The Forrest City times., 1888-01-07
JANUARY.

l. A train in Fort Wayne, Ind. strikes large sleigh, killing two girls and injuring ssven.
 2. Appeal for aid made for thou sands of people in many counties of Texas. Five duck hunters found frozen to death on Jamaica Bay, N. |. Great snow blockade on railroads in Indiana Conflagration in the Odelschai chi Pal. ace, Rome, Italy, with loss Sl, ,0o0. 900.
 3. Earthquake shocks in Western Maryland. Gas explosion in Ports mouth, England, killing six soldiers and wounding twenty-one.
 {. Earthquake shocks at Summer vile, 5. C. TweBty-oae persons killed or burned to death in . collision near Republic, O.. between a freight and passenger train
 s. At Dublin, fifty-six men sen. fenced to various terms of imprison- ment for resisting eviction in County Galway.
 6. An explosion of natural gas at Youngstown, O, injures several per- sons and destroys $l00,000 worth Of property.
 :. Joseph Perry, a miser, and Rich ard Price, his companion, found frozen to death in house in Philadelphia and $l35, 900 in money and bonds discov- cred in the house.
 g. All on board the German ship Elizabeth, plying between Hamburg and Baltimore, lost on the Virginia coast by the stranding of the ship, to- gether with five members of life-sav- ing crew.
 g. A man killed in Philadelphia while thawing dynamite cartridges at . fire.
 I2. Passenger train designedly wrecked near Dunbar, Mo, and one person killed and seventeen injured.
 13. The United States Government files . bill of complaint in Boston against the validity Of the Bell tele- phone patent William Agnew, at Palmyra, N. r., confssses that he killed his wife ten days before and had been staying alone in the house with the corpse ever since.
 Il. The German Reichstag dissolved because of the failure to pass the army bill in the shape desired by the Gov ernment.
 F. The Mexican war pension bill passed and sent to the President.
 IS. Twelve women and five children trampled to death in . panic in . pnb- lie hall in London.
 20. The electoral-count bill goes to the President.
 sl. The interstate commerce bill passed.
 p. A British steamer and Chinese transport collide at Shanghai and loJ soldiers and many mandarins drowned.
 2A The Senate passes the act giY- ing the President power to retaliate for ill-treatment by Canada of American seamen.
 g. Ar explosion of 23o cases of giant powder in powder car shatters sixteen cars of a freight train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Fort Scott, Kan.
 26. The Senate, for the second time, rejects the Presidents nomination of J. 0. Matthews (colored) for Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. The headless body of a man named Bohle Is found in trunk at the Adams Express office, Baltimore, and Edward Unger, of New York, confesses that he killed him in . quarrel.
 90. Infidels in many parts of the country celebrate the 159th anniver- sary of Thomas Paine's birth.
 3l. The survivors of the British ship Kapunda, which was sunk in a collision with bark of the Brazilian coast, land at Bahia and tell tse story of the calamity. in which 304 persons were drowned.
 FEBRUARY.
 l. Judge Reagan elected United States Senator from Texas, Bonrses Tn London, Paris and Berlin panicky over prospects of war.
 ?, Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, the deposed pastor of St. Stephens Church, New York, denies the right of Bishop, Propaganda or Pope to prevent him from participating as citizen in an electoral canvass.
 {. The President signs the inter- state commerce bill.
 ,. Passenger coaches and sleepers of an express train on the Vermont Central Railroad drop from a bridge near Hartford, Vt, killing forty per sons and badly injuring about forty five others.
 C. Southeastern Missouri and Gen. tral and Southwestern Illinois shaken slightly by an earthquake.
 8. Luke Short, gambler, kills Jim Court wright, the noted Texas desper- ado. at Fort Worth.
 0. Jesse Arnot's livery stable. in St Louis, burned, and two persons killed and several injured, with over 10o horses suffocated.
 II. The dependent pension bill vetoed by the President.
 l4. Daniel Manning resigns as Sec rctary of the Treasury.
 I5 Boston Corbett, the slayer oi John Wilkes Booth, while acting as Assistant Doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives, becomes in- sane.
 r. Passenger trains blown from the track on the Denver and Rio Grande and Denver and South Park Railroads by a tornado.
 2I. Elections for the German Rei ch stag result in victory for the Govern ment.
 g. About 600 lives lost in an earth quake on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. the shocks destroying life and property at Nice, Genoa, Monte Cairo. Monaco, Savona and Cervo, the shocks being felt also at Cannes, Avignon, Moulon, Leghorn, Milan, Turin ant Marseillcs.
 24. The House of Representatives falls in an attempt to pass the dependent pension bill over the Presidents veto.
 25. Senator Ingaus, of Kansas, chosen President pro tenn, of the Senate.
 9S. Mrs. Roxana Druse, for the mur- der of her husband, hanged at Herki- mer, N. Y.
 MARCH. l. About twenty lives lost by the burning of the steamer William II. Gardner, on the Tombigbee River, near Gainesville, Ala; I04 miners entombed, sixteen being killed, by a colliery ex- plosion ct St. Etienne, France.
 ?. A combination Of Democrats and Republicans elects Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, as United States Senator from New Jersey; earthquake shocks on Long Island
 4 An earthquake shakes up parts oi co,.Sf. CaroItna and GpOrQta. The