mntins in the Missouri State Prison
Six persons drowned at Wolf Island, neu
Cairo. Steamer lost in the Bosphorus, =. ne
sons drowned. Parncll replies to his assai
ants in the House OF Commons.