The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-09
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Wars, Earthquakes, Crimes, Acci-
dents and Fatalities.
The World in MlnIature-Many Deeds In
Many Lands-HOw History Was
Made from Day to Day
In 1885.
JANUARY.

Oangposs reaseembied
8 Governor Grover Cievel md of New
York resigned: Senate passed Oregon Cen.
Eral lnnd forfeiture bill House passed pen
alon appropriation bill; the steamer Belle
shreveport. with 100 passengers aboarl !, sinks
tends protection to Pandoland, South
Africa
g HOnse passed Reagan inter State COM
unerce bill Nme clovis Hughes acquitted OF
che murder of N. n Irln in Paris.
o Attempted assassination Of Thomas
Rhelan In ODonoyan RossA's New York
Office.
n cyclone passes through Alabama and
Georgia
T. Gsae off British coast; many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
~ Senate passed Grant retirement bill;
House passed French spollation claims and
Chinese ndemn ty bills; Panama engages in
ciVil war
is. steamer Admiral MORRISON sunk off
Holyhead, number of lives lost; forty eight
men killed by colllery explosion at Levin,
France.
II. Defeat of the rebels near Metemneh
Upper mgypt).
ls Seventeen lives of inmates lost In asy.
1um fire at Kankakee, III.
20 Villages in Italy and France destroyed
by aValan hes. great loss 0flfe.
"a An tempt to blow up the houses OF
Parliament and the Tower with dynamite;
sixteen persons injured, including num-
Der Of children.
Colonel Burnaby, at the fall OF Khar-
eOJuu.
90 Nicaraguan treaty rejected by United
States Senate.
80 Failing Of railroad train through a
bridge, near sydney, New South Wales; forty
lives lost
81. Three explo4 ious at Pittsburgh OF nat
'urai gas; many Injured
FEBRUARY.
/. 6tOre front of Garry Bros, New York,
demolished by dynamite
2 UDunOvan Rosa shot by Yseult Dudley.
6. Senate passed consular and diplomatic
apprODria ion bill.
7. Hallway collision, causing $500, 900 fire, at
New Brunswick, ~ j.
10 Explosion at the Vale colliery, Nova
Scotia, thirteen lives lost; Senate passed
pension appropriation bill.
H. The election OF Cleveland and Hendricks
formally declared.
u. sixteen lunatcs burned to death in q
Philadelphia Aims house; Senate passed
army appropriation bill.
13 Ala: Utah, buried by snow. slide;
thirty killed.
a. The French take Lang Son after Sc.
we're fight with the Chinese.
IL. Senate passed Indian appropriation
bill the explosion OF Il powder magazine az
Gibr liter kills seventeen men.
81. The Washington Monument dedicated.
% Communication received from Presi-
dent elert on sllvet q Iestion by Congress
man A. j. Warner, OF Ohio.
~. six Officers killed by an explosion at
6hoeburyness, England Senate passed ma.
val appropriation DILL House passed sundry
civn apprjpr alton bill burning of National
Tbeater at Washington.
MARCH.
2. Senate Increased New Orleans appro-
g. Explosion in UnswOrth colliery, Sunder-
land, England, thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pensi N appropriation bill.
1. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Prest-
dent
President oleveland's Cabinet an.
nounco1
9. Outoreak OF Asiatlc cholera In Java
over 1900 miners In the Pittsburgh dis.
trict strike.
1Guatem ia issue suspended OF land grant
warran' to Backbone Rallroad.
u, President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Canal and Spanish treaties from
Is. More than $50 miners killed by an ex.
plosion of fire damp at Camphausen, Prus.
20. Burning Of Oriental Hotel at Seattle,
W.T.; two persona killed.
o. a abs surprised British troop near
Snaki'p, but were repulsed with loss of 5000
men; British loss, 60O
g. The conslitutionality OF the Edmunds
anti polygamy law affirmed by the United
States Supre ne Court
%. Music Hall, Buffalo, N. T., destroyed by
Ore; breaking out In Northwest Canada OF
Refs second rebellion; French forces re-
Vpulsed by Chinese In ronquin:
%. British reserves and militia called out
for permAne 1t service.
III RxpIo ion OF coal dust at McAllister, L
T., eleven miners killed; thirty.five men
killed by gas explosion in CHILEAN mines
tran (MOravla), and Lebu (ChilD, destroying
40 Tne Chinese defeated the French
troops and recaptured the town OF Lang Son
30 General Kamaroff attacked the Afghans
at Penjdeh, aud defeated them; President
Barrios OF Guatemala, advanced on san Sal
vador-hs troops we're routed and he was
filled; British steamer Orestes sunk in col
Iision with Chinese steamer, seventy lives
81 The Panama insurgents burned Aspin
wall to avoid capture by government roops,
tagged and burned by Indians; NJ. De Frey
cinet forms new Ministry ut Paris
APRIL.
I. Geerse r. Wetmore Republican, wa
elected Governor OF Rhode Island:
3. Fire damp explosion In mine at Mar
Gineli0, eighteen men killed.
A. Marlnpol wrecked in Sea OF Azof, thirty
lives lost
j. James d. Fish, President OF Marine
Bank OK New York, convicted of emoezzle
iS Collapse of eight unfinished tenement
houses in New York; several workmen in
iured.
10. lTdhty VI pohcC StBuOO Wy OOhho
American republicans.
q. Town OF Wisehnitz, Austrian Gallcla
burned $50 houses destroyed.
y Twenty lives lost at Vicksburg Miss.
lower house OF the Prussian Landtag re
Iected the proposal OF DIR. Windhorst to re
peal the law stopping the temporalitles o
the Catholic clergy.
"a American marines entered Aspinwal
and AiEp1rn made prisoner; engagement be
tween Canadian troops and Riers forces d
Fish Greek
% Eleven men buried under a snow s,id
near Iomesttke Nine, on Eagle River Col.
"a. British House Of Commons voted a wa
credit OF S55,O0O,OU0
NAY.
The Japanese village exhibition an
Humphreys Hall, Hyde Park, Ion Tor
burned; hgnt on Chief Poundmaker's rC
serve between Riefs Indians and Canada
troops
5. Eleven persons burned to death In Ne
York tsnoment house; explosion OF bolIe
of Fremont House, at Galveston, Tex. tou
kilel.
8 collapse OF factory in state stree
Broolyn, followed by hre-ten person
killed
Rebels attacked Cartagena. Colombia.
Fepulsed " On the loss OF $40 men: reunion /
1oltimOrl NJ Army Of the pDfumap