The Forrest City times., 1888-01-07

persona sod injuring IIf.
 IT. Tampa. Fla, and vicinity dan- aged by tornado.
 10. Fire destroys the New Rich- mond Hotel. At Buffalo. fourteen lives being lost. Slight earthquake at sum- merville. ;. C.,
 20. Fifty-flve ccttsges destroyed by lire at ChsutanqHa Lake, x. Y.
 ss, Emperor William celebrates the eOth anniversary of his birth.
 2S. Twelve men perish in burning clearinghouse at Bessemer, Mich. Seventy miners killed in colliery ex- f rlosion near Sydney, Australia.
 24. Senator sherman speaks at Nash Vile; the Presidentssigps the eomnils- sions Of the Interstate Commissioners.
 27. The Coronet arrives at Queens town, having treversed a route Of 2949 miles, beating the Dauntless and win ming the Sl0,000 wager. 2S. The Dauntless arrives at Queens town, after going a distance of 3l22 miles.
 %. J. c. Blaine arrives in St. Louis. One more attempt made to kill the Car
 l 30. Bill Walker, the wounded vice chief of the Bald Knobbers, is placed in jail.
 APRIL 1. Assistant Secretary Charles S. | FairehiId appointed Secretary of the | Treasury.
 4. The interstate commerce law | goes into operation. The proposed l p.ohibitory amendment to the Miehi- 1 gan State Consultation defeated; muni- ripal elections in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Connecticut and Dak ota, etc.
 5. Municipal elections in Missouri. | Kansas and Illinois. Women vote in l Kansas.
 G. The Democrats carry Rhode ! Island in the State election for the first time in many years '. Gas which has been manufactured I from crude oil furnishes the motive power by which locomotive and train are moved at Meadville, Pa, 1 II. Trenton, N. J., elects a Repub- , lican Mayor for the first time in a quarter of century. 15. Dan Jewell, colored murderer, hanged in St. Louis. Cyclone destroys a great amount of property in Ohio. | IS. William J. Allen appointed by the Presinent to succeed Judge Treat, deceased. as Federal Judge of the Southern Illinois District.
 l9, Municipal elections in Illinois. 20. Exercises in the Assembly l Chamber of the New York Legisla- ture in memory O. Chester A. Arthur. 2l. Earthquake shocks felt in Mex ico Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, p. Tomatoes destroy several lives and a large amount of property in Western and Southwestern Missouri, | Southeastern Kansas and Northern Arkansas: $50 pearl-fishers lost in e hurricane on the Australian coast.
 26. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the introduction of Odd Fellowship in- te the United States celebrated in many parts of the country; Secretary La mar delivers the oration at the unveil- ing of the statue of John C. Calhoun, in Charleston. s. c. 27. Five men suffocated by gas in a mine in Ashland, Pa.
 2s. A Southern Pacific Express car robbed near Tucson, Arlz. %. The last two Mollie Magulres pardoned out Of Pennsylvania prison.
 MAY.
 l. James N. Taggart, paying teller of the Union Trust Company, Philadel-
 
 and fees to Canada.
 B. Remains of Peter g. Ney ex- humed in North Carolina, in order to learn if he were identical with Mar shal Ney, one of Bonaparte's great Generals, but the question not defi- nitely settled.
 4. Explosion in mine at Vancouver Island, 5. C., kills l20 men, 75 of them being Chinese; l50 persons killed at Montezuma, Mexico, by volcano; earthquake shocks felt in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mex l ico.
 :. The steamer La Champagne ! from Havrc for New York, beached on the American coast, and twelve Italian emigrants drowned. | 8. Jennie Bowman dies at Louis l vile from injuries inflicted on her by l two negroes, while defending her em- ! ployer's property. | 10. Fire destroys eighty buildings i at Lebanon, N. H., and sixty families made homeless. Wm. O'Brien, editor or United Ireland, arrives at New York on his journey to Canada to de nounce Lord Lansdowne for miscon- duct toward his tenants.
 l2. Statue of President Garfield un- ] yelled at Washington, under the aus pices of the Society of the Army of the ! Cumberland. Tablet in honor of Maj Gen. John Sedgwick erected by tls i 9th Army Cores on the battlefield o Spottsylvania, Va. One hundred thou sand dollar fire in Philadelphia des. troys several factories and many dwell ings
 IA. Eviction Of the families of many striking miners at Hazelbrook, Pa Queen Victoria visits London and call on the Lord Mayor
 l5. The Equitable Benefit Society an organization to promote marriages fails in Reading. Pa.
 F. The Goblet French Ministry re signs.
 yelled by Odd Fellows at Indianapolis Another plot discovered to assasslnatt the Car.
 l9. The steamers Britannia ant Celtic collide 100 miles off Nantucket 1T fog, four persons being killed and [ dozen injured. Gen. James l.. Selfredg, suicides in Philadelphia
 20. The village of Lake Linden Mich, almost totally destroyed by fire Prince Murat restored to the frenet ! &rtuN FOIL. NdilO SAithCi by an earthquake. Five nihilists, who attempt to kill the Czar executed.
 24. A student shoots at the Czar but misses him.
 %. The yacht Coronet returns t l New York, after It's ocean race witt the Dauntless. One hundred anc thirty lives lost in the Opera Comiqut fire in Paris.
 26. The Belt Line Street-car stablei in New York burned, 400 horses being consumed and $l, 900 worth Of pro perty destroyed.
 27. Railroad accident on the Penn sylvania road at Horseshoe Bend, Pa. | four persons being killed and eigh injured.
 2s. The Rouvier Ministry formed Fire-damp explosion near Glasgow i Scotland, entombs lS5 miners, seventy five being killed. Seven hundred ant fifty persons on a steamer drowned in