Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-08

OCTOBER.
q Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
about 100.
g. Balloon and two occupants blown against
telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, CAL
g. Fighting in front of Cabul, Afghanistan;
British loss toward 100
T. Train robbed of about $50, 600 by masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo.
TO- Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
road, at jackson, Mich. about twenty persons
killed
IL. -Four persons killed by a collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
W. Va.
IL Bodies OF Agent Meeker and the employees
OF the White River Indian Agency, Colorado,
killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merritts
command.
13 The English troops under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul, Afghanistan. :.
Is. News received of a Russian reverse in
Central Asia; rout of the expeditionary forces.
l6. Great floods in several provinces of
| Spain; about 300 lives and millions of property
| destroyed.
IL. Further depredations by Indians in New
Mexico; many settlers massacred
~. The Uintah Indians, III 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
| 80. Eleven Afghans, convicted Of completely
in the massacre at the English embassy in
| Csbul, executed.
80. Nearly 100 persons and a vast amount of
property destroyed by another great flood in
Spain
NOVEMBER.
| 2. e-third of the town of Mound City, H.,
| destroyed by fire.
| 4 Nineteen persons were killed and forty
| nve wounded by the sinking of @ railway en-
| bankment in British India, three of the killed
being Europeans.
8. By O. 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.
.. Six survivors Of the whaling schooner
Petrol were saved from the hulk, the other
fifteen having been washed Of and drowned in
the Atlantic.
10. The Chillan town Of Pisaque was bonn
barded and captured by the Peruvians, 800
persons being killed in the city, with loss to
the attaching party OF 500 Thirty-two citi-
zens of New Mexico killed in fight with Vic
|
Chihuahua, Mexico.
IL. Reception of Gen. Grant at Chicago; an
immense crowd present
13. Gov. Croswell appoints F. O. Beaman to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Zach Chandler, Of Michigan.
Is. The schooner Breed overturned by a
squat on Lake Erie, and the Captain and six
men drowned
IL. Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
turning from fair, attempting to cross a
river on the island Of usay in Scotland The
new French cable landed at Boston. Mr..
Beaman declined the appointment of Senator
from Michigan, and ex-Goy Henry P.
Baldwin, OF Detroit, was appointed.
IS. About forty Cinnamon were killed by an
explosion in g. new railroad tunnel in California
Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
Ontario
II 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.
~. Great storm along the lakes and sea-
board; many vessels beached The steamer
Pallas, from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, lost
with thirty lives.
"a. The Peruvians were defeated in a battle
with Chllians, near Iquique
%. Three prominent Irishmen arrested al
Sligo, for settitious speeches; great excitement
there in cons equence.
IS. New York Eighth avenue stables burned
stroyed; a fireman killed.
26. VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt sold 250.OOO shares
Of New York Central stock to syndicate fol
$25,O00,000.
q. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texan:
rnassacred by Indians about 100 miles from
20. Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General
and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in Bull
garia.
% 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
struction of the Toronto (Canada) Opera House
loss, $500 Cuban insurgents defeated, witt
loss of twenty-three killed.
DECEMBER.
2. An unsuccessful attempt to blow up tn
train on which the Uzar of Russia was travel
? ing, near Moscow.
6. A tidal wave swept over an island in tn,
Bay of Bengal, India, drowning several hun
t bred persons.
Z. Several shirt and collar factories st Troy
J N. Y, burned: loss, $450, 600
> 8. Three children burned to death at Belle
vue Hospital, New York. Five persons kiIIe,
by boiler explosion on a steam tug near Blaol
river, Lake Erie.
Dec. 9--News of the loss sof the Glouoeste
fishing feet.
Dec. 1O-Grant's visit to louisville.
Dec. 11-Prisoner shot dead in Stillwate
penitentiary by Deputy Warden Hall. Grant
I reception at Cincinnati. Terrible storm in th
northwest.
, Dec. 12-Village of Red Rack, Pa, destroye
by fire.
Dec. 13-Reception to Grant at Pittsburgh
Dec. 14-Suicide of Lieut.. Morrill,, Mint
+ cavalry, att Santa Fe.
Dec. I5-Decision of the Maine return in
/ board ousting Republican members elect c
the legislature.
Dec. 16-General Malone nominated fc
r United States Senator by the Virginia Leg
isIature
Dec. l7.--Chicago selected as location fC
; the Republican national convention.
Dec IS Meeting in ST. Paul, to expires
q sympathy with the Irish tenantry.
Dec 19.-Adjournment of Congress unit
|, January 9th, 1880.
sDec 20-Relief of the famine in Siiesia.
Dec. 2I-Success of Edison's electric Egt
assured.
3 Dec. 22-Burning of Best's brewery in Mi
waukee. Two negroes lynched in Russo
county, Alabama.
q Dec. 23-Tke steamship Borussia abandone
Q at sea and no lives lost.
Dec. 25-Repulse of the Ghilzais by tt
British troops in Afghauistan.
: Dec. 26-Great excitement throughout Main
over the electoral troubles and threats of vi,
lence. Railroad accident at Bardan, Ill. Thre
persons killed, many wounded.
Dec. 2S.-The Utes at Los Pinos reported o
the war path. Rout of the Afghans by tn
3 British at Cabul, with tremendous loss. Te
rible fire at Boston Loss $2,000,000. Raiiroa
train blown off bridge across the Firth c
3 Tay and $50 passengers drowned.
! NEUROLOGY.
JANUARY.
| l. Judge Charles F. Sherman, at Cleveland
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