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4 Heavy mow storms in Canada, Maine, New THE WORLD’S WICKEDNESS. A FORTUNE FOR A SONG. ft. Governor Hill appointed Gen. Roger A. Pryor DISASTERS OF ALL SORTS. Ham praire and Vermont. Floods in Canada DEATH’S HEAVY HAND. special counsel to conduct suits against tbs and Maine. JANUARY. A New York Estate Bought For a trusta 14 ' wo sections of an excursion train on the Le­ 14 Hatfields and McCoys, of Kentucky and Waft Trifle Sells for SI,734,750.tggga AUGUST. . . ___ STORMS AND FLOODS OF GREAT EX­ high Valley road came together at Mud Run, IT WAS LAID UPON SOME MIGHTY Virginia fought a pitched battle. They met ‘ANNO DOMINI ’88 . A Matthew Byrnes jumped off the Brooklyn Ha.; 78 lives lost. again Jan. 19. New York World. bridge. TENT AND DESTRUCTIVENESS. f t ^ ‘sastrous prairie Area reported In Dakota. HEADS DURING 1888. f t Court Clerk Irion, of Birmingham, Ala., de­ 4 Navy frauds reported at Brooklyn navy yard, gf. A bombshell, picked up on the battle field of faulted in $20,000. A little more than one-half of a tract ft. Yellow fever well under way at Jacksonville ftft vsburg In 1664 exploded and killed a 84 W T Reynolds, cashier Citizens' bank, Lime­ of real estate on Manhattan island bough’ Chronological Record of an Fla Earthquakes and Fires, Railroad Acci­ fom man at Boiling Springs, Pa The Grisly Enemy of Mankind Has Spared stone, L T., was murdered by bank robbers, eighty years ago for $3120 was sold yes­ 10. Leary's big log raft arrived in New York from one of whom was shot by the people, one Eventful Twelvemonth. dents and Boiler Explosions—Tho Dead NOVEMBER. Neither Palace nor Hovel, and Here Are terday at the Real Estate Exchange for Nova Scotia 4 Mine explosion at Cook's Run. P a Sixteen was hanged and the rest turned over to the $1,734,750. It was a portion of the twelve 14 Woman suffrage declared unconstitutional In from Casualties in 1888 Number Mil­ Set Down tbe Names of Some of His authorities. Washington territory. lives lost. acres purchased by Isaac Jones in 1808. lions. 4 One hundred miners entombed by a mine ex­ Brightest Marks. Charles O'Brien, cashier, and Elinor E. Morse, DEATH. DISEASE, DISASTER. 18 Potato bugs are so numerous In Dauphin bookkeeper, of the Auburn, N. Y., First Nar The tract extended from what is now county. Pa, that they stop railroad traîna JANUARY. plosion near Pittsburg, Kan. Seventh avenne to half way between Ninth 10. Thirteen killed at Haverh.fi bridge oyer tbe Thirty -seven men killed by a fire In a lantern JANUARY. tionai bank, disappear. Defalcation, $200,000. On the authority of the Philadelphia Press. 87. Investigation of the Central bank ease, To­ and Tenth avenues, and from Seventy- 8L Fisheries treaty reported by the L nited States Merrimac, on the Boston and Maine railroad. •ind gauge works In Rochester, N Y 4 At Baltimore. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble, aged 84 fbtM Direful Thing«, «gith Criminal Mat- IL Collision between the Cunarder Umbria and ronto. shows deliberate bank breaking. Most fourth to Seventy-fifth streets. It was wel senate. 12. Violent blizzard reported from Dakota. At Philadelphia, Joel Parker, ex-Governor of of the officials have come to the United States. trra .(titled, Takt Op Mach of the Space 84 Jacksonville puaranttned because of yellow 22. Fourteen men burned to death at a hoarding the French steamer Iberia, twenty miles from New Jersey, aged 8L wooded and was purchased by Mr Jones Bandy Hook. FEBRUARY. foi the lumber. It then belonged to the Allotted to the Set Record of the Tear’s fever. house fire, at Tower, Minn. 7. At North Stonington, Conn., Eunice Cottrell a 4 White Caps flogged and left a man in dying 84 Miss Nellie Williamson, of Greenville, P a, 84 Thirty-five miners killed by explosion In a oot Disastrous tornado at Waterville. P a Pequot Indian, aged 194 Somerdyke estate. The property steadily Event*—i’er»onal Matter* and Politics laughed herself to death. liery, at Wellington, B. C. 14 Che storm of the 24th, 25th and 26th caused 9. At San Francisco, Gen. Washington Seawell condition in Indiana. increased in value as the west side of the 87. All railroad travel suspended between New (oss of nearly $1,000,000 on the Atlantic coast. 7. Ex-Mayor Means, of Cincinnati president ot Occupy Most of the Rest—It’s a Good 8L Mr. Crowley, the celebrated Central park aged 85 city developed, and the city, when laying chimpanzee, died in New York. York and Boston by a snow blockade. DECEMBER. 14 At Boston, Gen. Adln B. Underwood, aged 6L the Metropolitan National bank, arrested for Terrible storms reported upon the Atlantio 14 A whole family found burned to death In misappropriation. Bank closed. out Central Park, paid $80,000 for five acres. Ohi MOrld to Live In Noth withstanding SEPTEMBER. 14 At Washington, George Walker, ex-United 4 Henry Reece, cashier Continental hotel Philar 4 Battle between renegade Utes and FCites on the ocean. Cookville, Mo. Indications of murder. consul general at Paris, aged 63 When Paie Jones died his proper’y was It’s Somewhat Black Record. LaSalle mountains; 100 Indians reported killed. FEBRUARY. 14 Ai beck's woolen manufactory at Neu munster, 8L At San Francisco. Walter M. Gibson, ex-pre­ delphia. defaulter in $60.000. divided among his five children, Joshua, 4 Barali Althea Hill, of Sharon divorce case L Fire In Buffalo. Loss, $1,500,000 Prussia burned to the ground; fifteen per­ Amos J Snell Chicago millionaire, murdered Here i9 a record of the leading events mier of the Sandwich Islands, aged 65. by burglar (This is the celebrated Tascott the last surviver and to whom the wealth notoriety, jailed for three days for contemptof British bark Abascom wrecked near mouth of sons killed and ten fatally Injured. At Mentor. Eliza Ballou Garfield, mother of of the big estate finally reverted, graduated of the year 1888. court in San Francisco. Judge Terry, her tho Columbia river, W. T. ; 22 drowned. 14 A market building destroyed in Boston by a President Garfield, aged 86. case.) from Columbia and practiced law. John It lias been a right lively year—to husband, sent up for six mouths for drawing 14 Colliery explosion near Kaiserslautern, Bava­ mysterious explosion. 84 At Washington, Rear Admiral Clark H Wells, 24 Masked robbers went through a Southern Pa­ a dirk in a court room. ria; 40 killed. aged 65 cific train, near’Tucson, A. T. Reported Jones, a brother, was at one time president some people. heavy loss of the Chemical Rank. Joshua lived at the 8. United States house of representatives passed 19. Tornado at Mt Vernon, Els. ; 21 killed, 19 mor­ PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. 84 At Cambridge, Mass.. Professor Asa Gray, Two emperors have died in Germany, the Canadian retaliation bill. tally wounded, 100 injured; 80u houses de­ aged 77 84 Express train robbery on the St. Louis, Arkan­ New York Hotel, a lonely and eccentric JANUARY sas and Texas railroad, at Kingsland. Arkan- there has been a presidential election in 9. Suicide in New York at the Hoffman House Of stroyed and 1,500 people rendered homeless. FEBRUARY bache’or. There he died on the 23d ot 14 Et!ward S. Bragg confirmed as United States srs the United States, cabinet crises in Edward V. Seebohm, Loudon dramatist. 81. Between twenty and thirty people killed by 2. At Rome, Italy, Mrs. Mary Howitt, aged 84. last March, worth, it was estimated about 28. Starvation and cannibalism reported among the explosion of a boiler of a river steamer, minister to Mexico. MARCH France and Spain, great floods in China, 14 Don M. Dickinson confirmed postmaster gen­ 14 At Santa Fe, N. M., Archbishop Baptiste 4 Discovei-y of graveyard insurance schema, six or seven millions. His estate consisted tho Indians of the Athabaska and Peace river United States of Columbia. Larny, aged 74 Mexico and a number of other countries, regions in Manitoba. 25. Report that 4,000 men were engulfed while eral of the United States. Charleston, S. C. of stocks and bonds and tbe above-men­ including nearly every one upon the filling a breach In the Yellow river embank­ L. Q. C- Lamar confirmed as associate justice of 15. At Toledo, O., D. R. Locke (Petroleum V. 4 Eras t us J. Jones, ex-treasurer of Dauphin tioned real estate, and one or two other OCTOBER. Nasby ), aged 54. county. Pa., defaulter in SOI,OCX). American continent; great storms have 8. United States senate tariff bill reported. ment in China confirmed. the supremo court of the United States. parcels. The stocks realized over a million, 87. Explosion and sinking of a ferryboat at Vallejo, 17. 11 C. Walthall re-elected United States senator 17. At New York, A. S. Barnes, aged 71 24 State Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky, reported swept the earth's surface; there have 6. United States war ship Baltimore successfully 21. At Providence, George H. Corliss, aged 70. and yesterday the seven acres of land up CaL Forty lives lost. from Mississippi defaulter in $250,000. been earthquakes; disasters almost with­ launched at Philadelphia. 24 At Washington, W. W. Corcoran, aged 90. 27. State National hank of Raleigh. N. C., closed town were put od ssle in the Real Estate out number have to be recorded, crime & Supreme court of Utah gave final judgment 89. Avalanches destroy several Alpine villages in Wesley Merritt confirmed as brigadier general Exchange. Italy. of the United States army. MARCH. its doors. Charles E. Close, president, and has stalked abroad in all lands, there was dissolving the Mormon church corporation Samuel C. White, cashier, defaulters in $75,004 and escheating the property MARCH. 94 United States Senator Wilson, of Iowa, re­ 4 At Boston, Amos Bronson Alcott, aged 84 The tract as it now stands occupies an a little flurry between Canada and the 4 The famous hospice in St Bernard buried by elected. APRIL. entire square, half of another and one quar­ United States over the fisheries ques­ 12. Gen. Thelamaque, defeated candidate for 4 Mrs. Proctor, widow of Barry Cornwall president of Ilayti killed while storming the an avalanche. No lives lost FEBRUARY. aged 88. 4 First Whitechapel murder reported. ter of a third. Last year a row of filteen tion, but no great harm was done; Eng­ Palais Nationale at Port au Prince. ft. News received of earthquake In the province of 14 Henry George withdrew from the Anti-Poverty 6. At Boston, Louisa May Alcott, aged 55. 11. Trial of Dave Walker, Bald Knobber chief, in society. houses was built on a portion ns an experi­ land has had some skirmishes in the 14 The gunboat Petrel successfully launched at Yun Nen, China. One hundred nud fifteen 7. At Charleston, C. G. Memminger, secretary of progress in Ozark, Miss. He was convicted, ment. The other property consists of 100 east; Stanley, the African explorer, is— j Baltimore. thousand people killed and 1,800.000 rendered 14 Charles S. Carey made solicitor of the United the Confederate treasury, aged 85. and with other Bald Knobbers sentenced to States treasury. vacant lots lull city size. The prices re­ where? there is a little row in#tho West A large delegation of Sioux chiefs arrived at homeless. 4 At Charleston, W. Va , Gen. D. EL Strother hang Dec. 88. Indies; but why go on? If you examine Washington to talk over the proposed cession 10. Twenty-eight lives lost by the sinking of the MARCH. (Porte Crayon), aged 72. 14 Happy Bob Van Brunt, formerly Salvation alized were not up to the expections of the British steamship City of Corinth. 4 Gen. Badeau brought his suit against the Army leader, hanged at Warsaw, N. Y., foi executors, but the property ntfered was all the set rec ord found hereto attached of part of their reservation. Grant family. Settled late in the year 9. At Berlin, Frederick William Ludwig von ou will ti #1 the date of nearly every 14 Baseball championship awarded the New York U, 12,14 Famous blizzard along tbe Atlantio Hoheuzollern (William R. emperor of Ger­ the murder of Will Roy. sold. The total amount realized was club. coast Business paralyzed; many people APRIL. many and king of Prussia, aged 91. 84 Passenger train on the Inter-Oceanic railway 1,975,000. Snportant event duly set down with care frozen to death ; numerous railroad accidents L Dis DeBar excitement at Its height In New in Mexico robbed by highwaymen. 17. Seventy families reported starving In a Dakota York. 12. At New York. Henry Bergh, aged 65. and, it is hoped, with a reasonable de­ town. and sea disasters. Ice bridge formed between 14 At Paris, Senator Lazare Hippolyte Carnot, MAY. Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. gree of accuracy, together with some not New York and Brooklyn, East river. 4 Rhode Island election. Carried by the Repub­ L Assistant Cashier De Baun, of tbe Park Na­ 87. Steamer Ilaytian Republic seized by a Haytian licans. aged 87 ■o important but curious, diverting or man-of-war. 17. The south bound West Indian mail train on 14 Horace Fairbanks, ex-governor of Vermont, tional bank. New York, defaulter in $95.000. tbe Savannah, Florida and Western railroad 4 Gen. George Crook made major general and 4 Tho supreme court of Illinois confirmed tha [ Oregonian. ] puzzling- ______NOVEMBER. , CoL J. R. Brooks made brigadier general aged 4S. 1. Many men wounded and schooners dismantled broke through the trestle after crossing creek 24 At Washington, Morrison R. Waite, chief Jus­ sentence of the Chicago boodfers, and they In his message delivered a few days ago to near Blackshire, G a. ; nineteen persons killed; 17. Louisiana election. Carried by the Democrats. were sent to Joliet penitentiary. THE GENERAL RECORD. during a fight on Chesapeake bay between 94 Episcopal Bishop Courtney consecrated at tice of the United States, aged 72. the legislature of South Carolina, the Gov­ JANUARY. dredgers and oyster police. thirty-four hurt; narrow escape of George 84 At Wiesbaden, John T. Hoffman, ex-governor 12. Masked robbers board a train on the Sonora Gould and wife. Halifax. railroad, at Aguazarca, A. T., and then robbed ernor of that State declared that the negro 1. The 36-inch lens of Lick telescope successfully 4 Steve Brodio jumped off the Poughkeepsie Bishop Janssen consecrated at Belleville, Ilia of New York, aged 60. mounted. bridga 90. Twelvo inches of snow fell in northern At New York, Commodore Robert B. Hitchcock, tho fireman, killed the expressman and fatally in the South should not exercise the suf­ Texas. Theatre burned at Oporto, Portugal; 84 Melville W. Fuller nominated chief justice hurt the conductor. One* passenger fatafif 12. United States house of representatives passed 12. A bereaved widow, Marie Berthune, crazed by United States supreme court aged 84. frage, and that tbe South would remain the Pittsburg, Kan., mine disaster, set fire to 119 people consumed. 24 At New York, Joseph W. Drexel aged 55. hurt bill empowering the president to appoint a MAY. “solid” so loDg as the right of suffrage was commissioner of fish and fisheries. her hut and burned herself and four children 81. Tornado in East Tennessee. Many floods. 24 At Savannah, ex-Lieutenant Governor Dore- JUNE. 22. Blizzard reported in the northwest. 14 R. B. Roosevelt confirmed as United States 1. Mrs. Rawson, whose divoroesuit against hei held by the negro race. 16. United States house of representatives passed to death. minister to the Netherlands. heimer, of New York, aged 52. Dingley’s resolution calling for Inquiry into 14 Capt. T. n . Logan, commanding the U. R. 87. Terrible floods in Germany and Hungary—100 87. Near Claymont, Del., FeÙx O. C. Darley, artist, husband was the talk of Chicago, shot Maj. “That efforts will be made,” said he, villages submerged—many lives lost—40,000 Union Labor convention nominated Alison J. aged 82. Whitney, her husband's attorney, in open ‘'either by coercive legislation or concilia­ allegetl discrimination in Welland canal tolls. troops at Fort Hancock, on tho Rio Grande, Streator, of Ullnois, for president and Charles 10. Lucy Barber put on trial at Buffalo for voting taken into custody by Mexicans for hunting rendered homeless. Heavy floods In Ala­ 8eyyid Barghash, sultan of Zanzibar, aged 84 court. tory measures, to break the solid South is bama. E. Cunningham, of Arkansas, for vice presi­ 4 White Caps of Spencer county, Ind., com­ at a general election. She was convicted on Mexican territory. dent. APRIL. to be assumed. But this solidity will later and imprisoned for one day. 87. New York state court of appeals decided that 84 Sixty miners killed by an explosion at Rich manded newspapers to publish their proclama­ 17. Union Labor convention nominated Robert H. 4 At PhiladelphiA Benjamin H. Brewster, ex- tion under penalty of chastisement prove to all those assaults a veritable stone 80. A workman in a Pittsburg, Pa., iron mill « I I Cornell university cannot receive the $1,- Hill, Mo. Cowdrey, of Illinois, for president, and W. H. 600,000 willed to It by Mrs. Jennie McGraw APRIL. attomey general United States, aged 71. 4 ML L. Lichtenstein, Wilmington, Del., da wall so long as the civilization of the pulled through the rolls. L Wakefield, of Kansas, for vice president 4 At New York, Jacob Sharp, aged 71. 22. Delaware reported free from debt and with a Fiske, as It already possesses as much aa the L Eighteen people burned to death and sixty-five faalter in $33,250. ADglo-Saxon is threatened and the priceless Injured at Celaya, Mexico, by the burning of 24 R. L. Gibson elected United States senator 7. At Brooklyn, Gen. Quincy Adams Gillmore, 17. Eight masked robbers went through a train heritage bequeathed us by our forefathers surplus of 8250,000. law allows. This is the celebrated Fiske will from Louisiana. aged 63. 84 Adelbert college (Cleveland, O.) trustees de­ case, and appeal was taken to the United the stand for spectators at a bull fight near Junction City, M. T., securing $1,400. is endangered.” 2. News received of wreck of bark Princess off Equal Rights national convention in Des Moines, 14 At Valencia, Spain, Archbishop Joseph S. 90. P. A. Huber, Adams Express agent at Sun- clared against co-education. States courts. la., nominated Bel va Lockwood for president AJemany, aged 74. Here is an official announcement by the 80 The schooner William Jones, of Boston, which Caminha, Portugal. Twenty-three drowned. bury. Pa., arrested for stealing an expresi 81 The California supreme court affirmed the de­ 84 E. D. White elected United States m ta tor 15. At Liverpool, Eng., Matthew Arnold, aged 65. governor of a Southern State that the ne­ cision in the Sharon divorce suit to the effect had been seized by Hayti, was released, and 4 Twelve persons killed in an accident on the package containing $29,600, in transit from Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway at from Louisiana 17. At Brooklyn, Ephraim George Squire, aged 66. Philadelphia, in August, 1886. gro in the South shall not have political that Sarah Althea IXU was the wife of Senator an indemnity of $10,000 paid. 8L Prohibition national convention nominated 14 At New York, Dr. Cornelius Agnew, aged 54 rights. “We declare,” said he, pursuing Sharon. DECEMBER. New Hampton, la. 84 Porter und Buck, American burglars, held in 4 Tornado destroyed several houses in Sioux Clinton B. Fisk for president and John A. At New Yolk, ex-United States Senator Roscoe London for extraidition to Zurich, where they the subject with the florid rhetoric of the FEBRUARY. L Littlewood won six day walking match, beat­ Brooks for vice president. Conkling, aged 60. 4 The governor of San Domingo granted a con­ ing the world record. City, la. are charged with stealing $250,000 worth of South, “we declare, with a determination JUNE. 19. At Baltimore, Mil, A. S. Abell founder of Tho cession to American railroad contractors. & Tho Paraguay-Bolivian question assumed seri­ 14 GrÄit damage done by ice gorges in the north­ property. as fixed and immovable as the stars of ous proportions. west. B. Oregon election. Carried by tho Republicans. Baltimore Sun, aged 81. 84 Charles A. Pitcher, teller of Union bank ol 8. United States senate postponed consideration 4 Democratic national convention nominated 20. At New York, William B. Dinsmore . president heaven, that never again shall any other of the British extradition treaty. 4 The natives of Alaska sent out an appeal, say­ 14 Report from Calcutta of tornado at Dacca, Providence, It. I., is a fugitive and default« killing more i :. an 100 persons and wounding Grover Cleveland for president of the United of Adams Express company, aged 77 in large amounts. than ADglo-Saxon rule in this fair, be­ 18. Commissioners of Immigration abolished the ing that tho women are outraged and the men States and Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, for 21. At Boston, Brig. Gen. William Dwight, aged 56. loved and beautiful South land of ours." bureau of labor at Castle Garden, New York. virtually enslaved by the Alaska company. more than 1,000. JULY. 19. Explosion of colliery In Workingham, Eng- vice president At Ottawa, Thomas White, Canadian minister 4 John R. Van Loan, of the Second National Well, then, if the colored man cannot Frederick Mayer, Austrian vice consul in New 4 Many evictions on the Des Mornes river lands 14 William B. Francklyn and S. B. Tuck made of the interior aged 54 York, committed suicide. in Iowa. laiid killed twenty-two persons. bank of Jersey City, a defaulter $15.000 vote the white man should not be allowed 89. Floods in Wisconsin and in the southwest United States commissioners to the Paris ex­ 22. At New Brunswick, N. J., Rear Admiral 14 The stealings of M. L. Lichtenstein . defaulting IT. Two American war ships ordered to Tangiers, 11. A Maryland police schooner, during a desper­ position. Charles Stewart Boggs, aged 77. to vote for him. That is, the representa­ Morocco, because of a row between the United ate fight with oyster pirates, scuttled two Loss of life and destruction of property re­ treasurer of Wilmington, Del., loan associa­ tion of South Carolina, and certain other ported. 14 Mme. Dis DeBar sent to the penitentiary in 84 At New York, Mrs. Clements S. Lozier, M. D., tions, aggregate $100,000. States consul and the sultan. schooners, after sweeping their decks with a New York. aged 74. States, in cougress and in the electoral col­ 80. Investigation of the sugar trust begun in New Gatling gun. Considerable loss of life. MAY. 15. More stories of opium smuggling on the ex­ 4 An entire family consisting of seven jiersona 94 Republican national convention nominated 80. At Rome, n . B. Deasy, vice rector of the treme northwest and the New York and lege ought to be reduced at once, iu accord York city. 12. The United States steamers Galena and Yantio Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, for president, American college. 81. The president of the United States transmitted sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Ilayti burned to death near Burlington, Neb. frontier. Later many arrests were made and with the provisions of tbe fourteenth 4 Cloud burst near Maize, Kan., and caused a and Levi P. Morton, of New York, for vice MAY. in November Frank Gardner was convicted amendment of the constitution. _v_g: the fisheries treaty to the senate, accompa­ to demand the release of the steamer Ilaytian president. nied by a message and protocol. Republic. flood, during which* a house was swept into 4 At Fond du Lac, Wis., Bishop John Henry and sentenced for being concerned therein. These utterances by Southern governors the Arkansas river and four persons -of one JULY. 87. Cases against seized fishing vessels David J. 9. CoL Thomas L. Casey appointed chief of the Hobart Brown, aged 56. Throe Bohemian Anarchists Hronek, Chapek are sufficient notice to Congress that the Adams and Ella M. Doherty discontinued by family drowned. 4 At Amherst, Mass., Lawrence Perseus Hickok, Chlebouth arrested in Chicago for conspiracy THE OLD WORLD. Explosion of a carload of dynamite near Locust engineers of the United States army, with the right to vote in the South is “abridged” on order of the Dominion privy counsel. rank of brigadier general. aged 69. to murder Judges Gerry and Grümell and JANUARY. Gap, Pa., killed eight persons and injured 7. Near Griffithsville, W. Va., Thomas Eggleston, Inspector Bonlield, and burndowu the city. the ground of color. Enforcement of the MARCH. 10. M. Floquet elected president of French cham­ twenty more; seventeen houses wrecked and AUGUST. fourteenth amendment should come in 1. Mills tariff bill presented to the United States 15. National convention of American party at aged 111. He smoked for ninety years. 25. War between Hatfield and McCoy factions it bouse of representatives. ber of deputies. burned. Damage, $75,000. 4 At Loadon, Professor Leone Levi, aged 60. Pike county, Ky., and Logan county, W. Va., here. Some member of Congress should 22. Louise Michel shot by a crank at Havre, 11. Destructive tornado at Freeport, Ills. Washington nominated James L. Curtis for broke out afresh. International railway connecting the Mexican president. 11. At St. Paul Minn., Commodore Kittson, aged bring the message of the Governor Central and Southern Pacific opened for busi­ France. 14 High water at Alexandria, Mo., along the Red 67. 87. Governor Hill commuted death sentence ol of South Carolina before the House FEBRUARY. River valley; many plantations Hooded; 24 Ex-President Salomon, of Hayti, arrived in Chiara Cignarale to imprisonment for life. ness. New York en route to Paris in exile. . 12. At Toronto, John Joseph Lynch, archbishop of and move that inasmuch as 4 Austro-German treaty of 1879 published, caus­ several lives lost. Toronto, aged 72. 29. White Caps In Perry county, Ind., flog tw« Poll in M. Squire and Morris B. Flynn acquitted ing much excitement. 26. Robert Garrett reported completely demented. the constitutional rights ot large num­ In the court of oyer and terminer, New York. 94 Destructive storms from ocean to ocean, much •TCNE. * Mormon missionaries. & Lord Landsdowno appointed, governor general property damaged and several lives lost. 81. Charles H. Litchman resigned the general 80. P. K. Dederick, of Albany, robbed of $40,00( bers of citizens in that State are denied, on & Albert Dodge, insane, of Fergus Falls, Minn., of India. Lord Stanley, the present governor, secretaryship of the Knights of Labor. 4 At New York, Thomas M. McElrath, first pub­ locked his wife and a neighbor up with him­ Pennsylvania alone reports a loss of more by uu expert thief. account of color, the representation of the appointed to Canada. than a million dollars. SEPTEMBER. lisher of Tho New York Tribune, aged 81. State therefore shall be reduced. self for twenty-four hours and talked religion. 9. Operation of tracheotomy performed upon the 10. Republicans carried the Maine election. 7. At Paris, Marshal Edmond le Bœuf, aged 79. A u o rsT . He was armed with a shot gun, a revolver and JUNE. 4 At Jamaica riains. Mass., Rev Dr. James L Blinky Morgan hanged in Columbus, O. What member of Congress will do this? crown prince of Germany. 4 Eighteen persons killed and forty-one injured 84 J. II. Oberly nominated Indian commissioner. knife and finally killed himself with the re­ 15. Tho English reported to have seized a rich OCTOBER. Freeman Clarke, aged 78. 7. Second Whitechapel murder. Will not Mr. Hermann of Oregon do it? volver. In a railway accident near Tampico, Mexico. 10. At Fall River, Mass.. Stephen Gleason, 10l Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, hanged at S t part of Venezuela. Eleven persons burned in a fire in the Undine 84 Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, gave $1,000,000 The man who takes the lead in this busi­ & Mayor Hewitt, of New York, declined to review 18. Memorial window in St. Margaret's church. for the education of colored people in the old aged 103. Louis for the murder of Preller. ness will make at once a national reputa­ the parade of Irish socities on St. Patrick’s hotel, Bocl-iord, Tex. Right Hon. Edward Robert King-Harman, un­ 14 Two men in Chicago arrested for systematic London, to John Milton, gift of George W. 14 Dubois, Pa., suffered the loss of 30' houses by slave states. tion. day. Childs, unveiled. 80. Lord Sackviile given his passport. der secretary for Ireland, aged 50 years. mail robbery, having taken more than $10New York city hall on St. P at­ 1. Daniel Wilson, son-in-law of President Grevy. 6. Presidential and congressional elections of Gen. Sheridan, aged 87. 21. Capt. N. Finney, Bald Knobber chief, Missouri rick’s day. steamer, to be drowned by the capsizing of a 14 Near N'ewburyport. Mass., Mary N. Prescott, shot and killed at Ozark, by Bill Miles, an anti [From Iron. I of France, convicted of sw indling in conneo- large boat. throughout the United States; Benjamin Har­ 84 Remains of Jose Paez taken to steamer Pensa­ tiou with the sale of decorations. rison and Levi P. Morton elected president and aged 48. Bald Knobber. One of the best descript ions of a common cola and shipped to Venezuela from New York 94 Accounts of the gales on the coast of Iceland 14 At Berlin, Frederick HI, emperor of Germany 27. Charles W. Waldron, of Hillsdale. Mich., ab 17. Gen. Boulanger relieved of his command by In May show that 400 French fishermen were vice president. natural phenomenon is that recently given under military escort. tho French government because of visits 14 Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., and Miss Endicott and king of Prussia, aged 66. sconded to Canada with several thousand dol­ by M. Him, in which he says that the 86. Gen. Abram Merritt committed suicide in New made to Paris without leave. drowned. 20. At York, England, Rev. George Trevor, aged 79. lars. 22. Disastrous floods in Mexico. In one city 500 married in Washington. sound which is known as thunder is due York hotel. Prince Oscar of Sweden and Miss Monck mar- 17. Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain. At London, England, Dr. Charles H. Zukertort, 81. Third Whitechapel murder. APRIL. houses destroyed, and in another 1,000 bodies to the fact that the air traversed by an i ^ l at Bournemouth. chess player, aged 45. SEPTEMBER. found. iSO. A. H. Colquitt, Democrat, re-elected United L Secretary Bayard wrote to Minister Pendleton 26. M. Wilson won his case on appeal in connection Steves senator from Georgia. 29. At Long Island City, L. I., Francis Henry Tur- electric spark—that is, a flash of lightning expressing disapproval of the United States 94 Holbrooke, A. T., almost entirely destroyed by 6. Attorney General Michener, of Indiana, re with the French decoration frauds. 84 General Master Workman Powderly, of the pio Bellow, artist, aged 61. ported a terrible state of affairs owing to the —is suddenly raised to a very high tem­ of Germany's action regarding Samoa. 30. M. Tirard, premier of France, resigned. fire. Knights of Labor, re-elected. At San Francisco, Gen. Washington L. Elliott, perature, aud has its volume more­ 4 Morocco declined to accede to the demands of Steam launch upset on Newark, N. J., bay, by depredations of White Caps in tho southern APRIL. DECEMBER. aged 67. part of the state. over, considerably increased The the United States with reference to persons 2. New French cabinet officially announced. M. pleasure seekers aboard it, and six drowned. 7. I. V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, makes the JULY. under consular protection imprisoned at 7. Fourth Whitechapel murder. column of gas thus suddenly Floquet, prime minister. JULY. first transfer to trustees of tho $12,000,000 he 9. At Tullamore jail Ireland, John Mandeville, 90. Seventeen outlaws shot dead in a battle witJi Rabat, 4 Tornado passed over Illinois and Iowa; great proposes to give for educational institutions. heated and expanded is sometimes several 14 American Exchange in Europe failed. M. P. vigilantes near Paladora, No Man's Land miles long, and, as the duration of the Hash 11. Recorder Smyth refused to submit to the grand 80. Much comment in England and Ireland over damage. Severe storms also reported from 11. At Brooklyn, Gen. Jesse C. Smith, aged 80. Three vigilantes were killed and nine wounded jury in New York a criminal charge of the the pope's decree against the plan of cam­ New Brunswick, N. J. Strikes and Labor Troubles. 12. At Contentment Island, Darien, Conn., Vincent is not even a millionth of a second, it fol­ gansas Pacific bondholders against Jay Gould. 21. Fifth Whitechapel murder. paign. Two hundred and twenty-four persons killed JANUARY. Colyer, artist, aged 63 24 Mrs. Lizzie Hoy, of Bandero county, Tex., shol lows that the noise bnrsts forth at once District Attorney Fellows, of New York, had MAY. in a firo in tho Debeers mine, li Kimberly, 4 Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys­ At Rochester, N. Y., Hiram Sibley, aged 81. from the whole column, though for an ob­ previously refused. and killed “The Lone Highwayman.” 4 William O'Brien sentenced in London to three Griquoland, West South Africa. tem are idle. 14 In Africa, Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, presi­ 84 James Brown, said to have been married thirty server in any one place it commences 18. Close of eight days' deadlock over direct tax months for violating the crimes act. Reports from Pittsburg and Wheeling, place FEBRUARY. dent of the Orange Free State, aged 64. bill in United State-house of representatives. three times, convicted of bigamy in Detroit. where the lightning is at the least distance. 14 Tbe Brazilian senate passed tbe bill abolishing the recent loss by floods along the Ohio and 14 Eviction of twenty-two families of striking 19. At Corn wall-on-th e-Hudson, Rev. Edward 27. W. R. Foster, trustee of the gratuity funded Death of Dexter, famous trotting horse. slavery which was passed by the chamber of Monongahela rivers as high as $2,000,000. cigar makers in New York. Payson Roe, aged 51. In precise terms, according to M. Hirn, the Corner stone of the new Catholic university the New York Produce Exchange declared • £ deputies the previous week. 14 Two hundred houses burned at Alpena, Mich. ; 84 Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomo­ 20. At Cincinnati, O., Gen. Thomas L. Young, defaulter in $168,000. beginning of the thunder-clap gives us the laid nt Brooks Station, near Washington, by 17. Irish Catholic members of the English parlia­ 1,900 persons rendered homeless. 4 tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and fire­ aged 55. minimum distance of the lightning, and Cardinal Gibbons. 29. Sixth Whitechapel murder. ment issue a manifesto declining to recognise Eight hundred men entombed in a mine in South men of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 24 At Lake Dunmore, near Brandon, Vt., Court- 84 Seventh Whitechapel murder. tbe length of the thnnder-clap gives us the ft. Eighteen members of the Ancient and Honour­ the right of the Holy See to interfere with the Africa. railroad to strike. landt Palmer, aged 44 able Artillery company, of London, arrived in 84 Cashier Chapin, of Fall River, reported a d» time when a flash of lightning strikes the Irish people in the management of their politi­ 14 Seventeen persons drowned by the wreck of the MARCH. 24 At Leavenworth, Kan., ex-Gov. Thomas Car­ faulter in $104000. ground, it is not neccessarily from the place New York and went to Niagara Falls. They cal affairs. British ship Star of Greece, near Adelaide, 89. Riots among C., B. and Q. switchmen at Chi­ ney, aged 64 were welcomed by a company of five from JULY. Australia. cago. 80. At Middletown, N. Y., Bartley Campbell play­ OCTOBER. struck that the first noise is heard. Again Ancient and Honorable artillery, of Boston. 4 The jury in the O ' Donnell-Times libel salt re­ 14 Over 500 p '—.ons killed by an eruption in ths APRIL. wright, aged 44 2. Eighth Whitechapel murder. be points ont that a ballet whistles in A grand blowout of several days' duration fol­ turned a verdict in favor of The Times. Bandai-sau volcanic region, Japan. 14 Brewers men struck in Chicago. 81. At Legrange, Ky., Dr. Robert Morris, poet 14 Antonio Flaccomio murdered In New York. traversing the air, so that we can, to a cer­ lowed. 4 The electors chosen June 25 formally elected 94 Fourteen lives lost by a West Virginia cloud­ 14 Strike of bakers at Chicago. laureate of Masonry, aged 72. This was tbe noted Mafia murder, tain extent, follow its flight, the same MAY. Gen. Porflrio Diaz president of Mexico. burst. 14 Brewers’ lockout began in New York, Brook­ f t EL S. Briggs, safe manufacturer at Rochester, 18. The Methodist conference decided in favor of AUGUST. thing happening with a following me­ 12. In the French chamber of deputies, Gen. Bou­ 8L Fourteen raftsmen, while drunk and trying to lyn, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and Staten N. Y., absconded; $14,000short In his accounts. teoric just before striking the earth. The a creation of an order of deaconesses for langer told the premier that he lied, and left run the Mattawaa river rapids, Canada, were Island. Five thousand men out of employ­ 4 At Nonquitt, Mass., Philip Henry Sheridan, 14 Paymaster J. B. McClure and stable boss Hugh charitable work. before he could be censured. ment. general of the army of the United States, Flannigan, employed by Contractor McFad­ noise actually heard has been compared to drowned. aged 57. 80. William Gore, of New Jersey, who was bitten 14 Boulanger and Floquet fought a dneL Bou­ 8L Incendiary fires at Port au Prince, HaytL 94 Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel worts den, of Wilkes barre. Pa , robbed of $12,00C the sonnd produced when one tears linen. by a rattlesnake, having been kept scienti­ langer wounded in the neck. Eight hundred and fifty buildings destroyed at Pittsburg with non-union men. 1L At Amesbury, Misa. Richard S. Spofford, and murdered It is due really to the fact that tbe air fically drunk for two weeks, recovered. aged 56. AUGUST. and loss of $2,000,000. JUNE. Train robbers went through a train at Peru, rapidly pushed on one side in front of the •L Trial of Rev. George Woodrow for preaching 14 Count von Moltke retired as chief of the staff 14 All window glass factories in Pittsburg and ths 12. At Sharon, Coan., Lawrence R. Jerome, Ind., and stole many thousand dollars, watchea evolution begun in the Southern assembly of AUGUST. aged 69. projectile, whether ballet of meteoric, of Germany, and was succeeded by the Count L Evansville, Ind., visited by a destructive fire. west shut down. and jewelry. qaickley rashes back to fill the vacum the Presbyterian church, Baltimore. The de­ von Waldersee. 84 Conference between the Iron manufacturers 14 At Monterey, CaL, Charles Crocker, aged 64 f t Thomas Axworthy, treasurer, of Cleveland, cision was against him. Suffolk, Va., almost entirely destroyed by fire. 84 At Rochester, N. Y., Seth Green, aged 71. left in the rear. 15. Revolution reported in Hayti. President Salo­ 4 Two lives lost in a fire on the Bowery, New and the Amalgamated association resulted in disappeared, leaving a deficit of about $500,004 ft. The General assembly of the Southern Presby­ mon left the island. the closing of the mills, 24000 men being 84 At Caithness. Scotland, Sir John Rose, Can­ NOVEMBER. terian church resolved to take no steps toward York. adian statesman, aged 64 SEPTEMBER. 14 Railroad accident at Sbohola. N. Y., on the thrown out of employment. 4 Daring stage coach robbery near Santa Bar­ Time Wasted With Bad Spelling. organic union. 1. Diary of the late Emperor Frederick of Ger­ JULY SEPTEMBER. bara, Cal. JUNE. Erie; 35 people hurt, 1 killed; several of Geb- Forum for December. many published. hard's and Mrs. Langtry's horses killed. 4 Division Chief Bauereisen of the Brotherhood 4 At Norwich, Ct., George L. Perkins, aged 100. 17. Henry W. King, Jr., shot and killed at 8. Steamship Etruria beat the record of trans­ 4 At Stamford, Conn., John Lester Wallack, Neb., by Libbie Beichler, with whom he Dr. Gladstone has • iade elaborate in­ atlantic passage, by run of six days, one hour, 14 News received of the murder of Maj. Barttelot, 14 Business portion of French Cayenne burned. of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar­ vestigations in the schools of England and leader of the Stanley relief expedition. Loss, $2,000,000. rested, charged with being implicated in a aged 68. previously lived fifty-five minutes, from Queenstown to Bandy 14 At New York, Professor Richard Proctor, 84 J. E. Bedell New York forger, sentenced to other countries to ascertain the time de­ Hook. f t Publication of further extracts from Emperor Collision of steamships Geiser and Thingvalla, plot to wreck property of the C., B. and Q. Frederick's diary forbidden by the German off tbe coast of Newfoundland. The Geiser 14 Chairman Hoge and Murphy of the “Q" engi­ aged 51. twenty-five years imprisonment voted to teaching spelling. He finds that 4 Governor Hill, of New York State, signed bill government. 84. At Madrid. Ex-Marshal Bazaine, of France. 24 Mrs. Whiteling, Philadelphia, poisoner, con­ substituting electricity for hanging as a means Bank in less than eight minutes. More than neer's and firemen’s grievance committee and 720 hoars at least are lost to each scholar, 87. Samoans rebelled against King Tamassee, de­ 100 lives lost. Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested in OCTOBER. victed of murder in the first degree. that an Italian child of 9 years will read of executing criminals. 80. Treasurer Charles G. Wincheli, of Spink T. Engineers complétée ti e surveys for Nicara­ feated his army and declared Matalfa king. 2L Eleven people killed by storm In Maryland; connection with the alleged dynamite con­ 14 At Chicago, Long John Wentworth, aged 74 and spell as correctly as English children OCTOBER. severe storm in Louisiana; $500,000 damage to spiracy. 19. At Paris, ex-FTesident Salomon, of H ayti county. D. T., disappeared, a defaulter foi gua canal route. $ 100,000 at thirteen, though tbe Italian began his 8. M. T. Harrison Garrett, of Baltimore, drowned 14 Dr. Mackenzie's book ordered seized by tbe coal craft alone. 14 Unconditional surrender of the Iron manufact­ aged 62. German government. DECEMBER. lessons two years later. It is about the in Patapsco river. His steam yacht Gleam & Collision between steamer City of Chester and urers to the Amalgamated association. 20. At Newton, Ma38., R. M. Pulsifer. 24 Great excitement in Wurtemburg over tbe the Oceanic, just inside the Golden Gate, San AUGUST. 81. At New York, Li Yu Doo, Chinaman, and gen­ 4 Phil Daly, the Long Branch gambler, was shot same with tbe Germaus and Swedes. Tbe was run down by the steamer Joppa. alleged control of the king by bis Am»Hmn in a New York den. where he had been en­ Successful test of Lieut. Zalinski's dynamite Francisco. Thirty-four lives lost. 14 Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down. eral of Black Flags. extra time is given to civics and useful favorites. Woodcock and Hendry. 84 Fourteen persons killed by boiler explosion at Fifteen hundred men thrown out of employ­ 22. At Philadelphia, Vicar-General Maurice A. ticed by a woman's note, with a view to rob­ sciences. Tbe illiteracy of English speak­ gun at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. bery The wound was not a serious one. IS. National conference Irish National League of 84 Marriago of King Milan and Queen Natalie Neenah, Neb. ment. Walsh, aged 54 ing nations is startling. There were 5,658- dissolved in a pastoral of the Servian metro­ SEPTEMBER. 94 Fifteen hundred hands thrown out of wort by 84 At New York, Mrs. Film Ewing Sherman, 4 Frank II Bates, an employe of “Old Hutch,” America passed resolutions reaffirming allegi­ politan. a defaulter in Chicago in $20,000. 144 persons of ten years and over who re­ ance to tiie central body in Ireland. 4 Damaging cyclone in Cuba; enormous prop­ shutting down of mills in Delaware county, Pa. aged 64. ported themselves illiterate at our ceu«us 84 Accident to the czar's train. The czar and his erty loss sustained and considerable loss of Railroad employes on four Indiana lines went NOVEMBER. Nine prominent citizens of Crawford county. JULY. family narrowly escaped death. life. out on strike. Ind., urrested iu connection with the White of 1870, 6,239,959 at the census of 1880. 4 William R. Flack lost bis life in attempting to 6. At New York, Dr. David Hostetter. Cap outrages. NOVEMBER. 4 Eighteen persons killed and forty injured by OCTOBER. 14 At Brooklyn, Gen. WT. H. Brownell aged 44 The nearly illiterate are probably as many navigate Niagara's whirlpool. 7. Street car strike on in Chicago. 4 A mob attacked the jail at Birmingham. -M*. 4 Cincinnati opened her bi-centennial celebra­ 14 Prado, tbe murderer of Marie Agaetan, con­ a railroad accident near Dijon, France. 22. At Philadelphia, Vicar General Walsh. more. England is worse off than we are, victed and sentenced to death in Paria 14 Great loss of life reported by Mexican floods. 9. Rioting between the Chicago street car strik­ 80. At Rochester, Pa. Gen. Thomas J. Power, in an attempt to lynch William Hawes, the tion. Mrs. James K. Polk started tho machin­ 87. Arrest of Dr. Tumblety, an American, in Lon­ ers and the police. murderer The sheriff and his party fired on But the other Protesant countries of ery by means of electricity. She was at her 14 Volcanic eruption on the Philippine Islands. aged 81. don. suspected of being the Whitechapel mur­ One hundred killed. 12. Thomas Warded, wealthy coal operator at them, killing nine and wounding thirty. Europe have almost none. One of the house at Nashville, Tenn. derer. , Bevier, Mo., killed by striking miners. DECEMBER. Ninth Whitechapel murder. causes of this excessive illiteracy among 16. A watchman on a schooner 6et the Chicago The Italian steamer Sud America, f rom Monte­ L At Washington, D. C., Rear Admiral Edward DECEMBER. video, sunk while entering PortLuz, Sandwich NOVEMBER. 10. White Cap outrages in Texas. English-speaking peoples is the badness of river on fire, doing great damage to the docks. 10. A new Spanish cabinet formed. 22. General strike of switchmen at Indianapolis. Simpson. 14 E. L. Harper, who stole the funds of the Fi­ 8L Mills tariff bill passed by the United States Islands. Forty drowned. 4 At Fort ITamilton, N. Y., Maj Gen. Romeyn English spelling Tbe reform of spelling 14 The German reichstag paased the resolution 16. Disastrous floods in Georgia. DECEMBER. delity bank of Cincinnati, a raving maniac. house of representatives. for tbe suppression of the East African slave B. Ayres, aged 62. is a patriotic and philanthropic reform. 86. Wire communication opened between ths OCTOBER. 4 T. B. Carry organized a labor organization, in­ White Cap outrages reported from Ohio. trade. dependent of the Knights of Labor 7. At Cellefonte, Pa.. Gen. William EL Blair, Reported appearance of White Caps atJame*- United States and CuracoA 4 Severe storms on the great lakes. Many lives aged 76. Emma Abbot’s Fourtune. M. Clemenceau, the French statesman, injured lost. 4 The trial of the alleged “Q” dynamiters begun town, N. Y. 84 A Cainoraia stage driver seated himself on a in a duel v.-ith M. Maurel. at Geneva, III 10. At New York, Rear Admiral Le Roy. [Chicago Herald,1 keg of dynamite and applied a match. Funeral 4 Serious floods and storms reported from China White Caps indicted in Indiana Rumors from Cairo that Stanley and Emin 10. Fresh trouble at Bevier, Mo., necessitated the 14 Colorow, Indian chief. 17. Beginning of trouble between whites and next day. Pasha are prisoner's of the Mahdi. and Japan. calling cut of the troops. 14 At New York. Gen. James C. Lana Five years ago Emma Abbott bought a blacks in Mississippi piece of real estate in Denver and pat up Elected Mayor. Fire and Loss of Life. Snow Blockade. Carver’s Task. Frightful Accident. “The Abbott Block.” Since then the vaine S u icid e. of the property has quadrupled. Emma S an F rancisco, December 27.—A re­ Evkrson, Pa., December 30.—This even­ K ansas City, December 26.—The last York, Pa., December 26.—While a Minneapolis, December 26.—Dr. Carver Columbus, Ga., December 26.—John is now worth three quarters of a million count of the votes cast for Mayor in the ing flames broka ont in Brown’s row and night’s sleet and snow worked havoc four houses were destroyed. The fire was in his third day’s shooting broke np to 11 Christmas entertainment was being held Peabody, Jr, teller of the Merchants Me­ of dollars, and it is invested so that it late election concluded this evening. At caused by tbe explosion of two kegs of among the wires. The telegraph com­ p. m. 7,100 balls and missed 60. His last evening in a hall at East Prospect, this chanics bank and son of one of the most brings her over 10 per cent. Her income tbe close of the recount Judge Finn, of blasting powder. The house in which the panies have escaped with the usual em- record for three days is 26,535 balls hit, county, the building collapsed and 300 prominent men in Georgia, snicided by from her rents is abont $75,000 a year, and the Superior Court, declared Pond (Dem.) explosion occurred was occupied by some barassment and delay and tbe roundabout shooting to-day. The cause is unknown. she adds nearly $10,000 to that as the abont 2,500 below an average of 10,000 a people were hnrled with the broken floor His accounts were all correct. profit from her season’s work. It has been legally elected mayor. O’Donnell, the In­ Poles. They were preparing powder for service. The Electric Light Co. loses from the eeeond to the first floor. To add dependent candidate for Mayor, and the their work in the mines to-morrow, when $1,500, and the railroads have suffered tem­ day, which will be necessary to insure suc­ claimed that she was getting too fat for to the terror of the situation the stove set Damaging Storm. symmetry, bat who wouldn’t get fat with man who had demanded the recount, made a spark from a pipe ignited the staff. porary inconveniences. The heaviest loser cess in his attempt to break 60,000 in six fire to the rains. A large number were a total net gain by the recount of 309 There was a frightful explosion and seven Toulon, December 31.—Heavy rains results io contemplate? When she was a is the Telephone Co., which estimates its days. To-night his physical condition is badly braised and ent, bat fortunately country school teacher in Peoria county votes, bat not enough to elect him over of the men were frightfully burned. One loes at $20,000. To night it is growing very bad. His head and arms are mach there were no serions casualties and only have occurred in this vicinity, causing Pond. and perhaps three of them will die. colder and the snow fall has ceased. and had to walk ten miles to the city swollen and he suffers mach pain. a few were seriously injured. floods which have done mach damage. every Saturday ni (ht she was thin enough.