The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-15
RECORD OF THE YEAR.

RECORD OF THE YEAR
Wars; Earthquakes, Orimss, Aooi-
dents and Fatalities.
me World 10 dtniatare--Msny Deeds d
Many Lsnas-IIow History Was
NsLs from Day to Day
Z Dynamlte explosion on underground
| railroad in London; earthquake shocks de-
stroy Albania. SDain.
| I. Earthquakes ut Laponia, n.
| g. Congress reass embed.
York resigned: Senate passed Oregon Cen
| trail land forfeiture bill; House pas sed pen
sion appropriation bill: the steamer Belle
| In the Missis ,ipvi at Island Sc: England eK
| Africa.
| 8. House passed REAGAN inter- state COM
1lerce hill; Nine. Clovis Hughes acquitted OF
| che murder of Norm In Paris.
Attempted assassination OF Thomas
Phelan in O'Dcnovan Rossa's New York
| Office
ii Cyclone passes through Alabama and
L. Gale off British coast: many vessels
H.. Rloting at South Bend. Ind, by str tx
Ing Poles.
Il senate passed Grant retirement bill:
House passed French sD0ltation claims aud
Chinese Indemnity bills; Panama engages In
civil war.
is. steamer Admiral Moorsom sunk ofi
Holyhead, number of lives lost; forty eight
m y a m
Franco.
Upper Egypt.
Il. Seventeen lives OF inmates lost in aSy
lu,n fire at Kankakee, Ill.
20. Villages in Italy and France destroyed
BIZ avalan hes great loss OF life.
p. An attempt to blow up the houses OF
Parliament and the Tower with dyntnite /;
sixteen persons Injured, including mum
bar of children.
q. The French Senatorial elections.
25. Deaths of General Gordon and Liouten-
ant Colonel Burnaby, at the fall OF khar
toum.
- Nlcaraguan treaty rejected by Untei
States senate.
so FalIin. OF a railroad train ti,rou gh a
bridge, near sydney, New South Wales; forty
lives lost.
81. Three explo sions at Pittsburgh Of nat
oral gas; many injured
FEBRUARY.
|. Store front Of Garry Bros, New York,
demolished by dynamite
.. " donovan kDSS3 SlOt Nv 1SSutt ibIuiSy.
6. Senate passed consular ani diplomatic
appropriation bill.
l. Railway collision causing 5000 Dire, a.
New brunswick, ". j.
10 Explosion at the vale coliiery, Nova
Scotia, thirteen lives lost; Senate passed
pension appropriation bill
II. The election Of Cleveland and Hendricks
formally decltred.
T. sixteen lunatics burned to death I'm n
Philadelphia Aims -honse; Senate passed
army appropriation bill.
Il. Ala, Utah, buried by n snow slide;
thirty killed.
II. The French take Lang Son after Sc
we're Fl ghi with the Chinese
Is. senate passed indian appropriation
bill: the explosion of a DOwd,r magazine at
ubralter kills seventeen man
Il. House passe legislative appropriation
Is. Senate passed ami foreign contract Ia
Dor bill
10 Senate passed Texas Pacific forfeiture
bill.
=. Senate passe l agricultural appropria-
p. TIC Washington Monum mt dedicated.
%. Senate passed Post-ohi,e apprOprla-
tlcn bill and Rouse nav ii approDriat IN bill
"A. Senate passed. Ok ahoina and bill.
IS. Com narlcatfon resolved fron FRESH
dent elect an s.ve; question By Congress
man A. j. Warler, Of Ohio.
-. six officers killed by an explosion ut
Shoeburynes5, England. Senate passed ma
val appropriation Uill iIouse passed sundry
civil appropr. alton bill; burning OF National
Theater at Washin gtoa.
% House passed Notifications appropria-
ton bill
MARCH.
2. Senate increased New Orleans appro-
priat on bill to S4l3.D0l
3. Explosion in Unsworth coliery, Sunder
land, England thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pension approximation bill.
4. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Presi-
dent
President Cieveiand's Cabinet an
dOunceI-
9. Coliiery explosion at Karwin. Austrian
5iiesia, killing l:imen.
:. The Wabash men, ut Moberly, strike.
.. Outbreak of As;atic chplera in Java;
over 1900 miners in the Pittsburgh dis
trict strike.
IL. san Salvador declares war against
Guatemaia: issue suspended OF land grant
warrants to Backbone RaI!roai:
l.. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Canal and Spanish TREATIES from
the senate.
Is More than 80 miners killed by an ex-
piosion o. fire damp at Camphausen, Prus-
20. burning of Oriental Hotel at Seattle,
W. T.; two person, killed.
p: Fire in the Capitol building at Trenton,
-. Arabs surprised British troop near
Suailin, but were reouisei with loss of 5000
men, British loss. Col.
b Tne constitn, ionality OF the Eimunds
anti,poIygamy law ailirmeI by the United
States supreme Court
-. Music Hall, Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed by
fire; breaking out in Northwest Can ida of
Riels second rebellion: French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in Tonquin.
%. British reserves aud militia called out
for perm anea at service.
81. ENplO ion OF coal dust ut McAllister. I.
I, eleven miners killed; thirty-tive men
killed by gas explosion in Chiiian mines;
trau (Moravia). and Lebu iCh,io, destroying
liz lives.
- The Chinese defeated the French,
troops and rscapturei the town OF Lang son
80 General Kamaroff attacked the hfshans
at Penideh, and defeated them; President
Barrios of Guatem ala. advanced on San Sal
killed; British steamer Orestes sunk in col
iision with Chinese steamer, seventy lives
lost.
81 The Panama insurgents burned Aspln-
wall to avoid capture by GOverumcnt LroopS;
LACED and burned by Indians: NJ. De Frey
cinet forms new Ministry at Paris
APRIL
l. Georg e L. Wetmore., Republican, was
elected Governor OF Rhode Island.
5. kire-damp explosion in a mine at Mar
fni:O, eighteen men killed.
=. Marinpoi wrecked in Sea OF Azof, thirty
lives lost.
s. A new Cabinet in France under NJ. Bris-
son. len men buried by TALL of a coal mine at
Raven Run, Pa.
l. Jumes ID. Fish, President OF Marine
Banx OF New York, convicted OF enoezzIe-
mcnte
10. Collapse of eight unfinished tenement
hoases in New York; several wor&nen in
jured
Ii. Treaty OF peace signed by Central
American Republicans.
81. Town OF W.schn.tZ Austrian Gaiicia.
burnet; 80 houses DESTROYED.
- twenty lives lost at Vicksburg Miss;
lower house OF the Prussian LanItag re-
jecseu the proposal of DR.. Windhorss to re-.
peal the law stopping tine temperatures of
the Catholic Clergy.
a. American marines entered Aspinwall,
and AiaDurn made prisoner; engagement be-
tween Canadian troops and RieiS forces dt
Fish Greek
26 Eleven men buried under a snow slide
near Jsmestakc Mine, on Eagle River, Col.
credit Of Si5.0lLlQ