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Show ey TT EI AN ar Ca RI ce TARR SET 4a Sao eager PR —_ . © -3¢ a 18. . ous pr Oport li102 25 2% 29. 5. 9. «ft Havre, eris without leave. 2% Prince aoe of Sweden and Miss Monek married et Dournemouth. 26. M. Wiison won his case on appeal in connection wita the Freuch decoration frauds. 30. M. Tirard, premier of France, resigned. APRIL. . New French cabinet officially announced. M. Floquet, prime minister. . American Exchange in Europe failed. fea CORMIER bt “Dngland and Ireland over the poy e’s Cecree against the plan of campaiga * AY rien sentenced in London to three monias for violating the crimes act. 14. The Lrazilian senate passed the bill abolishing slavery which was passed by the chamber of deputies the previous week. 17. Krish Catholic members of the English parliament isSue a manifesto declining to recognize the right of the Holy See to interfere with the Irish people in the management of tueir political affairs. JULY. . The jury in the O’Donnell-Times libel suit returned a verdict in favor of The Times. The electors chosen June 25 formally elected Gen. Porfirio Diaz president of Mexico. 12. In the French chamber of deputies, Gen. Boulanger told the premier that he lied, and left before he could be censured. 13 Poulanger and Floquet fought a duel. Boulanger wounded in the neck. AUGUST. e © or LONE iom: O' 18, Count ron Moltke retired as chief of the staff of Germany, and was succeeded von Waildersee. Revolution reported in Hayti. by the Count 4 President SaloIcft the island. SEPTEMBER. Diary of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany published. News received of the murder (f Maj. Barttelot, leadcr of the Stanley relief expedition. mon Publication of further extracts from Emperor Frederick’s diary forbidden by the German governinent. Samoans rebelled against King Tamassee, defeated his army and declared Matalfa king. OCTOBER. . Dr. Mackenzie’s book ordered seized by the Germen government. Great excitement in Wurtemburg over the alleged control of the king by his American favorites, Woo cock and Hendry. . Marriage c! ....? Milan and Queen Natale dissolved iuuj.storal of the Servian metropolitan . Acciccnt to theezar’s train. The czar and his family narrowly escaped death NOVEMBER. Prado, the murderer of Marie Agaetan, convicted and sentenced to death in Paris. %. Arrest of Dr. Tumblety. an American,.in Lon- Dead Mil- bridge over the Report that 4,000 men were ergulfed while fillinga breach in’ the Yellow river embank-. ment in Cuina confirmed Explosion and sinking of a ferryboat at Vallejo, Cal. Forty lives lost Avalanches destroy several Alpine villages in Italy MARCH. The famous hospice in St. Sernard buried by an avalanche. No lives lost. News received of earthquake in the province of Yun Nen, China. One hundred and fifteen thousand people killed and 1.800.000 rendered homeless. Twenty-eight lives lost by the sinking of the British steamship City of Corinth 12, 13. Famous blizzard along the Atlantic coast Business paralyzed; many people frozen to death; numerous railroad accidents and sea disasters. Ice bridge formed between New York and Brooklyn, East river The south bound West Indian mail train on the Savennah, Florida and Western railroad 21 22. 27. 29. . the trestle after crossing creek near Blackshire, Ga.; nineteen persons killed; thirty-four hurt; narrow escape of George Gowld and wife. Twelve inches cf snow fell in northern Texas Theatre burned at Oporto, Portugal; 119 people consumed. Tornado in East Tennessee. Many floods. Blizzard reported in the northwest. Terrible floods in Germany and Hungary—190 villages submerged—many lives lost—40,000 rendered homeless Heavy floods in Alabama. Sixty miners killed by an explosion at Rich Hill, Mo APRIL. Eighteen people burned to death and sixty-five injured at Celaya, Mexico, by the burning of the stand for spectators ata bull fieht News received of wreck of bark Princess off Caminha, Portugal. Twenty-three drowned. Twelve persons killed in an accident on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway at New Hampton, Ia. Tornado destroyed several houses in Sioux City, 1a. 14. Great dam.age done by ice gorges in the northwest. 16. Report from Calcutta of tornado at Dacca, killing more than 100 persons and wounding more “than 1,009. 19. Explosion of colliery in Workingham, England, killed twenty-two persons. 29. Floods in Wisconsin and in the southwest. Loss of life and destruction of property reported. MAY. An entire family consisting of seven persons burned to death near Burlington, Neb. . Cloud burst near Maize, Kan., and caused a flood, during which a house wes swept into the Arkansas river and four persons of one family drowned. Explosion of! a carload of dynamite near Locust Gap, Pa., killed eight persons and injured twenty more, seventeen houses wrecked and burned. Damage, $75,000. 11. Destructive tornado at Freeport, Ils. 13. High water at Alexandria, Mo., along the Red River velley; meny plantations flooded; several lives lost. 28. Destructive storms from ocean to ocean, much property -damaged and several lives lost. Pennsylvania alone reports a loss of more than a million dollars. JUNE. f 4. Eighteen persons killed and forty-one injured in arailway exccident near Tampico, Mexico. Kleven persons barued ina fire in the Undine hotel, Rockford, Tex. 18. Dubois, Pa., suiered the loss of 300 houses by fire; 4,000 people rendered homeless. “19. Eighty men escaped from a burning German steamer, tv be drowned by the capsizing of £4 large boat. 20. Accounts of the gales on the coast of Iceland in May show that 400 French fishermen were drowned. 22. Disastrous floods in Mexico. In one city 500 houses destroyed, and in another 1,000 bodies found. 24. Holbrooke, A. T., almost entirely destroyed by fire. Steam launch upset on Newark, N. J., bay, by pleasure seekers aboard it, and six drowned. JULY 5. Tornado passed over’ Illinois and lowe: creat damase.. Severe storms also reported from New Brunswick, N. J Two hundred and twenty-four persons killed in @ fre in the Debecrs mine, at Kimberly, Griquoland, West South Africa. Reports from Pittsburg and Wheeling, place At New Brunswick, N. J., Rear Admiral Charles Stewart Boggs, aged 77. #6. At New York, Mrs. Clements S. Lozier, M. D., aged 74. 30. At Rome, H. B. Deasy, vice rector of the American college. MAY. 2» »w Number of the interior aged 58. 22. iw ss killed at Haverhill broke turough _ crank “Opperction of tracheotomy performed upon the erewn pr nee of Cermany. . The Lngiish reported to ~have seized -a mee part of Venezuela. - Memoria! window .in St. Margaret’s chureli. Loncon, to Johu Milton, gift of George W Chiids, unveiled MARCH. Daniel Wiison, son-in-law of President Grevy. of lrance, conviete.| Gf swindling in couneetiou with the sale of Cecorations. . Gen. Coulanger relieved of his command by the Tr oa governinent . because of visits to . é apco:nted to Canada. mace 10. 11, 29 a 1888 = 25 o by Explosions—The in United States of Columbia. French cham- COORUARY. Austro-German treuty of 1879 pabuehed Causing much excitement. Lord Landsdowne enpoiated governor senera! of India. Lora Stanicy, the present governor, Boiler Acci- JANUARY S shot Casuaities Railroad — > Louise Tiicnel France. and from Fires, Merrimac, on the Boston and Maine railroad. 12. Violent blizzard reported from Dakota. 22. Fourteen men burned to death at a boarding house fire, at Tower, Minn. 24. Thirty-five miners killed by expiosion in a col liery, at Wellington, B C 27 All railroad travel! suspended between New York and Boston tiy a snow blockade. Terrible storms reported upon the Atlantic ocean FEBRUARY. 1. Fire in Buffalo Loss, $1,500,000 British bark Abascom wrecked near mouth of the Columbia river, W T.; 22 drowned. 16. Colliery explosion near Kaiserslautern, Bava ria. 40 killed. 19. Tornado at Mt. Vernon, Ils. ; 21 killed, 19 mortally wounded, 100 injured; 300 houses de. stroyed and 1,500 people rendered homeless. 21. Between twenty and thirty people killed by the explosion of a boiler of a river steamer. 20 of EX- - ber of Goputics. and dents 10. Thirteen WiC b: JANUARY M. Floguet elected president 10. GREAT Ss OLB: OF DESTRUCTIVENESS. lions. — ~~ : PHE FLOODS AND Earthquakes nS . The natives of Alaska sent out an appeal, sar . ing thet the women are outraged and the meu virtaaliy enslaved by the Alaska company Many evictions on the Des Mo.nes river lands in Lowa. AST send potice schooner, duringa Gesperate fight with oystcr pirates, secuuttled two schoonur's, after swecuing their decks with a Ga (25 CU. Considerable loss of life. 12. The United Ctates steamers Galena antl Yantic sailed fro. the Brooklyn vravy yard for Havti to cr yand tae release of the steamer Haytian eos ile. AND TENV oo = so » BA ° i STORMS 12, 6. @. 8. 1”. At Fond du Lac, Wis., Bishop John Henry Hobart Brown, aged 56. At Amherst, Mass., Lawrence Perseus Hickok, aged 69. Near Griffithsville, W. Va., Thomas Eggleston, aged 111 Hesmoked for ninety years. At London, Professor Leone Levi, aged 66. At St. Paul, Minn., Commodore Kittson, aged 67 At Toronto, John Joseph Lynch, archbishop of Toronto, aged 72. JUNE. At New York, Thomas M. McElrath, first publisher of The New York Tribune, aged 81. At Paris, Marshal Edmond le Doouf, aged 79. At Jamaica Plains, Mass., Rev Dr. James Freeman Clarke, aged 78. At Fall River, Mass., Stephen Glessou, aged 103. Right Hon. Edward Robert igs Reena, un- der secretary for Ireland, aged 50 years. 12. At Somerset, O., Mrs John Sheridan, mother 14. Disastrous tornado at Waterville, Pa The storm of the 24th, 24th and 26th caused loss of nearly $1,009,000 on the Atlantic coast. DECEMBER 12. A whole family found burned to death in Cookville. Mo Indications of murder i4 Albeck’s woolen manufactory at Neumunster, Prussia, burned to the ground, fifteen persous killed and ten fatally injured. 45 A mariset building destroyed in Boston bya mysterious explosion 26 Pé SONAL AND POLITICAL. ais Barry organized a labo: organization, independent of fhe Kniehts of Labor . The ‘vial of the alleged j “Q” dynainivers begun at G2reva, Il. . Fresh tr ouble at Bevier, Mo., necessitated the calling out of the troons. JANUARY 12. Edward S Bragg confirmed as United States minister to Mexico 16. Don M Dickinson confirmed postmaster gen. eral of the United States L. Q. C. Lamar confirmed as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. 17. E.C. Walthall re-elected United States senator from Mississippi. Wesley Merritt confirmed as brigadier general United States-Senator Wilson, of fowa, reelected FEBRUARY 13. Henry George withdrew from the Anti- -Poverty society 15. Charles S. Carey made solicitor of the United States treasury MARCH. 8. Gen. Badeau brought his suit against the Grant family Settled late in the year APRIL. 1. Dis DeBar excitement at its height in New York 4. Rhode island election Carried by the Republicans |. 6. Gen (reorge Crook made major general, and Col Jou Brooks made brigadier general. 17 Louisiana eicction Carried by the Democrats. 25. Episcopal (ishop Courtney consecrated at Halifus Bishop Jaussen consecrated at Belleville, Ils. 80. Melviiie W Fuller uominated chief justice United States supreme court. MAY. 16. R. B Roosevelt confirmed as minister to the Netherlands. Union Mzvor convention United States nominated Allson J. Streator, «.. Illinois, for president and Charles E. Cunnin; ann of Arkansas, for vice president 1? Union Labor convention nominated Robert H. Cowdrey, of Illinois, for president, and W. H. lL. Wakefield, of Kansas, for vice president. 23. R. L. Gibson elected United States senator from Louisiana. Equal Rights national convention in Des Moines, la., noniiaated Belva Lockwood for president. 30. E Db Waite elected United States senator from Louisiana P Prohibition uational convention nominated Clinton B Tf isk for president and John A. Brooks for vice president. JUNE. 31. Oregon election Carried by the Republicans. Democratic national convention nominated Grover Cleveland for president of the United States and Allen G@ Thurman, of Ohio, for vice president. 14. William B Francklyn and S. B. Tuck made United States commissioners to the Paris exposition 13. Mme. Dis DeBar sent to the penitentiary in New York. 2. Republican natienal convention nominated Benjamin Garrison, of Indiana, for president, and Levi P Morton, of New York, for vice president JULY. Col. Thomas L. Casey appointed chief of the enginect's of the United States army, with the rank of brigadier general. AUGUST. the recent loss by floodsalong the Ohio and 15. National convention of American party at Monongahela rivers as high as $2,000,000. Wasaington nominated James L. Curtis for 12. Two hundred houses burned at Alpena, Mich.; president. 1,200 persons rendered homeless. 2%. Ex-President Salomon, of Hayti, arrived in Eight hundred men entombed ina mine in South New York en route w Paris in exile. _ Africa. 26. Robert Garrett reported completely demented. 18. Seventeen persons drowned by the wreck of the resigned the general British ship Starof Greece, near Adelaide, | 31. Charies H. Litchman secretarvshinp of the Knights of Labor. Australia. | 5. At DEATIS HEAVY HAND. WAS iT 11. The Grisly Neither Set 14. 20. 25. LAID UPON SOME MIGHTY HEADS DURING 1888. Enemy Palace Down Brightest of nor the Mankind Hovel, Names of Has and Some Spared Here Are of His 6 12. 24. 16. 19. Marks. JANUARY 2. At Baltimore. Gen Isaac R Trimble, reed 85. At Philadelphia, Joel Parker. ex-Governor of New Jersey aged 31 im At North Stonington, Conn., Eunice Cottrell, a Pequot Indian, aged 105 9 At San Francisco, Gen Washington Seawell. aged 85 14. At Boston, Gen Adin B Underwood, aged 61 15 At Washington, George Walker. ex-United consul general at Paris, aged 63 | 21 AtSan Francisco, Walter M (+:bson, ex-premier of the Sandwich Islands, aged 65 At Mentor: Eliza- Ballou Garfield, mother of President Garfield, aged 86 At Washington, Rear Admiral! Clark H Wells. aged 65 At Cambridge, Mass.. Professor Asa Gray. aged 77 PEBRUARY . At Rome, Italy, Mrs. Mary Howitt, aged 84. . At Santa Fe, M.. Archbishop Baptiste Lamy, aged 74 5. At Toledo, O., D R Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby >, aged 54. H. Corliss, aged 70. Corcoran, aged 90. MARCH At Boston, Amos Bronson Alcott, aged 88. ._ Mrs. Proctor. widow of Barry Cornwall, aged 88 . At Boston, Louisa May Alcott, aged 55. . At Charleste:, C. G. Memminger, secretary of the Confederate treasury, aged 85. . At Charleston, W Va., Gen. D 4H. Strother (Porte Crayon), aged 72. At Berlin, Frederick William Ludwig von Hohenzollern (William 1). emperor of Ger. many and king of Prussia, aged 91 . At New York, Flenry Bergh, aged 65 16. At Paris, Senator Lazare’ Hippolyte Carnot, aged 87 Horace Fairbanks, pceoreroon of Vermont, aged 68. At Washington, Morrison R. Waite, chief justice of the United States, aged 72 . At Wiesbaden, John T Hoffman, ex-governor of New York, aged 60 At New York, Commodore RobertB. Hitchcock, aged 84. 23 At New York, Joseph W Drexel, aged 55. 26. At Savannah, ex-Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, of New York, aged 52. 27 Near Claymont, Del., Felix O.C. Darley, artist, aged €2. Seyyid Barghash, sultan of Zanzibar, aged 86. » AUGUST. Mass., Philip the Henry Sheridan, United States, aged 57. At Amesbury, Miss., Richard S. Spofford, aged 56. 4 At Sharon, Conn., Lawrence R. Jerome, azed 69. At Monterey, Cal., Charles Crocker, aged 66. At Rochester, N Y., Séth Green, aged 71. At Caithness, Se cotland, Sir John “Rose, Canadian statesman, aged 6S: SEPTEMBER. At Norwich, Ct., George L. Perkins, aged 100. At Stamford, Conn., John sete Wallack, aged 68. At New York. Professor Richara: Proctor, aged &1. At Madrid, pe Bazaine, of France. : TOBER: At Chicago, tea _ ohn Wentworth, aged 73. At Paris, ex-President Salomon, of Hayti, aged C2. 20. At Newton, Mass., R. M. Pulsifer 21. At New York, Li Yu Doo, Chinaman, and general of Black Flags. At Philadelphia, Vicar-General Maurice A, Walsh, aged 55. 28 . At New» York, Mrs Ellen Ewing Shetman, aged 64. NOVEMBER. 6. At New York. Dr. David Hostetter. 14. At Brooklyn, Gen. W. H. Erownell, aged 48. 22. At Philadelphia, Vicay General Walsh. 30. At Rochester. Pa. Gen. Thomas J. Power, aged &1 22. DECE’: BER. it. At Washington, D ©. Near Admiral Edward Simmson 4. At bort ae ® Y., Maj. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres, aged¢: Ate Be ilefonte, P Qu.. cen. Wiliam H. Blair. aced 76 s 10 At kew York, Rear Admirat Le Roy 12. Colorow, zndian chief. 12. At New York. Gen. James C, Lane At New York, A. >. Barnes, aged 71 At Providence, George . At Washington, W W Nonquitt, general of the army of 12. of the United States army 25. of Gen. Sheridan, aged 87 Near i‘ewburyport, Mass., Mary N_ Prescott, azed 48 15. At Derlin, Frederick III], emperor of Germany and king of Prussia, aged 56. 20. At York, England, Rev. George Trevor, aged 79. At London, Cneland, Dr. Charles H. Zukertort, chess player, aged 45. 29. At Lone Island City, L. lL, Francis Henry Turpie Bellew, artist, aged 61. At San I’rancisco, Gen. Washington L. Elliott, ’ aged G7 JULY. 9. At Tullamore jail. Ireland, John Mandeville, M. P 11. At Brooklyn, Gen. Jesse C. Smith, aged 80. 12. At Contentment Island, Darien, Conn., Vincent Colyer, artist, ased (3. At Bochesier, N. Y., Hiram Sibley, aged 8&1. 18. In Africa, Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, presi| dent of the Orange I’ree State, aged 64. 26. Fifteen hundred hands thrown out of work by 19. At Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, Rev. Edward | shutting down of mills in Delaware county, Pa. Payson Roe, aged 51. Railroad peraples es on four Indiana lines went | 20. At Cincinnati, O.. Gen. Thomas L. Young, out on strike. aged 55 OCTOBER. 23. At Lal:e Dunmore, near Brandon, Vt., Court7. Street car strike on in Chicago. lanct Palmer, aged 45 9. Riotine between tue Chicago street car strik28. At Loavenw orth, Kan., ex-Gov Thomas Carers &nk } Lic police ney, arzed 63. . Thomas VYardell, wealthy coal operator at $9. At Bical etown, N. Y., Bartley Campbell, playBevier, S1o., killed by striking miners. wrizit, ared 45. NOVEMBER. ‘$1. At Legrange, Ky., Dr. Robert Morris, poet General strike of switchmen at I:dianapolis. laureate of Masonry, aged 72. DECEMBER. bead 27. 3 ; i DISASTERS OF ALL SURTS. ~ : : : , Emin ~? 17. and ws }{ } Stanley Mahdi. mill. go 14. j{ slave injured 4F 4. At Philadelphia, Benjamin H Brewster, exattorney general United States, aged 71. . §. At New York, Jacob Sharp, aged 71 ?%. At Brooklyn, Gen. Quincy ae Gillmore, aged 63 14. At Valencia, Spain, Archbishop Joseph S. Alemany, aged 74. 15. At Liverpool, Eng., Matthew Arnold, aged 65. 17. At Brooklyn, Ephraim George Squire, aged 66. 18. At New York, Dr. Cornelius Agnew, aged 58. At New York, ex-United States Senator Roscoe Conkling, aged 60. 19. At Baltimore, Md., A. S. Abell, founder of The Baltimore Sun, aged 2.1. 20. At New York, William B. Dinsmore. president of Adams Express company, aged 77 #1. At Boston, Brig. Gen. William Dwight, aged 56. At Ottawa, Thomas White, Canadian minister 2 A United States war ship Baltimore successfully launched at Philadelphia. Supreme court of Utah gave final judgment dissolving the Mormon church corporauon and escheating the property Gen Thelemaque, defeated candidate for president of Hayti, killed while storming the Palais Nationele at Port au Prince. The gunboat Petrel successfully launched at Baltimore. large delegation of Sioux chiefs arrived at Washington to talk over the proposed cession of part of their reservation Baseball championship awarded the New York club Seventy families reported starving ina Dakota town. Steamer Haytian Republic aed by a Haytian man-of-war NOVEMBER. Many men wounded and schooners dismantled ° duri::: a eee on Chesapeake bay bevween dred, 3»... oyster «olice. Steve iagaie jumped off the Poughkeepsie bridze A bercaved widow, Marie Berthune, crazed by the Dittsburg, Kan., mine disaster, set tire to her Lut and burned herself and four children to death. Capt. 7 [i Logan, commanding the U. &. troops ct Port Hancock, on the Rio Grande, taken into custody by Mexicans for hanting on Tiexican territory New York statecyirt of appeals decided that Cornell universiry cannot receive the §1,500,000 willed to'it by Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, as it already possesses as inuch as che law uiows This is the celebrated Fiske will cass, and appeal was taken to the United Stetes courts. The schooner William Jones, cf Boston, which had been seized by Hayti, was released, and an indemnity of $10,000 paid. DECEMBER. Littlewood won six day walking match, beating the world record. The Paragucy-Dolivian GaSe assumed seri- East african statesman, pot 18. United St.tes senate tariff bill reported. for the suppression of the trade. M. Clemenceau, the French ina duel with M. Maurel. Rumors froin Cairo that Pasha aree prisoner" sof the Uver 5UY persons K1Ued Dyan eruption in the | SEPTEMBER. Bandai-san volcanic region, Japan 10. Republicans carried the Maine election. 26. J H Oberly nominated Indian commissioner. Fourteen lives lost by a West Virginia cloudburst OCTOBER. 25. Daniel Iland, of Connecticut, gave $1,000,000. 21. Fourteen raftsmen, while drunk and trying to run the Mattawan river rapids, Canada, were ._ for the education of colored people in the old | drowned. slave states. | . Lord Sackville given his passport. 31. Incendiary fires at Port au Prince, Hayti. Eight hundred and fifty buildings destroyed NOVEMBER. and loss of $2,000,000 . Presidential and congressional elections throughout the United States; Benjamin HarAUGUST. rison and Levi P. Morton elected president and 1. Evansville, Ind., visited by a destructive fire. vice president. Suffolk, Va., almost ent+rely destroyed by fire. . Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., and Miss Endicott | 3. Two lives iost ina fire on the Bowery, New married in Washington. York. 7. Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain. 13. Railroad accident at Shohola, N. Y., on the. . A. H. Colquitt, Democrat, re-elected United Erie: 35 people hurt, 1 lkilled; several of GebStates senator from Georgia. hard’s and Mrs. Langtry’s horses killed. ' . General Master Workman Fodor, of ae 16. Business portion of French Cayenne burned. Paue of Labor, re-elected. Loss, $2,006,000. DECEMBER. Collision of steamships Geiser and Thingvalla, . I. V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, makes the off the coast of Newfoundland. The Geiser first transfer to trustees of the $12,009,000 he sank in less taan. eight minutes. More than proposes to give for educational institutions. 100 lives lost. 3 21. Eleven people killed by storm in Maryland; Strikes and Labor Troubles. severe storm in Louisiana; $500.000 damage to JANUARY. coal craft alone. 8. Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys22. Collision between steamer City of Chester and tem are idle. the Oceenic, just inside the Golden Gate, San FEBRUARY. Francisco. Thirty-four lives lost. 14. Eviction of twenty- -two families of striking 23. Fourteen persons killed by boiler explosion at cigar makers in New York. Neenah, Neb. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of LocomeSEPTEMBER. tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and fire4. Damaging cyclone in Cuba; enormous propmen of tae Chicago, Burlington and Quincy erty loss sustained and considerable loss of railroad to strike. life. MARCH. 5. Eighteen persons killed and forty injured by Riots among C., B. and Q. switchmen at Chia railroad accident near Dijon, France. cago. 12. Great loss of life reported by Mexican floods. APRIL. 18. Voleanic eruption on the Philippine Islands. 12. Brewers men struck in Chicago. One hundred killed. 14. Strike of bakers at Chicago. ‘The Italian steameriud America, from Monte16. Brewers’: lockout began in New York, Brookvideo, sunk while entering PortLuz, Sandwich lyn, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and Staten Islands. Forty drowned. Island. Five thousand men out of employ16. Disastrous tloods in Ceorgia ment. LaTmpern eG -Osoine. 20. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works Severe storms on the great iakes. Many lives at Pittsburg with non-union men. lost. ; JUNE. Serious ftoots and storms reported from China 15. All window giass factories in Pittsburg and the and Jeon west shut dow: Heavy SUUN storms in Canada, Maine, New . Conference between the iron manufacturers Hamps: aire and Vermont Floods in Canada and the Amalgamated association resulted in and Maine. 5 the closing of the mills, 26,000 men being 10 ‘two sections of an excursion train ea the Le: thrown out of employment. high Valley road came together at Mud Run. JULY Pa . *& lives tost & Division Chief Bauereisen of the Brotherhood 18. Disastrous prairie fires reported in Dakota. of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar2 A botnuosnei, pleked up on the battle field of reste, charyzed with being implicated in a : Getlysi:ug in 1863. exploded and killed # plot to wreek property of the C., B. and Q. | youny man at Builing Springs. Pa . Chairmen ffoge and Murphy of the ‘‘Q” engiNOVEMBER neer’s vad fire men’s grievance committee and | a Mine explosion at Cook’s Run, Pa. Sixteen Secretary Kelley and MecGilvery arrested in ' lives Icst connection with the alleged dynamite con- | 9. One hundred miners entombed by a mine ex spiracy. | plosion near Pittsburg. Kan . Unconditional surrender of the iron manufactThirty seven men killed by a fire in a lantern urers to the Amalgamated assoviation and gange works in Rochester, N Y AUGUST. 11 Collision between the Cunarder Umbria and . Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down. the French steamer Iberia. twenty miles from: Fifteen hundred men thrown out of employ| Sandy fiook ment. Pe 42. the Canadian retaliation bill. Suicide in New York at the Hoffman House of Edward V Seebohm, London dramatist. Starvation and cannibalism reported among the Indians of the Athabaska and reer river regions in Manitoba. OCTOBER. - 10. A new Spanish cabinet formed. 14. The German reichstag passed the resolution 1. | 20. so @ ad = @ United States house of representatives passed aon, suspected OF being tne woltecnape! murderer. ars DECEMBER. WEEKLY. it notoriety, jailed for three days for contempt of | court in San Francisco Judge Terry, her | husband, sent up for six months for drawing a dirk in a court room. WESTERN THE WORLD’S WICKEDNESS. JANUARY. 1%. Hatfields and McCoys, of Kentucky and West Virginia, fought a pitched battle They met again Jan 19 18 Court Clerk Irion, of Birmingham, Ala., defaulted in $20,000. 2% W T Reynolds. cashier Citizens’ bank, Limestone, |. T., was ..iurdered by bank robbers, one of whom was shot by the people, one was hanged and the rest turned over to the authorities. Charles O’Brien, cashier, and Elmer E. Morse, bookkeeper, of the Auburn, N. Y., First National bank, disappear. Defalcation, $200,000. 27. Investigation of the Central bank case, Toronto, shows deliberate bank breaking. Most of the officials have come to the United States. FEBRUARY. 5 White Caps flogged and left a man in dying condition in Indiana. ? Ex-Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, president of the Metropolitan National bank, arrested for misappropriation. Bank closed. 8. Henry Reece. cashier Continental hotel, Phila- delphia, detaulter in $60,000. Amos J Snell, by burglar case. ) 23. 29. Chicago (This is millionaire. murdered the celebrated Tascott : Masked robbers went throuzh a Southern Pacific train. near Tucson. A T Reported heavy loss. Express train robbery on the St. Louis, Arkan- NO. p 2) ZDQ |