People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-01-06
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FOREIGN.
Jan 7-Khedive, Of Egypt, Tewak Pasha,
Jan. lS-Cardinal Manning died in London
aged 81. Albert Victor, heir-presumptive to
the throne OF England, died in London.
Jan. 2l-John Couch Adams, +. r. S, we'll
known astronomer, died in London: aged 81
Jan &-Fifty persons killed or injured by
falling Of church roof in SlobodsiOi Russia
Jan 3l-Rev. Charles Haddon SpurgeOn, the
distinguished Baptist minister, died at Men
tone, aged So
Feb. 4-The three men found guilty in the
Baltimore affair OF October l6 1891, were sen.
fenced to Imprisonment for 40, go and go days
respectively at Valparaiso, Chilli by Judge OF
Crimes Foster
Feb. 9-English parliament reopened and
queens speech reSd
Feb. l2-Inhabitants in Great Russia reported
TO be dying by hundreds from typhus fever, and
supplies sent thither could not be distributed
for lack OF horses
Feb. lS-Seventy men killed IN explo-
sion at Horonia coal mine In Japan
....An the members Of the French ministry
resigned because ofaction Of chamber of depu.
ties Oh the bill dealing with church associations.
Feb 25-FOur thousand unemployed men in
Berlin, marching TO make demonstration be.
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workmen being wounded and 80 taken prisoners.
Feb. 26-Berlin rioters gathered again. and
sacked several buildings before they were dis
persed by police.
Mar 5-Barrios elected president Of Guat.
emala
Mar. 29-Dynamlte explosion, caused By
anarchists, occurred in building OF the Credit
Lyonnais, q large banking institution in Paris.
Apr. 9-Oxford won in annual boat race with
Cambridge on the Thames
Apr. l5-Amelia b. Edwards, well-known nov
elist and lecturer, died in London.
May l6-Steamer Alexandria Wolkow report.
cd TO have foundered In Caspian sea: 80 pas
sengers drowned. -. Terrible hurricane passed
over central New Zealand, doing great damage:
several persons killed. City OF Bolivia Vene-
zuela captured by insurgents and death OF San
tiago Rodil occurred
May l9-Hurricane in Isle of Mauritius in In.
dian ocean destroyed portion OF Port Louis,
capital city, and 200 persons crushed TO death.
-. Three villages in Russia totally destroyed
by earthquake; q persons killed,
MAY D-Spain removes its prohibition against
American pork. Nineteen persons killed by
explosion in dynamite factory in Galdoncano,
Spain.
May 26-Pecher & Co, bankers at Antwerp,
failed for 81, $4,000.
May S0-Fire at Grinigar India, 1000 houses;
cholera epidemic in same place caused Loo
ueaInS III week.
June 7-Eruption Of Gunong Aroo on the
Great Sangir islands, in the China sea, the most
destructive VOLCANOES OF modern times buried
1000 people in the lava and ashes.
June S-New Oriental bank Of London failed
for about 9l500O,0O0, 96,0OO,0OO paid-up capital
June 29-Hundreds OF persons dying daily in
Russia from cholera.
July Shalt the city Of ST Johns. N F. de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss Of sl5,OOO,0OO and
! at least 20 lives.
Aug. 4-Rt Hon. Arthur Wellesley elected
speaker Of new British parliament. e. Rzecze q
Russian town, fired from four corners and COM
pletely destroyed. IA persons being killed
Aug. S-Report placed number Of deaths from
cholera in governments OF Saratol, Samara
and Russia at 5000 daily f.
Aug. 3l-Up to date total number OF deaths
from cholera throughout the Russian empire
amounted 10 lOT.6f. "a q
Sep -Russian emigrants were prohibited
from passing through Germany.
Sep. 4-Entire Russian city OF Misd Ziola de.
| stroyed by fire making 1900 people homeless
! 49,. Revolution in Honduras brought TO an end
/ by the capture OF the insurgent leader, Gen.
/ Nuilla, and his men near Iriona.
Sep. l2-up odate total number Of cases OF
cholera in Hamburg was 1928: OF deaths, 5.sO5.
E Sep. l6-Greaf destruction caused on island
/ Of Formosa, China, by typhcon
! Sep lS-At Buda Pesth, Goth anniversary OF
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot cele-
/ brated I
Sep, 24--Chamber Of deputies again declared
I Porfiro Diaz president Of Mexico. -. Sir VII
/ liam johnson Richie, chief justice Of Canada S
supreme court died at Ottawa; aged 70.
Oct 2-Ernest Renan, author and philoso-
! pher, died at his home in Paris, France.
/ Oct 5-Lord Tennyson, Englands poet laur-
cate. died at Haslemere, Eng.
Oct 22-Five villages near Kutais, in Trans
Caucasia, destroyed by earthquake with much
Y loss Of life.
Oct 2l-Advices from Gilman Flu, in China,
report $1,000 persons drowned.
Oct 6-Five villages in province OF kutair,
Russia, entirely destroyed by earthquake.
Oct Sl-Liberator Building association In
London failedf for e3,3i3000
Nov. III. J. G. Abbott resigned premiership
Of Canada, and Sir John Thompson succeeded
him.
INDUSTRIAL.
Jan. 7-Charles Il McGurren, OF Lincoln,
Neb., broke world S typs-writing record, copy.
| ing 10 words zminute
Jan. 2s-Seven flint glass factories in Pitts.
4 burgh shut down rather than comply with EN-
Feb. 2s-Indianapolis street car men all on
strike t~a
May l6-Iookoutof granite cutters through
out New England states declared; 5000 to 80
900 men thrown out OF employment
June 9TBay View Rolling mills in Milwau'
kee,l etnrloyihg bbout 1900 men, shut
down Indefinitely, ana mills at Homestead, Pa
closed throwing 1900 men out OF work. Re
! fusal 0frmanagers 70 sign the scale the cause
4 July f-About go iron and steel mills in the
Pittsburgh pa district shut down owing tc