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

Italy; railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away.
2. Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
5. Balloon and two occupants blown against
wires, and tho aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
e. Fighting in front of Cabul, Afghanistan;
British loss toward 100.
Z: Train robbed of about $50 COO by masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas CITY. Mo.
TO- Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
road, at jackson, Mich. about twenty persons
II. Four persons killed by collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
w.; Va.
r. Bodies of Agent Meeker and the employees
OF the White River Indian Agency, Colorado,
killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merritt's
command
IL. The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul, Afghanistan.
10. News received of Russian reverse in
Central Asia; rout of the expeditionary forces.
~ 10. Great floods in several provinces of
Spain; about 800 lives and millions of property
destroyed
II: Further depredations by Indians in New
Mexico; many settlers massacred.
~. The Uintah Indians, in Utah, go on the
"ar PAIN, and murder number of settlers
"a. Heavy storm in the island Of Jamaica
oo an immense damage to property.
~. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
Wl1e ana daughter OF Indian Agent Meeker
from the Ute Indians, in Colorado, with sew
eral other captives.
~. Eleven Afghans, convicted of coaplicity
IN the massacre at the English embassy in
Cabul. executed.
~. Nearly 100 persons and vast amount of
property destroyed by another great flood in
Spain.
NOVEMBER.
T. One-t third of tile town of Mound City, ILL.,,
destroyed by fire.
4. Nineteen persons were killed and forty
I'VE wounded by the sinking of railway en-
Dankment In British India, three of the killed
being Europeans.
.. BY a collision between the steamship
champion, of the New York and Charleston
line, with the ship Lady Octavia, off the Della
ware capes, thirty-two of the passengers and
ofeM 6e OF N the were One span
Missouri, st st. Charles, NO., fell, dropping a
train of seventeen stock-cars into the river:
four cattle men were killed.
y Six survivors of tho whaling schooner
Petrel were saved from the hulk, the other
the Atlantic
10 The CHILEAN town of Pisaque was bonn
oaroed ana captured by the Peruvians, 800
persons being killed in the city, with loss to
the attacking party Of 500 Thirty-two cii-
zens Of New Mexico killed in fight with Vic
toria's band of Apache Indians, in the State of
chihuahua, Mexico.
- Reception Of Gen. Grant at Chicago: an
immense crowd present.
-. Gov Croswell appoints F. G. Beaman to
81 the vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Zach Chandler, of Michigan.
~ Tlo schooner Rrea6 ovaTt,,r,o; l,-
squat on Lake Erie, and the Captain and six
men drowned. OLA
II: Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
turning from q fair, attempting to cross q
river on the island Of Ilsay, in Scotland The
new French cable landed at Boston. Mr..
Beaman declined the appointment of Senator
from Michigan, and ex-Gov. Henry P
Baldwin, of Detroit, was appointed.
1S. About forty Cinnamon wore killed hy q,
explosion IN q new railroad tunnel in California,
Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
Ontario.
10. Statue of Gen. Thomas unveiled at Wash
lngton. The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah
to the Sultan of Zanzibar.
board; many Vessels beaehed The As stea 5eer
Pallas, from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, lost,
with thirty lives.
"a The Peruvians were defeated in a battle
WIN CnlllanS, near lQulQue.
22. Three prominent 1rishmer arrested at
there in consequences
rs. New York Eighth avenue stables burned:
100 horses and $3.50, 900 worth of properly de,
stroyed; fireman killed
26: VIM. 81. Vanderbilt sold $50, 600 shares
Of New York Central stock to syndicate for
$25. 0OO, 0O0
81. Thanksgiving day. rhirty-one Texans
massacred by Indians about 100 miles from
Ell Paso.
28 Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General.
and escort OF seventy mon, slaughtered in Bull
garia.
seven persons were dancing, at Naples, Italy.
twenty were crushed to death. King Alfonso
Of Spain, married at Madrid to Marie Christine,
of Austria.
80. Three persons burned to death at the de-
struction of the Toronto (Canada) Opera House:
loss, COO. Cuban insurgents defeated with
a loss Of twenty three killed.
DECEMBER.
2 An unsuccessful attempt to blow up the
train on which the Gar Of Russia was travel
ing, near Moscow.
g. A tidal wave swept over an island in the
Bay OF Bengal, India, drowning several hun
dred persons.
z Several shirt and collar factories at TROY.
N. Y, burned; loss, $4,000.
g. Three children burned to death at Belle
vue Hospital, New York. Five persons killed
by boiler explosion on a steam tug near Black
river, Lake Erie.
Dec. 9--News of the loss of the Gloucester
fishing feet.
Dec. 1O-Grant's visit to Louisville
Dec. 1l-Prisoner shot dead in Saltwater
penitentiary by Deputy Warden Hall. Grants
reception at Cincinnati. Terrible storm in the
northwest.
Dec. 12-Viliage Of Red Rock, Pa. destroyed
by fire.
Dec. 13-Reception to Grant at Pittsburgh.
Dec. 14-suicide of Lieut.. Morrill,, Ninth
cavalry, atD Santa Fe.
Dec. 15-Decision of the Maine returning
board ousting Republican members elect of
the legislature.
Dec. 16-General Malone nominated for
United States Senator by the Virginia Leg
islature.
Dec. 17:-Chicago selected as a 1-cation for
the Republican national convention.
Dec. lS-Meeting in st. Paul, to express
sympathy with the Irish tenantry.
Dec. 19.--Adjournment of Congress until
January 9th, 1880.
Dec. 20-Relief of the famine in Silesia.
Dec. 2I-success of Edison's electric light
assured.
Dec. 22-Burning of Best's brewery 10 Mil
yankee. Two negroes lynched in Russell
county, Alabama.
Dec. 23-The steamship Borussia abandoned
at sea and ITO lives lost.
Dec. 25-Repulse Of the GhiIzais by the
British troops in Afghanistan.
Dec. 26-Great excitement through bout Maino
over the electoral troubles and threats of vio-
lence. Railroad accident at Bardan, ILL., Three
persons killed, many wounded.
Dec. 2S.-The Utes at Los Pinos reported on
- ~ IL
British at Cabul, with tremendous loss. Ter
rible fire at Boston. Loss 50 ,0O0, 900. Railro;
train blown off bridge across the Firth of
Tay and $50 passengers drowned.
NEUROLOGY.