The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-03

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%. Clusters defeat and the massacre Of his
force on the Little Horn river; 20 soldiers
killed, including all their officers; the great
est disaster TO the whites from Indian foe
since Braddock's defeat.
JULY.
4. Severe storm In Iowa: many buildings
destroy ct and lives LOST.
3. Hamburg massacre in : nth Carolina.
y. Castle Garden. first u fort, then an as
quarters of the New York emigration depart
lneni, destroyed by fire. Propeller 1t. Clair
burned on Lake superior. Iwenty-seven
10. Religious riot in Columbia, South
IL. Three Newark IN. J) desperadoes
named 1'hellhorn, shot eight men, killing
three and were themselves shot and stoned 10
death they were swimming the riv-r.
Water-spout near Louisville caused great dam
age.
and Bohemia.
y. Yacht Mohawk capsizad IN n sQuall in
New FORK bay. drowning William T. Garner.
several Inernoers OF his family aud some
friends and attendants. Great gale in Yer
mont; much damage done.
AUGUST.
7. Seven children drowned at ColdWatsr,
D. Great fire at Nantes, Franco.
Z. sullivan, a Chicago Journalist, murdered
Hanford, a teacher. Ten persons drowned in
Putnam's pond, Whitehall. New York. Rail-
road accident near Cincinnati; several killed
8 Terrible accident on a British railroad;
20 persons killed.
70. Great fire in London; loss slCOo 900.
Is. Heavy bank ROBBERY in Dallas, Texas.
p. SIKH negro lynched in Virginia In three
months.
.. Railroad disaster in Mississippi; several
killed and wounded.
~. Collision oftwo ocean steamers in LIVER
pool harbor; both seriously injured.
~. Fearful fire in San Francisco; loss $751;
OQ. Large fire in Cincinnati.
81. -Four miners sufiocated with choke
damp In Denver, Colorado.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Horrible murder by band of religious
fanatics in Arkansas; man killed, and his
body decapitated and mutiated. Yellow fever
3. triple collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio road. Six hundred houses destroyed by
hire In Quebec.
killed. ''
$. Four Indian murderers hung at Fort
Smith, Ark.
-thr-e men X He'd.
H. Yellow fever appeared IN New York.
y. Fearful disaster on the Pan Handle rail-
road-I0 passengers killed and MANNED.
"a. Dreadful balloon accident at Paxton, Ill.,
aeronaut killed by ial of SEQ FEET
20 Fall of a three story BUILDING In Spring
field, Mass; several persoas killed. Terrible
fire in Toledo, ..
30. Boiler eA ploSiOn at plymouth, IND; nVe
harve ters killed.
OCTOBER.
/. Shocking scene at an Ohio execution, muir
derer twice hanged. Another boiler explosion
Ferry boat accident in Ireland, IA persons
drowned.
3. Five railroad az cidentS In the United
States.
!. Rtrls Europe burned in New York harbor;
six men burned to death in her hold.
II. Terrific explosion in "a PlttSDurg nail mill.
IL. Destructive fire ut Louisville, Kentucky;
loss, $4,000. Jordan. New York. burned.
10. Steamers Switzerland and Grebe collide
of Flushing; lattei SUNK.
~. Boat swamped in the Saginaw river,
NJ ,chigan five men drowned.
"a. rnomaSs Ellis, of Park National bank,
New York, absconded with $50 700.
p. Railroad accident in New jersey; five
lives lost.
fOundland: all hands lost.
~. Railroad accidental Scranton, Penn; ~
persons killed and wounded.
81. Five horse thieves lynched al Kansas.
Twenty Cinnamon crushed TO death In a san
Francisco theatre.
NOVEMBER.
l. Explosion at the Miami, Ohio, powder
10. Frightful accident at a Sacramento
theatre; the floor gives away, killing . ven and
persons falls over bridge near Cincinnati; IL
q. Fires in New York, New Orleans, Rich
mond and Charleston.
DECEMBER.
/. Great fire at New Orleans; III houses
burned.
S. Extensive fires Mt Brooklyn, Peoria and
Little Rock. Brooklyn theatre burned; go
II. Fearful nitro-glyoerine explosion in
Petrolia, Penn.
several steamers crushed and sunk by the ice.
Is. Riot in New Orlea N s-negroes, steamboat
men anu wharf-rats killed.
p. COnfiagratiOns at Little Rock, Ark, con-
tinue-moSt of the business portion OF the city
burned.
rs. Steamer Montana burned in the Pacific.
Convent burned in ST. Elizabeth, Canada-l2
nuns and children burned 10 death.
NeeroIogfcaI
JANUARY.
q Ex-Governor John II. Clifford, of Massa-
chuSetts, died at New Bedford, aged 81
L. Sir Anthony Rothschilds died in ENGLAND,
aged %.
T. BENJAMIN Downing oldest odd fellow in
the world, died in New York, aged l0i.
9. Commodore stephen Decatur died In Bos-
ton; had served As years in the navy,
10. General Gordon Granger, u. 3. A, died
in santa Fe, aged 50 years.
Is. Mrs. ex-President johnson died near
Greenville, tennessee. Commodore John
Pope, U. s. N. died in Dorchester, Massachu-
sets.
by a locomotive in Frankvlle Maryland.
n. Frederick Lemaitre, French actor, died
in Paris.
o. Francis Deak, Hungarian statesman and
orator, died at Pesih.
FEBRuARY.
J. Mrs. Peter Cartwright, widow Of the cele-
brated pioneer preacher, died at Pleasant
Stringham, u. :. NJ, died In Brooklyn.
10. The Hon. Revedy Johnson found dead In
his yard at Annapolis, Md.
IL. Horace Bushnell, ID. ID, died at Hartford,
Conn.
Is. Pierre NJ. Irving, nephew OF Washington
Irving, died in New York city.
26 Carrot K. Barry, commodore in the Uni
ted S'eates navy, died in New York, aged 81
years.
MARCH.
H. William Robinson, journalist, died at
Maiden, Mass.
~. Gen. ]. ID. Webster died at Chicago
H. Robert Mill an, bishdy of Calcutta,
nephew Of Oean Millnan, died at London.
10. PrOsper NJ We moe, politician and meT
chant, died at Great Neck, long Island.
20. Ex-Gov. James J. Smith, of Rhode Island,
died at Providence.
APRIL.