The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-12
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Aug. 11--Authentfc reports state thGt BY tn
four villages were buried in the ashes; 500 pei
sons were killed, 200 wounded and 900 rendere
homeless and destitute.
and Tbingvalla OF Sable Island, by which tn
Geser was sunk and lIS persons were drowned
avg. 15-Eleventh conference OF the Y. M.
A. Of the world convened at Stockholm, Sweden
Aug. l7-Great destruction to property an
many lives lost in thunderstorm which pnsse
over Eastern Ontario and tho whole OF Quebec
damage estimated at sl,500,0O0.
Aug. 2i-Rght Rev. S. S. Harris, Bishop O
in London, aged AZ.
Aug. International corn and seed markc
Sept. 1-Serious damage by earthquakes II
New Zealand.
Sept. 4-Destructive foods reported II
Bohemia; many villages submerged.
Sept 5-A cyclone In Cuba did great damag
TO property in Haravo and other places; man.
lives lost.
Sept s-Destructivo cyclone at Vera Cruz
Mexico.
Sept 2l-Tcrrtble floods in the province o
Alueria, Spain.
Sept 17-over 500 lives reported lost in re
cent cyclone In Cuba; property loss severa
million dollars.
Sept. es-Ex- Marshal Bazaine, of Franc
died at Madrid, Spain, aged "a.
Sep. Valparaiso, Chill, flooded by
bursted reservoir and over u thousand live!
lost and property damaged to the extent o.
Sep 2s-Edward Hanlan, ex.champ,on, de
feated In a boat race in Australia by Petei
Kemp.
Oct. 1-Snow tell throughout England.
Oct. 5-Tom King, ex-champion pugilst diet
in London.
Oct o-Disastrous floods reported In the
province OF Moukden. China: many lives lost....
Three thousand houses reported destroyed aut
many persons killed seriously injured by
great storm Mt Nekagori, Japan e. Cholera
still raging at Hong Kong.
Oct. 8-Death pnnounood of Sir Anthony Mus
grave, Governor OF Queensland.
Oct. 0-Snow to the depth of six inches in
Montreal, Can.
oct. 2o-By railroad accident caused by O
landslide Mt Laterza, Italy, 100 persons were
killed and 5o-others injured.
Nov. l--Rev. VIM. c. Van Meter, noted evan.
gelist and missionary, died at Rome, aged 6S. 4
Nov. 6-British Parliament reassembled.
Nov. o-Six inches OF snow at Quebec, Can.
Nov. 1C-Seventy persons drowned In coils
ion between steamers in British channel
Nov. 27-Village OF Vaubecourt, France total.
ly destroyed by fire. thousands OF people being
rendered homeless and destitute 80. M. Hcrten
Dec. 1-President Diaz, Of Mexico, took the he
oath OF office for his third term.
Doc 6-Several mysterious murders in the
Whi1chapel district of London occurred dur.
ing the year, the victims being outcast women,
whose bodies were horribly mutilated
Dec. 21cAuthentic Information received that
Stanley, the African explorer, was alive and
well In August.
Dec. e6-General Louis MelikoT, famous Rus
sian officer, died mt Nice, aged u.
Dec. 27-Several shocks OF earthquake in
eastern and northeastern parts of Span.
INDUSTRIAL.
Jan. "A strike of 50,0O) miners in progress
in the Schuylkil, Pa, region the strike also OK
tending TO the Lehigh region: =. The Newark
IN. J.) Shoemaker's Trades Union decided to
withdraw from the knights of Labor
Jan. 10-Nearly all steel-rail mills In country
closed because Of railway managers refusing to
purchase ut over $50 por ton.
Eeh p--Canpral nf EuiCh a
OF Labor report 5000 increase in membership
of order in January.
Feb 3-The 5000 striking employees of tho
Troy, IN. " steel and iron works accept 10 per
cent. reduction in wages
Feb l3-Several collieries in Reading, Pa, dis
trict resume operations
Feb. 17-Strlking miners in ScEuylkill, Pa,
region ordered to return to work
Feb. 20-Ten per cent. increase in wages vol,
UNFAIRLY given TO workmcn in Belaire O) blast
furnaces.
Feb. 21-Strking miners at Palmrya, (O) re-
sumo work at old prices.
Feb. 2T-Great strike OF engineers aud fire.
Three thousand employees of the Edgar Thom-
son steel works, Pittsburgh. Pa, discharged
for refusing 10 accept terms OF comnany.
Feb. 29-Many strikers In Leh gh(P mining
region ordered by X. of l.. to return TO work.
Mar lover 800 ship carpenters in Milwaukee
struck for 10 hours pay for ninc hours work
Mar. 6-Eight hundred striking miners ut
Mount Carmel, PA, return to work ut old rates.
Mar Strike of engineers on Burlington &
Northern railroad nnuguraled at Minneapolis.
Muir. l4-JudRe Gresham decided NJ Chicago
that rnilroud could not lawfully suspend re-
ciprocal relation with connecting road
through fear OF prec c.pitating strike.
Mar. l5-Str ke inaugurated of engineers and
flremen on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
system. -. Two thousand employees OF Mcclure
& Co, coke operators Mt Scottdale, Pa, struck
for division of work.
Mar. 1S-Strike on Santa Fe system ended by
eng neers and fremen returning TO work.
Mar. 2i-Striking carpenters and calkers in
give up the light and resume work.
Mar. 23-Strikc of union plasterers atsBunalo,
N. Y, for 10 hours pay for nine hours work ....
on Santa Fe system strike to help
engineers and iiremen of the burlington lines.
Mar. 29-Mob OF strikers attack u c., b. g. Q.
train in Chicago. .Switchmen, engineers pnd
nemen in yards OF o., NJ q st. Z. road strike.
Apr 1-Ra lroad strikes IN Chicago spreading
Apr 2-House painters in Cincinnati struck
'or increase OF pay and reduced hours.
Apr 3-Railroad strike In Chicago modified
oy removal OF boycott on Burlington freight
he strike being confined to Burlington road.
Apr l-About l.WD strikers, alter several
nonths idlencSs, decide to rcs ume work Ut the
Reading Na.) iron works, at u reduction IN
)ay OF ~ per cent.
Apr 12-A shut down by coke producers in
Pa region threw over G,OOO men
,ut of work 49,. Employees OF Chicago brewers
struck because proprietors would not recog-
re authority of union.
Apr. l6-Brewery lockout inaugurated in
New York City.
Apr. I0-About 400 employees of Cincinnati
DTcWerlcS slruGk because OF discharge OF sew
raj union men.
Apr 23-BraddoclS CPa) steel.worlls resume ed
operations tn non-upton men. after laying
die for four months.
May 3-Str Ike III Edgar Thomson steel works
It BraddocN. Pa, declared OF by Knights OF
-abor, and men resume work Mt old rates.
May 4-About 1000 iron miners strike near
duluth, MINI.
May 10 Boston Herald divides $4,000 among
mployes o. the prott-sharng plan.
May 2S-New fork brewers declared long
trike ended, and would ,ake back none OF the
trikers
Jun. 1i-Annual convention of International
Union assembled at Kansas
Jun. I5-Window glass factories OF Pittsburg
70, closed down, because OF disagreement OF
'orkers and employers on scale OF wages.
Jun. 49, Seven coke works IN Connellsville
"a, region shut down because OF strike OF
mplOyes.
Jun. sO-All the iron mills in tho West but 1a
perated by non'union men'shut down because |
sdgreement rs 10 wages. |
Jul. 6-clncinnatl brewers strike, begun |
pril II, declared on
Jul. l4-Iron workers strike at Pittsburgh |
racticaliy ended, nearly all manufacturers |
aving gned the scale.
Jul. a7-Owners and operators of glass-works |
Pittsburgh, Pa, agreed upon scale OF |
ages. Operations 10 be resumed Sept. !.
Jul. 3l-Six thousand csal miners in vicin-
y OF Pittsburgh, Pa, struck against reduction
wages.
Aug. .i-Letter-cariers' eight,hour law goes
10 eject.
Aug. 3-Four thousand street laborers In Du-
lth, MIMI, struck for increase in wages.
Aug, 1l-Sti1king flint glass workers, 5000 In
lmbnr. in Pittsburgh, resumed work at in
'eased wages.
Aug. l5-Brick-makors' strike at Chicago
Elapsed, union men ut work refusing TO
niger support the strikers.
Aug. l6- North Chicago rolling mills shut
)wn, throwing out 900 men.
Sept. l. ost OF the glass bottle factories In
10 country resumed work after eight weeks
nut down; slight advance III wages.
Sep. 5-Federation OF Miners and Mine-La-
)rers, IN session ut Indianapolis. decided nine
,urs shall be days work after Sept. !, 1880,
I'd eight hours after Sept. ], 1890. Striking