The Osceola times., 1886-01-09
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Wars, Earthquakes, Crimes, Acci-
dents and Fatalities.
The World In Miniature--Msny Deeds In
Many Lands-Uow History Was
Made from Day to Day
In 1885.

Many Lsnds-Uow History Was
Made from Day to Day
JANUARY.
q Dynamite explosion on underground
railroad in LONDON earth1uafe shocks de-
stroy Albania, spain
l. Earthquakes at Lap )nia, y. IL
O. Congress rea.s emblel L.
q Governor Grover CleVel M OF Sow
tral lani forfeiture bill; House passed pen
sion Appropriation bill: the steamer Belle
Shreveport. with 100 p lssengers a0oari SINKS
in the Mlssis siDpi at Island ~; England ex-
tends protection to Pauloland. south
8 House passed Reagan inter State CON.
merce bill: Mme Clovis Hug acquitted OF
the murder OF NJ NJ Drln In Paris.
9 Attempted assassination OF Thomas
Phelan in 0Donovan Rossa's New York
ONCE.
ii Cyclons passes through Alabama and
r. Gale off British coast; many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
13 i,ioting at South Bend, Ind, by str Tx
IT, Senate passed Grant retirement bill;
House passed French sDoitation cla'ms ana
Chinese indemnity bills; Panama engages In
civil war.
is steamer Admiral Moorsom sunk of
Holyhead, number Of lives lost; forty eight
men killed by coliery explosion at Levin,
H. Defeat of the rebels near Metemneh
(Upper EgypI.
Is seventeen lives OF inmates lost in asy.
lum fire at kalkikee, ILL.,
20 Villages In Italy aud France destroyed
by avalan, hes great loss HE.
"a An attempt to blow up the houses OF
Parliament an1 the Tower with dynamite;
sixteen person, injured, including mum
Der OF children.
a5, Tne French Senatorial elections.
a 4 tn,,k
26 Deaths OF General Gordon ana l.leuteh-
ant Colonel Burnaby, at the fall OF Khar'
toum.
States senate. -
bridge, near sydney, New South Wales; forty
lives lost.
ST. Three explo sious at Pittsburgh OF nat
urai gas. many injured
FEBRUARY.
!. Store front of Garry Bros, New fork,
demolished by dynamite
SODonovan Ilossa shot by Yseult Dudley,
0. Senate passed consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill
1 Railway collision. causing 500 900 fire, at
10 Explosion at the Vale colliery, Nova
Scotia. thirteen lives lost; senate passed
pension appropriation bill.
ii. The election of Cleveland and Hendricks
formally declared
IL sixteen lunatlcs burned to death In 3
Philadelpha Aims -house; senate passed
army appropriation bill
ia. Alta, Utah, buried by ow'slIdc:
thirty killed
IA. The French take Lang Son after a Sc.
we're lght with the Chinese.
10. senate passed Indian appropriation
bill the explosion of a powder magazine at
Gibr liter kills seventeen men.
II. House passed legislative Appropriation
IS. Senate passed anti foreign contract la
10 Senate passed Texas Pacific forfeiture
%. Senate passed agricultural appropria,
tion bill
~. The Washington Monum mt dedicated.
%. Senate passed Post-office appropria-
tlon bill ami House naval approprlat on bill.
a, Senate passed oklahoma land oili
25 Communication received from Presi'
dent elect IN silver question by Congress
man A. j. Warner, of OHIO.
81. six officers killed by an explosion at
Shoeburyness. England: Senate passed ma
val appropriation bill House passed. sundry
civil Appropriation bill burning OF National
Theater at Washington.
2s House passed fortifcations appropris-
tion bill.
MARCH.
2. Senate increased New orleans appro-
priation bill TO 100000
g. Explosion in Unsworth colliery. sunder
land, England, thirty six men killed; senate
passed pension Appropriation bill.
1. Grover Cleveland insugurated Presl-
dent
S President Cleveiand's Cabinet an.
nOunCtu,
s. Colliery explosion at Karwin, Austrian
Sllesla, killing li7 men.
l. The Wabash men, ct Moberly, strike.
.. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera In java,
over ll.0O0 mluers IN the Pittsburgh dis
trict strike.
IL. san salvador declares war against
Guatemala; lssue uspended OF land grant
warrants to Backbone l,lilrOal
Il. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Canal and spanish treaties from
tue Senate
Is More than $50 miners killed by an ex
ploslon OF Are damp ut Camphausen, Prus'
20 Burning of Oriental Hotel ut Seattle,
w. T.; Two persons killed.
IL Fire In the Capitol building at Trenton,
a. Arabs surprised British troop near
Suaklm, hut wore repulsed with loss of 5000
men British loss, 60)
a. The conslitntionality OF the Eimunds
anti -polygamy law affirmed by the United
States supreme Court
%. Music Hal, Buinlo, n T., destroyed by
fire, breaking out In Northwest Can ida OF
Riels second rebellion; French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in Tonquin.
26. British reserves and militia called ont
for permanent service.
81 Explo,lon of coal dust at McAlllster, I
T, eleven miners KILLED; thirty.nve men
killed by gas explosion In Chllian mines;
mine explosions at Troppau tAustrlal, Os'
ls7 lives
20 The Chinese defeated the French
30 General Ramaron attacked the Atghans
at Penideh. and defeated them; President
Barrlos OF Guatemala, advanced on san sal 9.
vador-his troops wer' routed and he WAS
killed; British steamer Orestes sunk in col
lision with Chinese steamer, seventy lives
lost
81. The Panama insurgents burned AspIn.
wall to avoid capture by Government roops I,
the town OF Battleford, n w. T., was pill
laged and burned by Indians; NJ. De Frey
cinet forms new Ministry at Paris
APRIL.
l. George Il. wetmore, Republican, was
elected Governor OF Rhode Island.
s. Fire damp explosion In a mine at Mar.
tnello, eighteen men killed
T. Marinpol wrecked In Sea OF Azof, thirty
lives lost
s. A new Cabinet in France under NJ. Bris.
son; ten men buried by fall of a coal mine at
Raven Rnn, Pa.
l. James d. Fish, President OF Marine
Bank OF New York, convicted OF embezzle
ment.
i3. Collapse OF eight unfinished tenement
houses in New York; several workmen in.
Iured
Is. Treaty of peace signed by Central
American Republicans.
q. Town OF Wischnitz, Austrian Galcia,
burned $50 houses destroyed.
% Twenty lives lost ut Nlcksburg. Miss. !;
tower house OF the Prussian Landtag re-.
| Iected the proposal of DIR. Windhorst to re
peal the taw stopping the temporallties OF
| the Catholic clergy.
70 American marines entered Aspinwall,
and AzDurn made prisoner; engagement be
tween Canadian troops and Riers forces at
Fish Creek
20 Eleven men buried under n snow slide
near llomestnke Mine, on Eagle River, Col.
q. British House OF Commons volei a war
credit of SS000,0y0
%. The Prince and Princess Of Wales CON
cluded Irish tour, and returned to London.
MAY.
.. The Japanese village exhibision and