The Osceola times., 1883-01-27
JANUARY.

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January l3-Collision between pas'eh-
ger trains on the Hudson River railroad
near spuyten-Duyvil; eight persons Kill
ed. among them Webster Wagner New
York State Senator
Ian. l6-Railroad accident AZ New Al
bany, Ind; p persons killed.
Congress passed resolution of thanks
to the Khedive of Egypt for the gift OF
Cleopatra's needle.
The Italian Senate passed The reform
bill emitting al to vote who can read
and write.
Conclusion of treaty of peace between
Bolivia and Chilli
Jan. 25-Guiteau, assassin of President
Garfield, found guilty of murder, ana
sentenced to be hanged June 30.
Jan. 30-Reservoir at Calais burst, II
persons drowned.
Jan. 3l-The Potter building, New
York. formerly occupied by the World
newspaper, burned six lives lost.
FEBRUARY.
February 3-Explosion in the Midlo-
THAN. Va, coal mine; 81 men killed.
Feb. G-Ioss of the British steamer
Cessna in the Black Sea; 27 persons per-
! ishcd.
Feb. 1O-Steamship Bahama, Porto
Pico fer New York. foundered; the cap
tain and - lives lost.
Feb. l7-Colliery explosion at Trion-
don Grange, Durham, England; 20 lives
| lost.
Feb. 25-Russian steamer Nesta sunk
by collision, in the Black Sea; all hands
lost.
Feb. 27-Coal mine explosion at Leo
ben, Styria, $50 persons killed
MARCH.
March 2-Coller wrecked off Var
mouth, England, % men drowned.
March 6-Forty persons killed by the
falling in of the shaft of o mine near
Toplitz, Bohemia.
Great overflow of the Mississippi river
and tributaries, causing great destruction
of life and property. BY official report it
appeared that 5000 persons had been
rendered. destitute by the floods. Sub
scriptions were opened up in all parts OF
the country. The Senate voted an APP
preparation of Sl50,000 for the relief OF
the sufferers; the House voted to make
it sl50,O00.
March 9-The Senate passed the bill to
suspend Chinese immigration to the I'm
ted States for 20 years.
March 1.-THE Senate anti-polygamy
bill passed the House.
| The Iowa Legislature passed a resolu-
ton to amend the State Constitution so
as to give the right of suffrage to women.
March 2l-Emod, in Hungary, totally
destroyed by fire, nine lives lost.
Collision on the Northern Pacific near
Bismarck, Oak. eight men killed.
March GA lite-boat to the rescue OF
sloop OFF Havre, capsized; 10 persons
! drowned.
March 2S-Eighteen lives lost by the
sinking Of a coasting steamer in the En-
glish Channel
Eleven men killed by an explosion at
the Vulcan Powder Works.
Steamer Thomas Cornell wrecked neal
Newburg, \. Y.
March 29-The Ralston gin, near Lake
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l20 refugees drowned.
March 30-Steamer Golden City burned
at Memphis, Tenn. "a lives lost.
APRIL.
April 3-Steamcr collision off Cape
Finisterre, Spain, 80 lives lost.
April S-Massachusetts Prohibitory
Liquor Bill defeated in the House ii,
vote.
Anti-C Chinese Immigration bill, twenty
years, passed the House vetoed April
IA; attenpt to pass it over the veto de
feated.
April l7-Another bill, suspending Chi
nese immigration for ten years, passed
the House.
The President approved the anti-poly
gamy bill.
MAY.
May 2-Seven men killed by explosion
in colliery near Leeds, England.
May 5-Dispatch from Engineer Mel
vile at the Lena Delta announcing the
discovery of the body of Lieut.. De Ions
of the Jeannette, and the remains of ter
of his party.
May 6-Prince Leopold of England
married to Princess Helena of Waldeck
at st. Georges Chapel, Windsor.
Political massacres resumed at Manda
lay; King Theebau put to death an in
terior wife, two half-sisters, the Chancel
or of the Exchequer, and 80 relatives.
President Arthur signed the anti-Chi
ncse bill, ten years.
May 1l-Fire-damp explosion in West
phalia 90 lives lost.
May 15-Fifty Turkish soldiers drown
ed in the Bosphorus
Twelve persons drowned by capsizinl
of sail-boat, in Lake Calumet, III.
May l6-Report of loss Of l20lives ir
a cyclone at McAllister Indian Territory
Mississippi River Improvement bill
passed the Senate.
The Tariff Commission bill passed the
House
Lord Frederick Cavendish Chiefs
retary for Ireland, and Thomas Henr,
Burke, Under Secretary, assassinated ir
Phoenix Park
May "a, Coal mine explosion at shen,
andoah, Pa. six men killed.
May 3o-Railroad collision near Hei
delburc, Germany; eight persons killed
JUNE.
June Twenty persons burned tc
death in Poor-House at Osthammer, Swe
den.