Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-01-10

pension OF So,UOO passed the Rouse
Over sixty lives lost by explosion a
Triondon Grange colliery, Durham
England.
II. Explosion of fireworks fac
tory at Chester, Pa, IA lives lost
Two million dollar fire at Haverhill
Mass. Apportionment bill passed
House, fixing number of Congress
men at 325, and passed the Senate OIL
the 21st.
20. japanese indemnity bill fol
paying Japan s1,516,346 passed the
House.
81. Charles Bradlaugh took oath
of office, but was refused seat in the
British House of Commons for athe
ism, and formally expelled on the
22nd. Reelected March 2, but still
excluded.
~. Colliery explosion at Leoben
in Syria, Austria-150 lives lost.
MARCH.
2. Queen Victoria shot at at Win.
sor by Roderick Maclean.
0. Senate passed Chinese immi-
grafton bill. Passed House March
%. Vetoed April 4.
10. Samuel Blatchford nomina-
ted for U. S. Supreme Bench.
IA. Anti-polygamy bill passed
House (passed Senate Feb. Is, APP
proved March 23).
%. Ferry boat Henry G. Plat
exploded at Philadelphia, 5 lives lost.
24.-Bodies of Lieutenant belong
and 10 others of the Jeanette party
discovered.
26. A life boat off Havre, France,
capsized, 10 lives lost.
20. Ralston Gin, La, destroyed
by flood and 120 refugees drowned.
30. Steamer Golden City burned
at Memphis, 80 lives lost. Pond
liquor tax bill passes Ohio legislature.
APRIL.
3. Hanlan wins his race with
Boyd on the Tyne and the champion
ship of the world.
6.-Reorganization of President
Arthur's cabinet.
II. Smith Sunday liquor law pass
es Ohio legislature.
II. Ten year Chinese bill passed
House. Approved May 8.
IS. Henry M. Teller confirmed
Secretary of the Interior, and VIM.
f. Chandler Secretary of the Navy.
News received of the burning of the
U. S. ship Rodgers in the Arctic seas.
20. The Canadian House of Com
mons vote a request for home in Ire
land. Maclean, Queen Victoria's as
sailant, acquitted of high treason and
confined as lunatic.
MAY.
1. Hanlan defeats Trickett on the
Thames.
2. Parnell and other Irish home
rulers released from Jail.
6. Lord Cavendish and Thomas
H. Burke, assassinated in Phoenix
Park, Dublin. Great fire at Racine,
Wisconsin, loss s3,O0O,OOO.
II. Irish repression bill introduced
in the British parliament. Mine. ex-
plosion at Rochum, Westphalia, 56
lives lost.
Is. Fifty Turkish soldiers drown
ed in the Bosphorus. Twelve per-
sons drowned by capsizing of boat
in Calumet lake, near Chicago.
%. England and France demand
the resignation of the Egyptian min
istry, which precipitates a ministerial
crisis. Subsequently, upon the de-
mand of the army, Arab Pasha was
reinstated minister of war. Tomb
stone, in Arizona, nearly burned up.
80. Pond law declared unconsti-
tutional by Supreme Court of Ohio.
JUNE.
1 Poorhouse burned at Ostham-
mer, Sweden, and 20 paupers perish
ed.
4. Cyclone destroys half Of the
town of Grinnell, Iowa, 100 lives lost.
5. Oregon election result Repub-
lican majority of 1900.
II. Serious riots at Alexandria,
Egypt, and $40 Europeans killed.
%. Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass,
burned, loss 100000.
81. Iowa adopted prohibition by
29,751 majority.
20. Parker's Creek, n. j. bridge
accident, 5 lives lost.
30. Execution of Charles J. Cult
eau.
JULY.
4. Steamer Scioto sunk by COLI
sion in Ohio river, SO lives lost.
6. Admiral Seymour demands sus-
pension of work on Notifications of
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