The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-08

sassillation Of Edwin Booth on the stage OF
Mcvlcker'e Theator, Chicago.
ocs d11my AppsGRsGn a n lily with the
after 9 protracted debate, having previously
gone through the House.
~ ). ID. Richards, the author of nine muir
ders, executed at Minden, Neb. Immonse rains
and disastrous floods in Texas The Stevens
murder trial ended at Chicago, after eighteen
days, with verdict of fourteen years. impris-
Onment for the accused.
q. Navigation on the great Northern lakes
opened.
in Persia.
29 President Hayes vetoes the Army Appro-
priatiOn bill.
g. Great fire at orenburg, Russia
!. Intelligence that the King Of the Zulus has
sued for peace.
2. +. b. Weber, q Chicago merchant, mur-
dered by Mrs Robert. A family OF six per-
sons drowned near Houston. Texas
.. z. l." Freeman, Second Advent fanatic
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass.
8. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500 0OO rortl,
OF property: Congress passes the Army bill,
with The vetoed section relating to tho use OF
trooprst elections materially modified.
81. A convention Of Southern planters at
Vicksburg, Miss. to take steps to check the
immigration of colored people.
The Ameer of Afghanistan makes over
lures to tho British for peace. The American
horse Parole wins fourth great race at Ches-
ter, England.
~. Destructive firss in st. Louis and Chi
cago.
IL. President Hayes second time vetoes the
bill forbidd:n8 the use Of troops at tho polls.
II. Disastrous fires At Orenburg, Kus-ia,
and Poonah, India Destructive floods in Hun
gary. Three children burned to death at Tor
onto. Canada.
IT, An Internal onal congress meets ut Paris
to devise plans for All interoceanic canal across
the lsthmus of Darien.
IL. Three persons drowned In New York har-
Dor by the capsizing of yacht.
~ News OF the conclusion Of peace between
India and Afghanistan.
islative Appropriation bill, with the Demo
cratic political amendments.
II. Meeting of the Iowa Democratic Con-
ventlon. Hermann Peer makes his great leap
from Niagara suspension bridge. A fishing
schooner and crew OF twelve persons lost oil
Gloucester, Mass.
g. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa
2 The National House of Representatives
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill
~f Ola PefsoAs uioWIiou III Nllcaslon river,
La, by the capsizng Of 4 small steamer.
20 An International Congress, at Paris, do
cides upon plan for ship canal across the
Isthnus Of Darien, and adiuurns. Burning of
tho Washington House, IiSgerstown, Md The
President vetoes the Legislative Appropriation
bill
and Afghanistan.
81 Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed.
JUNE:
2. Resignation OF United States Circuit Judge
Dillon, to take effect Sept l.
g. Secretary Of War McCrary nominated to
succeed Judge Dillon. Meeting of the Ohio
Democratic and Greenbaclx Conventions at Co.
lumbus. The formation of company to con-
struct the Darien canal begun at Paris by M.
de Iesseps.
s. Six men killed by the falling Of q partially
burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio. -Four
mon killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
IA.
9. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, Ga {;
about dozen killed
10. Meeting Of the Minnesota GrcenbaCk Slate
Convention.
II. Disastrous confagration at Point Breeze,
near Philadelphia. Meeting OF thaIowa Re-
publican Convention.
II. News Of the outbreak of revolution in
Mexico, and ct q successful revolution i; Par
aguay.
Is. Nine omigrants drowned by food at
Buffalo gap, Dakota.
lN. International boat race in England won
by II nlan, Of Canada
Is. Destructive earthquake at Aci, I:aly
II. T.. p Weston, TT New York, won the
Ashley long distance championship belt ID Lon
don.
q. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania;
tivo mon killed.
Is. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
track ,ear Lntl,ln, N. Y; eleven persons in
lured, two fatally.
rs TIE Kh n'i 70 Of Egypt add C ates in favor
of his son Tawtik.
~ Engineer and three others killed by boiler
explosion in Philaslcl' lila. -Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Ncb., by explosion on board
Government steamtoat
~ The Havana steamship City of New York
collded with and sunk tile iron birk lIelen; five
lives lost
JULY.
|. Extra session Of Congress adjourned.
8. Terrible cyclone in Mime 4oia, Wisconsin
and Iowa; twenty persons killed and much
property destroyed.
4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa. Seven cxcursion.s.s drowned by
OyorturniDg Of q steamer Oh Lake Quinsiga-
mond. near Worcester, Mass.
:. Explosion Of five tons of giant powder at
the Bodic Nal. mine: eleven persons killed
10 Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Mo1nphis, wlero the
yellow fever broke out
yacht OF Poiut aux Trmbles, Canada.
II. Gen. Miles has q fight with tho Sioux in
Montana.
26 Five workmen killed by railroad acci-
dent to construction train at Waukeaail, Iii.
a. Great inundation in the oil regions Of
Western Pennsylvania; over $5tO,ooO worth Of
property destroyed.
81. Destructive contiagration at Hamilton,
Ont ;tbrco lives aud III OK, 900 worth Of prop.
erty destroyed.
AUGUST.
8. Fourteen persons killed by explosion Of
powder magazine at Duralgo, SPAIN
4. Terrific storm extending over large area
of England; immense damage inflicted to the
crops.
s. Tho steamship LOUIS David wrecked of
Ushant, France. and twenty sevon lives lost.
=. One thousand houses burned at Sera1eyo
the capital of Bosnia.
II. Count Andrassy retired from the Austrian
Ministry, and Count 1aafe succeeded him. Tre-
mont mon n Iemoie Boston, destroyed by fro; loss,
Is. Fight between sections of the Ship Labor
ers' Union, at Quebec, Canada sia men killed.
18. Storm Of wind and rain throughout tho
Eastern seaboard; much damage to shipping
and crops.
23 Isaac T. Kalloch, candidate of tho San
Francisco workingmen for Mayor, shot in tho
street by Charles De Young, editor OF the
Chronicle; great excitement in that city.
a. Castle Thunder, the Richmond {Va) mill
tary prison, burned.
80. Statue to Gen. Custer unveiled at West
Point
SEPTEMBER.
s. by the capsizing of sail boat near Sack
etts Hsrbor, N. Y, seven persons wcre
T. MAJ Cavagnari, English Resident at Ca
mon in administered by Afghan troops
T. Fire at Quincy, Ill. loss, 100000 One
man and two children killed by tho falling Of
building 1t Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter.
10. Seven soldiers massacred by Cheyenne
Indians i'll Southern New Mexico.
Is. State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
at Delavan, Wis.,, burned down: loss. s25D Ka|: