The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

Cetywayo, of the South African Zulus. Five
persons burned to death by tenement-house
! fire in South Boston.
| 49, A fight took place in New Mexico be-
| tween two companies of United States troops
| and party of Indians. Five soldiers killed.
| 60 Gen. Grant arrived in San Francisco from
| his two years and four months tour of the
world
90 Four men killed by tug boiler explosion
| just outside Chicago harbor.
90 Alliance formed between Germany and
| Austria.
| 25 The business portion Of Carroll, Iowa,
burned; loss 5000, 900.
&C. The mining town of Deadwood, Dakota,
almost wiped out by the flames; loss about
| $2,000,000. Train blown up in Mexico by the
| explosion of 400 kegs of gunpoWder ON board,
| and ten passengers killed
| 81. Rowell, the Englishmsn, won the fifth
| contest at long distance pedestrianism, at New
| York.
80. Maj. Thornburgh and command were
ambuscaded by the Ute Indians, near Milk
| river. Col, and the Major and thirteen others
| massacred Ten bandits in the Indian Terri
| tory killed.
80. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern
Italy; railroad bridge with passenger train
| carried away
g Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
about 100.
s. Balloon and two occupants blown against
telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
| g. Fighting in front of Cabul, Afghanistan; ;
| British loss toward 100.
z. Train robbed of about $50, 600 by masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo.
10. Collision on the Michigan Central rail
road, at Jackson, Mich; about twenty persons
killed.
IL. Four persons killed by a collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
| W. Va
IL. 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
Is. News received of Russian reverse in
| Central Asia; rout of the expediionary forces
| rs. 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 Il Utah, 90 on the
war path, and murder lumber of settlers.
"a. Heavy storm in the island of Jamaica,
| doing immense damage to property
~. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
wife and daughter of Indian Agent Meeker
from the Ute Indians, in Colorado, with sew
eral other captives.
30. Eleven Afghans, convicted of complicitv
IN the massacre at the English embassy in
| Cabul. executed.
30. Nearly 100 persons and vast amount of
property destroyed by another great flood in
Spain.
| NOVEMBER.
2. One-third of the town of Mound City, ILL.,,
destroyed by fire.
4. Nineteen persons were killed and forty
| five wounded by the sinking of railway en-
bankment in British India, three of the killed
being Europeans.
s. By 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
| crew of the steamer were drowned. One span
Of the North Missouri railroad bridge over. the
| Missouri. at St. Charles. Mo-, fell. dropping q
| train of seventeen stock-cars into the river;
| four cattle men were killed.
| g. Six survivors of the whaling schooner
| Petrol were saved from the hulk, the other
| fifteen having been washed off and drowned in
| the Atlantic.
! IL. Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
| turning from fair, attempting to cross a
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.
18 About forty Cinnamon were killed by an
explosion IN new railroad tunnel in California.
| Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
| Ontario.
H. Statue of Gen. Thomas unveiled at Wash
| ington. The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah
sunk in the Indian ocean; the vessel belonged
| to the Sultan of Zanzibar.
20. Great storm along the lakes and sea-
board; many vessels beached The steamer
| HAIIaS. from Amsterdam fa Conan ac 1Oo@
| with thirty lives
| a. The Peruvians were defeated in battle
with Chilians, near Iquique.
| a. Three prominent Irishmen arrested at
Sligo, for seditious speeches; great excitement
| there in consequence
25 New York Eighth avenue stables burned:
| 100 horses and $780, 900 worth of property de-
| stroyed; a fireman killed
| 26 VIM. FL. Vanderbilt sold $4,000 shares
/ of New York Central stock to a syndicate for
| $25.000000
g. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texans
Ell Paso.
| 2S Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General.
and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in Bull
| garia.
49, By the fall of building in which TWENTY
seven persons were dancing, at Naples, Italy,
| twenty were crushed to death. King Alfonso.
of Spain, married at Madrid to Marie Christine.
| of Austria.
81. Three persons burned to death at the de-
! structlon of the Toronto (Cansda) Opera House;
| loss, $780, Coo Cuban insurgents defeated, with
a loss of twenty-three killed.
DECEMBER.
| q An unsuccessful attempt to blow up the
| train on which the Gar Of Russia was travel
| ing, near Moscow.
6. A tidal wave swept over an island in the
Bay of Bengal, India, drowning several hun
| dred persons.
| T. Several SHIRT and collar factories at Troy,
! N. Y, burned; loss, $450,O0O.
| s. Three children burned to death at Belle
vue Hospital, New York Five persons killed
| by boiler explosion On q steam t'Ig near Black
| river, Lake Erie.
| 1S British troops under Gen. Roberts capt
| ure Bala- Hissar, the citadel at Cabul. Afghan
| istan.
| Is The Chilans defeat the allies, with loss
| of 5000 killed and wounded. Gen. Grant fin
ishes his circuit of the world at Philadelphia.
Twenty miners killed by explosion in salt
mine at Wurtemburg, Germsny.
IL. Meeting of Republican National Commit
tee at Washington: Chicago June g named for