Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-01-02

RUSSIAN torpedo DOat eXplOueu at
Nicholaieff; thirty-four persons killed.
13. Oregon Indian war ended.
State of siege, established in 1874 in
Havana, Cuba, raised.
16. Hoedel beheaded at Berlin for
attempted assassination of the EN-
peror. Revolution in San Domingo.
IL. Angel, Secretary of Pullman
Palace Car Company, absconded.
One thousand kegs of powder explod-
ed at Pottsville, Pa, killing several
persons.
18. Memphis being scourged by
yellow fever; place nearly deserted.
Severe fighting in Bosnia; Austrians
defeated.
81. Jackson, Miss, attacked by
the plague. Independence of Servia
announced.
%. Relief funds being raised in the
North for yellow fever sufferers.
Powder mills exploded at Negaunee,
Mich. /; several employees killed.
/ 25. More fighting with illicit dis
tillers in Tennessee.
20. Excursion train Oh the Grand
Rapids and Indians railroad jumped
the track near Lockwood, Mich. !;
several killed.
80 Another nitro-glycerine explo-
sion at Negaunee, Mich.
81. Miskolez, Hungary, laid waste
by storm; 1000 houses destroyed
and 500 people lost their lives. Bank
rupt law expired.
SEPTEMBER.
/. Excursion train from London
to Ramsgate, England, wrecked by a
collision; twelve lives lost. Treaty
with Japan signed.
8. Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan,
deposed from the ministry. An ex-
cursion steamer, the Lady Alice, re-
turning from Gravesend to London,
sunk by collision; 700 lives lost.
5. Bosnian insurgents defeated
with great loss.
z. Mehemet Ali and twenty Of his
suit massacred by the Albanians.
9. Modelling, the would-be assassin
of the German Emperor, died in pris-
on.
II. Coal-mine explosion at Aber-
carme, Wales; 250 miners lost.
13. Gradual decline of the yellow
fever in the South noted.
IA. Great freshets in the West.
%. British mission to Afghanistan
refused permission to enter Cabul.
25. New Canadian Ministry inaug-
urated.
2. City of Glasgow Bank, of Scot
land, failed liabilities, $50, 100000
8. Excursion train on the Old
Colony road wrecked near Boston /;
21 killed and $50 injured. Elections
in several states.
II. Panic in Colosseum Theater,
Liverpool, England; thirty-seven
persons crushed.
16. Nine persons killed by panic
in colored Baptist church at Lynch
burg, Va
20. Railway collision in Wales /;
tuelve killed, Circassians sacked
1900 houses in Mac edoIia.
27. Manhattan Bank, of New
York, robbed.
20. Yellow fever killed in the South
by frost.
NOVEMBER.
l. News received of great famine
in Morocco.
8. Great strike in English cotton
spinning district.
5. Elections in thirty states.
z. A. L. Stewards body stolen
from the tomb.
8. Cape May, N. j., visited by a
great fire; several hotels burned !;
loss, $500, 900.
IA. Big flood in Italy great loss Of
property.
II. Attempt to assassinate King
Humbert, of Italy.
10. Serious loss of life by inunda.
ton of the river Save, at Pesth, Aus
tria.
20. War declared by England
upon Afghanistan.
81. The Halifax fishery award
paid. Twelve men killed by coal
mine explosion at Sullivan, Ind.
%. Fort Ali Musjid captured by
the British troops.
%. George S. Houston elected
Senator from Alabama.
"a. The new Governor General
of Canada, the Marquis of Lorne, ar
rived at Halifax. Fifty persons went
down with steamship Pommerania in
English channel; collision.
"a Fifteen persons jumped off a
ferry-boat at Liverpool and were
drowned, owing to panic.
%. Thanksgiving day. English
forces, entered Khyber pass, in AT
ghanistan.
DECEMBER.
1. Mississippi river steamboat Cot.
ton Valley sunk by collision near
Donaldsonville, La. eighteen persons
drowned.
2. Congress met. ~
9. Anchor flour mill, at ltinneapo-
lis, Minn., burned.
10. Wade Hampton elected Sena-
tor from South Carolina.
1S. French steamer Byzantine
sunk with $50 people in the Mediter-
ranean.