The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-01-10
A YEARS. EVENTS.
If You Seek an Important Date
You May Find 1t Here.
THE GENERAL AMERICAN RECORD

The Year 1880 Was an Erentful One
Fires and Other Disasters Attributable
to the Cnreiessness of Mnn-politics,
Personal. Sport and Other Matters oi
Interest.
The most serious question met by the deliver
who complies an orderly record Of tho i'm.
portant dates of any year is, What shall be
left outt
For, no matter how great an amount of
space is allowed, it is certain that some mat
ters one would wish to include in the record
must be omitted, and it is always quite within
the possibilities that some dates of less i'm.
portance than those printed may be finally
overlooked.
The most important American dates of 1889
not properly clasSed under special heads nro
given place in the compilation which follows
Immediately below
Richardson Drug company's store DESTROYED
by fire in st Louis; loss, 5000, 600
Total eclipse Of the sun. visible in northwest
ern America
9. United States congress reconvened after the
holidays
s Earthquake in Nicaragua; killed.
4 Nicaragua Canal company Incorporated
News received that yellow fever existed on
the u. S. vessel Yantic, and she has left Port
au Prince for homo .4@I..a .i.@...5 o
u Several men killed in fight over Gray Co.,
Kan, records by the partisans of ingalls, and
Cimarron.
II. Admiral Kimberly ordered TO Samoa to pro.
tect American interests there
II. 10 horses burned in stabIe at Lowell, Mass
10. Lieutenant Governor Mcdonald, Of Michigan,
Killed in railroad accident -..
g The United States senate passed the substitute
far fhn 1c u; I,,yf .s,uk.A
vote ~ 4'113 *4'
. Assassination Of John n Clayton, at Plum
merse, Ark. @a =@- 5""...
!. The United States senate rejected the British
eAtrndtion treaty
2. So 000, 000 fire in Buffalo, N. Y ,.. ,..
Z Dismissal Of United States Consul General
Sewell at Samoa.
o. Sale of c., St. L. s C, r r to tho C., c., c. &
l. r. r. announced.
10 slooO,ooo fire in Philadelphia; drug house OF
John Wyeth & Bro destroyed.
lS % lives lost in wreck of the Park Central
hotel Hartford, Conn. by boiler explosion
70 Signing of commercial treaty between Japan
and the United States announced
81. Northern and Union Pacific railroads virtually
secured n joint lease of the Oregon Railway
and Navigation property
=. Bill creating the states of North and South
DnkotH, Montana aud Washington signed by
President Cleveland
IS. Explosion in n mining squib factory, plym-
outh, Pa; II girls killed.
q. 10 killed in railroad accident ut ST. George,
Out
Z. Inauguration Of President Harrison.
Vice President Morton installed and newly
elected senators sworn in.
6. Mahonins Mutual Benefit Life Insurance asso-
citation passed into the hands of receiver
7. Attorneys of Gen. Gofr commenced proceed
IttrS rf.f,ar rfIinr be Waet
ship
ii. Strike of COCO wcavers in Fall River, Mass
Settled March "a
IL. Prohibition defeated in New HAMPSHIRE
Ir. i. B. Mellow, Of Charleston, murdered Capt
F. W. Dawson, editor OF The Charleston News
md Courier.
10 Resignation of Senator Chace, Of Rhode Island.
81. Northern Pacific Il. r. secured control Of lines
of the Wisconsin Central Il, r
20, Fifty'five drowned by sinking of the excur.
sion steamer Ocotcau III Lake Chapala. Mex-
leo
%. Defeat in tho Dominion parliament Of the
O'Bren Jcsuits' disalowance bill
April.
!. Ships Richmond, Alert and Adams ordered ,c
Samoa by the United States naval depart
mcnt.
.. Adjournment Of the United States Senate
a. $2ooo,ooo worth Of property destroyed by
prairie fires in Minnesota and Dakota.
O. 100000 worth of property destroyed by fire
in Savannah, Ga.
G Arrival Of the All America baseball players in
New York from their trip round the world.
1a Richmond and Allegheny r. R. sold to the
Chesapeake aud Ohio for s., COX, 600
10 s3ooo,oo0 worth of property destroyed by the
burning Of tho n Y. c. 6 II. r. R elevator in
New York.
e. Defeat of prohibition In Massachusetts
Oklahoma thrown open to settlers.
g Considerable disturbances and some killing re-
ported from Oklahoma.
25 Dpomatsts at Washington refuse to attend
the Washington Centennial In New York.
Grand Trunk R R ceased running Sunday
freight trains.
u u people killed in railroad accident on Grand
Trunk R r., Hamilton, Ont.
%. Centennial celebration in New York Of the
Inauguration Of Gen. George Washington,
president Of the United States, begun, lasting
three days
!. United States railway mail service placed lin.
der the civil service rules
2. Canadian parliament prorogued
6. Steamer City Of Paris broke the transatlan-
tic record.
Q, Colliery Incident at Casca William, Pa; 10
miners killed.
at Ozark, Mo.
II. J. D. Fish, pardoned by President Cleveland,
released from Auburn state prison, Auburn,
NY
IL, $50 600 stolen from United States Paymastel
Whan,, whose guard was shot down by rob.
bers.
la New York supreme court declared Chinese ex-
clusop bill valid
u. s. supreme court decided In favor of the
heirs Of Myra Clark Gaines in their suit
against the city OF New orleans
a. Proctor Knott defeated by Spokane at Louis
willie
IS. Stockholders OF tho Big Four railroads voted
to consolidate with the Vanderbilt lines
Wabash r. Il, bid off by Western bondholders
for Sl5.s5Oo00.
10 700 houses burned In Quebec; loss 5000, 600
II. Election riots reported at St Francis county,
Ark; sheriff and others killed
2 DR.. Cronin's body discovered in catch basin
in Chicago.
Decision in the Leslie Carter divorce case rem
dered against Mrs, Carter.
q. Detective Coughlin arrested for alleged com.
plicity in the Cronin murder.
The Nicaragua Canal expedition sailed from
New York.
"a Coughlin, Sullivan and Woodruff indicted for
tho Cronin murder
81 Capture Of Port au Prince, Hayti by Gen.
Hyppolite-
I Marriage at Washington of Associate Justice
Gray. of the U. S supreme court, to Jeanette
Matthews
B. Health board formed at Johnstown and vigor-
GUS efforts made TO restore order and exclude
troublesome visitors
q 81, ,000, 900 fire in Seattle, Wash
O. People Of Johnstown met tor rel elous ser
vices in the open air.
II. Dynamite cruiser VesuvIus showed speed of
n 80 knots.
z Disastrous fire In Grlnnell. Ia; II houses
burned
le. Writ Of habeas corpus granted In the case Of
Kemmler, sentenced to be the first to suffer
electrocution under the New York law.
a. Judge Tuley, Of Chicago, decided that the ar
better bund has tho right to hold meetings
q. Disastrous fire in Montreal; Is acres burned
over.
"a Defeat OF prohibition In Pennsylvania.
". Indictment of Martin Burke for the Cropiu
murder.
o. Repeal OF prohibition law ta Rhode Island
2 Destruction by fire Of the business center Of
Vancouver, Wash.
n Johnstown. Pa. visited by IRE; Is houses
burned
8. Execution In Philadelphia Of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Whiteling for the murder Of her husband and
children. -.
q Yale defeated Harvard in boat race at New
London, Conn
.. Acquittal Of Dr.. MtDow, who was tried for
the murder of Capt Dawson.
Scale proposed by the SAmalgamated assocIa
ton signed by fifteen Pittsburg Iron firms
q Seventy five round fight at RIchburg, Miss
between Sullivan and Kilrain. Sullivan won
o. 500, 600 fire In jersey City caused by an ex-
; plosion OF chemicals. 1! lt5zz
a Drowning, in Grand Canyon Of Colorado, Of