Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
CHRONOLOGY.
A Record of the Notable Occur
rences of 1888.
JANUARY.


nee, Ga.
2. Ferry-boat in jackson county, N. C., up
sets, drowning nineteen negro convicts.
.. Destructive floods along the rivers Rhine
and Danube; nearly 100 lives lost. Bark star
OF the West lost in the Atlantic ocean, fifteen
people perishing.
D. Four men killed at Muskegon, Mich,
and three at Black Horse Landing, W. Va,
by boiler explosions. United States Senate
passes the Civil Service Reform bill.
.. Discovery of q heavy defalcation by
State Treasurer Polk Of Tennessee.
8. Remains of John Howard Payne shipped
from Tunis to the United States.
Z. Steamer City Of Brussels sinks in the
English channel; ten persons drowned.
81 Ten men killed by mine explosion at
Coulterville, III. Five men killed by burst
ing boiler at Bethlehem, Pa. ship Empire
sinks at sea; sixteen lives lost.
10. Burning of the Newhall house, Mil
waukee; nearly 10Olives lost. Terrible floods
in Hungary; over fifty people drowned
49, over 300 people burned to death in Il
circus building at BerditscheG, Russia
H. Twenty people killed by a railway acct
dent at Camerlats Italy. -Four persons lost
their lives by fire in the Planters house. st.
Louis.
10. Attempted assassination Of the Sultan
Of Turkey
l6. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrested in
Paris for issuing a manifesto claiming the
throne. Five persons burned to death in a
London tenement house.
Ef,,l,
ON steamer Port Susan Bay, Pacific coast
Meeting of the National Republican commit
tee at Washington.
IL. Iowa Supreme Court pronounccs the
State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four
men killed by n boiler explosion at Mansfield,
La. Phenomcnally cold weather in the far
West.
~. Steamer Cmbria sinks in the German
ocean; nearly 400 people drowned. Forty
people killed By powder explosion at Mui-
den, Holland. RObbere9 in Southwestern
Nevada, involving the killing Of FIVE citizens
and two highwaymen.
20. Six men drowned OFF Gloucester fish
ing schooner. Twenty-Five PEOPLE killed by
railway accident near Los Angeles, Cal. In
tensely cold weather throughout the North
west, lasting FIVE days.
q. Nine people drowned by the sinking of
ship forwarts, OFT Lisbon, Portugal Several
persons killed by a boiler explosion at Elkton,
Md. Thirty Cinnamon blown 10 atoms by an
explosion OF giant powder near san Fran
cisco.
%. several lives lost by the sinking of the
German bark Meta off the Mexican coast.
20. The French cabinet resigns in body
Twelve persons killed by a railroad smash-up
near Keyser W. Va. A mother in Milwaukee
murders and carves in pieces her three little
children. Eight persons drowned by the sink
ng of the brig Mariposa in Long Island
sound. Political excitement in France; ex-
Empress Eugere ordered to quit the Iepub-
lie.
-. News of the butohery of forty ship
wrecked sailors by savages in New Guinea.
Davitt, Healy and Quinn found guilty at Dub
lin of using sedtious language.
25. Burial at Milwaukee OF the forty-three
unidentified victims of the Ncwhall house
horror.
20 -Four men accidentally drowned at Shreve-
port, La, and four killed at Reading, Pa, by
the caving in of a mine.
~. Wreck of a steamer near Swansea,
Wales; nineteen lives lost.
%. a caving mine at Bucksville, Pa,
kills five labCrers. 4 new cabinet formed in
France.
20. A family of nine persons in Laurens
county, 5. c., eat Il goose that had been bit
ten by Il mad dog, and all of them die of hy-
drOphobia. Five negroes drowned while try
ing to cross Georgia river hurricane at
Denver, Col, destroys $500, 600 worth of prop
erty. Tho steamer Black Watch lost ON the
Welsh coast; twenty-slx persons drowned.
80. Eight men killed by snow-slides in Colo
RADIO. Seven men killed by fireworks expo
sion at Arnecameca, Mexico
81 Four children burned to death az Das-
sell MINI. Discovery of defacation of
S250,000 by the Alabama State Treasurer.
Steamer Ansonia lost on the coast of Trpoi;
twenty people drowned.
FEBRUARY.
!. A panic in wooden factory Mt Bombay
results in the death of thirty people.
2. The steamer Tacoma lost on the Oregon
coast twelve people drowned. The steam
ship James Gray founders on the English
coast; twenty-tOur lives lost.
3. Disastrous floods throughout the Middle
States News of the lynehng of ten men in
Montana Territory. Failure of the Union
Iron and steel company at Chicago.
A. Thirty-two lives lost by the sinking of
the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay OF
Biscay.
Capt "Oklahoma" Payne ana his follow
oil In, no Ip1f
&. a steamer wrecked off Harwich, Eng,
ard all on board. twcnty-six in number, lost
o. Seven men killed by II boiler explosion
at Taylorvile, Ill.
10. Brig Zion lost in the Atlantic; ten peo-
pie drowned. Five lives lost by the burning
of the steamer Gem on the Oregon coast.
The authors of the Phoenix Park (Dublin)
murders brought TO light.
II. Fourteen fishermen drowned at Var
mouth Eng.
1915. Floods cause great destruction OF
property along the Ohio river.
49, A mine Hooded by cavern at Braid
wood, H., causing the drowning of eighty
Golfers. Four children burned to death al
Bracket, Texas.
II. DIR. Hugh Glenn, tie largest farmer in
the world, murdered in California.
10. A panic in a Catholic school in New
York. results in the death Of II children
20. Fourteen sailors drowned by collision
on the Scotch coast norman b. Eaton, John
NJ Gregory and L. II. 1homan appointed Civ
Service Commissioners
II. Jules Ferry organizes n new ministry
in France. L. $. steamer Ashuelot sunk OF
Hongkong and eleven OF tie crew drowned
Germany prohibits the importation of Amer
lean pork. Ferry H. Smith, Chicago mill
ionairc, adjudged insane.
-Four sick persons poisoned ut Corscana
Texas. Attack ON Parnell and the Land
League in the British House of Commons.
%. Mutlny in the Missouri state Prison
six persons drowned at Wolf Island, neal
Cairo. steamer lost in the Bosphorus, - per
sons drowned Parncl replies to his assail
ants in the House of Commons.
"a. The freight steamer Glamorgan lost IL
the Atlantic; eight persons drowned.
20. Three children burned TO death at Mon
tague, Mich.
Is. Prohibition killed in the Missouri ant
Texas Legislatures Woman suffrage killed il
the Massachusetts legislature Maine re
stores the death penalty. Q. II. Platt, OF
Connecticut, made member of the Nationa
Republican Committee.
MARCH
l. Jim Elliott, the prize yhter, killed a
.-t..oee.,, b.. Iarrx- hmm lOurr Senatorial