Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-01-16
OCTOBER.

l, Letter postage reduced from
three to two cents. Five persons kill
ed and forty injured by railway acct
dent near Naples, Italy.
2, Six men killed in q coal mine, at
Leigh, England.
6, Earthquake and tidal wave at
Alaska.
9, Democrats carry Ohio by 1880
majority. Republicans carry Iowa by
25,0S9 majority.
II, New ministry formed in Spain.
Bankers Association meet at Louis
vile, Ky. General convention of
Protestant Episcopal church at Phila-
delphia. Womans' Suffrage conven-
ton, at New York city adiourns, after
two days session. Fifth trienial ses-
sion of the National Council of Con-
gregationalists, at Concord, N. III.
Last day Of session of General Con-
ferance of Free Will Baptists, at
Minneapolis, MINI.
II, Forty lives lost by the inunda-
ton of the village of La Estralla,
Spain. Five murderers hung in the
United States.
10, Socialist convention at Pitts
burgh, Penn. Forty women killed
and thirty injured during panic in a
Jewish synagogue at Ziwonka, Russia.
Is, Civil rights bill declared uncon-
stitutional by the u. S. Supreme Court.
Five persons killed on a Mexican
railway.
II, Earthquake in Asia Minor.
1000 persons killed or wounded, and
immense damage done. Sixty-three
Nihilists banished to Siberia. Alegno,
Italy, destroyed by fire. Meeting of
the Army of Tennessee, at Cleveland,
Ohio.
10, Explosion in a coal mine at
Wharncliff, England; twenty lives
lost.
20, Deaths from yellow fever at
Mazatlan, Mexico, reported at 1900.
Five persons killed by an avalanche
on the island of Sicily, Italy.
%, Coliery explosion near Stroke
upon-Trent, England; six lives lost.
%, Lord Landowne inaugurated
governor general of Canada. Squib
factory at Wilkesbarre, Penn, blows
up; eight children killed or wounded.
Is, Meeting of the Army of the
Cumberland, at Cincinnati.
%, Second earthquake at Smyrna,
Turkey; 200 persons injured.
20, News received of the massacre
of 450 Anamites by the French.
Powder explosion at Confluence, Penn,
five men killed. A cyclone ravages
part of Louisiana, Kentucky and In
diana, many lives lost.
30, Dynamite fiends blow up rail-
way train in London, England 30
persons injured. French brig Voca-
borg sunk by collision in the Atlantic /;
88 lives lost.
81, Steamships Holyhead and Al
hambra sunk by collision, near Eng
land; fifteen lives lost.
NOVEMBER,
1, Gen. Sheridan assumes command
of the u. s. army in place of Gen.
Sherman retired. Orangemen riot at
Londonderry, Ireland.
3, Riot at Danville, Virginia seven
negroes killed.
5, Springfield, Missouri. visited by
tornado -four persons killed and 80
wounded. The False Prophet ami
hilates the Egyptian army in Soudan,
Africa 10000 Egyptians killed.
6, November elections: New York
goes Democratic 10000 to 10000
majority; Massachusetts,, Republican,
1854 majority; Pennsylvania, Re-
publican, 1905; Connecticut, Re.
publican, 5000 majority New Jer-
sey, Democratic, 5000 majority Re-
adjusters defeated by Democrats in Va.
Explosion Of henzlne at Roubalx, Fr.,
and ten persons killed and 40 injured.
7, Colliery explosion in Lancashire,
England; 81 persons killed. Steam
err Iris wrecked near Spain; 30 lives
( lost.
8, French lombard unfortiied town
Of vohemar, Madagascar.