Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-01-20

lngly ueIeated Dy the garrison OF
Kassala, Egypt, and Digma himself
killed.
%. Fall of a row Of buildings in
Cologne; 40 persons killed.
AUGUST.
3. Great earthquake in Tashkend,
Asiatic Russia, "a people killed.
8. Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas,
N. NJ, burned, with loss of eight
lives.
10. President Cleveland orders the
removal of all fences from the public
lands erected by cattle herders.
IL. Twelve men suffocated in coal
mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
10. German corvette Augusta
wrecked by a cyclone in the Red sea,
with loss of 238 lives.
25. One hundred Mohammedan pill
grims drowned in the gulf of Alden,
by wreck of transport. Cyclone at
Charleston and Savannah. Damage
at the former place 81 100000.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Wreck of steamship Hanoveri-
an near Cape Race. Anti-Chinese
riot at Rock Springs, Wyoming 30
Chinaman killed.
8. A tornado destroys the village
of Washington Court House, Ohio.
IA. The yacht Puritan beats the
Genesta in the first race.
Is. Jumbo killed at st. Thomas.
Ont.
Is. Yacht Puritan wins the second
race with the Genesta.
Is. Rebellion breaks out in Philip
popelis, Roumelia, and union is pro-
claimed with Bulgaria. Prince Alex
ander proclaims his sovereignty over
Roumelia.
%. Seventeen persons crushed to
death, at Stockholm. during an ova-
ton to Madame Nilsson.
OCTOBER.
4. Elections in France, resulting in
an unexpected Conservative success.
s. Charter house buildings, London,
burned. Loss $15,000,000.
IL. Seventy fishing vessels lost by a
great storm on the Labrador coast,
with more than 90 lives.
Is. Ohio. State elections. Foraker
elected Governor.
IS. Flood Rock, He'll Gate, New
York harbor, blown up.
20. Elections in Prussia for men,
bers of the Diet. Pope Leo XIII
issues an encyclical against popular
Lord Dufferin, Viceroy
of India, sends an expedition into
Burmah.
NOVEMBER.
3. Elections in most of the States.
4. New York Central absorbs the
West Shore railroad. $450,000 fire
in Farwell building, Chicago.
6. Steamer Algoma wrecked on
Lake Superior, AZ lives lost.
7. Last spike of the Canadian Pa
ciic railroad driven.
II. Free trade conference at Chi
cago. Baltimore and Ohio train
wrecked at Confluence, Pa, Is injured.
Is. Great fire in Galveston. Losses
s2,500,OOO.
IA. Gilardo, Silvestri and Azzaro,
Chicago trunk murderers, hanged.
Servia declares war against Bulgaria.
16. Servians capture 200 Bulgari.
an prisoners near Tzaribrod. Louis
Riel hanged at Regina, N. w. T.
II. Servians take 1000 prisoners.
Is. Highwaymen attack mail stage
near Kingsville, Ont. Servians rout-
ed at Slivinitza.
20. Steamer Iberian wrecked on
the Irish coast.
81. King Milan proposes peace.
%. Tenement fire in New York
three persons burned to death.
%. Jersey City tenement falls
six Polish children killed.
q. Steamer Emma Graham sunk
in the Ohio river; five deck hands
drowned. English elections decided
in favor of the Conservatives.
%. Series of four fatal acqueduct
shaft accidents begins Mt Merritt's
Corners, N. Y, in which IL men were
killed. Sagasta ministry takes hold
in Spain.
20. King Thesbaw, of Burmah, sur
renders to the English.
DECEMBER.
2. Premature blast explosion, Ow-
KY; four men killed.
5. John Sherman elected President
of the Senate.
z. Congress in session.
8. Presidents message sent to Con-
gress.
Is. Georgia Pacific railroad COLI
sion at Atlanta, Ca; II people killed.
II. S250,000 warehouse fire at
Jacksonville, Fla.
II. Coal mine caves in at Nanti-
coke, Pa, q miners entombed.
10. Dynamite explosion in Pienju-
chin, Siberia 400 killed.
%. M. Grevy elected President of
France.
20. Numerous wrecks reported
along the New England coast. First
bond call issued by Secretary Man.
ming.