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


boat at Baltimore.
y. Mount Vesuvus in a state of eruption.
%. Six men killed in a fight between cattle
herders in Arizona. Indian outbreak in Arr
iona. Several people slaughtered. The re
mains of John Howard Payne, author Of
Home, Sweet Home" arrive at New York
from Tunis, Africa, where he died in 1852
Six miners killed by gas explosion AT Lost
Creek, Pa.
90 Recovery of the bodies of a large num-
Der of the victims of the mine disaster on
Feb. l6, near Braidwood, Ill
%. The Massachusetts Legislature passes a
law providing for biennial elections IN that
State.
20. Count Won szekhely, President Of the
Hungarian Court Of Cessation. murdered
80. News Of fresh Indian massacres in
Arizona. Several persons killed by col
hsion on the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
81. Twenty-threc people drowned by ship
wreck at Holyhead, England.
APRIL
/. six persons killed by boiler explosion
| on the steamer To'ar Star, Mississippi river.
2. Fifty people killed by the explosion OF a
powder factory near Paris, France. Excite
ment in England over the disc cry Of dyna-
mite plots.
4. Walter Q. Gresham, OF Indiana, appoint
| ed Postmaster General. The res dent starts
on IA Southern tour for the teuent of his
health.
3. Four persons burned to death at Hart
n MI TsIcf., ~
News OF great fire ut iquii que, Terra. News
Of war of races on the line of the Panama
Canal. Michael Iavtt writes Il letter de-
nouncing the dynamite policy of the Irish
6. The Coroner's jury in the Braidwood
mine disaster exonerates the mine owners
from blame.
:. Disastrous floods in Austria and Poland
&. A hotel burned at Greenyille, Texas, and
eight guests cremated.
ii. Judge Gresham, the new Postmaster
General, enters upon his duties The bill
for local self-government in ireland defeated
in the British House of Commons
II. Prohibition defeated in the Connecticut
Legislature. Earthquake shocks in Southern
Illinois. Wisconsin's first cotton factory
opened at Sheboygan Falls
l3. Six negro children poisoned to death at
McDermott, Ark, and three burned to death
in Grant county, Ark Discovery of ri ch
silver mines in East Tennessee. The first
iron sailing vessel ever built in America
launched at Philadelphia. Charles Smith, Of
Delaware county, Iowa, kills his wife and two
children and commits suicide. Brady, one of
the Fhpnix Park murderers, sentenced to
death at Dublin
| Il. First tornadoes of the season felt in
Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska
l5 Burning of the Atlantic House and
three guests at Abba. Iowa.
16. Twentv-six Nihlists sentenced at Odessa,
Russia. Three children burned to death at
Portsmouth, Texas.
II. Prohibition killed in the Delaware
Legislature. The Scott liquor license law
passed by the Ohio Legislature.
IS. Many people drowned by a food in the
Yahuashua river, Mexico. Daniel Curley,
another of the Fhonix Park murderers,
sentenced to death in Dublin Senator Kel-
logg indicted at Washington. The dynamite
plots laid bare at London by the confession of
! Lynch.
10. Eighteen Nihilists sentenced at St.
Petersburg.
20. Four men drowned at Seattle, w. IT,,
and four at Williamsport, Pa, by the upset
ting of boats. Prohibition voted down by
the Pennsylvania Legislature Eight people
killed by falling wall at Sacramento, Cal.
81. Bloody fight between citizens ana circus
men at Dover. Del. Five persons drowned
|
Francisco, by the upsetting of boats
-. Return TO Washington of President
Arthur from his Southern tour. A cyclone
in Mississippi and Georgia kills and mains
hundreds of people.
%. Meeting in Philadelphia of the Irish
American convention.
q. Michael Fagln sentenced to death at
Dublin. Congressman Phil Thompson kills
Walter Davis at Harrodsburg, KY.
l. Four men killed in a riot at Marshall,
Tex
2. Acquittal of Fitz Harris, the fifth man
tried at Dublin for the murder of Lord Cav
endish.
3. Four people run over and killed by a
train at Gowan, Mich. Seven men killed by a
mine accident at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
Seventy Cinnamon drowned by the wrecking
of the steamer Grappler on the Pacific coast
6. Moody and Sankey return from Europe
Battle between Mexican troops and Apache
Indians, in Mexico.
:. Arthur Sullivan, author of "Pinafore, "
made IA Knight.
II. Suicide of Amasa Stone the wealthiest
man in Cleveland, Ohio.
10. Destructive tornado in Missouri Po
nanza Fair, the Nevada Senator, divorced
from his wife.
II. Joe Brady, one of the Phoenix Park
murderers, hanged at Dublin.
16. Fitz Harris, the cabdriver, convicted al
Dublin. Meeting at Washington of the So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac. Congress
man Philip Thompson acquitted at Harrods
burg Ky. series of cyclones in Illinois
and Wisconsin kills upward of seventy peo
pie and destroys much property. Danes
Curley one of the Phpnix Park assasslns,
hanged at Dublin. Steamer Granite State
burned on the Connecticut river; five lives
lost.
10. Carey, the informer, turned loose al
Dublin.
20. Heavy gale on the Northern lakes; many
vessels wrecked, with considerable loss of life
-. The Car enters Moscow with great
pomp.
%. The ceremony of Blessing the Rus ian
imperial flag performed at Moscow.
~. Opening of the great East River bridge
20. a boiler of the steamer Pilot explodes
at San Francisco. killing eighteen persons
News of battle i'll Mexico tetween Gen
Crook forces and Apache Indiars.
-. Coronation of the Russian Car at Mos
COW.
-. Michael Fagin. one of the PhmniX Paris
eonspirators, hanged at Dublin.
-. A tornado in Central Indiana kills many
people and destroys much property.
80. Decoration day. Many people killed by
a crush on the Brooklyn bridge. Five fire
men killed at Lynchburg, Va. Seven men
drowned in Boston htr1or. Five men killea
in shooting affair q: Salida, Cal
JUNE.
.. Destructive cyclone at Greenviile
Texas Thomas Cafrej, the fourth of tne
Phunix park conspirators hanged in Dublin
Healy and Dav.tt recessed fIom Imprisonment
in Ireland.
6. Democratic State convention Of Iowa
Republican State convention of Ohio.
:. Lynchng bee mt Waverly, Iowa.
s. one hundred and fifty people He'd by ,
powder explosion at Scutari, Albania.
.. Timothy Kelly hanged at Dublin for tn,