The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-10
Prominent Events of the Year 1878.

Oh, death In life. the days that are no more
| Alfred IcnHySoR.
Prominent Events Of the Year 1873.
January 2, at Neganne, on Lake Super.
ior, nitro glycerine explosion took place
and killed seven men. January Is, at Tar.
iffville, Conn.,, a Moody and Sankey excur.
sion train fell through trestle bridge and
killed sixteen persons. January 90, King
Alfonso, of Spain, was married to his cous
in, the Princess Mercedes. January 90. the
Russians entered Adrianople, and thus end.
ed the Russian and Turkish war; Febru-
AIRY IS, the Bland silver bill was passed by
the Senate. February 16, Bayard Taylor
nominated to be Minister to Germany, con.
tirmed March 4. January 81, steamer Me-
tropolis driven ashore on Currituck Beach,
N. c., and one hundred lives lost. Febru.
4. In Tlen.tsin, China, an asylum for women
aid children was burned, nearly 5000 lives
lost. February go, Cardinal Joachim Pecci
was elected Pope, and styled Leo XIII.
March Sd, Preliminaries OF Peace, signed
| between Russia and Turkey-ratified at
st. Petersburg March IT, March 9, terri
BILE tornado in Casey county, Kentucky,
| and seven lives lost. March 9Th, destruct
i've fire at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and $50
buildings burned. March 9Th, colliery ex
plosion near Glasgow, Scotland II lives
lost. March 9th, wreck Austrian Lloyd's
Sphinx 500 lives lost. March 12, colliery
explosion near Bolton, England; As lives
lost. March "a the British training ship
Eurydice sank in q gale off the Isle of Wight
300 lives lost April 25, twenty cent silver
piece abolished. April IT, General John
81
April, 8, Governor Van Ztndt (Rep.) of
Rhode Island elected. April 13, Oxford
won the 35 boat race with Cambridge
University. April :, Steuben county, IN.
" poorhouse destroyed by fire; Is insane
paupers burned to death. March 81, col
liery explosion at North Staffordshire, Eng
land; 35 miners killed. May 10, bank.
rupt law repealed by Congress, went into
effect September, l. May 10, Potter in.
vestigation resolutions offered in the House.
May /, Paris Exposition opened. May II.
an attempt to assassinate Emperor William
in Berlin. April IA, earthquake in Venezue-
la destroyed the town of Quo. April 90
collision on the Richmond and Danville
railroad at Piney Creek, killed one man
and wounded five others. May /, boiler
explosion at Memphis, killed three men and
injured twelve. May 2, explosion in til,
Washburn flour mill, Minneapolis, Min.
nesota, destroyed several mills, valued at
81 100000, and lost II lives. May 10, burn
ing of the Allen Line steamship Sandman
at the entrance of the harbor of London.
derry, and forty persons injured and three
killed. May 20, gas explosion in the Sid
ney Mines, Nova Scotia, killed six miners.
April II, tornado at Canto, China; loss.
10000 lives. May 81, two German iron
clads, Groper Kurfurst and the King Will
liam, collided in the English Channel
The former sunk and $50 lives lost. June
Z, colliery explosion at Haydock, England,
and 900 lives lost. July IS, treaty in Ber-
lin signed by Delegates to Congress. July
4th, defensive treaty between England and
Turkey concluded. During the week end
ing July Goth, 146 persons died in St.
Louis, Missouri, from the effects of the
severe heat. July goth, 400 houses DIES.
troyed by fire at Mandelay, Burmah. June
2S, portion of a tunnel near Schvelin,
Germany, fell in and buried 81 PERSONS
July 4, at a German Lutheran picnic at
Ross Grove, Pennsy lvania, large tree fell
on party who had fled to it for shelter in
thunder storm, killing Is persons and in.
juring Others. July 7th, an explosion in a
petroleum factory at Lyons, France, killed
80 persons. In August, yellow fever in
Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi July
26, near Peterborough, Ireland, on the
Blackwater river, IA adults and children
were drowned by the capsizing of Il boat.
August 7, at Mingo Junction on the Gin.
cinnati and st. Louis Railroad, collision
of trains, 12 persons killed. August 10,
tornado at Wallingiord, Conn, demolshing
so buildings and the cause of the loss of
80 lives. September 8, Governor Proctor,
Representative of Congress, elected. Au-
gust 20, International Monetary Conference
at Paris adjourned. August 80, Hungarian
town of Miskolez was nearly destroyed by
storm; six hundred lives lost. Septem-
Der 3, excursion steamer Princess Alice
was run down ON the Thames, near Lon
| don, England, and sunk; over six hundred
persons were drowned. September II,
mine explosion in Ebbw Vale colliery,
Wales; lost two hundred and eighty. one
lives. October 10, German Socialist bill
adopted. October 2, City of Glasgow,
Bank of Scotland closed its doors. Octo-
Der s, excursion train on the Old Colony
Railroad. at Quincy, Mass, was wrecked
and 81 persons killed and over $50 injur-
ed. October II, panic in the Collos-
cum Theatre, Liverpool, England; killed
| 81 persons. October 1G. panic in the Bap
tist Church Mt Lynchburg, Va, killed nine
colored persons and wounded thirty. DC.
tober 90, railway collision in Wales killed
| 10 persons and wounded 20 seriously
November %, the award of the Halifax
fisheries Commission, $5,500.000 paid to
the British Government. November 81,
the British troops invaded Afghanistan in
three columns. October 25, attempt in
Madrid to assassinate King Alfonso of
Spain. November II, a similar attempt
against King Humbert of Italy, at Naples.
November 8, fire at Cape May DESTROYED
| II hotels and thirty cottages. Octiber 81
steamer Helvetia to Liverpool to New
York ran down and sank British cruiser
Fanny, losing II lives. November 81,
coal mine explosion at Sullivane, Indiana,
which killed Ia men, and injured many
others. November 20, Marquis of Iorne,
Governor of Canada, arrived at Halifax.
November 25, loss of steamer Pomprania
with loss of fifty lives. November 81,
| $4,000 mill operatives on q strike in Eng
land. November 2s,attempted assassination
of Count Andrassy. December Q, fatal
steam boat disaster at Bringiers Point,
La, twelve lives lost. December 10, a lu-
matte named Madden arrested in London
for threatening the life of the Queen. De-
cember 10, serious election riots in Ireland.
December 81, attempted assassination of
the Emperor of Austria Baltimore Her.
aid.
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