Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-01

hoade, the popular Euglish novelist aged
10 NJ. dean Baptiste Dumas, a French
nfieraieur and statesman. Ex-Ideut Gov.
Jabez Fitch. of Ohio. Emanuel Gerbel,
German poet. Jem Ward, the old time
English pugilisL Alf. Burnett, a noted hu-
norlst. of Cincinnati.
The British troops Withdrawn from Erkpf
John Jay Knox resigns the Comptroilership
of the Treasury. The Queen of Tahiti makes
tour across the continent spanish troops
Ia Cuba attack band of forty-fwo insurg-
ents and Kill thirty Of them. Pope Leo
ISSUES an encyeiical letter denouncing secret
societies Frank James, the bandit, ac-
Quilted.
The town of Oaksille, Ind, DESTROYED by
a cyclone, and five persons killed. Loss of
the steamer Daniel Steinmann OF Halifax;
ia people drowned. Many people killed
and manned by fire and panic in theater
at Bucharest Collision between steamer
State of Florida and bark Ponema. Both
vessels lost l35 persons drowned. More than
forty persons killed by the falling of train
of cars into the river near Cindad Real,
Spain Explosion of powder magazine of
San Antonio, near Havana; twenty-one per-
sons killed and many wounded.
Died: AT Boston, George Mountfort, son
of one of the celebrated tea party which
was prime cause of the revolutionary war
Bartle frere, Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope. AZ Prague, ex-Empress Anna in her
eighty first year. In Constanflnople, Midhat
Pasha, aged sixfy-two. AT Nantucket, Mass.
Charles O'Conor, aged eighty. Ina Chicago,
Cyrus II. Mccormick, aged seventy five
Ia New York, Cishop Benjamin Bosworth
Smith, of Kentucky, aged 80. DIR. Willard
Parker, an eminent surgeon of New York
Col. Thomas H. Hunt, treasurer of the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans. Judah
+. Benjamin, formerly Senator from Louis
lana and Confederate Secretary of War, at
Paris Two thousand men, women and chill
dren, many of them refugees from Khar-
The failure of the Grants.
The Methodist General Conference elected
as Bishops Rev. w. A.,Ninde. j. NJ. Walden.
and w. f. Mallahen. The Greely relief ex-
pedition sails; James X. Keene failed
The French brig Senorine foundered of the
great banks of Newfoundland, the crew and
passengers, numbering sixty-two, perish
ing. The British ship Syria wrecked on the
FIJI Islands; seventy passengers, all coolies,
were drowned.
Died: Samuel S. Shoemaker. ex-yice
President of the Adams Express company,
and prominent citizen of Baltimore aged
63. Henry G. Vennor. the Canadian weather
prophet, at Montreal. in his 10th year.
The Republican National Convention was
held at Chicago, opening on the Sd. On the
9Th, James q. Blaine, of Maine was nomi-
mated for President on the fourth ballot, and
John A. Logan, of Illinois, for yice-Pres-
ident without opposition. The cholera
made Its appearance IN France, many
deathssoccuring at Toulon and Marseilles
General Iglesias decided constitu-
tional the act of the Legislature
making il felony TO keep a gambling
horsa E,o,aror U,ll;.,,, l..1 a., r~...5e
ton of the new German Parliament build
ings at Berlin. News from Greenland of the
loss of the Danish brig Elena and ten of her
crew. Two Americans and twelve Mexicans
killed in a railroad accident at New Laredo.
Several persons fatally injured by the wreck
ing OF train on the Burlington and Mis-
souri, railroad. twenty-five persons killed
by the breaking of an engine axle on the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway, England.
Forty persons overwhelmed and drowned by
a water spout in Russian Turkestan.
JULY.
Died: At Chicago, H.. Allen Pinkerton.
head of the detective agency, aged sixty -one.
In Syracuse, N. Y, ex-Attorney General
Daniel Pratt, aged seventy EIGHT. In Prince
ton, N. j., Rear Admiral George Emmons,
aged seventy-fve. At New Orleans, Paul
Morphy. the famous chess-player. At
Waterford. Me-, Mrs. Caroline T. Brown
mother of the humorist, 'Artemus Ward''
Charles f. Brown aged seventy-eight.
The Democratic National Convention was
held at Chicago. opening on the Sth. w. n
Villas, of Wisconsin, was chosen permanent
chairman. On the 18th, Grover Cleveland.
of New York, was nominated for President
on the second ballot, and Thomas A. Hend-
ricks, of Indiana, for Vice President, with
out opposition. The National Prohibition
Convention met in Pittsburgh on the
ESD % md. and nSminated 20 1nss for President
for Vice President William Daniel, of
Maryland. Congress adjourned on the eth
of the month. The President vetoed the
Fitz-John Porter bill. The Greely relief
expedition returned from the artic regions
with Lieut.. Greely and six of his surviving
fellow explorers. Seventeen Others of the
expedition perished from starvation. and
one was lost while hunting seals. The
corpses of twelve of the party were brought
back, the remains of the other FIVE having
been swept out to sea by the winds.
AUGUST.
Died: At Brighton, England. Arthur
Richard Wellesley, second Duke of yelling
ton. aged seventy seven. At Alton, Ill, An
derson Riley, a former slave. aged III, Rev.
of welcome to Lafayette at kewburrh. n. ".
in 1924 DIR. j. J. Woodward, one of the
physicians who attended President Garfield
in his last illness. Az Huntsville. Ala. Gen.
Leroy Pope Walker. who gave the order for
firing on Fort Sumter.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer.
returned 10 England, having completed the
work of establishing satisfactory trading
stations along the Congo nver from its
mouth 10 Stanley Pool, 400 miles By river
Utah county elections result In the success Of
of the Mormon tickets all over the Terri
tory. Capt Payne and his hand of invaders
expelled from the Indian Territory By United
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coast causes considerable loss Of life Seven
men killed by an explosion in a coal-pit ef
Paisley. Scotland. Ten men belonging 20
Orton's circus perish in a burning sleeping
car near Greeley. Col.
sBpTExBER.
Died-Commodors Thomas s Fillebroxn.
coTnmander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
John n. Garrett, the veteran railway usan-
ager. aged g. Rober1 Hoe. known through
out the world for his development Of The
printing press. aged Is. United Sfatts
senator Henry n. ADfh0nF of Rhode Island