The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-26

Oetywayo, Of the South African Zulus Five
| persons burned to death by tenement-house
| fre in South Boston.
| 10 A fight took place In New Mexico be-
| tween two companies OF United States troops
| and party of Indians. Five soldiers killed.
| 20 Gen. Grant arrived in san Francisco from
his two years and four months tour OF the
world
% -Four men killed by tug boiler explosion
| Just outside Chicago harbor.
% Alliance formed between Germany and
/ Austria
25. The business portion of Carroll, Iowa,
burned; loss, 100000.
PC. The mining town OF Deadwood, Dakota,
almost wiped out by the flames; loss about
| $4,000 900 Train blown up in Mexico by the
explosion Of 400 kegs OF gunpowder on board,
and ten passengers killed.
27. Rowell, the Englishman, won the fifth
contest at long distance Professionalism, at New
York.
%. Mai. 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.
Q Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons and in1uring
| about 100.
s. Balloon and two occupants blown against
telegraph wlres and the aeronauts thrown out
| and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
g. Fighting in front OF Cabul, Afghanistan;
| British lose toward leo.
= Train robbed of about $4,000 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 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. Merritts
| command.
Is The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul, Afghanistan
l5 News received of Russian reverse in
Central Asia; rout of the eXpediionary forces
IL. 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
war path, and murder number of settlers
"a. Heavy storm in the island OF Jamaica,
doing immense damage to property
q. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
wife and daughter Of Indian Agent Meeker
from the Ute Indians, in Colorado, with sew
eral other captyes
20 Eleven Afghans, convicted of completely
in the massacre at the English embassy in
Cabul executed.
80 Nearly 100 persons and vast amount Of
property destroyed by another great flood in
Spain.
NOVEMBER.
9. One-third of the town OF Mound City, ILL.,,
destroyed by fire.
a Nineteen persons we're killed and forty
five wounded by the sinking Of railway en-
bankment in British India, three or the Killed
being Europeans. .
S. By a collision between the steamship
Champion, of tho 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 a
train of seventeen stock-cars into tho river;
four cattle men were killed
/ o. Six survivors of the whaling schooner
Petrol were saved from the hulk, the other
fifteen having been washed off and drowned in
the Atlantic.
! IT, Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
turning from fair, attempting to cross
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.
| 49, About forty Cinnamon were killed by an
explosion III new railroad tunnel in California
Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
Ontario.
10 Statue of Gen. Thomas unveiled at Wash
ngton. 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
Pallas, from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, lost,
with thirty lives.
"a The Peruvians were defeated in battle
with Chilians, near Iquique.
D. Three prominent Irishnler, arrested at
Sligo, for seditious speeches. great excitement
there in consequence
-. New YORK Eighth avenue stables burned
100 horses and $3.50 MO worth of properly de-
stroyed a fireman killed
| 20. VIM. II. Vanderbilt sold 250,0C0 shares
OF New York Central stock to a syndicate for
$25. 100000.
q. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texans
massacred by Indians abouI 100 miles from
Ell Paso
% Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General,
and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in Bull
garia.
%. 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
30. Three persons burned to death at the de-
strucion of the Toronto (Canada) Opera House;
loss $50, COO. Cuban insurgents defeated, with
loss of twenty three killed.
DECEMBER.
. 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
T. Several shirt and collar factories ut Troy,
N. Y, burned; loss, s45O,OOO.
g. Three children burned TO death at Belle
vue Hospital, New York Five persons killed
by boiler explosion on steam tug near Black
river, Lake Erie
13 British troops under Gen. Roberts capt
ure Bala- Hissar the citadel at Cabul, Afghan
| istan.
16 The Chilians 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 a salt
mine at Wurtemburg, Germsny.
IT, Meeting of Republican National Commit
tee at Washington; Chicago, June 3, named fol
next convention.
lS. Twelve business houses burned at Bis
marck, Oak.
} 10. Congress adiourns for the holidays.
NEUROLOGY.
, JANUARY.
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