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

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CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.
l. Destructive storms along tho British,
French and Norwegian coasts Disastrous
floods in Great Britain. Resumption Of specie
payments by tho United States Government.
"a Intensely cold weather throughout tho
East and West, causing = total suspension Of
Cork, Ireland, refuses to receive" ex-
Presi lent Grant Chicago Postof1ice burned
5. Unprecedented cold weather in the South
ern states Senatorial elections in France re-
suit in great victory for the Republicans.
Z Reassembing Of Congress-.
g. Slaughter of forty c,ptive Cheyenne Indi-
ans by tho military At Fort Robinson, Neb.
IL Oolliery disaster in Wales; sixty miners
killed. Reno Court Of Inquiry oonvenes At
Chicago.
IA. Railway train precipitated into the river
drowned: Big ire in Grand street, New York; ;
loss, &2,O ,O0O,O ,O0O.
- 4 6d AaSther dS great fire in New York; loss,
ls: Decree in Franco pardoning 2,Uoo Com
20. Steamer Oberon lost on tho coast of En-
gland
q. Five men killed at Bradford, Pa, by the
explosion Of q locomotive h0ilor A maniac at
self shot dead.
29. Seven colored pooplc killed by tornado
AZ 1uka. Miss. Two men hanged at Indianap-
81. Resignation by Marshal MacMahon of tho
Presidency Of France, and election OF NJ
Grevy. Five persons killed by boiler oxplo-
sion in Woodford county, Ill.
81. Alms-house at Louisville, Ky., burned !;
several inmates killed and burned 10 death
n dambetta elected President of the French
Chamber Of Deputies. John j. Ingalls, elected
Senator from Kansas, aud B. F. Jonas from
Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
f. Alarm in Europe over the spread Of the
plague, and preparations to stay it's progress.
s. The U: 8. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds resolutions affirming the validity of the
lator constitutional amendments
g. Gov. Tilden testified as witness before
committee of Congress at New York, denying
any knowledge Of the famous cipher tele-
grams Tho Reno Court of Inquiry concludes
the taking OF testimony at Chicago
Defnitive treaty Of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
10. British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa. Senator Christisncy, Of Mich
igan, resigns.
II. Six railroad laborers killed by IN earth
slide at Kansas City, Mo.
a. OKelly, the last Of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities
Ii. The lower house 1T Congress passes tho
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
death At somervilie, Me-
II. Turkey effects $40, ,0O0, GOO loan.
18. Russians begin tho evacuation Of Turkey
Several persons killed by q railway accident
near Selma, Ala
q. boiler explosion at Stockton, Cal, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty six others.
rs: bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and
thirty-five lives lost.
~: An avalanche at Marburg, Austria, kills
twenty people.
28. A man named Lunsford and six Of his
children burned to death at Carbon Hill, Ohio.
MARCH.
/. News Of the death Of Shere Ali, Ameer of
Afghanistan
2. The town Of Reno, Mob, destroyed by fire:
five people burned to death.
g. Adjournment of Congress.
8. Nineteen persons killed by coal-mine ex-
plosion In England.
9! A family Of five people burned to death
in their house at East st. Louis, ILL.,
1O. News of the loss o. fifty Gloucester
\Mass.) fishing boats, and the drowning Of $50
fishermen.
IL. A flood in the River Thesis. in Hungary.
overwhelms the city Of Szegcdin; immense de-
struction OF life and property
IA. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
made an assignment for the benefit OF his
creditors.
15 A pilot boat sunk in the English Chan
mel, and her crew Of eight persons drowned.
End Of the six days pedestrian match for the
worlds championship, at New York; Rowell,
OF England, the victor:
1s Congress meets in special session.
1o Many people killed by = series OF ava
lanches in the Austrian TyroL Tho Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by collision in the
West Indies; sixty people drowned.
70. B. Q. Porter, q well-known actor, n,ur-
derod at Marshall, Texas.
81. The French hoating battery Ar1ogante
lost in the Mediterranean, and forty seven Of
hor crew drowned.
23 Discovery Of q 100000 defalcation by N
P. Pratt, savings treasurer, at Reading.
Mass.
Is. Fonr people burned to death in wharf,
boat at Hickman, Ky.
26. Judge J. NJ Elliott, Of the Kentucky
Court Of Appeals, murdered at Frankfort, KY,
by Col. Buford. News Of dreadful famine in
Upper Egypt Violent earthquake in Persia,
BY which many people are killed.
n. Judge Edwards, leading lawyer of Al
bany, n. T., commits suicide.
29. Five persons burned to death in hotel
1t Claromont N H. The European powers
agree upon the joint occupation Of Roumelia
81. Two thousand Afghans defeated by !
force Of British troops
81. Five seamen drowned by the upsettine of
. boat at Eastport Me.
l. A body Of French troops overtaken by =
death. Fifty British cavalrymen drowned
while trying to cross = rivor in AfghaniJtan.
2. Five persons drowned by tho oapeizjng of
boat At Newbern, N. O.
3. The British in India defeat 5000 Of the
enemy in battle,
4. The city Of Miragoane, in Hayti, destroyed
BY fro
=. News Of the massacre Of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa
y. Disastrous fires in st. Louis and Phila-
delphia~ '' ''
~. Horrible massacre of Nhilist prisoners
by Russian soldiers. at Kien, in Russia
H. Attempted assassination Of tho Gar OF
Russia.
Is. News Of horrible ravages OF pestilence
ana famine IN Morocco. Destructive tornado
At Collinsville, Ill.
16. Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South
people
II. The American horse Parole wins the New
market handicap in England
IL. Russia inauguratos extraordinary re-
pressive measures against the Nihilis:s Mr..
1uufA.an eiected Iresident pro teln Of the
United States Senate. Secretary Sherman Of
fers $15O, ,0oo.0 700 Of 4-per-cent bonds, and tho
entire amount subscribed for by New York
BANKERS
| 10 Over 200 violaters of the revenue laws in
Tennessee accept Government amnesty, and
are discharged. Steamsnip Great Rer ublic loet
on the Pacific coast; ten Of the crew drowned.
2o. Tho town Of Eureka, Nev, nearly de-
stroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned.
II. News from South Africa that the be-
sieged British 1t Ekowe have been relieved A.
tor desperate fighting, in which 1850 Zulua
were slain
| 2-a The American horse Parole wins two
more great races against the English horses at
EPSON.
| 3 Notre Dame University building ut South
Bend, Ind. ), burned. Seven miners sufYOcata(l