Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

place.
Is Failure of the American exchange in London;
Henry F. Gillig general manager; liabilities,
100000.
IS. Eighteen burned to death at Celaya, Mex, BY
the burning of stand Tor spectators Of a bull
fight
Senator Stanford's racing stables burned at
Palo Alto. Cal
%. Thos. Tunstan Of Mobile, Ala, made United
States consul to San Salvador.
"a John e. Murphy, confidential clerk Of DR..
Daniel Gray of Holmesburg, Pa, defaulted in
$4,000
q. Gen Joseph E Johnston admitted TO contribu-
tory membership by Gen. E. D. Baker Post,
G. r.
%. Ship Smyrna sunk in collision with steamer
Motto of Isle Of Wight. Thirteen drowned
MAY.
/ Assistant Cashier De Baum, Of the Park Ma
tional bank, New York, defaulted in se5.0oo
2 Ten thousand dollars stolen from registered
letters near Harrisburg Pa.
g. Fifteen banks failed in Buenos Ayres.
9. Cloud burst near Maize, Kan causing food
watery death.
Explosion Of carload Of dynamite at Locust
Gap. Pa. Eight killed
IL Train robbery at Aguazarca, A T.
Ia High water along the Missouri and Red rivers
Several lives lost
IS Methodist general conference created an order
Of deaconesses for charitable work
% Rev. John q. Vincent and Rev James NJ Fitz-
gerald made bishops by the general Methodist
conference.
g. Rev. j. c. Joyce made bishop by the general
Methodist conference.
Randall L. Gibson elected senator from Louisi-
ana
a DIR. John T. Newman and Rev. DR.. Goodsen
made bishops by the general Methodist con-
ference.
Corner stone Of the new Roman Catholic uni
versity laid at Washington.
o. Rev. J. NJ Thoburn elected bishop Of India
by the general Methodist conference.
Exciting discussion Of the negro question at
the general assembly Of the Presbyterian
church in Philadelphia
Is The southern assembly Of the Presbyterian
church decided against DR.. Woodrow and his
evolution theory.
IS Destructive storms throughout the United
States Enormous losses.
%. General assembly Of the southern Fresby
terian church decided against organic union
so. Z. D. White elected senator from louisiana
JUNE
8. White Cap outrages in Indiana
4 Gen William B. Francklyn named commits
sioner of the United States to the Paris expo
sition; Somerville B. Tuck assistant commits
siOner.
ILSulSSu hAlCd IL dSClOcuL utdI ldlll-
pico Mexico.
Eleven burned to death at Rockdale, Tex
6. E. L. Lichtenstein, Wilmington, Del, de.
faulted in s33, 80
8. Steam yacht Clean run down in the Patapsco
river by steamer Joppa; NJ. T. Harrison Gar
rett, of Baltimore, drowned
Rev. DR.. Layton Coleman made Protestant
bishop Of Delaware.
10. Train robbery at Muscogee, l. T.
Train rfhhary function (itv NJ n
1a Nine. and Gen. Diss Debar sentenced to the pen
itentiary for six months.
% Disastrous foods in Mexico Many hundreds
drowned
"a Holbrook, A T., nearly destroyed by fire.
%. Paying Teller Pitcher of the Union bank OF
Providence, R. l., Is defauter and fugitive
JULY.
3. John r. Van Loan of the Second National bank
of Jersey city, defaulter In $4,000
4. Mrs. James K Polk, widow of President Polk,
ct Nashville, started the machinery Of the
Cincinnati Exhibition by electricity.
VIM. r. Flack lost his life trying to navigate
the whirlpool rapids, Niagara.
0. Col Thos l. Casey made chief Of engineers
Of the army.
Japan.
L. Hronek, Chebouth, and Chapek three Bo-
hernian Anarchists, arrested In Chicago,
charged with conspiracy to burn the city.
AUGUST
l. Blnky Morgan hanged In Columbus o.
Twenty -one lives lost in fire on the Bowery
New York
4 Terrible tornado In Cuba Heavy loss Of life
g. Yellow fever well under way at Jacksonville
Fla
10. Ten persons burned to death at Chattanooga,
Hugh N. Brooks, alias Maxwell, hanged at St.
Louis
IL Woman suffrage declared unconstitutional in
Wyoming
16. Collision of steamers Geyser and ThingvaIla
More than 100 lives lost
81. Bill Miles, anti Bald knobber, shoots and kills
Capt N. Kinney, Bald Knobber chief, at
Ozark, Mo.
Severe storms on the gulf and Atlantic coasts.
%. Gigantic opium smuggling scheme unearthed.
Frank Gardner and other guilty parties after
ward convicted and imprisoned
Thirty four lives lost in steamer collision in San
Francisco bay.
%. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion at Neemah,
Neb.
90. Quarantine ordered against Jacksonville, Fla
Robert Garrett reported demented.
81. Charles II Litchman resigns general secre-
taryship of the Knights Of Labor
SEPTEMBER
. Battle between outlaws and vigilantes near
Palladora, No Mans Land. Seventeen out
laws killed.
8. Sarah Althea Hill jailed for three days for
contempt Of court. Judge Terry, her hus-
band sent up for six months for brandishing
a knife In the court room
70. Floods in Mexico. Many lives lost.
10 Disastrous floods in Georgia
%. John G. Parkhurst of Michigan, appointed q.
6. Minister to Belgium
81 The lone highwayman OF Texas killed by Mrs.
Lizzie Hay
e8 J. H Oberly appointed Indian commissioner.
e. w R Foster of New York, defaulter in Sl6S-
COO
Old Eutch's wheat corner begun IN Chicago.
IS Sioux Indians decline to accept the terms Of
the proposed treaty.
oCToBER-
!. Traders bank at Chicago suspended Liabili
ties, 100000
2 Severe storms on the great likes. Many
lives lost.
TO- Seventy-eight killed in railroad collision, Mud
Run Pa
IS H. S, Briggs Of Rochester. defaulter In s14.-
CO.,
10. j B Mcclure aad Hugh Flanagan robbed Of
s1eooo and murdered near Wikeeaarre
Q Thos. Axworthy treasurer. Of Cleveland. o.
defaulser In $4,000.
Is Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, gave S, 100000
for the education of the colored people in the
former slave states.
20. Lord Sackville given his passports
2. Steamer Haytian Republic seized by the BAY
tians. .
NOVEMBER
1 Serious trouble with oyster dredgers on Ches-
apeake bay
4 Sixteen killed by mine explosion ct Cooks
Run, Pa
@ One hundred killed by mine explosion st Pitts
burg. Kan.
Thtrry-seven killed by fire n Rochester, n. Z.
Is Marriage Of Joseph Chamberlain and Miss En-
dicott
Failure of the bank Of Durham, n. G. Ilabilf
ties 500 600 involving other failures aggre
eating $1,000, 900
H. Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain