Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-03
The RECORD OF 1882.
The Notable Events OF the Old Year,
Arranged in Chronological Order-An
Interesting Record.

We present below q record in brief Of the
most notable events of the year 1882, and
the date of their occurrence:
JANUARY.
Five persons killed and many injured
by the fall of q floor at Shanesville, Ohio
2-Three children burned to death at
n. Y.
citizens at Graham, Texas, results in the kill
ing of three of the former and two of the
latter. Nine Cinnamon maSsacred by In
dams at FL Paso, Texas.
Am ARRAY in Montgomery county, Mo-;
five people killed and several wounded
5-Church 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
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, MINI.
13-Collision on the Hudson River rail-
Fire destroys 81, coo, 900 worth of property at
Galveston, Texas Five hangings in the
United States.
16-Seven persons drowned by the wreck
ing of the British schooner Weathergauge,
in the Gulf of Mexico. Five negro conv1cts
ia maniac named WIlmot, at LancaS-
ter, KY, murders his mother, wife and two
daughters and hangs himself
ia mother and four children, named
Smith, burned to death near Canton, Mo
0-News of the burning of theater in
Bucharest; q number OF people cremated
Intelligence OF a serious revolt in Her2egOV-
ina
23-Three children scalded to death by
escaping steam in a factory at Celina, Ohio.
A-Dynamite explosion in France kills
sixteen people. Extremely cold weather in
New England.
25-The Guiteau trial at Washington ends
IN the conviction of the assassin. News of
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 a ladle OF molten metal
2.-Destructiye storm throughout the
Eastern States Heavy financial failures in
London and other foreign money centerS
2S-Four men killed by a boiler explosion
at Fairfield Me- Guiteau's counsel files ap-
phcatiOn for a new trial.
30 A reservoir burst at Calais France,
overwhelming a schOOl-house and drowning
many children. Over 500 fishermen drowned
by gale at Astrakhan.
31.-DisaStrous fire in New York; several
people cremated-
FEBRUARY.
3.-Thirty-two miners buried in a 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.
7.-MaJ. ID. ". Washburn, prominent rail-
road man, and three other persons killed by
= railroad accident in Texas ~.
& "a NJ SoteIdo, a Washington Journalist,
fatally shot in an ARRAY in the Republican,
Office. Three persons Killed by collision
on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Altoona
10-SeVen persons cremated by the bum
ing of a house near Huntington, Canada
13.-Fiye railroad laborers run down by
train and slaughtered in 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,-Congresss passes the santiPolygamy
bill An explosion in a coal mine at Dur
nam, Eng, kills many people.
11-Seyenteen people Killed and seventy
wounded, by the explosion of a fireworks
factory at Chester, Pa A boiler explosion
at Atlanta Ga, kills six persons Great fire
at Haverhill, Mass
IS-2 -Fremendous rain-storm through
out the West flooding the lowlands#and
causing great destruction of property and
some loss of life. IS s#k[E 'gEE
2L-The new Apporti onnnent bin passes
the House at Washington and becomes a
Law Mass meetings held at Chicago and
fifty other cities to denounce Mormon poIyg-
amy.
22-Neys of the massacre of /. 600 defense
less citizens of PiscO in South America by
Peruvian soldiers. Indictment at Washing
ton of the SJar-rOute cOnspiratOrs.
23-Michigan Legislature cOnvenes in ex-
ira session. An explosion in Vulcan Iron
Works, St Louis, Mo, kills half dozen peo~
pie Five persons killed at New Carlisle,
Ohio, by a boiler explosion
2+-The President non1inates to the Sen
ate Roscoe Conkling for Supreme Judge
Seven persons buried by snow-slide in
Utah.
Battle between Austrians and Herze-
govinian rebels, in which the latter are
IA mine explosion in Austria kills $50
people.
2L-GarfeId memorial exercises in Con
gress.
MARCH.
ATTEMPTED assassination of Queen Vic
"A boiler explosion at Stone Station,
Ind kills six men
Mr.. Con4xlilg announces his declination
OF the Supreme Judgeship, and the place
offered to Senator EdmundS
9S-DiStressing accounts Of the deStruc-
ton caused by the overflow Of Southern
rivers and suffering entaileG thereby.
9-Seyere snow and wind-stOrm through
out the Northwest
lU-FIVe men drowned by the sinking or a
dredging boat 40 Rice Point, Mass. Sergt
Mason sentenced TO eight years in the peni-
Tertiary for shooting at Guiteau.
Ex-senator Edmunds formally declines
the Supreme Judgeship, and Judge BIatch-
ford Is appointed
1.-THE bill for the suppression of polyg-
amy in the Territories becomes a law by act
of Congress-
15.--Five little boys buried alive in an
earth cave at St Joseph, Mo.
16-Twelye people buried by snow ava
ianche at Genoa, New.
21-Eight men killed by an accident on
the Northern Pacific railroad
23-Five men killed by boiler explosion
on a tugboat at Philadelphia
256.-Reports of the subsistence of the
waters in the flooded districts of the Missis-
sippi valley.
IA powder explosion at San Francisco
Kills eleven men Five people killed hear
by falling buildings during
uind-stOrm-
28-Four men drowned by the swapping
Of boat at Laytons Station, Pa A fire at