Gilbert C. Walker of Virginia, died, aged 52

13 — Gen. Miidleton defeats the NorUi-

west rebels and captures Batouche. . . .15—
Revised version of the old testament given
to the public in Loudon. . . .16 — Louis Riel,
the rebel leader in the Northwest, captured
by Canadian troops. . . .19 — A deadlock in
the Illinois legislature, lasting four months,
broken by the re-election of *fohn A. Logan,
Republican, as United States senator. —
Robert E. Odium, makes a fatal leap from the

Brooklyn Bridge 20— In Newark, N. J.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, died, aged 68

. . .21 — SuUivau print works, Cincinnati,

burned, 18 lives lost. .. .In Paris, Victor

Hugo, died, aged 88 25— Great damage

done and several lives lost by thunder and
wind storms in Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio and

Ontario 27 — Collapse of a tenement in

Jersey City, four persons killed. — Disastrous
storms and floods at Waco and other points
in Texas; 10 persons drowned; estimated

damage $5,000,000 81— Serinagur, the

«apitu of Cashmere, nearly destroyed by an



earthquake, 87 persons killed; great d«.
vastation elsewhere in the locality ; 400 est|.
