Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-01-20
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1886.
History of the World for the Year of
1885.
JANUARY.

1885.
JANUARY.
6. Grover Cleveland resigns the
governorship of New York.
IA. The Senate passes the bill plac-
ing Gen. Grant on the retired list of
the army.
II. Egyptian rebels defeated at
Nehemiah, and Col. Burnsby killed.
Is. Insane asylum at Kankakee,
Ills, burned, and II inmates perish.
"a. Attempt made to blow up the
Tower of London, the House of Com
mons and Westminster Hall with
dynamite 16 persons injured.
26. Khartoum captured by the
Madhi and Gen, Gordon killed.
30. Railroad bridge accident in
New South Wales, 40 lives lost.
FEBRUARY.
2. O'Donovan Rosa shot and
wounded by Mrs. Yseult Dudley.
10. Colliery explosion in Nova
Scotia, 13 lives lost.
II. The electoral vote formally
counted in Congress, and Cleveland
and Hendricks declared elected.
IL. Almshouse at Philadelphia
burned, with 16 lunatic inmates.
MARCH.
8. -Colliery explosion in Sunder-
land, England; 36 men killed.
4. The 48th Congress adjourned
sine die, its last act being the placing
of Gen. Grant on the retired list,
with rank of general and salary of
$13,500. Grover Cleveland inaugu-
rated President of the United States.
5. President Cleveland announces
his cabinet.
6. Colliery explosion at Karwin,
Austria; 147 miners killed.
IS. Colliery explosion at Camp-Map
sen, Prussia over $50 lives lost.
%. Battle between the Arabs and
the British near Suakin. The Arabs
badly defeated.
%. Music Hall, Buffalo. destroyed
by fire.
20. The Ferry ministry resigns in
consequence of news of French re-
verses in China.
80. President Barrios, of Guate-
mala, advances on San Salvador and
is defeated and killed in the first en-
gagement. The Russians capture
Penjdeh from the Afghans. British
steamer Orestes sunk by collision
20 lives lost.
81. Colon, Central America, burn
ed by rebels. Battleford pillaged and
burned by the rebel Indians in the
Northwest.
2. u. S. Senate adjourns from the
extra session.
6. New French cabinet formed un-
der M, Brisson.
%. Great fire at Vicksburg, Miss;
20 lives lost.
26. Eleven men buried under a
snowslide in Colorado.
27. Intense sensation in England
over Russian aggressions in Afghan
istan, and war credit of S55, 900, 900
voted by Parliament. Avalanche in
Iceland "a lives lost.
3. Tenement house fire in New
York; IL persons burned.
5. Fall of factory at Brooklyn, N.
Y, followed by fire; 10 lives lost.
6. Portazal and Cocobolo, leaders
eff the Panama rebellion, hanged at
Colon.
7. Cartagena, Republic of Column
bia, assaulted by revolutionists, who
are repulsed with loss of 800 men.
8. Sixty-eight persons killed by an
avalanche in Armenia.
10. The King of Dahomey, in wes-
tern Africa, made raid on villages
under French protection, and captur.
ed 1000 men and women for canni-
ballistic sacrifice.
is. Louis Riel, leader of the Mani
toban rebellion, captured.
10. Robert f. Odlum made an ex-
perimental leap from the Brooklyn
bridge and was killed. Gen. John A.
Logan elected U. S. Senator from
Illinois.
81. Fire in Cincinnati; Is working
women suffocated.
%. Steamship City of Rome sinks
French fishing bark on the banks of
Newfoundland % lives lost. Terri
BILE earthquake in Cashmere; 3,081
lives lost with 10000 houses.
81. Fall of tenement house in
Jersey City; lives lost. Pound
maker, Indian rebel chief, surrender
ed, with 240 men, to the Canadian
authorities.
8. Colliery explosion near Durham,
Eng; IL miners killed.
8. Gladstone ministry defeated on
the second reading of the budget, 264
to 252, whereupon they resign, and
the Marquis of Salisbury is asked by
the Queen TO form new cabinet.
French chamber pass the scrutin de
liste election also secularize the
church IN Paris, known as the Panthe-
on, in order that Victor Hugo might
be buried there. Paso de Cuarenta,
Mexico, destroyed by waterspout,
ITO persons drowned
8. Treaty of peace between France
and China signed.
Ia. Steamer Speke Hall sinks in