The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
A YEARS HAPPENINGS.
Chronology and Neurology Of 1880.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.
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IL. The island of st. kits, West Indies, de-
vastated by foods; 200 lives are lost.
is. Terrible Eind-storm in Oregon causes
loss Of life and propelty.
10. L terrible eonfagration occurs at Toxic,
Japan. burning fifteen acres and destroying the
ives of over 100 people.
q. Coliery explosion near New Castle, En-
gland seventy miners killed.
o. Bill for the gradual abolition Of slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
g. a food in the Causa valley, New Grenada,
DESTROYS $1,000, geo worth of property and q
number Of lives.
25. Tie steamboat Chsrmer burns near the
mouth of Red river, In Louisiana eight lives
lost.
2s. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion in
Saxony.
81. News is received of horrible massacres in
Afghanistan-
FEBRUARY.
/. Steamer Bengore, from Penrath to Glib
raltar, founders, and thirteen of her crew
drowned
2. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine ISL
ands.
S. Ten Cinnamon cremated in a wash-house
Ere in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
death in cabin near Columbia, s. G. The
S1,000,000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
burned.
o. 1MU sluluTGQ bOlQlSTb Dy
the fab Of barrack at Constantinople,
9. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
lives lost
10. Burning of the City Hall at Albany, N. T.;
loss, 81 10000.
Is. A family of nine persons drowned by tho
food near Mayfeld, Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill the impe-
rial family of Russia by explosion of a mine at
the Winter Palace fails; ten soldiers are
killed.
19. Eight men killed by the explosion Of the
boiler OF Peoria (Il) d stlllery.
20. Tigenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso South America) ar
senal.
%. Bsgk StrathnairD, from London for Mel
bourne, sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned
80. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders slxty-6ye lives being lost.
MARCHs
1. The st. Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
5. Twsnty-three persons killed by boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland.
g. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatomie
burns.
Z. Grost fire in st. Paul, MINI.
s. Tweay-four soldiers killed by the blowing
up Of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill.
8. Thirty villages swept away by flood from
the. river Vlstula on the Austro-R Russian
frontier.
10. By a fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Russia. twenty-four persons are
burned 10 death.
IL, Beer explosion In the haxseed-mills at
Eegnkf / I'd. BY which ten employees we're
to4f. to plssces.
+ "a. Parliament prorogued by the Queen. and
new elections ordered.
APRIL.
l. By fire-damp explosion in coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are Filled.
2. Nine murderers are hung at various places
IN the United States.
8. Triumph Of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed in Afghanistan, and his army scattered.
4. Thirty-0ne dwellings burned at a village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perlshing.
8. The Peruvians defeat the Chilians, with a
loss of 1890 killed.
8. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, as a sacrifice
to restore the Kings health.
IL. By the explosion of a still in a creosote
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
Il A schooner, with all hands, goes down
IN Long Island sound, during severe gale.
IL Thirty men torn to pieces by the eXplo-
sion Of giant powder, near San Francisco.
IL. Marshfeld, Mo-, almost wiped out by a
cyclone; about 100 lives and $500, 200 worth of
property destroyed.
49, Seven men drowned off the north shore
of Michigan by the swapping of their sailboat.
Il. The walls of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
and wounding several.
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation of
the Deaconsfeld Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned off the Scotch coast. 81.
Is. Gladstone is asked to form a Cabinet. A
Gfe-saylnS crew of seven men, of the coast of
Michigan, lose their lives. A son of Mayor Kali
loch, of San Francisco, kills Charles De Young,
stlitor Of the Chronicle.
Is. Cyclone at Macon, Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
tian county, Ill.
l. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
killing a number Of workmen.
l. A feet of fishing boats driven upon the
coast of Oregon, and twenty-five of the fisher
men are dro Ened.
s. Fourteen persons killed at fire in Lon
don, England.
10. by an explosion of powder in the st.
Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work.
men are killed.
IA. Milton, Pa. is wiped out by the flames
loss, So, 000,010
Is. An explosion in London England) iron
foundry kills twenty-five persons.
IS. United States Senator Gordon, of Geor-
gia. resigns. and ex-Goy. Brown is appointed.
Is. Col Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico. and kills fifty-hve Of them.
%. Twenty persons persisted IN the floods
caused by an excessive rain IN Texas.
30. The town of Savoy, Texas, is wiped out
by cyclone; about fifteen persons killed.
81. A fight with the indians occurs IN New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
silled,
JUNE.
g. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
The Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot, at
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy-
done in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
II. J. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
T. Collision on Long Island sound between
the Narragansett and Stonington in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengers.
1}. The boiler OF the Spanish war ship Cuba
Espanoa explodes, killing twenty persons and
sounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
0y the pTohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
Is. Sixty-three persons lose their lives IN a
terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden,
Germany.
"a. Gen ". s. Hancock nominated by the
il,'Ttn'faTS LOT freS1Q6Db. at tjllGlnDaII
o. Fifty passengers lost by the burning Of
The long Island sound steamer, Seawanahaka,
near New York city.
1. -Four persons are killed by the explosion OF
the Lci'er of the pleasure boat Mary, on Lake
Minnetonka
E. Seven persons drown by the overturning of
Yacht on White Bear lake. in Minnesota.
L. q raft with forty persons upon it breaks
to pieces in the Black sea. near Odessa. and all
are drowned.
Is. By an explosion in coal mine at Risca.
in Wales, 1l9 miners all IN the shaft-are
Lilled
Is Cleoprtra's needle presented to the city
Of New York by the late Khedive of Egypt, ar
riFes at that city.
q. Tha Jersey City tunnel, in process of con
struciion, caves IN. burying twenty-one work
men.
%. Eighteen persons lose their lives through
The explosion of powder in the artillery works
in Kooisa. Southern Russia.
- All excursion steamer runs over yacht
in the Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
drowned.
AUGUST.
/. The Gillian transport Loa blown up 10y :
torpedo in callao bay, and $50 of her crew
killed,