Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02
A YEARS GENERAL NEWS
CONTENTS OF A TWELVE MONTHS
JOURNAL BOILED DOWN.

interchangeable Politics, the Crimes,
the Railroad Accidents That Have Oc-
Cured During 1890.
Dates of important happenings of 1890 in
America not elsewhere classified, will be
found carefully set down below. The sum
mary is an interesting one, and it will pay
you to read it:
JANUARY
2. T. c. Power elected u s. senator from Mon
tana
8. 2O7 deaths in New York, mostly from infiu-
enza
Z. Influenza and resulting diseases caused the
highest death rate in New York since the days
of the cholera.
O. Sinking of a caisson at Louisville, Ky, killed
10 men.
10. new code of rules agreed upon by Repub
lican caucus was presented to the house
ID. Applications for new trial by Coughn
O'Sullivan and Burke, Cronin convcts, de-
MED; Kunze's petition granted
Calvin S. Brice elected U. S. senator from
Ohio E. X. Wilson reelected U. s. senator
from Maryland
Is. Sharon divorce case at San Francisco ended
by the annument of the marriage contract as
forgery
IT, Decrease of influenza in New York; increase
in the western part of the United States
q Train robbers secured $4,000 by holding up a
train in southern California on the Southern
Pacific r. r tramp killed
Speaker Reed of the house counted a quorum
from members present but not voting, and
thus started bitter parliamentary struggle
between Republicans and Democrats
"a. clerk in the employ of the Chicago operator
p Hutchinson, named Stoner, robbed him
of $4,000
Natural gas explosion at Columbus, O., killed s
people, injured many, and wrecked several
buildings.
a shortage of S21 900 found in the accounts of
George II. LounsbeTy, treasurer of the New
York city postofflce; he committed suicide at
Hackensack, N j.
25. Arrival in New York of Nellie BLY, of The New
York World, after having Travelled around
the world in - days, hours and II minutes
q. Accident on the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago r. r. near indianapolis, Ind killed
and injured many.
20 Diplomatic representatives of Brazil officially
received by President Harrison
30 u s. bank examiner closed the Sixth National
bank the LenoX Hill bank and the Equitable
bank of New York; p. j. Claassen. president
of the Sixth National bank, and George II
Pell broker, arrested.
Lieutenant Governor Iampson unseated by the
Ohio senate.
Robert Adams, Jr, nominated to be minister
to the United States of Brazil and William fl
Taft of Ohio, to be solicitor general of the
treasury
FEBRUARY.
8. Democrats in the house of representatives
issued a statement of their side of the quorum
dispute.
4. Railroad accident at The Dalles Ore: 10 killed
10 hurt
Celebration in New York city of the centennial
of the supreme court of the United States
Samoan treaty ratified by the U. S. senate; -
negative votes.
G. An explosion occurred in colliery in Wales
Inv v-Ii. Ia lt,..,- loot
10 Charles Emory Smith nominated minister to
Russia by the president.
, IL. Adoption OF the new code of rules Tor the
house
ID. Governments contract with the New York
commissioners of immigration terminated by
Secretary Winlom; Castle Garden abandoned
as a landing place for immigrants
Discovery Of shortage of $4,000 in the ac-
counts of john Davis, treasurer of Rochester,
y. y; DAVIS was afterward sentenced to five
years in state prison
IS. y shortage of between $1,000 and S.OOOO0
reporte in the accounts of G. G.. Davies Que
bee agent OF large London firm
II Re-inall blrcLall kills +. c. Benwell near
Woudstuck. Ont
Is British eXt7adition treaty ratified by the SEN
ate
Exc, 20 40 Pikeville, Ky, of Ellison Mounts
for participation in the Mccoy Hatfield muir
n Conviction of Jer .miah O'Donnell at Chicago
Ills, for brLug Cronin Jurors: sentenced to
two years Imprisonment
%, Irrigation dam burst at Hasayampa Ariz; so
killed: loss. 81 ,O0J, 900
p Harold NJ. Seweu, OF Maine nominated to be
consul general at Apa, Samoa, by the presi
dent
Serious charges made against Commander
McC ALA, of the soop of war Enterprise, on her
arrival at New York; McCalla afterward
court martiG!ed
Atkinson Penlleton contested election case
settled by the house; Atkinson seated; vote
1852 too
p. Charles Kincaid. newspaper correspondent
shot ex Congressman Taubee in the Capitol
at Washington.
Contract for taking fur seals in Alaska award
ed to the North American Commercial com
pany
l, POO lives lost by the wreck of the British
steamship Quetta in the Torres straits while
going from Queensland 10 London
4 Iowa legislature reelected william b. Allison
to the L. $. senate.
Flight of William L. Pope, Louisville City Ma
tional banks paying teller, with $4,000
The house seated Featherstone from the First
Arkansas district.
I. Collision on the Lake Shore r. r at Ham
burg y. Y, near Buffalo, 6 killed, 10 hurt.
10. Australian ballot reform bill signed by Gov
ernor Perry of Washington
l49 lives lost by coliiery disaster in Wales
20 Blair education bill defeated by a vote of 81 to
81 in the U. $. senate
The Mudd-Compton election contest settled in
the house by the seating of Mr.. Mudd from
the Fifth Maryland district.
~ Sheriff Flack, of New York, his son William
and Referee Meeks found guilty in the divorce
conspiracy case.
q Defacatou of State Treasurer Stevenson
Archer, of Maryland, in Sl27 900
81. SaXton ballot reform bill vetoed by Governor
Hill, of New York.
APRIL
8 Edmund Sturgis Crawford who stole 81 / 600
from the American Exchange bank, in New
York, arrested in Spanish Honduras after two
years chase
5 Declared ut the annual meeting of Mormons
In Utah that further prophetic revelations
not to be expected.
4 Defalcaton in New York of Douglas Hilcher
in $4,000
g. Defalcaton Of Frederick Kimhall teller of the
Peoples Savings bank, Of Worcester Mass,
in $4,000
Ballot reform bill passed by the Iowa house;
Governor Jackson signed a similar bill in Mary
land
IL The U. S. supreme court decided that the
killing of Judge Terry by Deputy Marshal