The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-14

dered to General Midtleton;- collapse of a
tenement house, b1rying twenty nine occu-
pants; fOar killed
3 Sinking OF bark George Jones of New
fountland, and twenty three lives lost.
81. Terrific earthquakes in the Vale OF
Cashmere, whole villages were destroyed,
and three were swallowed up.
JUNE.
s. Thirteen miners killed near Durham,
England ).
5. 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 c0mt to
a& agreement concerning the points OF diff
ference between them
g. GIa iStole's Governm snt defeated on the
excise bill; Lord Salisbury summoned to
form a new Cabinet; u Water-5Dout de-
stroyei the town OF Paso de Curaenta, Mex
g. Atreaty of peace signed between Fra ice
and China; Dubuque, Ia, swept by cy-
clone.
.riaI, many perso sons killed by the falling VI Q
stone staIrcase In ths Courthouse.
IL Six men killed by the caviug In OF yhs
walls OF the new river tunnel above Chat.a-
nooga, Team.
u. Giadstoae's resignation accepted By
Queen Victoria.
H. New, of sinking OF British steamer
Speke Hal from Liverpool Cor Bombay, in
the Gulf OF Alden, only one survivor.
Ii. Senator H. W. Blair, OF New HaWp-
shire. re elected; General Graas taken to
VI
shocks in Cashmere, 3,eSl persons i'll ali pr
ished.
IL .arly two hundred miners killed by TN
explO sion In P5Edieodry coiiiery, near MAn-
chester, L gland
I9 Bartholdis statue OF Liberty Enlighs-
en,ng the World" receivelin New York.
20 Ten men killed oy an expi1sion in the
Buriey pit, North stafford SHIRE, England.
2l Riot ut Ma irid; soldiers Stoaed and
mob fire upon
D. Cyclones in Missouri AMI DAKOTA: Aus
tria refuses to receive United States Minis
ter Kiely.
.. rhe new British Ministry aun 0uuced !;
news Of the loss az sea OF the Itaiian steam
er Italia with sixty five pas SSenGers.
81. Powder mill explosion at Lucca, Italy,
numb sr o. wprSmen killed
26. WreciE vt YoSohOma IIsroor of steam
ship City of .OSiO.
27 An expI 5sioa of fire damp At D Idweller.
near Saaroru:kAa, Prussia. kiile1 eighteen
miners James kim3dl appointed Direc-
tor OF the Mint.
% YsuIs Dudley acquitted OF shooting
O'Donoyan Rossa on ground otinsanlty; Chi
cago stfeet-car employees strike.
pULY.
l. Strike of Chicago street-car employees,
riOtinS begun; snow falls In Taz5well Coun-
, The Ohio ProhibitlonIsts nominated for
Governor Rev. a. ) Leonard; twenty villages
IN Austria ignitei by lightning and. burned,
G. Brallaugh refused permission TO take
the oath in the En- Glish House OF Commons.
g. Cyclones in Iowa, Wisconsin AMI Mime
sofa
II. Ten citizens of Minneapolis, -includ ng
ex Mayor Rand, dr0wne by che stalking of u
steam Va cht on Lake MInnetonka; Attorney
General GatlanI decides that Secretary
Whitney eau not accept the Dolphin Oh the
report of the Examining Boar'l
Il Orange riots at Waterford, ireland.
II. Annual photographer Convention az
Buffalo, n. Y
Is. International Reservation at Niagara
Falls formerly opened-
15. The Virginia Republicans nominated
John 5. Wise for Governor; Was iingtoa
Post buildn destroyed by fire.
81. Eleven persons dro owne1 by the sink
ing OF the Liverpool and Lonion Steamer
Cheerful in collision with the uecla.
-. Forest fees in South Jersey
D. The Princess Beatrice, Queen Vlctoria's
youngest daughter. 1al Prihra Htnry OF
Batten0ers, were married at Wippingham.
Isle OF Wight.
o. Thirteen persons killed and many in
iured by storm ut rorre Caie.an'. Italy.
.. Forty parsons kiIle and many wound
ed by tue collapse of a row of buildings in
2G The Virginia Democratic State Couven-
ton nominated Fitzhu8h Lee for Governor.
81. EX-Surgeon- General Wales suspended
for five years for neglect of duty.
AUGUST.
l. Louis Riel convicted of high treason at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, aud sentenced to be
hanged september l5th.
Hail u mile of buildings burned at 80
ronto, Oat.; loss, SO 1000
3. News OF "A great earthquake in TdShSan i,
AsIatic Turkey, nfty four persons killed Hdd
ware River from Greenwich Point; steamer
R5yODi1 wrecke
g. News OF the loss in the Arctic re sion5 of
the bark Napo eDn, OF New Bedford, with
tweney-twD sailors.
8 The funeral of Gen eral Grant at River-
side Park. eight guests burned to death in
the Montezuma Hotel, Las Vegas Hos
TO- President CIeveianI's proclamation or
derius the removal OF fence5 from public
lands.
Schick5hinny.
r. British Parliament thank army and
navy for services in Egypt and the Sou
dan.
H. British Parliament proro o5ued: Fore
paugh'5 circus train wrecked at EIdyvilIe,
Ia.
H. Steamer s. NJ FELTON, shattered by dyna-
mite expio5ion-thirteen injure1
Is. Don Pedro PreStan, the destroyer OF
Colon, was hanged ut Aspinwal.
IS. Wreck of the British ship liza idiuZton-
lost; the Gecman covette Augusta, valued at
81, ,751 900 wr -c!1od in 4 cyclone i'll the Red Sea;
23S lives lost.
~ Ohio Dem ocratic Convention nominates
HOatly for Governor.
q. seven persons killed In collision on
London Underground Railroad
2I. Anti Gel erman dem OnStr alton in Madrid
over Caroline Islands diiicuEy.
25- \ bungalow laden with pilgrims
wrecked in the Calf OF Aden, I0J drowned;
cyclone at Savannah and Charleston
wrecked many buildings. vessels driven
ashore and several lives lost.
2j News OF the floods in China in June last
villages swept away aud 1900 per
sons drowned.
81. Cholera riots in Spain.
sEPrEMBsE.
.. The white miners at Rock Springs, Wy.
T.. assaulted 90 Uhiue5c miners, and drove
them to the hills. killing df.y of them; wreck
of tue Allan Line mail steamer HanoVerian
at Portugal Cove. near Cape Race.
5. Excitem en5 at Mtlrid over the seizure
by Germany of the Isiunl OF zap; 2i,0)J
Christians ma5Sacrei in Cochin China
5 The tDHa of Washington. o, swepE away
by a lorna 10, several persons killed
TO- Collision of the British steam er Auck-
land with the German gun-boat Blitz, fifteen
sailors drOwaed-
H. Charming. Adopted son of Tudoc, ex-
pro -Iaime King OF Anam.
l5 Jumbo, believed to be the largest ele-
phant in the world, killed by a railroad train
near st. Tnomas, Ontario, Canada.
Is Seventeen lives lost by collision in the
North sea betwaen the steamers brenda and
Dolphin; the people of PniiippOpoli5, the
capital of Roumelia, rose in rebellion, pro-
claiming the union of East Roumela AMI
Bulgaria.
20, Centennial temperance celebrations
throu shOut the country.
% Ira Davenport nominated by the New
York Republicans for Governor; seventeen
persons crnshe to ieath at Christine Nils
sons concert at Stockholm, Sweden.
"a Dlvii r. Hill nominated for Governor
by New York Democrats.
2G Secretary Whitney orders League
Island Navy Yard cIo5el
25 Anti vaccination riots in Montreal.
%. Disastrous foods covering an area OF
$50 square miles, reported IN Bengal Brit
sh India.
OCTOBER
/. Beginning of special delivery system in
Post Office; six penny tele gram system De-
gan in Great Britaln-twelve words foc six
pence.
3. Conflict between Bulgarian and Servisn
outposts.
4. Roblnson's circus train wrecked on the
Pacific RaiIrOad-hve men killed
and forty Injured
Rev J. L. h Curry, OF Virginia. ap-
pointed Minister to Spain; Cork (Ireland)
Steamship Company DOycotted by cattle
Dealers for carrying boycotted cattle; Char