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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-02
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-02

TIE CLARIoS, in entering to-day upon
its forty-seYenth year, sends greeting
and best wishes to its many readers, hop
ing that the year 1884 may be to each
and all a happy and a prosperous period
in their pilgrimage through time. -
AUDITOR GwIN reports Isl, O8S polls
, in this State. ..l....,..-.......
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TUE YAzOO TRAGEDY !!

We giveshsloH the accoant Of the an
flculty ultleh tool place Il Yazoo City
Oh O. night of h ult., and IN winch
he lies Of sevssA valuable citizens
.rer aiken in cdI blood. A meeting
was ID the mex norning and a com
init appointed which reported tn
following resolutions which were aaop
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n,y Common schools, = insisting that these
In,its should IS eight and eigshtean EeaEss
Prof.. II. III. IaaveH followed with an
sssav IN @Proper Limits to Public School
Education.
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the day before, as follows Al. s. Lynch
( white owner Of ttffe Butcher shob' 81 al
cesgory, before the fart w. II. F roots. Mi
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tltute and incurable sick. nh When we called
attentlon to this circumstances few days
ago one or two Alabama and Mississippi
papers resented our suggestion that their
States should pay a portion Of the e1-
pehses OF supporting their sick. With the
Export OF the grand jury before us We can
not out renew our suggestion This report
declares that ga considerable number Of
SICK and destitutes are sent here to the
marty Hospital quite as a matter OF
course from adjoining States. principally
pom the State Of Mississippi. These cases
are generally Of the worst kind, and we
nave received positive assurance that in
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-01-16
GEPTEMRER

/, Anti-Jewish riots in Austria
Deaths from cholera in Egypt tc
date 27,318. Battle between French
forces and the Black Flags neal
Hanoi, Tonquin; victory claimed by
the former; French lose go men and
the Black Flags 500.
2, Railway accident at Steglitz
Germany; 80 persons killed.
8, Death Of Ivan S. Tourgueneff
Russian author, aged So years.
6, Several vessels near New Found
land wrecked, and loss of life reported
at over 80.
7, Utah Commission reports nearly
$4,000 Mormons DISTINGUISHED on &C,
count of polygamy.
8. Cyclone ut Martinique, West In.
dia islands; Is vessels wrecked
Completion Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
8, Anti-Jewish riots in Austria.
10, Riot at Canton, China.
II, Hurricane at Nassau; 90 lives
lost and 100 vessels sunk or damaged
off the Florida coast.
13, Norwegian vessel sunk in the
English channel by collision; II lives
lost.
16, Floods in Italy; many lives
lost. Bloody encounter between Aus
trian troops and Croatians, in Austria
Opening Of the Bulgarian Assembly.
Prof. Swift, Warmers observatory,
discovers new comet.
II, Bark Britannia wrecked off the
Nova Scotia coast; IL lives lost. Vel
low fever at Guaymas, Mexico, causes
many deaths.
20, Explosion in mine at Unna,
Germany 10 men killed.
81, Ten Croatian rioters killed by
military. Opening Of submarine tel
egraph between New York and Brazil.
"a, Colored mems convention at
Louisville, Ky.
25, Severe storm on the lakes.
26, Heavy storm at Limerick, Ire.
land. Fire destroys 800 houses at
Constantinople.
n, Steamship Rotterdam wrecked
off the Holland coast.
%, Seven men killed four on Min
neapolis railway and three by steamer
Robbins boiler explosion at Albany.
20, King of Spain hooted by a
Partisan mob, Explosion of powder
at Siege, California; 40 Cinnamon
killed; and Is persons killed and
six wounded by powder explosion at
Villena, Spain. Three men killed by
explosion of boiler of steamer Colo
RADIO, at Buffalo.
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II, Terrific gale on the lakes causes
immense damage to vessels. Three
coal barges sunk on the Connecticut
coast eight men drowned.
13, Steamship III. G. Akelcy found,
ers in Lake Michigan; four lives lost
French defeat Anamese at Haidong
French lose 20 killed and wounded.
Is, News received of battle between
Chilians and Indians, and 700 of the
latter reported killed.
16, Railway accident near Streator
Illinois; six persons killed. Norwe,
gian vessel lost near Nova Scotia
ten lives lost. Propeller Manistee
founders in Lake Superior; all hands
lost-37 persons.
IS, Steamer Condor sunk off Men
den, Holland; Is lives lost.
10, Eighteen men drowned al
Douarnenez, France.
20, During gale ON the lakes the
past week, 40 vessels were driven
ashore or foundered.
%, Twenty-three persons drowned
in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, by O
steamboat collision.
~, Bark Judith sunk off the Nor.
way coast; IA lives lost. Albany
Wisconsin, destroyed by fire.
80, Railway accident near st. Nun
France; Is persons killed.
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FEBRUARY.

l, Destructive fire at the Inman
steamship docks at New York. d.
M. Sabin elected u. S. senator from
Minnesota.
2, A panic in a wool factory at
Bombay, India, was the cause of "a
being killed.
3, Steamship James Gray founder
ed, near England, all hands lost
Steamer Tacoma wrecked on the Ore
gon coast. Ten lives lost.
8, Seven women killed by railway
accident in Hungary. One hundred
fircmen injured during fire at Ha
vana, Cuba. Seventy men killed by
the police Of the Rajah Of Junagal
Kaatywar, in India. The men haC
refused to pay q land revenue, anC
the question was discussed by arm,
with above result. Disastrous floods
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir
ginia. Part Of the City of Cleveland
was submerged.
6, Schooner S. j. Carney lost Of
New Brunswick, all hands lost.
Z, Steamer Kenmuth Castle foun
dered in the Bay of Biscay; thirty
two lives lost.
8, Two schooners lost off the British
coasts; all hands lost off one, and fiv,
lives lost off the other.
II, Great floods along the Ohit
river. Water reached second anc
third stories of houses on the landings
Floods continued several days. Th'
river at Cincinnati rose to r height Of
Sc feet eight inches.
~, Kalahaua. King of Sandwich
Islands, crowned.
16, Seventy-four miners drowned il
a coal mine at Braidwood, Illinois.
Is, Jules Ferry organizes a new
ministry 70 France.
- Fifteen school children killec
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DECEMBER.

3, Opening of the 4Sth Congress:
at Washington. John G. Carlisle
elected Speaker.
5, Pilot boat run down by steam
ship Alaska, near New York /; 10 men
drowned.
6, Six hundred houses burned AT
Constantinoplc. Steamer Plantyn
wrecked in the Atlantic; six lives
lost.
10, Barge Enterprise founders in
Lake Huron; eight lives lost.
IL, Large part of England swept
by gale; twenty persons killed, and
immense damage done to shipping and
houses. Schooner Hubert sunk in
Lake Superior; 20 lives lost.
13, Steamer AUX wrecked near
England q persons drowned. The
French capture Sontay, Tonquin.
French lose 81 men killed and 263
wounded. In another fight on the
10th, they lose Is men killed and
wounded. Anamitcs lose 400 killed
and 600 wounded.
10, Revolution reported ut Pekin,
China; war party triumph.
Is, Full reports Of accidents to the
Gloucester fishing feet in August and
November gales shows n loss Of II
vessels and 149 lives.
20, Cantilever bridge over Niagara
river publicly tested.
%, Steamer San Augustine burned
in the Bay of Biscay; many lives lost.
%, Jewish synagogue near Con-
stantinople, burned 10 lives lost.
"a, Eleven men buried by an ava
lanche in Colorado; six were killed.
A woman arrested in Holland, having
murdered sixteen persons. Steamer
Severn's boiler exploded at Cartha-
gena, Central America; seven men
killed. Railway accident near New
Salem, Indiana; seven persons killed.
Five persons drowned near Paris, Ar
kansaw. Seven other railway acct
dents; 81 persons injured.
26, Riot between Orangemen and
Catholics at Harbor Grace, New
foundland; four men killed, and %
wounded. Fourteen Colorado miners
engulfed by an avalanche; eight men
killed.
Dec. 20. News received that the
King of Ashantec had massacred
hundreds of his subjects, to celebrate
his accession to the throne.
Dec. 81. The summary of fires
during the year shows loss of s103,-
100000.
American commission report the
deaths by cholera in Egypt about
$4,000. Great trade depression dur
ing latter part of the year, in the U.
S., and still continuing. Thousands
of people out of employment.
The above record shows that about
100000 persons lost their lives, du-
ring 1883, by accidents, shipwrecks,
wars, yellow fever and cholera. Only
the principal disasters are given, but
if a complete list could be obtained
of the men, women and children who
were killed or disabled by the the va
rious causes above named, tho num-
Der would exceed, we believe, 100000.
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in a New York city school, during ex-
element caused by building being on
fire.
81, u. S. man of war Ashuelet lost
off Lamoch Island, China; eleven
lives lost.
%, Twenty-Five persons drowned by
the wrecking of n steamer in the Bos-
phorus, Turkey.
"a, Steamer Glamorgan sunk in
the Atlantic eight lives lost.
81, Six fishing smacks lost at Var
mouth, England, and forty lives lost
February deaths: Marshall Jewell
eX-postmaster general, on the 10th
aged 81 years Richard Wagner, mu'
steal composer, on the 18th, aged &c
years.
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wave, at Krakatoa, Java; 100000
lives lost and several towns destroyed.
%, Five lives lost by the bursting
of boiler of steamer Riverdale, at
New York City.
81, One hundred fishing boats
and eighty lives reported lost, during
gale at banks Of Newfoundland.
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AUGUST.


/, Opening of the Louisville ex.
position.
2, Austin +. Pike elected u. S
Senator from New Hampshire.
3, Powder mill explosion at An
gouleme, France; six persons killed
Anti-Jewish roits at Ekaterinoslav
Russia; 100 persons killed and wound
cd ; 346 houses wrecked. Hayti in
surgents defeat the government forces
100 killed, they say.
6. Insurrection among Spanish sol
diers at Badajos, Spain. Proctor
Knott, Democrat, elected Governor Of
Kentucky, by 10000 majority.
8, Thirteen persons drowned by
the sinking q Norwegian bark, of
Dover, England. Heavy hail storm
near Council Bluffs, Iowa.
~, French elections. Republican.
carry seventy-one districts; Conserva
tives carry twenty-three.
II, Five persons burned to death
in a private insane asylum at Ealing
England. Commercial treaty made
public between Germany and Mexico
Riot at Agram, Austria; 40 persons
injured.
Is, Twelve miners killed in mine
at Cornwall, England. Anti-Jewisf
riot at Prague, Austria. The Anam
ties defeat the French at Sontay, Ton
quin. Thousands of persons reported
drowned in Anam by floods.
16, Electrical exhibition at Vienna
Austria. Russians still prosecute tn,
Jews. Yellow fever breaks out a
the Pensacola navy yard. Session o
international Congress of Short Hant
Writers at Toronto.
II, The French give the Anamite'
a slight thrashing; and report theil
loss, two killed and six wounded
Exile of % Russian students to 81
IBERIA.
10, Death of Judge Black, aged Z;
years.
20, Rioting between Orangemer
and Catholics at Coalbridge, Scotland
many persons injured. Destructiv,
rain storm at Toronto. French de
feat the Anamites at mouth Of HUI,
river; 700 Anamites reported killed.
81, a woman at Breslau, Germany
kills her five children and then her
self. Session of National Labor Con
gress at New York city. Cyclone a
Rochester, Minnesota; 81 persons
killed and 100 injured.
%, News received of battle be
tween Chilians and Indians; 400 o
latter reported killed.
"a. Death of Compile de Chambort
at the age of SO years. scah6ld fall
at Bavaria, Germany; % men killet
aud II wounded. Wholesale murde,
Of christians" by Albanians report
ed.
%, Thirty-two deaths from yellow
fever, in one week, at Havana, Cuba
Anti-Jewish riots at Egerszeg, Austria
26, Steamer Woodburn sunk OF
Eddystone light, Eng. Is lives lost.
j u, Volcanic eruption and tida
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Gus. Thirty Mexican revolutionist'
killed at Chiantra. Death of Arbuc
kle, the cornetist.
20, Cholera breaks out in Egypt
Theatre burned at 'Dervio, Italy
forty-seven lives lost. immigration
commissioners at New York city re
solve to put stop to foreign pauper
landing at that port. Railway acct
dent in Cuba eight persons killed.
26, Ohio Supreme Court decide tn,
Scott law to be constitutional. Col
liery explosion near Cardiff, Wales
two men killed and twelve injured
Accident on Northern Pacific result
ed in eighteen Cinnamon being killec
and twenty wounded.
%, British House of Lords rejec
the bill to permit marriage will
deceased wife's sister, by 145 to 140
JULY.
/, Railway accident at Rasselas
Penn, seven persons killed.
3, Railway accident near Spring
Grove Cemetery, Ohio; six persons
killed. Two killed and thirty in
jurcd on railroad at Huddersfeld
England. Steamer Daphne capsizes
Immediately after launch, near Glas
gov, Scotland; about one hundred
and fifty persons drowned.
4, National Autobiography conven
ton at Chicago. Death of Archbish
op Purcell, of Cincinnati, aged s;
years.
6, Heavy flood at Surat, India
hundred of houses swept away
British House of Commons by vote
Of 1870 to ia reject woman suffrage
s, Postmaster General Creswell de
sides that the postoflice can not be
used to send letters to lottery concerns
8, Revolution in Ecuador ended.
10, Battle in Peru between CHILEAN.
and Peruvians the latter were de-
feated.
II, Thames flood, at London, Ont
thirty persons drowned. Twelve sol
diers killed by the explosion of q
bomb, at Trippoli, Africa.
10, A great part of the city of Ros'
TOW, Russia, burned. Steamer Niaga.
ga burned off the Florida coast loss
$250,000. Death of Queen Ranavalc
II, Of Madagascar.
10. Twenty persons burned at a fire
in Hungary. Five children drowned
at Barnsley, England. "A number Of
persons massacred by Cetewago's fol-
lowers, in Zululand, Africa.
16, Death of General Tom Thumb,
aged 40 years.
10, Commencement Of w. U. tele-
grapher's strike, which ended on Au.
gust 18th, and resulted in defeat Of
the strikers. Slight earthquake at
LENA, South America.
20, Powder explosion at st. Peters
burg, Russia; nine persons killed.
Death of the King of Anam, after a
reign of &c years.
u, British rifle team defeat the
American rifle team, at Wimbledon,
England, by score of 1851 to 1906.
%, Death of General Ord, aged GA
years.
%, Sixty-fve persons drowned near
Baltimore, by breaking of wharf.
The Greedy relief steamer Proteus
crushed by ice, off the Greenland
coast.
"a, Captain Webb drowned while
trying to swim the Niagara rapids,
aged 80 years. Swedish monitor
Thordon founders. Seven persons
drowned at Geneva. News received
the defeat Of Cetewayo, in
South Africa.
25, Eight persons drowned at Rich
mond, Va, by upseting of boat.
q, Railroad accident near Carlyon,
N. Y, 10 persons killed and 80 in
jured. The French make a successful
sortie from Hanoi, Tonquin, and say
they killed 1000 of the enemy.
Death of the ex-postmaster general
Montgomery Blair, aged 20 years.
20, Great earthquake at Ischia,
Italy; 1890 persons killed, and 374
injured.
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2, Thirty persons killed and sixty
five wounded by the explosion Of a
boiler at st. Dizier, France.
3, Walter .. Gresham, Of Ind,
appointed postmaster general Of the
l.. S.
4, Death of Peter Cooper aged 90
years.
5, Powder depot at Passo Correse,
Italy, exploded forty persons killed,
and many injured.
6, Thirteen persons killed by the
fall Of hotel at Grcenville, Texas.
10, Eight men killed by cave of a
mine at Escanaba, Michigan.
IA, Seven miners killed by explo-
sion of fire damp in coal mine at
Lourches, France.
II, Sixty-two persons drowned by
the upsetting Of three RATS at Secun-
derabad, India.
Is, Five hundred dwellings destroy
ed by fire at Kataw, Russia.
20, Two thousand houses destroyed
by fire at Delhi, India. Seven persons
drowned by collision between the
steamers Thames and Nicenta, near
the Spanish coast. Six persons killed
by the falling of the roof of a hotel
at Sacramento, California.
%, Terrible tornado visits Mississip-
pi, Alabama and Georgia. A number
of villages wrecked, and immense dam
age done. About two hundred lives
lost. The village of Beauregard,
Miss, completely destroyed.
26, Death Of Abd-el-Kader, Ara
bian patriot, aged II years.
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Strike at the BOTTLE.

IS Strike at the Bottle.
on an easy-char, his physician being at his side " ~ i
said the old gentleman Now doctor you have been treating me for
long ume and haven't done much good I'm tired of ali this
want you to strike at the root of all my disorders"
Said the DOCTOR Do you exactly what you say?o
10 DC sure do said the venerable invalid
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ne broke to pieces the brandy which on the ante
ne old gentleman angry excited he had GOOD rr
eaa o the doctor Doctor hadn't been doctrine never
would have got into the habit of drinking" ~' i''ei
IN browns Iron Bters there strength debated refresh
ment Tor the nervous, and life for the broken-down
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MARCH.


1, Thomas w. Palmer elected L.
S. senator from Michigan.
4, Sixteen persons drowned by sink
ing of the steamer Yazoo, on the Mis-
sissippi, near New Orleans. Congress
adjourns.
6, Six vessels lost off the British
coast five lives lost.
Z, Sixty-five persons drowned by
the sinking of the steamer Navarro,
while on her way from Copenhagen to
Leith.
II, Eleven persons burned to death
and four others injured by the burn
ing of lodging house at Deadwood,
d. T. Prof. Virgins made his grand
fizzle as a predictor Of storms.
-, Eleven persons killed and ten
wounded by an explosion near Havana,
Cuba, and several lives lost by the
falling Of a theatre roof at Havana.
Is, Attempt to blow up the govern
ment officers at London, with dyna-
mite.
II, Ship Dunstallnagc, wrecked on
the Scottish coast fifteen men and n
number Of women and children
drowned.
80, Twcnty-three persons drowned
by the wreck of bark at Holy
head, England. Fifty-four persons
injured by railway accident, near
Mason, Ohio, on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad.
Deaths during March Alex. IL.
Stephens, on the 4th, aged II years ;
Prince Gortchakon, Russian states
man, on the 18th; Timothy O. Howe,
Postmaster General, on the 25th, aged
81 years.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-01-16
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Wednesday, January 16, 1884.
History OF 1883.

The year 1883 is principally re-
markable for disasters, and these have
been numerous and destructive. Muir
ders and crimes of various kinds were
plentiful. There has been no great
wars or political changes. 1t was
noted for great depression in trade
and for much suffering aud depriva-
ton of the laboring classes. The fol
lowing from the files Of the Detroit
Daily Free Press, will give the reader
an idea Of the principal events, acct
dents and disasters that have occurred
during 1888;