The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-08
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Wars, Earthquakes, Grimes, Acci-
dents and Fatalities.
The World in NTtniature-Iany Deeds in
Many Lands-How History Was
Made from Day to Day
in 1888.
JANUARY.

railroad in London; earthquake shocks de-
stroy Albania, Spain.
4. Earthquakes at Laponia, N.
5. Congress reassembled.
Governor Grover Cleveland of New
York resigned; Senate passed Oregon Cen
tral land forfeiture bllI IIouse passed pen
sion appropriation bill: the steamer Belle
in f lo9 az asa5 @ 9oar aks
tends protection to PandoIand, South
Africa.
g. House passed Reagan inter State com
merce bill; NINE. Clovis Hughes acquitted of
the murder of N. NORM in Paris.
8. Attempted assassination of Thomas
Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa's New York
Office.
II cyclone passes through Alabama and
y. Gale off British coast; many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
13.. Rioting at South Bends Ind by str Ik
ing Poles.
Il. Senate passed Grant retirement bill;
House passed French SDOiatiOn claims and
Chinese indemnity bills; Panama engages in
civil war.
Holyhead, number of lives lost; forty eight
men killed by coliiery explosion at LEVIN,
France.
II. Defeat of the rebels near Ietemneh
Upper Egypt.
Is. Seventeen lives of inmates lost in asy-
20. Villages in Italy and France destroyed
by avalanahes great loss of life.
Parliament and the Tower with dynamite;
sixteen persons injured, including num-
25. The French Senatorial elections.
20. Deaths of General Gordon and Lieuten-
Colonel Burnaby, at the fall of Khar-
toum.
%. Nicaraguan treaty rejected by United
States Senate.
go Failing OF a railroad train through
bridge, near sydney, New South Wales; forty
81. Three expIosi sions at Pittsburgh of nat
ural gas; many iajured.
FEBRUARY.
l. Store front of Garry Bros, New York,
3. O'Donovsn Rossa shot by Yseult Dudley.
g. Senate passed consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill.
z Railway collision causing $500, 900 fire, at
New Brunswick, n. J.
10, Explosion at the Vale coiIiery, Nova
Scotia thirteen lives lost; Senate passed
IL. The election of Cleveland and Hendricks
II. Sixteen lunatcs burned to death in a
Philadelphia Aims house; Senate passed
army appro priatiOn bill:
13. Alta, Utah, buried by a snow. slide;
IA. The French take Lang Son after Sc
we're fight with the Chinese
Is. Senate passed Indian appropriation
bill; the explosion of a powder magazine at
C1Ibr alter kills seventeen men.
~. House passed. legislative appropriation
Is. Senate passed anti foreign contract la
Dor bill
10 Senate passed Texas Pacific forfeiture
bill.
20. Senate passed agricultural approprla-
81 The Washington Monument dedicated
%. Senate passed Post office appropria-
tion bill and House naval appropriation bill.
"a. Senate passed Oklahoma land bill.
25 Communication received from Presi-
dent eject on silver question by Congress
man A. j. Warner, OF Ohio.
27 Six officers killed by an explosion at
ShOeburyneSs, England: Senate passed ma
val appropriation Dill; House passed sundry
civil approprlation bill; burning of National
IS House passed fortifcations approprla-
tion bill,
MARCH.
2. Senate increased New Orleans appro
priatfon bill to "a, ',00).
8. Explosion in Unswortii colliery. sunder-
land, England, thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pension appropriation bill.
dent
5 President CIeveland's Cabinet an.
nounced.
Silesia, killing III mea.
7. The Wabash men, at Moberly, strike.
8. Outbreak of AsiatIc cholera in Java;
over 1900 miners in the Pittsburgh dis
trict strike.
Guatemala: issue suspended OF land grant
warrants to Backbone Railroa1
Il. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Canal and Spanish treaties from
the Senate.
ls More than $50 miners killed by an ex-
plosiOn of fire damp at Camphausen, Prus
STA.
20. Burning of Oriental Hotel at Seattle,
W. T.. two persons killed.
2l. Fire in the Capitol building at Trenton,
n. J.
o. Arabs surprised British troop near
men; BritishIoss, G0J.
%. The constitationality of the Edmunds
anti polygamy law affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court
IS. Music HALL, Buffalo, N. V destroyed by
fire; breaking out in Northwest Canada of
Rels- second rebellion; French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in Tonqun.
26. British reserves and miIitia called out
for permanent service.
q. ExpIo ion of coal dust at NIcAlister, l.
T., eleven miners Killed; thirty-five men |
killed by gas explosion in Chilian mines;
mine explosions at Troppau (Austria) Os- /
trau (Moravia), and Lebu (Chil), destroying |
90 Tne Chinese defeated the French
troops ana recaptdred the town of Lang Son. !
80 General hanaroh attacked the Afghans
at Penideh, and defeate I them; President |
Barrios of Guatemala, advanced on san Sal |
vador-his troops Wcr5 routei and he was |
killed; British steamer OreStes sunk in col |
lision wiki Chinese steamer, seventy lives |
81 The Panama insurgents burned Aspin-
wall to avoid capture by GOvernm cnt troops; |
LACED and burned by Indians; NJ De Frey |
cinet forms new Ministry at Paris.
APRIL
1. George r. WetmOre., Republican, was |
elected Governor OF Rhode Island.
8. Fire damp explosion in mine at Mar
5inelio, eighteen men killed.
4. Marinpol wrecke in Sea Of Azof, thirty /
lives lost.
s. new Cabinet in France under NJ Bris-
son; ten men buried by fall OF a coal mine at |
i. james d. Fish, President OF Marine /
Bank of New York, c0nvictei of embezzle-
is. Collapse OF eight unfinished tenement
houses in Ne" York; several workmen in |
Is. Treaty of peace signed by Central |
American Republicans.
u. Town OF Wischnitz, Austrian GaIlcia, |
burned; $50 houses destroyed.
p. Twenty lives lost at Yiclsburg. Miss; /
lower house OF the Prussian Landtag re- /
ected the proposal Of DR.. Windhorst 70 re-
peal the law stopping the temperatures Of |
q. American marines entered Aspinwail, /
ind Aizpurn made prisoneri engagement be-
,ween Canadian troops and Riel-s forces at |
26 Eleven mon buried under a snow slide
near Homestake Mine, on Eagle River, Col.
81. British House of Commons vote1 a war
2s. The Prince and Princess Of Wales con
;luded Irish tour, and returned to London.
MAY.
2. The Japanese village exhibition and
1um pl:reys' Hall Hyde Park, don,
burned; iglt on Chief Poundmaker's re-
'erve between RieIs Indians and Canadian
8. EIeyen persons burned 10 death in a New
Fork tenement house; explosion of boiIer
# fremont House, at Galveston, Tex; four
s. Collapse of factory In state street,
5rooltiyn, followed by firc-ten persons
I Rebels attacked Cartagena. Colombia
epulsed with the loss of $40 men; reunion at
baltimore of Army OF the Potomac
= sixty eight persons Killed by an ava |
anche at Lake Van. in Armenia
9. Battle of BatDuche's Crossing between
liePs fore . and Canada troops-Riai ronted.
To- The hing OF Daa1ney male raid on
he villages under French protection near
'OrtO Novo, and captured q thousand men
nd women to be SACRIFICED at the cannibal-
stic feasts.
T. News of avalanche in Iceland in April
onfirmed-nHeau dwellings sWeDs ittto the
ca ana tWent y four persons droWned
i3 Riot in London around Nelson Monu-
aent. Trafalgar square.
II Nitro glyeerine factory at somerset
"a, blown 70 atoms
l5 Louis Iiel capsured by General Middle
on's forces notSa OF Eatoacae, new YER
ion Of the Old Testament given 10 the pub
ic at London
Cunningham and Burton. dynamiters,
entenced at LonIon TO penal servitade
or life for auslag Tower Of london expl3-
len.