Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-15
A List ofthe Most Notable Events
at Home and Abroad During
the Year just Clos I'D.
A Large Number of Men and Women
Prominent in Politics, Art, Litera-
ture, Science, ETC., Dead.
The Record Of Murders and Suicides
Work Of Judge Lynch and Jack Ketch
Fire Losses Failures.
THE DEAD YEAR

The principal events of the Old and New
World during the past year are herewith pre-
sented:
2-Dynamite explosion on underground
railroad in London; earthquake shocks
destroy Albania, Spain. Ex-Governor Cleve-
land, OF New York, resigns his Office.
8-Reagan Interstate Commerce bill
passed by United States House of Rep.
rescntatives; Nine. Clovis.Hugues &C.
quilted at Paris of the murder of NJ. NORM.
9-Attempted assassination Of Thomas Phelan
in O'Donovan Rossa's New York Office. ICY.
s Georgia. passes -ni sasr'essh at A' soasS Bend and
insane. patients burned alive at Kankakee,
ILL., asto @ddH vi in na, savoy, and %xd Piedmont mt dc.
Mantle in Houses of Parliament and Tower of
London. 27-khartoum captured and Gener-
on Bound Brook line wrecked at Greenville,
N. j.; twenty-five persons injured.
FEBRUARY.
2-O'Donovan Rosa shot in New York, on
Chambers street, by fseult Dudley, 1o-Fif.
Westviile, n. S. R-insane end department. Of Of
Blockly Aims House burned: eighteen
RR1tien i d lost; ds- Allah 4h',t U. .,i ~; buried g,d
Dedication OF Washington monument. rs
Communication received from President
elect Cleveland on silver question by Con-
gressmansA. j. Warner, of Ohio. 27-Burning
OF National Theater at Washington; vote Of
censure against Gladstone rejected in House
of Commons.
2-President.e!ect Cleveland starts for
washington 3-Fire-damp explosion at Sun.
derland, Eng; thirty.stx miners sutrocated.
~4-Inauguration OF President Cleveland at
Washington; General Grant placed on retired
list of the army: s-Colliery explosion ut Kar.
win, Austrian Silesia; l23 men killed. 9-Out-
break of Asiatic cholera in Java. 1l-san
salvador declares war against Guatemala. II
prussia; Ioss,, iss Persons: 2oo of'"Panase Of
p niiI e M Hotel n in . se" Ta ". T, two persons
Opera Comique, Paris. 2l-Fire in the Cap.
itol building ut Trenton. N: j. IS
saeaad gs5 IL Northwest |egni Canada of Riers
Hall and St. Louis, Church. Buffalo, one fire.
man killed: French forces repulsed by the
Chinese IN Iolnquin; s7-Mine explosions at
lChllD: 1871 lives lost. 2s-Hanlan defeated by
Beach in sculling race: three miles, OH Para.
malta a. River, Australia. a-.Resignation Of
against Afghans, on Kushk River. 3I-M. de
Freycinet forms a new Ministry at Paris.
APRIL.
1-Unfavorable change in General Grants
symptoms: Aspinwall burned by Insurgents
to escape capture. 4-President Barrios, of
Guatemala, killed in battle with San Salvador
at a o Ch,alehuapa: GwTen men buried by a fall Of
Fish, President of Marine Bank, Of
New York, convicted of embezzlement.
H.. Fan of B1ddensiek's tenement
signed by Central American republics. a.
Town OF Wischnitz. Austrian Galicia. burned:
New h9 YoeS. d anpo3Sfad f THmG; u Sts 5orda an, Of
urer. 24- Enlargement between Canadian
troops and lsiels forces at Fish Creek. a7-
british Parliament votes a war credit of SILL
O0WO; nine tiremen buried by falling walls
at Pittsburgh. ~
2-Fight on Chief Poundmaker's reserve be.
tween Riel's Indians and Canadian troops;
striking. stone.cutters at Lemont, mi, sun.
pressed by military force. president Cleye.
a 1and visits e, Gehtt Na 5aGollapse and dc.
N. H.. Of Walter L. Ms Maxwell, Au eharredi
with Yda;s murder 30 Of Charles Preller, at St;
Crossings; Riel routed. l5-Rebellion in North
west Canada ended by defeat of rebels and
capture of Riel. ~1s-Cunningham and Bur.
serSitude for life for Tower of London explo.
SION; Sergeant Crowley, assailant of Maggie
Morris, sentenced at New York City to seven.
Odlum killed in an attempt to Jump off Brook.
iyn Bridge; John A. Logan chosen United
states Senator. 3l-City of Serinagar, East
killed. A'
4mIboma :: Cluyerius convicted at Rich.
DE-. .nTnr w., y d. IT, u lIroe OF liliian Madison. Z
Gladstone Ministry defeated; Dubuque, Ia,
eyGl9ne; treaty ,,s Of peace between France
wounds 1B i isoGislGur per r 8 and
accepted and Lord Salisbury summoned to
1 M a Ministry. le-General Grant taken to
shocks in Cashmere, 3,OSl persons in all per.
ished, 10000 houses destroyed and So. 600 ami
1nais; outbreak OF cholera i'll Spain. 80
| AO6S OH South American coast nf sf0ov,o -
Italia; sixty-nine persons lost out of l3s on
board: sS-Austria refuses to receive
Yokohama harbor of steamship City of TOXIC.
S!-John Mccullough taken to insane ASYLUM.
9nYseult Dudley acquitted of shooting
oDonoVau Rossl on ground Of insanity.
JULY.
the oath in House OF Commons. l8-Iailnre
Of John Roach, s%hipbuilder. a3-Death at
Mount MacGregor OF General Grant.
1-Louis Riel convicted at Winnipeg of h,oh
treason and sentenced to be hanged, s.
Funeral of General Grant ut New York. 10
m; n N Of President Cleveland order.
steamer 5. NJ. fisla'a' Shattered eGfG 6y Dynamite M@
f9 an, thirteen Teyo,nt,d injured issE r
pinwall; Yacht Puritan defeats the Priscilla
~ Irst trial race. 22-Morality demonstration
81 scr Myde ea lark, L S,5ia9 by $4,000 people. %
Underground Railroad. A-Anti.Germs
representation i'll Madrid over Caroline Isl.
ands; smallpox epidemic in Montreal,
SEPTEMBER.
.2-Charges of abduction brought against
Edltor Stead. OF London Pail Mall Gazette, and
others; massacre:of tfty.two Chinese 1t Rock
f sSl'"scs Court Wt House :; ao2 3: Sa,Do # Mas II !:
tornado; six persons killed and fiftv
Injured. H-Yacht Puritan defeats
Genesta in first international yacht race nv is
minutes IL seconds. l6-Elcphant .Jumbo"
kllled by q locomotive at ST. Thomas, Ont E.
puritan defeats Genesta for the second time
by l minute 81 seconds over a twentv-mite
course. 2S-Yacht Genesta wins the Cane Nav
challenge cup; characterization riot in Mon.
treal. )" N1on-
OCTOBER
l-Beginning of special delivery system in
post-oihce. 4 Robinson's circus train
wrecked on Northern Pacific Railroad: five
men Killed and forty injured. 7-Rev. j. q.
e; curry, OF Virginia, appointed Minister to
Spaln; CORK dreland) Steamship Company
f f91 t cattle. lo-Flood Rock success
Eighty, fishing vessels lost in storm Off
Labrador coast; three hundred men lost.
iS-Ohio elects j. B.. Foraker Governor. ID
Soryian troops advance to Bulgarian frontier.
Io-,Nlne persons killed and seven iniured Nv
Tallroad collision at Hackensack Bridge. "a.
hlotous demonstrations at COpenhnwnn
against the King OF Denmark and his CohiHet
Ss-Iroops OF British India invade RuImah
~: PRESIDENT Cleveland announces that he
WIZ grant no more interviews to persons
seeking office. 2S-Ferdinand Ward convicted