The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-01-13

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mann fanoas prostldlGlsasecrs A. . Carlo
Js,s io-vsr.oms. Asia. Destroyed b earth
quake. Over TO- rscpic Killed.
ysns Is-no.s eslsIsed - nsanos y.vsr
june -f,fs'ssS s6sivsrssry queen VIC
sosia's ascension - BRITISH throne osleoEated
july s-rrsss q I'D sank q, lshs q xue
| svissrrlard drownlne 20 rsorls
July ,-rTInss rsrd.ns.a q sszecobure
'ss : E sssy = d:s
thousands homeless snd caused ioss q s'op.ooo
July is-Hssr Krupn faneas sun-masss. d!sd
july is-ss,sish Parliament passed shs Irish
July m-F0ur thousand pssp,e made home
less ~ ore a sycnliany, Russia
July 3-Elsht hundred lives lost n bay q
Bsng.i y xr We, .s.,..,n ,.,,,. ...-v,,. y.
AdsnA nsiy' tom isils.s q crops \
Aux Silver l.ODo lives lost ~ floods II China
Aug ls-creas nrs - scutAr'. Asia. destroyed
Aug S-jshn Russin, English author. report
sept SIRE I. Roys, Thssssr. Exeter Eng.
sept. 10 Recent noods in Me made 60 fam
ilics destitute and destroyed - 5Oa0O property.
Oct S-Ainee, famous opera-ooufe singer.
oSl lin rios a PlevnA Russia - persons
killed and 10 wounded
Oct is-ouel!ic. Mexlco destroyed by storm.
| ain dedicaicd n Stratford-upon- Avon.
Oct l5-Sumber lives lost u teccr, nro %
| Hankow. Chisa. reported g LOO and property
Oct 3i-Loss BY foods in Cuba sl.ooo 600
| Mormons applied for permission 20 establish
Nov. s-Municipal elections In Eaeland favor
able 20 Giatstonians. Jenny Lind died IN
Nov: alderman Crown Prince ofacially ~
Nov. i-floods ia Hon-Nan. CHINA, destroyed
400 lives and made hundreds Of thousands
Nov is-French Cabinet resigned =. Dutch
steamer Scholten sunk on Dover. Over loo lives
Nov. S-Thrtccn mea killed BY choke damp
in eoliiery a. Ponembia, S;lcsia.
Dec. a-Lord Mayor Sullivan. Dublin. sen
tened % months imprisonment for printing
IN hts paper reports Of suppressed branches OF
National League. President G-evy. Of
France, rcsigns-
Dec. s-Esrthausks destroyed BesIenans.
70 succeed President Grevy. OF France.
Dec 5-Dcssh q Lord Lyons. British An
Dec. e-Armstrone Brothers & Co. extensive
iron operators. Glasgow. Scotland failed.
Dec. lO-Attcmps In Par.s ~ man named
Aubertine 70 assassfnasc ex-Prime Minister
Dec. IN Tirard succeeds In forming nov
Cabinet for France.
Dec. Is-Adv.ces received Of destruction in
December Of Ching Chow and 10 cs..er cities
in China By bursting Of banks OF yellow river.
Thousands OF lives loss aud millions OF PEG
pie reported starving.
Dec. 2i-Sews received OF the wrcc.ing Of
seventy vessels and loss OF twcnty-one lives IN
storm OF the West IndicA
Dec &-Revolution IN GuatsmaiA put down.
INDUSTRIAL.
Jan. 3-Ffteen hundred men on the New Jer-
scy coal docks struck against reduction ofwage&
jar <-Wilkcsbarrc mines closed on acco1nt
OF strike Of dock hands, throw .ng Sio0 persons
Jan. 6-F.fteen hundred mirvers made idle
b. nrc IN coal mines near ShamoHin. Pa
Jan i2-Threc coliierios q Shenandoah Pa,
strsse ia New Jersey. throwing several thou
sand men ard boys out OF work
jan l4-In r. Lorillnrd's tobacco factory o
Jersey City, 500 employees struck against re-
Jan. ss-sir.ke n Lorillaras tobacco works
at jersey CITY ended
Higgins 4 Co.'S carpet factory New York.
struck because certain employees had been az
Jan. G.-Eirht hundred and nfty girls IN tho
Elizabeth IN. ~ corlage works struck against
. reduction Of wages throwing ~ other hands
Jau. S-Thc s.ooo operative ssnors IN Boston
withdrew from the knights Of Labor 4 Strike
10 Higgins carpet factory ended
Jan: s5-FoIt5 thousand men employed Y the
ocean steamships and other vessels we're de-
tanned IN the docks
FEB. s-sevcn hundred men in blast furnaces
Feb. 7-Locf-oaT q Phiiadeiphia clothing
manufacturers 1900 people idle.
FEB, Sat Marquette: Mich, 500 miners quit
Feb. D-'Long shoremens' strike in New York
and strike Of 6Ooo miners IN Monongahcla dis
FEB. 1S-rsve shoussnd striking miners around
Pittsburgh returned 70 work
Feb. 25-Seven hundred men employed In
American wire workA Cleveland, O.. struck for
Mar. s-strifo Of so ssove-nolders in 81
Louis threw l.51O other men out Of work.
Mar. le-str.ke q 20O hands n shcneid
Mar I7-StrilEc Of 100 architectural iron work
ere n Cincinnati and Covington for hours'
Msr. 70 ss-s; a u 1000 SIX ~esvsrs . Pss
erson. ". J.. ended
ApI I-Ovsr x00 carpenters IN Chicago
struck fer advance In vases-
sons in Brooklyn struck for higher wagca
ApL 1s-Demands Of Cinclnaati carpentors
conceded and 90 men set 10 work.
Apl 18--Scvon thousand Chicago carpenters
returned 70 work ~. Stove moldcrs in Pits
burgh and Louisville struck against boycotted
81 LOUIS patterns
Apl- Io-Ncw York Legislature made every
May s-over sd ccopcrs at Milwaukee struck
for increased wages. 200 hands locked out
\ BY Cincinnati shoe factories =. 100o bod car
| May 5-Scven hundred and nifty men locked
! out Of Union Steel Cos Works. Chicago
May 7-san Francisco brswerics DISCHARGED
shut down, throwing s,sl0 men out o. employ
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