The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

sons drowned. Parneu repheS 10 MS hssal-
ants in the House OF Commons.
q. The freight steamer Glamorgan lost in
the Atlantic; eight persons drowned.
20. Three children burned to death Mt Mon
tague, Mich.
%. Prohibition killed in the Missouri and
Texas Legislatures Woman suffrage killed in
the Massachusetts legislature. Maine re-
stores the death penalty. O. II. Platt, of
Connecticut, made a mcmber of the National
Republican Committee.
MARCH.
/. Jim Elliott, the prize fighter, killed at
Chicago by Jerry Dunn. The long Senatorial
contest ended in Michigan by the election OF
Thos. W. Palmer. Marriage at Washington
of Senator Tabor, of Colorado.
3. Steamer Yazoo sinks in the Lower Mis-
sissippi Is lives lost.
4. The Riddcbcrger law declared unconsl-
tutional by the Virginia Legislature United
States Treasurer Gillian resigns.
:. Train robbery near Fort Smith, Ark
Marriage of cX-Gov. William Sprague' OF
Rhode Island Imprisonment for debt aboI-
ished in Novia scotia.
:. Three persons cremated at Frederick
Md, 10y the burning of a house.
o. Seven men drowned opposite Jersey
City by the sinking of Il fcrry-boat.
TO- Eleven men crcmated by the burning OF
a boarding-house AT Brownsville, Dakota.
H. The day set apart by Prof. Virgins for
his great storm, which failed to materialze.
T.. Patrick Egan, Treasurer Of the Land
League, arrives at New York.
49, The Missouri Legislature cnacts
stringent high-licensc liquor law.
II. Judge David Davis married TO Miss
Burr, of North Carolina.
i. Startling explosion in London, attrib-
uted to Fenian agents. a. \. Wyman APP
pointed United states Treasurer.
l.. Excitement in England over the al
legged assault on Lady Florence Dixie.
20. Tennessee enacts law abolishing pub
lie executions.
81. Six lives lost by the sinhngof an oyster
| boat at Baltimore
30. Mount Nesuvius i'm a state of eruption.
%. Six mon killed IN fight between cattle
herdcrs in Arizona. Indian outbreak in Ari-
IONA. Several people slaughtered. The re-
mains Of John Howard Payne, author of
Homo, sweet Home" arrive ut New York
from Tunis Africa, whore he died in 1852.
Six miners killed by gas explosion at Lost
Creek, Pa.
-. Recovery Of the bodies Of large num-
! Der Of the victims OF the mine disaster on
Feb. IS. near Braidwood, Ill.
-. The Massachusetts Legislature passes a
law providing Tor biennial elections N that
state.
%. Count Won Szckhcly, President OF the
Hungarian Court Of Cessation, murdered
80. News OF fresh Indian massacrcs in
Arizona. Several persons killed b. col
hsion on the Cincinnati southern railroad.
81. Twcnty-thrcc people drowned by a ship
wreck at Holyhcad, England.
APRIL.
/. six persons killed 10y n boiler explosion
on the steamer Polar star. Mississippi river.
.. Fifty people killed by the explosion of a
powder factory near Paris, France. Excite
mcnt in England over the discovery Of dyna-
mite plots.
4. Walter .. Gresham, Of Indiana, appoint
Cd Postmaster General The President starts
on Southern tour for the leneht of his
health
). -Four persons burned to death at Hart
wick, y. y, and three at Elsbury y. Y.
News Of Il great fire at IQuique Peru. News
Of war of races on the line OF the Panama
Canal. Michael Davitt writes a letter de-
nouncing the dynamite policy of the Irish.
6. The Coroncr'5 jury in the Braidwood
mine disaster cNoncrates the mine owners
from blame.
a.ts IL I'm aftsfp and ~ nd
5. a hotel burned at Grcenvilc, Texas, and
eight guests cremated.
IL. 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.
l.. Prohibition defeated in the Connecticut
Legislature. Earthquake shocks in Southern
Illinois. WscOnsin's first cotton factory
opened at Sheboygan Falls.
-. Six negro children poisoned TO death at
McDcrmott Ark, and three burned TO death
in Grant county, Ark. Discovery of rich
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 Phoenix Park murderers, sentenced TO
death at Dublin.
H. First tornadoes of the season felt in
Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska.
IT, Burning of the Atlantic House and
three guests AT Abba. Iowa.
Is. Twcntv-siX Nihilsts sentenced al Odessa.
Russia. Three children burned to death at
| Portsmouth, Texas.
l.. Prohibition killed in the Delaware
Legislature. The Scott liquor license law
passed by the Ohio legislature.
IS. Many people drowned by n food in the
! Yahuashua river, Mexico. Daniel Curley
another of the PhuniX Park murderers,
sentenced 10 death i'm Dublin. Senator Kcl-
logg indicted ut Washington. The dynamite
| plots laid bare at London by tho confession of
Lynch.
10. Eighteen Nihilists sentenced at st.
Petersburg.
90. -Four men drowned at Seattle, w. r.,
and four at Wiliamsport, Pa, by the upset
ting of boats. Prohibition voted down by
the Pennsylvania Legislature. Eight people
killed by a falling wall at Sacramento, Cal.
81. Bloody fight between citizens and circus
| Mt mol