Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-03
THE RECORD OF 1882,
The Notable Events Of the Old Year,
Arranged in Chronological Order-An
Interesting Record.

Arranged in Chronological Order-An
Interesting Record.
We present below record in brief OF the
most notable events of the year 1882, and
the date of their occurrence:
JANUARY.
1.-Five persons killed and many injured
by the fall of floor at Shanesville, Ohio.
2-Three children burned to death at
Richburg, N. Y.
citizens at Graham, Texas, results in the kill
ing of three of the former and two Of the
latter. Nine Chinamel massacred by In
dams at Ell Paso, Texas
Am affray in Montgomery county, Mo. :;
i've people killed and several wounded
persons crushed to death Three boys at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, blown to atoms by a gun
powder explosion. Congress reassembles
after the holidays
6-Hangman's day; seven executions in
the United States
S-Steamer Lion and forty three people
lost on the Newfoundland coast
1O.-A father and two daughters burned to
death at Knife Falls, Mimi.
13.-Collision on the Hudson River rail
road at Spuyten Duyvil, N Y; several killed
Fire destroys 81, OOO, coo worth of property at
N"t' SNooh, 4S-AeNs A1NS 1eAiSAASo LII ciAO
United States
l6-Seven persons drowned by the wreck
ing of the British schooner Weathergauge,
in the Gulf of Mexico. Five negro convicts
drowned at Little Rock, Ark
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-
2o.-News of the burning of a theater in
Bucharest; number of people crelnated
Intelligence OF a serious revolt in HerZegov.
ina
G3.-Three children scalded to death by
escaping steam in factory at Celina, Ohio
A.-Dvnamite 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 q
battle i'll 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.
27.-Destructive storm throughout the
Eastern States. Heavy financial failures in
London and other foreign money centers
2S-Four men killed by boiler explosion
at Fairfield Me- Gufteau's counsel files ap-
plication for new trial
SN-A reservoir burst at Calais, France
many children. Over 600 fishermen drowned
by gale at Astrakhan.
31.-Disastrous fire in New York; several
people cremated
FEBRUARY.
3-Thirty-two miners buried in coal-pit
near Richmond, Pa
4.-Guiteau, the murderer of President
Garfield, denied a new trial and sentenced
to die on the Both of June.
7.-Maj. D. W. Washburn, prominent rail-
road man, and three other persons killed by
railroad accident in Texas.
"a. NJ Soteldo, Washington journalist,
fatally shot in an affray in the Republican,
Office Three persons killed by collision
on the PENNSYLVANIA railroad, near Altoona
1o.-Seven persons cremated by the burn
ing of house near Huntington, Canada.
la-Flye railroad laborers run down by q
train and slaughtered in tunnel at Balti-
more.
l5.-News of the loss of the British steam
er Bahama and twenty-five people, bound
from Porto Rico to New York
l6-Congress passes the anti-Polygamy
bill An explosion in a coal mine at Dur
nam, Eng, kills many people.
l'.-SeFenteen people killed and seventy
wounded by the explosion of fireworks
factory at Chester, Pa boiler explosion
at Atlanta, Ga, kills six persons Great fire
at Haverhill, Mass -
lS2o.-Tremendous rain-storm through
out the West, flooding the lowlands and
causing great destruction of property and
some loss OF life.
2l.-The new Apportionment bill passes
the House at Washington and becomes a
law. Mass meetings held at Chicago and
fifty other cities to denOunce Mormon polyg-
amy.
233-News of the massacre of l 600 defense
less citizens Of Pisco, in South America, by
Peruvian soldiers Indictment at Washing
fOn Of the Stlr-rOJ1Le cONSnir2tOrS
3-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 boiler explosion
24.-The President dominates to the Sem
ate Roscoe Conkling for Supreme Judge.
Seven persons buried by snow-slide in
Utah.
.!5-Battle between Austrians and .Herze-
govinian rebels, in which the latter are
routed
IA mine explosion in Austria kills $50
people:
a1-Garfeld memorial exercises in Con-
gress
MARCH.
ATTEMPTED assassination of Queen Vic
toria.
a boiler explosion at Stone Station,
Ind. kills six men.
G.--,Mr. Conkling announces his deciination
Oil LIE SUBTITLE TIC t''tSC
offered 10 Senator Edmuntls.
IS distressing accounts OF the de itrilc-
ton caused BY the overflow OF Southern
rivers and suffering entallet; thereby.
A--Severe SNOW and wind-stor1n through
out the %crtllwe :.
iN--i'tvc iu2n drowned by the sinkin" cf 4.
drcde;.l.: boa az Rice Point, Mass Seggr
Mason sentenced To eigh5 years in the pel,i-
tea5ifry for Shooting no (tl,itaau.
j. Senator Ed,nBnds formally declines
the Supreme Iudgesilip, and Judge Batch
tuiu is appointed. ..~ >>----, .-- re -,.
1.-THE bill for the suppression of polyg-
amy in The Territories becomes a law by act
Of Congress. 'S2
15-Five little boys buried alive in an
earth cave at ST. Joseph Mo-.
1o.--Twelve people buried by a snow ava
lanche at Genoa, New. !:
s1.-Ejght men killed by an accident on
the Northern Pacific railroad -
23-Five men killed by q boiler explosion
on tugboat at Philadelphia
25-G.-Reports of the subsidence of the
waters in the flooded districts of the Missis-
sippi valley. ~. - $3.50 "a,
2z-A powder explosion at San Francisco
kills eleven men. Five people killed hear
Pittsburgh by falling buildings during q
wind storm. go, ~ a .,',.'' -.
2s-Four men drowned by the, swamping
of boat at Layton's Station, Pa A fire at
Richmond, Va, destroys 5000 worth of
property. = zs1f".se<- q ~
2a-Tornadoes in Georgia cause great de-
snuction of life and property. Five men
killed by mine explosion at WilkesbarTe,
Pa 49,, t-f&. 4. o 80 - s!t.'3 g '%Ft
30-A woman in Lincoln county, Ark,
kills her three children and commits suicide
Burning of the steamer Golden City, at Mem
phis, Tenn. thirty lives lost Two sloopa
and thirty persons lost of the coast OF
France A life-boat and nine men lost at
Havre, France. III sS - ~ "a. .ss g.
M.-F4ve cattle thieves hanged by. Vigil
lantes at Pueblo, Col The Andre monu-
nent at Tappan, N. Y. demolished by dyna-
mite Gen. Streelnekof assassinated at
Odessa, Russia tS .s:s&5 i
:Es.Gs1 APRIL. 5ss ts..sst3 3 i.
l.-Execution Of the two assassns Of Gen
Streelnekoff, at Odessa ;.5,s.. !. 5.t 81
2-Burning Of the Insane Asylum at Yank-
ton. Oak, together with four inmates Sui
eide Of Cornelius j. Vanderbilt, in New York
Three persons killed by falling wall at
Reading, Pa 5l
st Joseph, Mo 5.ss,l. s.. IKE, .s..S
the President vetoes the bill restrict
Ing Chinese INNING ration. J.
Disastrous tornadoes in Michigan and
Kansas Several persons killed by q steam
boat explosion at Brownsville, Mimi.
IA train 4YOhb0d ON the Gulf Colorado