The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-01-04

10 Train robbery at Muscogee, L T.
II. Train robbery near Junction City, NJ T.
IS Nine and Gen. Diss Debar sentenced to the PEN
itentiary for six months.
@. Disastrous floods in Mexico. Many hundreds
drowned
81 Holbrook, A. T., nearly destroyed by fire.
% Paying Teller Pitcher, OF the Union bank OF
Providence r. l., Is defaulter and fugitive.
JULY.
g. John F. Van Loan of the Second National bank
of Jersey city, defaulter in $4,000.
L. Mrs. James X. Polk, widow Of President Polk,
at Nashville, started the machinery Of the
Cincinnati Exhibition by electricity.
VIM. r. Flack lost his life trying TO navigate
tho whirlpool rapids, Niagara.
o. Col Thos l. Casey made chief of engineers
of the army.
la More than 500 killed by volcanic eruptions in
Japan.
H. Hronel, Chebouth, and Chapek, three Bo-
henian Anarchists, arrested in Chicago,
charged with conspiracy to burn the city.
AUGUST.
l. BlnlSy Morgan hanged In Columbus, o.
Twenty-one lives lost In q fire on the Bowery,
New York
4 Terrible tornado in Cuba Heavy loss of life.
O. Yellow fever wen under way at Jacksonville,
Fla
TO- Ten persons burned to death ut Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Hugh NJ Brooks. alias Maxwell. hanged at st.
Louis.
IL Woman suffrage declared unconstitutional in
Wyoming.
10 Collision of steamers Geyser and Thingvalla.
More than 100 lives lost
21 Bill Miles. anti Bald Knobber shoots and kills
Capt N Kinney, Bald Knobber chief at
Ozark, No
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.
o. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion at Neemah,
Neb
90 Quarantine ordered against Jacksonville, Fla
Robert Garrett reported dementel
3D. Charles H. LitChman resigns general secre-
taryship of the Knights of Labor.
SEPTEMBER.
2 Battle between outlaws and vigilantes near
Palladora, ~ Mans Land Seventeen out,
laws killed
g. Sarah Althea Hill jailed for three days for
contempt of court. Judge Terry, her hus-
band sent up for six months for brandishing
knife in the court room
10 Floods in Mexico Many lives lost.
10 Disastrous floods In Georgia.
20 John q Parkhurst of Michigan, appointed U.
s. Minister to Belgium.
81 The lone hghwayman of Texas killed by Mrs
Lizzie Hay.
&c j. H. Oberly appointed Indian commissioner.
q. W. r. Foster, of New York, defaulter In Sl6S,.
CO.,
Old Hutch's wheat corner begun in Chicago
70 Sioux Indians decline to accept the terms of
= the proposed treaty.
OCTOBER.
l. Traders bank at Chicago suspended. Labili-
ties, 81, 100000.
2 Severe storms on the great lakes. Many
lives lost
TO- Seventy eight killed in railroad collision, Mud
Run, Pa.
rs H. S Briggs of Rochester, defauter In S14.
COO
10 J y. Mcclure and Hugh flanagan robbed Of
$4,000 and murdered near Wlkesbarre.
Train robbery at Peru, Ind
q. Thos. Axworthy, treasurer, Of Cleveland, O.,
defaulter IN $4,000
Is. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, gave 81 00O, 900
for the education Of the coored people in the
former slave states
30. Lord SackviI!e given his passports
"a. Steamer Haytian Republic seized by the Hay
tianS
NOVEMBER.
l. Serious trouble with oyster dredgers on Ches
apeake bay.
4. Sixteen killed by mine explosion at Cooks
Run, Pa
o. Ono hundred killed by mine explosion at Pitts
burg, Kan
Thirty-seven killed by fire In Rochester, N. Y
Is. Marriage of Joseph Chamberlain and Miss En-
dicott
Failure of the bank of Durham, N. c. Liabili
ties 100000, involving other failures aggre
eating 100000
Il. Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain
%. A. IL Colquitt reelected United States senator
from Georgia.
23. General Master Workman Powderly Of the
Knights of Labor reelected
j. E. Bedell, mortgage forger in New York. sen
fenced to twenty-five years and four months
Imprisonment
-, p, % Terrible storm on the Atlantic coast.
q Fisk viii case decided against Cornell univer
sty
Jacksonville reports q clean bill of health.
80. Calumet and Heca copper mines fred by in
cendiaries
Treasurer Chas G. winchell, of Sphinx county,
Dakota, defaulted in $4,000
DECEMBER.
8. Frank II. Bates employed by Old Hutch, de-
faulted in $4,000
2. Wholesale arrests of White Cappers in Craw
ford county, Ind.
0. Mob attacked the jail at Birmingham Ala.
and attempt to lynch a murderer named
Halves. The sheriff fired ON the mob, killing
nine AMI wounding thirty.
TO- White Cap outrages becoming prevalent in
many parts of the country.
Rear Admiral Luce ordered to proceed with two
war ships to Hayti and demand the release of
the steamer Haytian Republic. Sailed the
18th.
IL Fifteen burned to death at fire at Neumuns-
ter, Prussia.
II. Beginning of trouble between whites and ne
groes in Mississippi