Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31


political riders, passes the United States Senate
after protracted debate, having previously
gone through the House.
26. s. d. Richards, the author of nine muir
ders, executed at Minden, Neb. Immense rains
and disastrous floods in Texas The Stevens
% aYs @ ended At Chicago after eighteen
onment for the accused
a. Navigation on the great Northern lakes
opened. .-,
20 Intelligence of destructive earthquakes
- 80 President Pre-: Hayes vetoes the A,mv Ann,o-
SO. Great fire at Orenburg, Russia.
1. Intelligence that the King of the Zulus has
2. F. B. Weber, q Chicago merchant MUIR
dered by Mrs. Robert. family of six per
sons drowned near Houston, Texas.
3. @. L. Fresman, Second Advent fanatic,
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass.
s. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500, 900 worth
Of property: Congress passes the Army bill,
with the vetoed section relating to the use of
troops at elections materially modified.
6,7. convention Of Southern planters at
Vicksburg, Miss, to take steps to check the
immigration i G2ra Of colored people:
horse Parole wins fourth great race at Ches-
ter, England
10. Destructive fires in st. Louis and Chi
cago.
II. President Hayes second time vetoes the
bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls.
IA: Disastrous fires at Orenburg, Russia,
and Poonah, India. Destructive floods in Hun
gary Three children burned to death at Tor
onto, Canada.
10. An international congress meets at Paris
to devise plans for an in teroceanic canal across
the Isthmus of Darien.
Is: Three persons drowned in New York har-
News Of the 1T
India and Afghanistan.
~: The United States Senate passes the Leg
islative Appropriations bill, with tho Demo
cratic political amendments
Il Meeting of the Iowa Democratic Con-
from Niagara suspension bridge A fishing
schooner and crew of twelve persons lost off
Gloucester, Mass.
%. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa.
Is. The National House of Representatives
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill.
"a. Six persons drowned in Calcasien river
La, by the capsizing of email steamer
cides upon a plan for ship CANAL across tho
Isthmus of Darien, and adjourns. Burning of
the Washington House, Hagerstown, Nd Tho
President vetoes tho Legislative Appropriation
bill
80 Treaty Tree Of peace ratified between India
81. Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed.
@ Resignation of United States Circuit Judge
Dillon, to take effect Sept. L.
8. Secretary of War McCrary nominated to
succeed Judge Dillon. Meeting Of the Ohio
Democratic and Greenback Conventions at Co.
lumbus. The formation of a company to con-
struct the Darien canal begun at Paris by NJ
de Lesseps
S. Six men killed by the falling of partially
| burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio. Four
men killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
Pa.
9. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, Ca !;
about dozen killed.
Convention.
II. Disastrous connagr&tion at Point Breeze,
| near Philadelphia. Meeting OF th@rZowa Re
publican Convention.
Il. News of the outbreak of revolution in
Mexico, and of a successful revolution in Par
| aguay.
Is. Nine cmigrants drowned by flood at
16. International boat race in England won
! by H,nlan, of Canada.
| IS. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy,
II. f.. T. Weston, OF New York, won the
Ashley long distance championship belt in LoE-
| don.
%. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania;
25 Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
track near Buffalo, N. y; eleven persons in
| jured, two fatally.
&C. The Khediyo of Egypt abdcatos in favor
~
| explosion in Philadelphia. Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Neb., by explosion on board
| Government steamboat
49, The Havana steamship City of New York
collided with and sunk the iron bark Helen; five
| lives lost.
l. Extra session Of Congress adjourned
3: Terrible cyclone in Minnesota, Wisconsin
nad d1Ta WsHX killed and much
4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa. Seven excursion;sts drowned by
overturning of steamer on Lake QIinsiga-
mond, near Worcester, Mass.
g. Explosion of FIVE tons of giant powder ct
the Bodie (Cal: mine: eleven persons killed.
Is. Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Memphis, where the
yellow fever broke out.
IL. Eight people drowned by capsizing Of
yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada.
81. Gen. Miles has fight with the Sioux in
Montana.
g. Five workmen killed by a. railroad acci-
dent to q construction train at Waukegan, Ill,
q. Great inundation in the oil regions of
Western Pennsylvania; over $500,000 worth of
property destroyed.
81. Destructive confederation at Hamilton.
Ont. three lives and 81 OK, 600 worth of prop
erty destroyed.
AUGUST.
g. Fourteen persons killed by explosion of
powder magazine at Duralgo, Spain.
4. Terrific storm extending over a large area
OF England; immense damage inflicted to the
crops.
5. The steamship Louis David wrecked off
Ushant, France, and twenty seven lives lost.
8. One thousand houses burned at SerajeYo,
the capital of Bosnia
IA: Count Andrassy retired from the Austrian
Ministry, and Count Taafe succeeded him. Ire
mont o Temple, Boston, destroyed by fire; loss,
IS. Fight between sections of the Ship Labor
ers' Union, at Quebec, Canada; six men killed.
10. Storm Of wind and rain throughout the
Eastern seaboard; much damage to shipping
and crops. .. z..... .. :
g. Isaac g. Kalloch, candidate of the San
francisco workingmen for Mayor, shot in the
street by Charles De Young, editor of the
Chronicle; great excitement III that city.
&c Castle Thunder, the Richmond va mill
tary prison, burned. -.
30. Statue to Gen. Custer unveiled at West
Point
SEPTEMBER. ... '.-a.
5. By the capsiziug Of a sail-boat near Sack
etes Harbor, N. Y, seven persons were
drowned. "~-
8. Maj. Cavagnari, English Resident at Ca
bull. Afghanistan, with his escort eeventy-nine
men in administered by Afghan troops
z Fire at Quincy, ILL., loss, 100000. One
man and two children killed by the falling of
building at Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter
10. Seven soldiers massacred by Cheyenne
Indiana in Southern New Mexico : - -