Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-09
9. Battle Of Batouche's Crossing between

8. Battle OF Batouche's Crossing between
Riers % forces and Canada troops.,Riel routed.
10. The King of DahOmey made a raid on
the villages under French protection near
Porto Novo, and captured a thousand men
and women to be sacrificed at the cannibal-
istic feasts.
II. News Of avalanche in Iceland in April
confirmed-ffteen dwellings swept into the
sea and twenty four persons drowned.
Ii. Riot in London around Nelson Monu-
ment, Trafalgar Square.
a. Nitro glycerine factory at Somerset,
Pa, blown to atoms
Is. Louis Riel captured by General Middle
toms forces north of Batouche; new ver-
sion OF the Old Testament given to the pub
lie at London.
Cunningham and Burton, dynamiters,
sentenced at London to penal servitude
forlife for causing Tower of London explo-
sion.
19. Robert E. Odlum killed in jumping
from the Brooklyn Bridge, General John A
Logan elected Unitsd States Senator by the
Illinois Leg stature.
q. Fifteen wOrkingwomen SuffOcated in g
burning building, Cincinneti-
25. French fishing Dark Georges Jeanne
sunk off the banks of Newfoundland by
steamer City of Rome, twenty two men
2I. Chief Poundmaker and 24O men surren.
dered to General Middleton; collapse Of a
tenement mouse, burying twenty nine occu-
pants; four killed.
Is. sinking of bark George Jones off New
foundland, and twenty three lives lost.
81 81; Terrific earthqaakes in the Vale OF
and three were swallowed up.
JUNE.
3. Thirteen miners killed near Durham,
England.
8. The Ohio Greenback- Labor party nomi-
mated j. w Northrop for Governor; Mr..
Gladstone announced In the House of Com
mons that Russia and England had come to
an agreement concerning the points OF diff
ference between them.
8. Gladstones Government defeated on the
excise bill, Lord SALISBURY summoned to
form new CABINET; water spout de-
stroyed the town of Paso de Curaenta, Mex
leo, 40 lives lost
9. treaty of peace signed between France
and China; Dubuque, Ia, swept by cy-
clone.
10 At Theirs, France, during murder
trial, many persons killed by tn falling of a
stone STAIR ase IN tn Court house.
IL Six men killed by the caving In OF the
walls OF the new river tunnel above Chatta-
nooga, Team.
~. Giadstone's resignation accepted by
Queen Victoria.
L.. News of sinking of British steamer
Spoke Hail from Liverpool for Bombay, in
the Gulf OF Alden, oniy one survivor.
Is. Senator H. W. Blar, of New Hamp
shire, re elected; General Grant taken to
Mount MacGregor; recurrence Of earthquake
snocks in Cashmere, 3,o5l persons in all per-
ished.
II Nearly two hundred miners killed by an
explosion in Pendiebury coiiiery, near Man
chester, England.
H. Barenoldrs statue of Liberty Enlght-
~. Ten men killed ny an explosion in the
Burley pit, North otafordsnire, England.
II. RIOT at Madrid; soldiers stoned and
q cyclones IN Missouri and Dakota; Aus
tria re, uses to receive United States Minis
ter Kiely.
news of the loss at sea OF the Italian steam
Ell Italia with sixty five passengers.
p. Powder null explosion at Lucca, Italy,
number OF workmen killed
Z6. Wreck at lOkOlOma HarOOr OF steam
ship City of Toxic
27. An explosion of fire damp at Dudweller,
near SaarDrucken, Prussia, killed eighteen
miners; James KimDall appointed Direc-
tor of the oiint
80 Ysult Dudley acquitted of shooting
ODonOvan KoSsa on ground oftnsanity; Chi
cago ST. lear employees strike.
JULY
l. Strike of Chicago street. car employees,
rioting begun; snow ialls in Tazewell Coun-
ty, Virginia
Governor Rev A. 5 Leonard; twenty villages
IN Austria isnited by lightning and burned,
six lives lost
g. Bradlaugh refused permission to take
the oath in the English House OF Commons.
g. Cyclones in Iowa, Wisconsin anu Minne-
sofa
IL. Ten cit zens of Minneapolis, including
ex Mavor Rand, drowned by tue sinking OF a
steam yacht on Lake MinnetonAa; Attorney
General Garland decides that Secretary
Whitney can not accept the Dolphin On the
report OF the Exam ming Doard.
L.. Orange riots at aterioi q, ireland.
IA. Annual Photographers convention at
Buffalo, n. i.
10. international Reservation az Niagara
Falls formerly 1ened.
l6 The Virginia Republicans nominated
John 5. Wise for Governor. Washington
Post building destroyed Dy nre.
u. Eleven persons drowned by the sink
ing OF the Liverpool and Lonlon Steamer
Cheerful in co lisicn with the Hecla
y. FOresl d 5s IN south jersey.
The PrIucasJ BeaariCe. Queen NlctOr1a6
youngest daughter, and Pfin;e II. iry OF
Ba a.tenberg, were married at Wipplngham.
"a TN r1een per sons killed and many in
jured by storm at ORE Cafe an, Italy.
.5 Forty persons killed and many wound
ed by tue collapse OF row Of buildings In
81 rhe Virginia Democratic State Conven-
tIon nominated Fitzhugh Lee for Governor
81 Ex surgeon General Wales suspended
for five years for neglect OF duty.
AUGUST.
l. Louis Riel C nvicted of high treason at
Winnipeg, MantoDa, aud sentenced to be
hanged 5eptemb tr 18th.
Half mile of pui iings burned at To-
ronto Ont. loss, Sl,0 1910
g. News of a great earthquake In Tashk n !
Asiatic Turkey, hiLy four pc sons killed aud
sixty four injured; cyclone sweeps up Della
ware River from Greenwich Point; steamer
Keybold wrecked
6. News OF the loss in the Arctic re {ions OF
the bark Napo con, of New Bedford, with
twenty -tWD sailors
g. The funeral Of General Grant at Piver-
side Park eis Int guests burned to death in
the Montezuma Hotel, Las Vegas Hot
Springs, N NJ.
10 President Cleveland's proclamation or
dering the removal of fences from public
lands.
IL Twelve men suffocated in a coal mine at
Scnickshinny.
H. British Parliament thank army and
navy for services in Egypt and the Sou
dan.
IA British Parliament prorogued; Fore
paugh's circus train wrecked at Eddyvlile,
Ia.
H. Steamer s. NJ. FELTON, shattered by dyna-
mite explosion thirteen injured.
49, Don Pedro Prestan, the destroyer OF
Colon, was hanged at Aspinwaii
49, Wreck of the British ship Haidington-
shire on the California coast. eighteen lIveS
lost the German covette Augusta, valued at
s., ,750, 900 wrecked in a cyclone In the Red sea;
23s lives lost
~ Ouio Democratic Convention nominates
Hoadly for Governor.
o. seven persons killed In collision on
London Underground Railroad
81 Anti German demonstration in Madrid
over Caroline Islands difficulty.
25. bungalow laden with pilgrims
wrecked in the Gulf oil Alden, 100 drowned;
cyclone at Savannah and Charleston
wrecked many buildings, vessels driven
ashore and several lives lost.
2S News of the floods in China In June last
received, villages swept away and 10000 per-
n ad