Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-01-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

RETROSPECT OP TIM YEAR 1891.  JANUARY.  I. Temporary thaw, after 22 days severe frost. New Year honours distributed, peerages conferred on Sir F. Sandford and Sir E. C. Guinness. At a New Year's entertainment at Leeds the fancy dresses of 15 girls caught fire, nine of whom died. Strike renewed of the Victoria Dock labourers. 2. Great fire in New York : Fifth-avenue theatre burnt. Distress in Wales owing to the severity of the weather. Death of Mr. A. W. Kinglets, Burstbourne-park, Hampshire, neat of Lord Lymington, destroyed by fire. 3. Suspension of 240 clerks in the Savings Bank Department of the General Post Office for refusing to do two extra hours' duty. . .  5. Riot a Motherwell ;Military caLled in. Renewal of the frost.  6. Lose of the brigenCne Crocodile on the Goodwin Sande.  7:Miners' Federation Conference commenced at Birmingham. Conference of Irish members at Boulogne concluded. Revolt of the Chilien navy. 8. On a house falling in Rome, burying three men, Ring Humbert personally miperintended and assisted in tbeir extrication. The Duke of Edinburgh unveiled the Elphinstone Memorial at Davenport. 9. Meetings of the unemployed 'held in various parts of London—great dirtress reported owing to the contimmd frost. Great meeting in Glasgow in eonnection with railway strike. Steam-ship Ebbw Tale sank in the Channel after collision with the Sumatra. 10. The members of the National Society of French Masters entertained by the Lord Mayor. 11. Avalanche m Bosnia; 17 persons killed. 12. Appointment of the Bishop of Peterborough to be Archbishop of York. Temporary break in the frost, which had continued almost uninterruptedly since Nov. 25. Railway strike in Glasgow; continued outrages reported. The suspended Post Office clerks (see 3rd) were reinstated. 13. Collision between two steamers in the Firth of , Forth; 13 lives lost. Four hundred and ,thirty ex- I palled Russian Jews arrived at Dover, and passed through England en route for America. 14. Suicide of the Duke of Bedford. 15. Renewal of the frost. Announcement of Dr. Eoch's consumption cure. 16. Tragedy at Newbury; Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of s farmer, having shot her brother dead, accidentally killed in disarming by her husband. 19. Lord Wenlock, the new Governor, arrived at Madras. Sir J. Hannan appointed a Lord of Appeal, Announcement of the discovery of a work by Aristotle at the British Museum.  21. Hartlepool: Mr. C. Furness (G.), 4603 ; Sir W. Gray (U.), 4305—majority, 298. Fatal landslip at Bandgate ; a cottage destroyed, three lives lost. 22. The Session of Parliament was resumed. 23. Prince Baldwin, heir -presumptive to the throne of Belginm, died. Lords: Select Committee reappointed to inquire into the administration of the hospitals of London. Commons: Mr. Channing's motion on Railway Servants. Hours defeated by 141 h 0124.  27. Commons : The resolution of June 22. 1880, relating to M. Brsdlaugh and the Oath, expunged from the records of the Rouse. Bill introduced to place the police of the metropolie under the control Of the ratepayers. 28. Commons: Law of Conspirscy Bill rejected by 179 to 143.  .4. End of the Scotch railway strike—comproza oome to. Mr. Jenne, the new judge, took hie ' on the Bench. , . Commons: Motion by Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, for . arbitration in the disputes which arose between 1885 ! and 1887 between Irish tenants and I heir landlords, , rejected by 213 to 152. In the Appeal Court the damages in the Knowles-Duncan breach of promise , easel reduoed to £6500. Death of Mr. Charles Brad. laugh. M.P. 31. Mr. D'Oyly Carte'. new Opera House opened in tendon. A violent gale raged in southern Scotland and the Isle of Man.