Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-09
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Wars, Earthquakes, Crimes, Acci-
dents and Fatalities.

The World in Miniature-Many Deeds I'm
Many Lands-How History Was
Made from Day to Day
= Dynamite explosion on underground
railroad In London; earthquake shocks de.
etroy Albania, Spain.
T. Earthquakes at Laponia, N. II
B. Congress reaSSembled.
6 Governor Grover Cleveland of New
York resigned: Senate passed Oregon Gen.
tral land forseiture bill House passed pen
sion appropriation bill: the steamer Belle
Shreveport. with 100 passengers aboar |, sinks
In the Mississippi at Island 66: England ex-
tends protection to Pandoland. South
Africa
g. House passed Reagan inter State COM
merce bill; Nine. Clovis Hughes acquitted Of
the murder of NJ. NJ Drin in Paris.
8. Attempted assassination of Thomas
Phelan in ODonovan Rossa'5 New York
Office.
II Cyclone passes through Alabama and
Il. Gale off British coast: many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
IA. Senate passed Grant retirement bill;
House passed French spoliation claims and
Chinese indemnity bills; Panama engages in
civil war.
is. Steamer Admiral Moorsom sunk off
men killed by colliery explosion at Levin,
France.
II. Defeat of the rebels near Metemneh
Upper Egypt.
Is. Seventeen lives of inmates lost in asy-
1um fire at Kankakee, Ill.
20. Villages in Italy and France destroyed
by avalan, hes great loss of life.
"a. An q tempt to blow up the houses of
Parliament and the Tower with dynamite;
sixteen persons injured, including a num-
Der OF children.
26. Deaths of General Gordon and Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Burnaby, at the fall of Khar-
toum.
20 Nicaraguan treaty rejected by United
States Senate.
80. Falling of a railroad train through
bridge. near Sydney, New South Wales; forty
lives lost.
3d. Three explosions at Pittsburgh Of nat
ural gas; many injured
FEBRUARY.
!. Store front of Garry Bros, New York,
demolished by dynamite
2. O'Donovan Rossa shot by Yseult Dudley
6. Senate passed consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill.
Z. hallway collision, causing $500, 900 fire, at
New Brunswick, N. j.
10 Explosion at the Vale coliiery, Nova
Scotia, thirteen lives lost; Senate passed
pension appropriation bill.
H. The election of Cleveland and Hendricks
formally declared.
l2 sixteen lunatics burned to death in
Philadelphia Aims house; Senate passed
army appropriation bill
i3 Alta Utan, purieu ny SnoW- sLoo'
a. The French take Lang Son after Sc
we're fight with the Chinese
l6: Senate passed Indian appropriation
bill the explosion of Il pOwder magazine at
Gibr liter kills seventeen men.
81. The Washington Monument dedicated.
e5 Communication received from Presi-
dent elect on silver question by Congress
man A. j. Warner, of Ohio.
81 six officers killed by an explosion at
6hoeburyness, England Senate passed ma
col yafiN I,iIt ma
civil appropriation bill; burning OF National
Theater at WASHINGTON.
MARCH
2. Senate increased New Orleans appro-
priat on bill to SlU.n00.
3. Explosion in Ellsworth colliery. Sunder-
land, England, thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pensin appropriation bill.
4. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Presi-
dent
President Clevelands Cabinet an.
nOunced.
:. Colliery explosion at Karwin, Austrian
Silesia, killing 147 men.
9. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Java;
over 1900 miners In the Pittsburgh dis
trict strike.
Guatemala. issue suspended of land grant
warrants to Backbone ,aiiroa1.
l.. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Canal and Spanish treaties from
49, 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 persons KILLED.
o. Arabs surprised British troop near
Suakim, but were repulsed with loss OF 5000
men, British loss, 600.
2s The cons,itui ionality of the Edmunds
anti-polygamy law affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court
25 Music Hall, Buffalo, N T., destroyed by
fire; breaking out in Northwest Canada of
Riers second rebellion; French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in TOnquin.
26 British reserves and militia called out
for permane 1t service.
27 Explo ion Of coal dust at McAllister, l.
r., eleven miners killed: thirty-fve men
killed by gas explosion IN onsilaa a4r,a1 m'nes;
trau (Moravia), and Lebu (ChilD, destroying
127 lives.
%. The Chinese defeated the French
troops and recaptured the town OF Lang Son
80 General KamarOf attacked the Atgnans
at Penideh, aud defeated them; President
Barrios of Guatemala, advanced on san sal
VadOr-hiS troops were routed and he was
killed; British steamer Orestes sunk IN col
lision with Chinese steamer, seventy lives
lost.
wall to avoid capture by Government roops;
the town Of Battleford, ". T2 was pil-
Iaged and burned by Indians a. De Frey
cinet forms new Ministry at Paris.
l. George r. Wetmore., Republican, was
elected Governor of Rhode Island.
8. Fire damp explosion In mine at Mar
dnelfO, eighteen men killed.
a. Marinpol wrecked in Sea OF Azof, thirty
lives lost.
s. new Cabinet in France under NJ. Bris.
son; ten men buried by tall of coal mine at
L James D. Fish, President of Marine
Bank OF New York, convicted OF emoezzie
ment.
I3 Collapse of eight unfinished tenemeb'
houses in New York; several workmen m
jured.
Is. Treaty of peace signed by Central
American Republicans.
81. Town of WischnitZ, Austrian Galicia'
burned; $50 houses destroyed.
o. Twenty lives lost at vicksburg, MISS
lower house OF the Prussian Landta9 re-
jected tne proposal of DR.. Windhorst TO re.
peal the law stopping the temperatures Oh
the Catholic clergy.
"a. American marines entered Aspinw WALL
and Aizpurn made prisoner; engagement De.
tween Canadian troops and Riers forces a'
Fish Creek
26 Eleven men buried under 8 snow siide
near Homestake Mine, on Eagle River, COL
q. British House of Commons voted War
credit of SIS, 100000
2. The Japanese village exhibition ana
Humphreys Hall, Hyde Park, LONDON
burned; tight ON Chief Poundmaker's re-
serve between Riels Indians and Canadian
troops
). Eleven persons burned to death in New
York tenement house; explosion OF ooIer