St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-02

| clermency of the president OF the Quilted
| States.
IA. William Kemmler convicted at
| Buffalo, n. Y. of murder, is sentenced
| to death by electricity.
16. Fire destroys 200 houses in a
suburb Of Quebec.
10. The steamer Augusta Victoria ar
| rlveS at Sandy Hook from Fastnet, max
| ing the ocean trip in five days, twenty
two and one-half hours, breaking all
| previous records.
81. At the Berlin conference Ger
| many agrees to restore Malietoa to his
| postas King of Samoa.
y. The corpse of DIR. Cronin diScov-
cred III sewer in Chicago.
IS. Retirement on account of age of
X. Z. Drum, adjutant general of the
army, the first private soldier who
reached the ranks of brigadier general.
81. Breaking of the dam of the South
Fork Fishing club. and the destruction
or Johnstown, Pa, and other places. by
the rushing waters, 1000 or 5000 lives
being lost and S75,00o,060 worth of prop
erty destroyed.
JUNE.
2. Great floods in the Chan Ping and
Ping 1uen districts in China. and 5000
lives lost.
6. Fire at Seattle. Wash, $4,000, 900
nth of property being destroyed.
II. Calvin 5. Brice elected Chairman
of the Democratic National Committee;
fifty children killed in collision of sec
tons of Sunday-school excursion train
in Ireland.
IA. The Samoan commissioners at Ber-
lin agree upon treaty.
IS. A proposed constitutional amend
ment defeated in Pennsylvania by near
ly 10000 majority.
10. Martin BOurk, Daniel Coughlin,
Frank Woodruff and p. q. Sullivan in
dicted at Chicago for the murder of DR..
CrUnin.
25. Sarah Jane WHEELING hanged in
Philadelphia for the murder of her huS-
band and children.
20. Collision on the Pennsylvania
railroad near Latrobe. Pa, kills twelve
persons and Injuries assmany more.
q. Finding of the body of Anna
Weiss, of Jefferson City. who had been
murdered in the suburbs OF West st.
Louis.
JULY.
1. The "Angelus," picture by Mil
let. sold at auction at Paris for $4,000.
2. Wreck on the Norfolk & Western
railroad near ThaXton7s, Va, and thirty
lives lost.
8. EXPLOSION of fire damp entombs
300 miners in a colliery at St. Etienne.
France.
4. A 100000 fire at ElIensburg,
Wash.
8. John l.. Sullivan defeats Jake
kllrain i'll prize fight at Richburg,
Miss.
9. Floods in .Johnstown, N. Y, causes
loss of six lives.
l3. Augustus Rosenberg kills his
md hAr fntrf
ton and ends his own life by jumping
from a window.
IA. Centennial of the downfall of the
Bastile celebrated in France and by
Frenchmen all over the world.
10. +. ID. Hogan ascends from Will
iamsburg, N. Y. in an airship and is
never afterwards heard of.
Is. Big floods and loss of life and
property in West Virginia.
%: Celebration in Hawarden. Eng
land. of the golden wedding of W. E.
Gladstone; failure of the dry goods
house of Lewis Bros, of Philadelphia,
with liabilities of $5.OOO.0OO.
81. Marriage of the Princess Louise,
eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales,
to the Duke of Fife.
%. The Boulangist movement re-
eeives bad setback at the elections in
france for councils general.
AUGUST.
2. Arrival of the Emperor William.
of Germany, in London on q visit to-
Queen Victoria.
.. The business portion of Spokane
Falls, WASH. destroyed by fire, the loss
being $4,000, GOO; fifteen persons Injured
at Tabor Station, on the Reading rail-
road, by a collision between wild en-
CINE and MESSENGER train
2. Mrs. MaybIick convicted at Liver
pool or killing her husband by poison
ing. and subsequently sentenced TO
death by hanging. but the sentence Ill
timately committed to life impriSon-
ment; an electric motor at Baltimore
displays speed of three miles min
ute: Eben S. Allen, president of the
Forty-Second Street Ferry railroad, in
New York, arrested and subsequently
sentenced to fourteen years imprson-
ment, for issuing S130.000 worth of I'M
authorized stock; j. F. COLON arrested
at Minneapolis charged with forgeries
aggregating 1875, 900.
Ii. Judge Cummin, the head of the
Pennsylvania flood commission for the
relief of the Conemaugh valley suffer-
erS, dies from disease contracted in the
discharge of his duty.
Is. The French senate convicts Gen.
Boulanger on charges of conspiracy,
treason and embeZzlement, and he is
sentenced to deportation.
IA. David S. Terry, ex-judge of the
California supreme court. while assault
ing Associate Justice Field, of the
supreme court of the United States,
killed by Deputy Marshal Maggie.
Is. John l.. Sullivan convicted in
Mississippi of prize fighting in that
state, and sentenced to a years i'm
prisonment, but released on bail on APP
peal.
Is. Great rain and wind storm and
floods in Japan in which many vessels
were sunk, immense amount of prop
erty destroyed and 10000 lives lost.
10. Tenement house on Seventh ave-
nue., New York, burned. and nine lives
lost.
"a. Legitime abdicates as president
of Hayti, and his rival, HippOlyte, and
his army enter the capital OF that coun-
try, and the civil war ends.
%. Death of Henry Shaw, the philan-
thropist, in st. Louis.
%. Wreck on the Chicago, Santa Fe
d California railroad near Kinsman,
ILL.,. and fifty persons injured; Mrs.
Robert Ray Hamilton stabs Mary Don
nelly, her child's nurse, and was SUISSE
quently tried and sentenced to two
years i'll prison.
81. The strike of the London dock
men reaches its height. 800, 900 men be-
ing out: "Black Bart" the lone high
wayman, captured in Wisconsin.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Graham goes safely over the
Horseshoe falls at Niagara in barrel.
2. End of the coal miners strike in
Illinois by the acceptance of the opera
tors terms by the strikers.
8. Barker, Mont, burned and nine
lives lost.
5. The celebration of the foundingof
the Old Log college, near Huntsville,
Pa, attended by President Harrison.
6. Dynamite explosion III cartridge
factory at Antwerp. and 500 persons
killed.
Z. Report. generally supposed to be
fake" that Steve Brodie went over
Niagara falls in his rubber suit.
8. Storm on the Atlantic ocean. and