Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07

Oetywavo, Of the South African Zulus Five
persons burned to death by tenement-house
fire 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.
IS. The business portion of Carroll, Iowa,
Is. The mining town of Deadwood, Dakota,
almost una wiped out BY the flames. loss about
explosion of 400 kegs of gunpowder on board,
and ten passengers killed
q. Rowell, the Englishman, won the fifth
contest at long distance pedestrianism, at New
York.
%. 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; q railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away.
2. Grand stand at Lenawee county fair
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
s. Balloon and two occupants blown against
telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Gal.
6. Fighting in front of Oabul, Afghanistan;
British loss toward 100.
z. Train robbed of about $50. 600 bv masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo.
TO- Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
road, ct jackson, Mich. about twenty persons
killed
II. Four PERSONS killed by collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
w. Va.
10. Bodies of Agent Meeker and the employees
of the White River Indian Agency, Colorado,
killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merritt's
command.
10. The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul, Afghanistan.
Is. News received of Russian reverse in
Central Asia; rout of the expedihonary forces.
16. Great floods in several provinces of
Spain; about 800 lives and millions of property
destroyed
Ia. 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.
~. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
wife and daughter of Indian Agent Meeker
from the Ute Indians, In Colorado, with sew
eral other captives
~ Eleven Afghans, convicted of completely
Oabu1, executed. ''' - 'A ''-''''' ~
30 Nearly 100 persons and q vast amount of
property destroyed by another great aood in
Spain.
2, One third Of the town of Mound City, Ill,
destroyed by fire.
4. Nineteen persons were killed and forty
nve wounded by the sinking of railway en-
Dankment in British India, three of the killed
being Europeans
8. 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
b Six survivors of the whaling schooner
Petrol were saved from the hulk. the other
fifteen having been washed off and drowned in
the Atlantic
10 The CHILEAN town of Pisaque was bonn
barded and captured by the Peruvians, 300
the attacking party of 500. Thirty-two citi-
gems of New Mexico killed in a fight with Vic
torias band of Apache Indians, in the State of
Chihuahua, Mexico
IL Reception of Gen. Grant at Chicago; an
immense crowd present
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Zach Chandler, of Michigan.
Is. The schooner Breed overturned by 8
squall on Lake Erie, and the Captain and six
men drowned.
IL. Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
turning from fair, attempting to cross
river on the island of 1say, in Scotland. The
new French cable landed at Boston. Mr.
Beamar 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 q new railroad tunnel in California
Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
Ontario.
49, 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 Eand 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.
%. Three prominent Irishmen arrested at
Sligo, for seditious speeches; great excitement
there in consequence.
IS. New York Eighth avenue stables burned
100 horses and $3.50, 900 worth of property de-
stroyed; fireman killed
26. VIM. 81. Vanderbilt sold $4,000 shares
of New York Central stock to a syndicate for
81. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texans
massacred by Indians about 100 miles from
Ell Paso.
g. Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General.
and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in Bull
garia
80. 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.
80. Three persons burned to death at the de-
struchon Of the Toronto (Canada) Opera House;
loss, $4,000. 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.
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, $450,0O0
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.
Is. British troops under Gen. Roberts
recapture Bala- Hissar, the citadel at Cabul
Afghanistan. Attempted assassination oil