The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-14
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
Ware, Earthquakes, Crimss, Aooi-
dents and Fatalities.
The World In 1Iiniatare-1Iany Deeds In
Many L1nds-HOw History Was
NaJs from Day to Day
in 1888.

! XaJs from Day to Day
] in 1888.
:. Dynamite explosion on underground
! railroad in London; earthquake shocks de-
1 stroy Alhama. Spain
4. Earthquakes at Lapouia. y. III
8. Congress reass embied.
Governor Grover Cleveland OF New
| York re~ignel: Senate passed Oregon Cen
/ trail land forieiture bill; House passed pen-
| sion appropri atiop bill: the steamer Belle
Shreveport. vita loo passengers sboa- |, sinks
In the Mississippi at Island 80: England eK-
tends protection to Pandoland. south
Africa.
s. House passed Reagan inter state com
1lerce bill; Nine. Clovis ghes acquitted of
the murder OF MDria in Paris.
9. Attempted assassination OF Thomas
Phelan in O'Donovan RoSsa's New York
Off e.
IL Cycions passes through Alabama and
! Georgia.
L. Gale off British coast; many vessels
wrecked and lives lost
I3 gioting at South Bend. Ind, By str ik
Ing rotes.
Il Senate passed Grant retiremeus bill:
House passed Fr5nch sDoiation claims and
Chinese indemnity bills; Panami engages in
civil war
-. steamer Admiral MORRISON sunk oG
HoiyEeai, num5ec OF lives lost; forty eighs
men killed by coiliery explosion at Levin,
Francs
4
upper Egypt.
Is Seventeen lives of inmates lost in asy-
Ium fire at Ka1kakee, Ill.
20 Villages in italy and France destroyed
b. aYaIan- hes: great loss of life.
a. An attempt to blow up the houses of
Parliament and the Tower with dyn4mIte;
sixteen persons Injured, inciuuinS "a num-
Der of chil lren.
-. Tue Frenc: Senatorial ele, ,tions.
81. Deaths of General Gordon and Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Burnaby, at the fall OF khar-
tOum.
- Nicaraguan treaty rejected by United
States senate.
30. Failing OF railroad train through
bridge, near Sydney, New Sonth Wi'e5; forty
lives lost.
g. Tnrea explosions AZ Pittsburgh of nat
rral gas; many Injured
FEBRUARY.
!. Store front of Garry Bros, New York,
demolished by dynamite
9 O'Donovan Rosa shot by YseUlt Dudley.
G. Senate passed consular aud diplomatic
appropriation bill.
l. Hallway collision causing > 10, ,)O0 lire, az
New Bruins wick, y. J.
10, Expios,on at the Vale coliery. Nova
Scotia. thirteen lives 10 It; Senate passed
pension appropriation bill
II. The election Of Cleveland and Hendricks
formally declared.
IL. sixteen lunatc3 burned to death in
Philadelphia Aims house; Senate passed
army approximation biil.
Is. Alta. Utah, buried by snow slide:
thirty killed.
H. The French take Lang Son after a Sc
we're fight with the Chinese.
IL. senate passed Indian appropriation
bill; the explosion of Il powder magazine at
Ubr alter kills seventeen man.
bill. -iOI'' pN'7' ''''
Is. Senate passed anti foreign contract la
Dor bill
10 senate passed Texas Pacific forfeiture
bill.
.2n. Senate passed. agricultural appropria-
81. The Washington Monument dedicated.
%. Senate passed P0st-oilice appropria-
ton bill an Rouse naval approprlat on bill.
"a. Senate pRS53l Oklahoma land bill.
:5 Communication received from Pfesi-
dent elect on silSer Question Oy Congress
man A. J. Warner, OF ohio.
Sh0eburynes5 Eu9lund: Senate passed ma
val Appropriation Dili House passed sundry
civil appropriation bill; burning OF National
Theater at WASHINGTON.
IS House passed fort!ications appropria-
ton bill.
MARCH.
@ Senate increased New Orleans appro-
8. Explosion in Ellsworth colllery, Sunder-
land, England, thirty six men killed; Senate
passed pension approximation bill.
1. Grover Cleveland inauSurated Pre5i-
dent.
) President CIcvelaud's Cabinet an
Aounce1.
4. Colliery explosion at Karwin, Austrian
SileSia, killing III men.
!. The Wabash men, at Moberly, strike.
9. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Java;
over I2.000 miners in the Pittsburgh dis
trct strike.
IL. san Salvador declares war against
Guatemala; issue suspended OF Immigrant
warrants to Backbone Raiiroat
IL. President Cleveland withdrew the
Nicaragua Caual and Spanish treaties from
the senate.
is. Siore than $50 miners killed by an ex-
plosion OF fire damp ut CamphauSen, PruS-
sia.
20. Burning OF Oriental Hotel at Seattle,
u FNfrn M
p. Fire in the Capitol building at Trenton,
NJ.
p Arabs surprised British troop near
Suakim, but were rapulsed with loss of 5000
meh; British loss, GOD.
%. The constitulionality OF the Edmunds
anli>polygamy law affirmed by the United
-. Music Hall. Buffalo, n. Y, destroyed by
fire; breaking out in Northwest CNnada of
Hiel's second rebellion; French forces re-
pulsed by Chinese in TOlquin.
26. British reserves an1 militia called out
for permanent service.
%. EXplo ,ion OF coal dust at McAllister, L
T, eleven miners killed; thirty-five men
killed by gas explosion In Chilian mines;
mine explosions at Troppau (Austria), Os-
trau iMoravia), and Lebu (ChilD, destroying
l2T lives.
30. The Chinese defeated the French
troops and racaptured the town of Lang Son.
80 General Kamaroff attacked the Afghan5
1T Penldsh, and defeated them; President
Barrius OF Guatemala. advanced on San sal
vador-hiS troops were routed aul 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 GoTerumsRt, ,roops;
the town of BattleforG, \. W. T., was pill
laged aud burned by Indians: NJ De Frey
cnet forms 4 new Ministry at Paris.
APRIL.
l. GeorSe r. WetmOre., Republican, was
eleo;eG Governor OF Rhode Island:
5. Fire damp explosion in mine at Mar
t.nGEO, eighteen men killed.
!. Marinpol wrecked in Sea OF Azof, thirty
lives lost.
son. ten men buried by rail- OF a coal mine at
Raven Run, Pa.
l. james ID. Fish, President OF Marine
Banz OF New York, convicted OF em5ezzle-
mcntA
lS. Collapse of eight unfinished tenement
houses in New York; several wor&nen in
jured
I5. lreasy of peace signed by Central
American Republicans.
81. I'own OF Wischnitz, Austrian Galicla.
burns |: l50 houses destroyed.
81. Twenty lives lost at V.ck5burg. Miss;
lower house OF the Pru5san Landtas re-
jected tue proposal of DR.. Windhorst TO re-
peal the law stopping the tenporai.ieS of
the Catholic Clergy.
"a. American marines entered Aspnwall,
and AiaDurn made prisoner; engagement be-
tweeL Canadian troops and Riel's forces az
Fish Greek
26. Eleven men buried under a snow slide
near II-mestake Mine, on Eagle River, Col
p. British House Of Commons yoIei war
credit OF So, 90, go.
2S. The Prince and Princess of Wales con-
cluded Irish tour, and returned to London.
MAY.
3 The Japanese village exhibition and
Humphreys Hall, Hyde Park, London,
burned, fight on Chief Poundmaker's re-
serve between Kiels Indians and Canadian
troops.
). Eleven persons burned to death in a New
York tenement house; explosion of boiler
of Trenont House, at Galveston, Tex four
5. Collapse of factory In State street,
Brooklyn, followed By fre-ten persons
killed.
T. Rebels attacked Cartageua Colombia
repulsei with tue loss of $40 men; reunion at