Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20


"a. Great damage in the region of st. Louis
by an overflow of the Mississippi river.
25 Louise Michel the female socialist, con- |
victed of rot at Paris and sentenced to six |
years Imprisonment. News OF tie breaking |
out of TIE cholera in Egypt. Eighteen China
men killed by a railway collision in Montana |
&C. The OHIO Supreme Colrt decides the |
Scott Liquor law Constitutional. The Cabne |
at Wash ng on deeides 10 ad in prevent NJ |
the landing of assisted" em'eranis at New |
YORK
20 family of five persons drowned neae
Madison, Ind, ny the upse.tng u boat
Meas Of the drowning b. floods of seventeen |
persons in Nemaha county, Neb.
july.
]. Duel between two Richmond (va) y |
TORS Reirne and Elan, Terrible ravages o |
the cholera at Eametta, Egypt. SIX persons |
killed ~ RI lroad acoid mt at Roselas, Ia
?. Opening of the celehrat on, at Santa lie
New Mexico, of the 133d Anniversary of the
settlement OF the town. Tomatoes n Wis
| consn Connecticut and Massachl set S. War
waged on the trade dollar.
3. Al ont $50 people drowned by an accident
VIII lie launching a new steamer at Glasgow.
scotland. SIX persons run down ana killed
by a ira near Cincinnati.
!. Nat onal Anti-Mono aoly convention at
Chicago. News of the murder of four Off
cials OF Grand county, Col.
| .. Emeute in the Oregon penitentiary; six
conyicts killed. Six people drowned at
WhiteyIe, n. G, by The overturning of a
boa.
Z. Female suffrage reiecied by the British
House of Commons. Alarm in Europe over
the spread + cholera in Egypt.
| 10. A British Parliament committee re-
ports against building the channel tunnel.
De Lesseps arrangei with the English Gov
eminent for second Suez canal Destruct-
i've storms in Minnesota, Wisconsin ana Kan
| sas.
1 l.. Thirty people drowned at Lond, =,
Ontario, by a sudden overflow, in the night,
of tie river Thames.
| II National convention of coored editors
at st. LOUIS, Mo Andrew White, wealthy
| citizen of Dwight, H., while insane murders
his wife and children and commits suicide.
| l3. Destructive tornadoes in Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, llliEois and Indiana.
II. Twenty people burned TO death during
a fire in Il Hungarian village. Exciting ana
bloody hunt for the assassins of Postmaster
Ciingan OF Polk City, Iowa
| is. Disastrous storms i'm Wisconsin, Iowa.
| Illinois and Indiana
! L. News OF the sacking of the American
| consulate at Monterey, Mexico
Is. Accident to Chief Justice Waite. in
Montana. Frost in some sections of Iowa.
| ~. Inauguration of the great strike OF
! telegraph operators throughout the country.
! q. cyclone kills a number of people and
destroys much property in Dakota and Min
nesota.
20. Eight men killed by falling bricks while
repairing n blast furnace at Syracuse, N. Y.
Disastrous tornado in Inyham county, Mich.
q. About ei8hty people drowned by the
giving way of n steamboat pier near Balti-
more, Md. Capt. webb, the famous swim
mer, drowned at Niagara Falls Hardy, one
of the ok county Gowa) assassins, executed
by mob.
%. Eight colored people drowned at Clare
mont, Va.
26. Ex-Treasarer NJ. T. Polk sentenced to
twenty years in the Iententiary at Nashville,
Tenn.
rs. Thirty-six persons killed by mine ex-
plosion in Sicily. over 5000 people killed by
an earthquake on the Italian island of IsehIa.
29. Twenty-Five people killed by a railway
accident near Albany, N Y. Ten colored
people drowned at Mayersville, Miss. The
/ Spanish Minister to the United States COM
mits suicide in New York.
30 President Arthur leaves Washington on
an extended Western tour. James Carey
the Irish nformer, killed in South Africa.
AUGUST.
l. FL, hit people killed bya railroad collision
near Pc mall. Vt.
2, The New Hampshire Legislature elects
Austin F. Tile, L. 5. Senator after ballotng
nearly two months.
3-5. Heavy failures in the leather trade in
the New England cities.
6. Serious revolt N Spain. Formidable
anti-Jewish riots in Russia ana Hungary.
:. A general local-opton liquor law enact
ed in Georgia. President Arthur smokes the
calumet of peace with the Arapahoe and
Shoshone chefs at Fort Washable, Wyoming
Territory.
of bark off Dover, England.
8. Four Irish dynamite conspirators SEN
fenced for life at Liverpool.
IL. Burning of the Kimbal house, the
largest hotel in the South, at Atlanta.
II. Twelve men accidentally killed in a rail
road tunnel in Montana.
ID. Suicide of the wife of Senator Allison, of
Iowa. The Mayor and other officials indicted
at Baltimore for malfeasance.
Is. Twenty men killed by mine accident
at Cornwall England
II. Seven persons killed by railway col
ision at Lexington, Ky.
Is. End of the long strike of the telegraph
operators.
p. A tornado kills upward of forty people
and destroys a vast amount Of property in
and about Rochester, MINI. Opening of the
Knights Templar triennial conclave at san
Francisco
%. News of fearful massacre of Indians
by Chilians in Peru. Completion of track
lay ing on the Northern Pacific railroad.
20. Five men perish in burning building
at Boston. Eighteen sailors drowned by
collision in the English channel.
q. News of the death of the Queen of
Madagascar.
%. %, 50. Volcanic eruptons in the island
of Java cause frightful destruction of
life and property; upward of 100000 people
killed
81. The Gar OF Russia visits the King of
Denmark. The steamship Ludwig, from
Antwerp for Montreal, with seventy people
on boa d given UP as lost.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Six persons killed b. boiler explosion
at Franklin, Ialcta.
s. single highwayman robs the passen-
gers on a Utah railway train priest and
six of his congregation killed by a thunder
oft in IA church at Lagos, Mexico. Eleven
working girls burned to death in a factory at
Cincinnati over forty people killed by
railway train near Berlin, Germany.
T. King Alfonzo issues II proclamation
restoring the constitutional guarantees in
Spain.
= President Arthur returns to Washington
after an extended trip to the far West. Ac-
quittal of Frank James, the Missouri outlaw.
s. Formal opening of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
o. Sale. of the Horace Greelev farm at