The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-06
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Important Events OF the Year.


James FISK, Jr
G, Wrccl. Of the brig and loss of life on
the coast OF Isle f Wright.
,. Twenty passengers injured by acct
dent on Nashville Railroad.
.. EX-Empcror Napoleon III died
Is. Earthquake at Boroda, by which
many persons lost their lives.
-. Explosion of boiler in Belgium, kill
ing eleven persons.
lG Rev Joshua Lcavitt, d. D., author
and editor, died
u. Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis OF Boston
died.
%. Emigrant ship Mortified sunk and
over 5000 lives lost.
81. First trial of William NJ. Tweed con
cluded with disagreement of jury.
|. Death Of Commodore Maury.
.. Terrible gale On English and Irish
coast vessels wrecked and lives lost.
3. Wreck of steamer Clan Alpine thir-
teen lives lost. Earthquake on Isle of Sa-
mos.
4. One hundred persons frozen to death
in England.
G. Death Of Very Rev. William STAIRS,
vicar-general of the Catholic Church.
.. Ex-Governor John Geary of Pennsyl-
vania died.
II. Ex-Mayor Martin Kalbheisch of
Brooklyn died.
10 Burning of steamer Henry A. Jones
in Galveston Bay twenty one lives lost.
II Flood on the Monongahcla; loss of
life.
Is Railroad accident at Poughkeepsie ;
several killed-Explosion in coal mine in
Stafiordshire, England; thirty-fve miners
killed.
20. Jumel trial concluded; the claimant
Bowen decided not Mrs. Jumers son.
"a. Death of Rev. DIR. Guthrie, ID. ID.
2G. Samuel Brewer, New England ed
itor, died.
~ Fire in Hanover street, Boston; sew
eral firemcn and others killed.
Wreck of Alaska mail steamer George
Wright; twenty-thrce persons drowned
Great snow storm in Minnesota peo.
pie frozen to death.
10 Death of John Tory, NJ d., LII d.
distinguished botanist and chemist
II Charles Temple Dix, son of Governor
Dix, died in Paris.
l2 Death of Henry Bellows, chief-jus
tce of New Hampshire.
10 Right Rev Charles p Mcllvaine, Dish
lG Boston steamer Grace Irving sunk
eight lives lost.
II Great fire ut Lawrcnceburg, Ky.
q Erie Depot, Jersey City, burned loss
$4,000.
~ Death of Madame De Bossy, Al
Rome.
% Death of ex-senator James Dixon O.
Connecticut.
81 Charles Nj Barras, dramatic author
died.-Accident and loss of life on Rensse.
laer & Saratoga Railroad.
APRIL,
! Wreck of White Star steamship At
latte, at Meagher's Island while PUTTING
into Halifax for fresh supply of coal 53l
persons drowned, all the women on boart
the vessel, and all the children but one, be
ing included among the lost. Before TIN
accident the ship had been in sounding
eight hours, but the lead was not once use /
nor were any of the precautions taken whicl
are used when approaching land.
Collision on St. Louis Southern Rail
road; train smashed up and passenger
killed or injured.
1 Explosion Of fire damp in an Englisl
coal mine loss of life.
Wall of n new building at Rochester
\, y, an which crowd was standing
looking ut Il freshet in the Genesee River
gives way, and thirty persons drowned. -
Alderman Peter Gilsey, New York capt.
nlst, died.
10 A manufactory in Rome, Italy, de
stroyed by lightning; five persons kille
and several wounded.
II Death of Saint Mare Girardn, TN
French historical writer.-Massacre of Ger
cral Candy and others
II Extensive cotton mills at ChicOpeC
Massachusetts, destroyed by fire; six thou
sand bales Of cotton burned, and eight bur
dred persons thrown out Of employment.
lG Severe thunder storm in Wales; pee
pie killed by lightning,
y Commodore John II Aulick, Unite
States Navy, died.
Fall Of an iron bridge at Dixon, III
by which three hundred persons, who wei
standing upon the bridge witnessing the a,
ministration of the rite of baptism, wei
precipitated into the water. Seventy fl,
were drowned, and thirty-two more or LEI
injured. The entire number of lives 10
was conjectured to be between ninety ar
one hundred.
Palace of Japan, at Yeddo, burned
Death of United States Minister James
Orr, in Russia.
Twenty-one persons killed and fort
injured by railroad accident near Pest
Hungary. -Chief-Justice Salmon p Cha
died,
Death of Hon Cakes Ames of Mas
achusetts.-J John Stuart Mill, phlosophic
author, died.
10 Intelligence reached New York of Il
arrival at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland,
the steamer Tigress, having on board min
teen survivors of Captain Halls Arctic e
petition.
ID Series of fire-damp explosion in Drur
mond Colliery, Nova Scotia, caused by u
of gunpowder in blasting. The mine W
set on fire, and the single shaft throul
which an egress was provided, was render
useless. Number of lives lost, flfty-nin