The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
CHRONOLOGY.
A Record of the Notable Occur
rences of 1888.
JANUARY.

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nee, Ga.
2. Ferry-boat in Jackson county, n. c., up
sets, drowning nineteen negro convicts.
3. Destructive floods along the rivers Rhine
and Danube; nearly 100 lives lost Bark Star
of the West lost in the Atlantic ocean, fifteen
people perishing.
4. Four men killed at Muskegon, Mich,
and three at Black Horse Landing, ". Va,
by boiler explosions. United States Senate
passes the Civil Service Reform bill.
5. Discovery of n heavy defalcaton by
State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee.
6. Remains of John Howard Payne shipped
from Tunis TO the United States.
:. Steamer City of Brussels sinks in the
English channel; ten persons drowned.
o. Ten men killed by mine explosion at
Coultcrville, i'll. Five men killed by burst
ing boiler at Bethlehem, Pa. Ship Empire
sinks at sea; sixte en- lives lost.
TO- Burning Of the Newhall house, Nil
waukee; nearly leo lives lost. Terrible floods
in Hungary; over fifty people drowned.
10. Over 800 people burned TO death in a
circus building at BerditscheG, Russia.
IA. Twenty people killed by II railway accl-
dent at Camerlata, Italy. Four persons lost
their lives by fire in the Planters house, st.
Louis.
Is. Attempted assassination of the Sultan
Of Turkey.
Is. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrested in
Paris for issuing manifesto claiming the
throne. Five persons burned to death in a
London tenement house.
II. Eight people killed by boiler explosion
on a steamer in Port Susan Bay, Pacific coast
Meeting of the National Republican commit
tee at Washington.
Is. Iowa Supreme Court pronounccs the
State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four
men killed by boiler explosion at Mansfield,
la. Phenomcnaly cold weather in the far
West.
10. Steamer Cimbria sinks in the German
ocean; nearly 400 people drowned. Forty
people killed by powder explosion at Mui-
den, Holland. Robhcries in Southwestern
Nevada, involving the killing OF five citizens
and two hghwaymen.
20. Six men drowned of Gloucester fish
ing schooner. twenty-five people killed 10y a
railway accident near Los Angeles, Cal. In
tensey cold weather throughout the North
west, lasting five days.
81. Nine people drowned by the sinking Of
ship Forwarts, Oft Lisbon, Portugal. Several
persons killed bya boiler explosion at EllSton,
Nd. Thirty Cinnamon blown to atoms by an
explosion of giant powder near san Fran
cisco.
%. Several lives lost Ivy the sinking Of the
German bark Meta, of the Mexican coast.
49, The French cabinet resigns in r body
Twelve persons killed by Il railroad smash-up
near Keyser, w. Va. y mother in Milwaukee
murders and carves in pieces her three little
children. Eight persons drowned 10y the sink
eng Of the brig Marposa in Long Island
sound. Political excitement in France; ex-
Empress Eugene ordered to quit the repub-
lie.
"a. News of the butchory of forty ship
wrecked sailors by savages in New Guinea
Davitt, Hcaly and Quinn found guilty at Dub
lin Of using sedtious language.
%. Burial at Milwaukee of the forty-thrce
unidentified victims of the Ncwhall house
horror.
&c Four men accidentally drowned at Shreve-
port, La, and four killed at Reading, Pa, by
the cavng in OF Il mine.
Wales; nineteen lives lost
2s A caving mine at BUcksville, Pa
kills five laborers. y new cabinet formed in
France.
20. A family of nine persons in Laurcns
county, S. c., eat goose that had been Bit
ten by mad dog, and all of them die OF by
drophobia. Five negroes drowned while try
ing TO cross Georgia river. hurricane at
Denver, Coll destroys $500 600 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.
81 Four children burned to death at Das-
eel, MINI. Discovery of defalcation of
S25O,0OO by the Alabama State Treasurer.
Steamer Ansonia lost on the coast Of Tripoi
twenty people drowned.
FEBRUARY.
!. 4 panic in q wooden factory at Bombay
results in 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; twenty-four lives lost.
3. Disastrous floods throughout tho Middle
States. News of the lynchng Of ten men in
Montana Territory. Failure of the Union
Iron and steel company at Chicago.
4. Thrty-two lives lost by the sinking of
the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay of
Bscay.
Capt. "Oklahoma" Payne and his follow
ers arrested in the Indian Territory.
6. steamer wrecked of Harwich, Eng,
ard all on board, twenty-sx in number, lost
.. Seven men killed 10y boxer explosion
a. Taylorville. III.
TO- Brig Zion lost in the Atlantic; ten poo
pie drowned Five lives lost 10y the burning
of the steamer Gem, on the Oregon coast
The authors of the Phoenix Park (Dublin)
murders brought 10 light.
II. Fourteen fishermen drowned at Var.
mouth, Eng.
13-l5. Floods cause great destruction OF
property along the Ohio river.
10. y mine flooded by CAVERN at Braid
wood, H., causing the drowning of eighty
golfers, Four children burned TO death al
Bracket, Texas.
II. Or. Hugh Glenn, the largest farmer in
n