The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-31

o. The JERSEY City tunnel, in process Of con-
men.
% Eighteen persons lose their lives through
the explosion OF powder in the artillery works
in KooisS, Southern Russia.
%. An exclusion steamer runs over yacht
in the Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
drowned.
AUGUST.
1. The Chilian transport Loa blown mp by n
torpedo IN Calao bay, and $50 of her crew
killed
H. BY a train running off the track OF the
Midland railroad, in England, about q dozen
persons IRE XII led.
IL. Twenty persons are killed by q collision
between two excursion trains near Atlantic
City, N. j.
16 The town of Eureka, New, Is a second
time almost wiped out by fire.
II. Great parade of Kni yhts Tempar In
Chicago.
SEPTEMBER.
2. BY the giving way OF a pontoon bridge
over the river Ebro, in Spain, over 100 officers
and men were thrown into the water, most of
them b., ing drowned.
3. The steamer City OF Vera Cruz founders
of the coast OF Florida, and only thirteen Of
her passengers and crew OF sevonty-six are
4. Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan, near Candahar,
8. Bv an explo-ibn of fre-damp In the Sea-
ham (England) coliiery, l40 miners lost their
lives.
Is. The steamer Aurora, from Oporto for
SOUTHAMPTON, founders at sea fifty persons
are drowned.
%. By land ali lie in the Province Of Bengal,
Bii ish lndi,, thirty-seven persons were killed,
most of them English officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
S. Fifty miners suffocated In mine at Katto-
WITT, Germany.
Q. Thirty persons killed aud great many
severely injured by q railway collision at Pitts
burgh.
IL. Baltimore celebrates her l5Oth birthday.
Is. News il received of the starvation of 500
OF the 700 inhabitants of the island OF st.
Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
IA. Completion OF the Cologne Cathedral,
commenced six centuries ago. is celebrated.
Is. ny the explosion of Il cooker in Haas d
Powell's disil!eiy, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed..
lG. A storm OF unexsmpled severity sweeps
over The Northwest, accompanied by snow !;
many vessels and o number OF lives lost ON the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Alpena
founders, wi q loss of about eighty lives,
none being saved.
Is. Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
%. The coast of England visited by ter
ubie gale, AMI many ships and lives lost
NOVEMBER.
8. Sixty robbers. who plundered the Brazilian
town OF Jaunaria q year before are surprised
by soldiers and killed.
i. BY the breaking Of the hosting apparatus
in a Belgian NINE sixteen miners are killed.
5. A typhoon passes over Japan which de-
lnolishes 900 residences III Toxic and browns
100 fishermen. News received Of the loss OF
IL Nl..
Arctic sea by being crushed by the ice. Thirty
Kurdish maraudtrs III Persia are cruci6ed by
their leaders for dlsobodience of orders.
8. Tie propeller Zealand goes down on Lake
Ontario with AL on board, sixteen persons.
9. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
of the steamer Thomas Kingsford, on Lake On
tario.
IL. Seven men burned 10 death in a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
II. forty-seven miners killed by coal-mine
explosion III Nova Scotia.
l6. The Minnesota State Insane Asvlum at
st. Peter burned, and large number OF the
inmates lost their lives.
-. The Rurds sack Persian village and put
200 people to the sword.
Is. Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
their lives by the wreck of the coaster Ollsa of
Wales Twelve men suffocated in coal mine
III ISeg um.
90 The British steamer Mildred founders in
mld-ocean with a crew OF twenty-eight.
"a. BY collision between the French steamer
Oncle Joseph and the Italian steamship Or
tiga the former ID sunk and 232 persons go
down.
%. Tho PeTsians ornament the walls of TIE
prison at Tabrecz with the heads of 300 Kurds
taken in battle.
26. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all on
board in Georgian bay. Lake Huron.
%. Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, OF Colorado, Ia
killed by miners near Leadville.
DECEMBER.