The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

10. Inauguration OF the great strike OF
telegraph operators throughout the country.
~. A cyclone kills a number of people and
destroys much property in Dakota and Min
nesota.
%. Eight men killed by falling bricks while
repairing blast-furnacc at Syracuse, n. Y.
Disastrous tornado IN lngham county, Mich.
- About eighty people drowned by the
giving way Of IA steamboat pier near Balti-
more, Md. Capt. Webb, the famous swim
mer, drowned at Niagara Falls. Hardy, one
of the Polk county Iowa assassins, executed
by mob.
-. Eight colored people drowned ut Clare
mont, Va.
20. Ex-Treasurcr VI. II. Polk sentenced 10
twenty years i'm the rententary at Nashville,
Tenn.
rs. Thirty-sx persons killed by minc OK
plosion in Sicily. over 5000 people killed 10y
an earthquake on the Italian island of Iscma.
20. Twenty-Five people killed by Il railway
accident near Albany, n. y. Ten colored
people drowned at Mayersville, Miss The
Spanish Minister 10 the United States COM
mts suicide in New 70.
80. President Arthur leaves Washington on
an extended Western tour. James Carey,
the Irish informer, killed in South Africa.
AUGUST.
/. Eight people killed bya railroad collision
near Pownal. VT.
.. The New Hampshire Legislature elects
Austin +. Pike, L. :. Senator, after bailoting
nearly two months.
3-5. Heavy failures in the leather trade in
the New England cities.
6. Serious revolt in Spain Formidable
anti-Jewish riots in Russia and Hungary.
:. A general ocal-option liquor law enact
ed in Georgia. President Arthur smokes the
calumet of peace with the Arapahoe and
Shoshone chiefs ut Fort Washable, Wyoming
Territory.
s. Thirteen sailors drowned by the sinking
of a bark of Dover, England
o. -Four Irish dynamite conspirators sem
fenced for life at Liverpool.
II. Burning OF the Kimball house, the
largest hotel in the South, at Atlanta.
II. Twelve men accidentally killed in rail
road tunnel in Montana.
-. Suicide of the wife of Senator Allison, of
Iowa The Mayor and other officials indicted
at Baltimore for malfeasance.
10. Twenty men killed by mine accident
at Cornwall, England.
Il. Seven persons killed by a railway col
lision ut Lexington, Ky.
Is. End Of the long strike of the telegraph
operators.
u. A tornado kills upward Of forty pcop.c
and destroys Il vast amount of property in
and about Rochester, MINI. Opening Of the
Knights Templar trcnnAl concave at san
Francisco.
30. News of fearful massacre Of Indians
by Chilians in Peru. Completion OF track
laying on the Northern Pacific railroad.
20. Five men perish in burning building
ut Boston Eighteen sailors drowned 10y a
collision in the English channel.
-. News of the death of the QGeen Of
Madagascar.
rs, %, 30. Volcanic eruptions in the island
Of Java cause frghtful destruction Of
life and property; upward of 100000 people
killed.
81. The Car OF Russia visits the King of
Denmark. The steamship Ludwig. from
Antwerp for Montreal, with seventy people
on board given up as lost.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Six persons killed by boiler explosion
at Franklin, Dakota.
8. 4 single highwGyman robs the passen-
gers on Il Utah railway train. y priest and
six of his congregation killed by a thunder
bolt in church at Lagos, Mexico. Eleven
working girls burned to death in factory at
Cincinnati. over forty people killed by a
railway train near Berlin, Germany.
A. King Alfonzo issues n proclamation
restoring the constitutional guarantees in
Spain.
:. President Arthur returns TO Washington
after an extended trip 10 the far West. Ac-
quittal of Frank James, the Missouri outlaw.
s. Formal opening Of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
o. Sale Of the Horace Greeley farm at
Chappaqua, y. Y.
II. Serious riots at Canton, China.
IL. Oklahoma Payne again arrested in the
Indian Territory.
IL. News Of the disaster 10 the Greeley
Arctic search expedition. Twelve peop.e
drowned by tho sinking o. q Norwegian ship
in the English Channel. Celebration in
Germany ot Martin Luther's 4O0th birthday
il. Prohibition defeated in the Dakota
Constitutional Convention. The Black Flags
defeated 10y the French in II battle at Ton
quin.
-. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, discovers the
new comet.
l6. The scventy-third anniversary Of Next
can independence celebrated in the city Of
Mexico.
l.. yellow fever epidemic in Mexican
cities. Bark Britannia lost near Halifax
n. 3; twelve people drowned.
is. King Koacc defeated in Ashautee after
q bloody battle.
10. Great wearers strike at Ashton, En-
gland. National convention of postal rail-
way clerks at 1t. Paul. Hurricane IN BG-
hama islands; many vessels wrecked and
sixty-ive people drowned.
20. Fifteen coal miners killed in Westphalia
by fre-damp explosion. Statue of Zachary
Taylor unveiled at Louisville, KY. Seven
persons killed by boiler explosion at Pitts
burgh.
u. Return TO Sweden of Nordcnskio.d. the
Arcfi, .ypIorCr Lord Chief Iustice (otc-