Iron County register., 1886-01-14
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Wars, Earthquakes, Crimes, Acci-
dents and Fatalities.
The World in Miniature--Many Deeds In
Many Lands-How History Was
Made from Day to Day
In 1885.
JANUARY

tends protection to fandoiand. South
s House passed Reagan inter State com.
merce bill; slime CIovis:Hughes acquitted of
the murder of NJ Norm in Paris.
9. Attempted assassination of Thomas
Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa's New York
Ii. Cyclone passes through Alabama and
Il. Gale off British coast; many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
Is Rioting at South Bend. Ind, by str k
ing Poles. I'm.
House passed French spoliation claims and
Chinese Indemnity bills; Panama engages in
Is steamer Admiral Moorsom sunk off
Hoiyhead. number of lives lost; forty eight
men killed by coliiery explosion at LEVIN,
II. Defeat of the rebels near Metemneh
(Upper Egypt.
1um fire at Karkakee, Ill.
20 villages in Italy and France destroyed
by avalanches: great loss of life.
Pariiamens am a and the he w Towsr P with I dynamite;
sixteen persons injured, including num-
s5 The French Senatorial elections
25. Deaths of General Gordon and Lieuten-
ant Colonel Burnaby, at the fall OF khar-
%. Nicaraguan treaty rejected by United
80 Falling of a railroad train through a
bridge. near sydney, New South wales; forty
81. Three explosions at Pittsburgh of nat
ural gas; many injured.
FEBRUARY.
1. Store front of Garry Bros, New York,
demolished by dynamite
o ODonovan ltossa shot by YseuIt Dudley.
6. Senate passed consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill.
T. hallway collision. causing $780, o00 fire, at
TO- Explosion at the Vale colliery. Nova
Scotia, thirteen lives lost; Senate passed
pension appropriatloon bill: Observation-Disclosures.
formally declared.
H. sixteen lunatics burned to death in a
Phiiadelphia Aims house; Senate passed
army appropriation bill.
Is. Alta. Utah, buried by a snow slide;
IL. The French take Lang Son after Sc
we're fight with the Chinese.
Ii. Senate passed Indian appropriation
bill; the explosion of a powder magazine at
Gibr, kills seventeen men.
IL. House passed legislative appropriation
Is. Senate passed AMI foreign contract la
1e Senate passed Texas Pacific forfeiture
bill.
20. Senate passed. agricultural appropria-
81. The Washington Monument dedicated
%. Senate passed Post-office appropria-
tion bill AMI House naval approprlat on bill
q = ] senate passed Oklahoma land NIB bill p.,,,
dent elect on siiyec Ie5tion by Congress
man A. J. Warner, of Ohio.
q. Six officers killed by an explosion at
Shoeburyness, England: Senate passed ma
val appropriation oil House passed sundry
civil appropriation bill; burning of National
Theater at Washin ston.
%. House passed fortifcations appropria-
Sion bill.
MARCH.
2. Senate increased New Orleans appro-
priation bill to f40O,00)
8. Explosion in Unsworth colliery, Sunder-
land, England, thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pension appropriation bill.
- 4. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Presi-
S. President Cleveland's Cabinet an
nounced-
SileSia, killing III men.
T. The wabash men, at Moberly, strike.
O. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Java;
over l2.00o miners in the Pittsburgh dis
II. San Salvador declares war against
Guatemala; issue suspended OF land grant
warrants to Backbone Railroad.
u. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicarasua Canal and Spanish treaties from
is. More than $50 miners killed by an ex-
pioson of fire-damp ut Camphausen, Prus-
90 Burning of Oriental Hotel at Seattle,
W. T.; two persons KILLED.
81 Fire in the Capitol building at Trenton,
%. Arabs surprised British troop near
suakim, but were repulsed with loss of 5000
D. The constitutionality OF the Edmunds
anti i-polygamy law affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court
Is. Music Hail. Buffalo, N. T., destroyed by
Rieis second rebellion; French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in Tonquin.
&c. British reserves and militia called out
for permanent service:
T., eleven miners killed: thirty i've men
killed by gas explosion in Chilian mines
a. ieSap Roh
20. The Chinese defeated the French
troops aud recaptured the town OF Lang Son
80 General Kamaroff attacked the Atghans
at Penideh, and defeated them; President
Barrios of Guatemala, advanced on San Sal
Eodnr-hiS trnOnS r0nt46
killed, British steamer Orestes sunk in col
nsiOn with Chinese steamer, seventy lives
81. The Panama insurgents burned Aspin-
wall to avoid capture by Government troops
ased snd pa nurned bS De Frey
cinet forms new Ministry at Paris.
APRIL.
l. George r. Wetmore., Republican, was
elected Governor of Rhode Island.
8. Fire damp explosion in mine at Mar
tinelio, eighteen men killed
=. Marinpol wrecked in Sea of Azof, thirty
S. new Cabinet in France under NJ. Bris
son: ten men buried by fall of a coal mine a
/ james D. Fish, President of Marine
Bank OF New York, convicted OF embezzie
Is. Collapse of eight unfinished tenement
houses in New York; several workmen in
jured.
Is. Treaty Of peace signed by Contra
American Republicans.
al Town of Wiscilnitz, Austrian Galicia
q. twenty lives lost at vick sburs Miss
lower house of the RUSSIAN Landtag re
peal the law stopping the tempora!itics 9
Che Catholic clergy.
24 American marines entered Aspinwal
and Aizpurn made prisoner engagement be
tween Canadian troops and iatrs forces d
Fish Creek.
26. Eleven men buried under a snow slid
near Homestake Mine, on Eagle River. Col.
p: British House of Commons voted Wa
% The Prince and Princess of Wales con
cluded Irish tour, and returned to London.
MAY.
The Japanese village Haze esh!pison panp fa,sH, an
serve between Riers Indians and Canada
troops.
York tenement house; explosion OF boiie
of fremont House, at Galveston, Tex; for
5. Collapse of factory in State ,stree
Brooklyn, followed by fire-ten person
Rebels attacked cartageua. Colombia
Baltimore of Army of the Potomac
5. Sixty eight persons killed by an av
1anche at Lake Van in Armenia
.. Battle of Batouche's Crossing betwee
Riei's forces and Canada troops-Riel route
70. The King OF Dahomey made raid c
the villages under French protection ne
Porto Novo, and captured a thousand me
and women to be sacrificed az the cannioa
~. News of avalanche in Iceland in App
confirmed-ffteen dwellings swept into u
sea and twenty four persons dTowned;M To,sne Mon,
ment, Trafalgar Square
IA Nitro -giycerine factory at Somerse
* I'ouis Riei captured by General Middle
toms forces north of Batouche; new We
sion of the Old Testament given to the put
Cunningham and Burton, dynamiter
sentenced at London to penal servisuIa 70
for life for causing Tower OF Londoh eApa'