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

JANUARY.
Il. DESTRUCTIVE storms along tho British,
french and Norwegian coasts. Disastrous
payments by the United States Government
%. Intensely cold weather throughout the
East and West, causing total suspension Of
business. -
4. Cork, Ireland, refuses to receive" ex-
President Grant. Chicago Postofice burned.
8. Unprecedented cold weather in the South
ern States. Senatorial elections in Franco re-
suit in great victory for the Republicans
z. Reassembling of Congress-
9. Slaughter Of forty captive Cheyenne Indi-
ans by tho military at Fort Robinson, Neb.
l3 Colliery disaster in Wales; sixty miners
killed Reno Court of Inquiry convenes at
IA. Railway train precipitated into the river
Arda, in Turkey; over 200 Russian soldiers
drowned: Big fire in Grand street, New York;
loss, 81, 900.
Il: Another great fire in New York; loss,
Is. Decree in France pardoning 1900 Com
munists.
20. Steamer Oberon lost on the coast of En-
gland.
81. Five men killed at Bradford, Pa, by the
explosion of a locomotive boiler. A maniac at
Mortyllle, Me-, kills three people, and is him
at Iuka, Miss. Two mon hanged at Indianap-
oils.
30. Resignation by Marshal MacMa of the
Presidency of France. and election of M.
Grevy. Five persons killed by boiler explo-
sion in Woodford county, Ill.
/ 81. Airos-house at louisville, Ky, burned :;
several inmates killed and burned to DEATH
NJ. Gambetta elected President of the French
Chamber Of Deputies John J. Ingalls, elected
Senator from Kansas, and B. f. Jonas from
Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
T. Alarm in Europe over the spread of the
plague, and preparations to stay its progress.
S. The U: $. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds' resolutions affirming the validity of the
later constitutional amendments.
g. Gov. Tilden testified as witness before q
committee of Congress at New York, denying
any knowledge of the famous cipher tele-
the taking OF testimony at Chicago
g. Defnitive treaty Of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
10. British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa Senator Christiancy, Of Mich
igan, resigns.
II. Six railroad laborers killed by an earth
IA. O'Kelly, the last Of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities
Is. The lower house Of Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
16. A family of three persons burned to
death at Somerville, Me-
II. Turkey effects $40,0O0,OOO loan.
1S. Russians begin the evacuation of Turkey
Several persons killed by a railway accident
near Selma, Ala.
"a. A boiler explosion at Stockton, Csl, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty six others.
&c. A bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and
th i1z lives lost:
twenty people.
%: A man named Lunsford and six of his
children burned to death at Carbon Hill, Ohio.
MARCH.
L. News of the death of shere Ali, Ameer of
Afghanistan.
q The town of Reno, Neb., destroyed wire:
five people burned to death.
e. Adjournment of Congress.
g. Nineteen persons killed by coal-mine ex-
plosion in England.
9, a family Of five people burned to death
in their house at East st. Louis, III.
10. News of the loss of fifty Gloucester
{Mass) fishing boats, and the drowning of $50
fishermen
H. A flood in the River Thesis, in Hungary,
overwhelms the city of Szegedin; immense de-
struction of life and property.
II. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
in q pond at Matte, Ct Archbishop Purcell
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors as- . I'LL ~
Is. A pilot boat sunk in the English Chan
mel, and her crew of eight persons drowned.
End Of the six days pedestrian match for the
of England, the victor -
49, Congress meets in special session.
19. Many people killed by series of ava
lanches in tho Austrian Tyrol. The Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by collision in the
West Indies; sixty people drowned.
~. B: Q. Porter, well-known actor, MUIR
dered at Marshall, Texas.
q. The French floating battery Arrogante
her crew drowned.
%. Discovery of 100000 defalcation by N.
2. Pratt savings bank treasurer, at Reading,
Mass.
Is. -Four people burned to death in a wharf
boat at Hickman, Ky. =
26. Judge J. M. Elliott, of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, murdered at Frankfort, KY,
Upper Egypt. Violent earthquake in Persia.
by which many people are killed.
a. Judge Edwards, leading lawyer Of Al
bany, n. Y, commits suicide.
90. Five persons burned to death in hotel
at ClaremOnt, N. H. The European powers
agree upon the joint occupation Of Roumelia.
80. Two thousand Afghans defeated by a
force Of British troops. 49,. &
81. Five seamen drowned by the upsetting Of
a boat at PASSPORT, Ne.
APRIL. ...
l. A body of French troops overtaken by
snow. storm in Algeria, and many frozen to
death Fifty British cavalrymen drowned
while trying to cross river in Afghani1tan.
2. Five persons drowned by the capsizing Of
a boat at Newbern, N. G..
g. The British in India defeat 5000 of the
4 The city Of Miragoane, in Hayti, destroyed
by fire.
g. News of tho massacre of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa.
g Disastrous fires in st. Louis and PhiIa
delphia '''"
~: Horrible massacre of Nihilist prisoners
by russian soldiers. at Kieff, in Russia.
Russia. Va
10. News Of horrible rayages of pestilence
and famine in Morocco. Destructive tornado
at Collnsville, III.
Ii. Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people.
II: The American horse Parole wins the New
market handicap in England.
IL. Russia lnau6urates extraordinary re-
presslve measures against the Nihilists Mr..
Thurman elected President pro tenn. of the
United States Senate Secretary Sherman Of
fers $l5O, COX, 600 of 4-pe1-cent bonds, and the
entire amount subscribed for by New York
DankeTS
10. Over 700 violaters Of the revenue laws in
Tennessee accept Government amnesty and
are discharged Steamship Great Rerublic lost
On the Pacific coast; ton of the crew drowned.
20 The town Of Eureka, New, nearly de-
stroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned
Il. News from South Africa that the be-
eieged British at Ekowe have been relieved az
ter desperate fighting, in which 1850 Zulus
2S3 The American horse Parole wins two
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