The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-09
CHRONOLOGY.


Gone from the earth forever.
dEoHaE D. Prentice.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.
I. Destructive storms along tho British,
French and Norwegian coasts. Disastrous
Hoods In Great Britain. Resumption Of specie
payments by tho United States Government.
- Intensely cold weather throughout the
East aud West, causing . total suspension Of
business
4. Cork, Ireland, refuses to "rscoive" OK
Presttent Grant Chicago Postoiiico burned
D Unprecedented cold weather In tho South
ern States Senatorial elections In Franco ro-
suit In great victory for tho Republicans.
2. Reassembling OF Congress.
ans by tho military at Fort Robinson, Neb.
III. Colliory disaster In Wales; sixty miners
Killed. Reno Court Of Inquiry convenes a.
Chicago.
II. Railway train precipitated into tho river
Arda, In Turkey; over 2O Russian soldiers
orc. 10 o Bg hrO In Grand street. Now York.
y l.! Another great FIRE In New York; loss.
Is. Decree In Franco pardoning ZOO Com
munists.
30. steamer obcron lost on tho coast of En-
gland.
"a. Five mon killed At bradford, Pa, by tho
explosion Of locomotive boiler. A maniac at
M3rtyille, Nc, Kills three people, and Is him
self shot dead.
20. seven colored people killci by q tornado
at luka. Miss. Two men hanged at lndianap-
oils.
30. Resignation by Marshal Mac Mahon OF tho
Presidency OF France, and election OF N.
drevy. Five porsons killed by boiler e1plo-
sion IN Woodford county, Ill
81. Alms-house At Louisville, Ky, burned;
several inmates killed and burned 70 death.
M. GambottA elected President OF tho French
Chamber Of Deputies. John ]. Ingalls, elected
senator from Kansas, and d. \. Jonas from
Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
4. Alarm In Europe over tho spread OF the
plague, and preparations TO stay Its progress.
D. The U: \. Senate adopted senator Ed
munds resolutions affirming tho validity OF tho
later constitutional amondmenta.
y. Gov. Tilden testified as u witness before
committee OF Congress at New York, denying
any knowledge OF the famous cipher tele-
grams. The Reno Court OF Inquiry concludes
the taking OF testimony at Chicago.
y DeGnitivo treaty Of peace between Russia
and Turkey signod.
10. British troops defeated by natives In
South Africa Senator Christisncy, Of Mich
igan, resigns.
IL six railroad laborers killed by IN earth
slide at Kansas City, No.
IL O'Kelly, the last Of tho imprisoned Fo-
mans, released by ths British authorities
Is. The lower house NJ Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
10. A family OF three persons burned 70
death at Somerville, Ne.
IL. Turkey effects SO. OO0, 900 loan
Ia Russians begin tho evacuation Of Turkey
Several persons killed bya railway accident
near Salma Ala
-. A boiler explosion at Stockton, Gal, kills
sixteen people and mains twenty six othcrs
~. bark wrecked at Corunna. Spain, and
thirty Ave lives lost.
"a. An avalanche at Marburg, Austria, kills
twenty people.
20. A man named Lunsford and ak OF his
children burned 10 death ut Carbon Hill. Ohio
MARCH.
l., News Of tho death Of shere Ali. Ameer Of
AfghAnistan.
q The town OF Rono, Neb, DESTROYED by Ere:
i've people burned 10 death.
l. Adjournment OF Congress.
D. Nineteen persons killed by coal-mino ex-
plosion In England.
o. A family OF five people burned 10 death
In their house at East 81 Louis, III.
10. News Of tho loss OF fifty Gloucester
Mass hahing boats, and tho drowning of 100
L. A food In tho River Thesis, In Hungary,
overwhelms the city Of szegedin; immense de.
struction OF life and property.
II. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
In pond nj Matte, OF Archbishop Purcell
Is A pilot boat sunk In tho English Chan
mel, and her crow OF eight persons drowned.
End OF tho six days pedestrian match for the
worlds championship, at New York; Rowsll,
OF England, tho victor.
IL. Congress meets In special session.
10 Many people killed by . series OF ava
lanches In tho Austrian Tyrol Tho Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by Q collision in the
West Indies; sixty people drowned.
~. u. z. Porter well-known actor, muir
dered at Marshall. Texas.
lost In the Mediterranean, and forty seven Of
her crew drowned.
q. Discovery Of slOo, 900 dsfalcstion by n
= Pratt, savings bank treasurer, ct Reading,
g, Is FGHr people k burned to death in ~hsfft
81. Judge ]. NJ. Elliott, Of tba.'K.,,,,..,
Court Of Appeals. murdered - Franz sop a'J Nv
BY Col Buford Sey.s Of |. dreadful famine elm In
SIPPrp,. - Violent earthquake In Persia,
WITCH many people are killed.
"a. Judge Edwards, . leading lawyer Of Al
bany, n. T., commits suicide.
- Five persons burned 10 death in hotel
~ SiIomoh! ~ ~. Inc European powers
agreo upon the joint occupation OF RoumeliA.
10. Two thousand Afghans defeated by .
forco Of British troops
81. Five seamen drowned by the upsetting Of
. boat at PASSPORT. No.
APKiL-
I. A body Of French troops ovcrtaken BY q
snow. storm In Algeria, and many frozen 20
death. Fifty British cavalrymen drowned
while trying to cross . river in Afghanistan.
2. Five persons drowned by the oapsixing Of
boat at Nowbern, N. q.
8. Tho British In India defeat 900 Of the
4 Tho city OF Miragoanc, in Hayti, destroyed
BY hre
o News OF tho massacre Of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, In south Africa
Disastrous hros In St Louis and Phila-
delphia-
10. Horrible massacre OF Nhilist prisoners
by Russian soldiers, at Kien, in Russia.
H. Attempted assassination Of tho Car OF
Is News OF horrible raysgcs Of pcstilence
and famine In Morocco. Destructive tornado
t Collinsvillc. III.
10 Tornadoes In Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people
II. The American horse Parole wins the Now
market handicap In England.
Is Russia inAugurates extraordinary re-
pressivo measures against the Nihilists Mr..
Thurman elected President pro TEN. OF tho
United States senate Secretary sherman Of
fcrs ei5O, OOO, 900 Of 4-pei cent bonds, ana tho
entire amount subscribed for by New York
bankers.
~ Over 100 violaters OF tho revenue laws In
Tennessee accept Government amnesty, and
are discharged Steamship Great ReT ublio lost
on the Pacific coast; ton Of tho crew drowned
~ Tho town of Eureka, New, nearly de-
stroycd by fra Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned.
n. News from South Africa that the be-
sioged British at Ekowe have been relieved AZ
tor desperate fighting. In which $500 Zulus
wore slain.
2a+a Tho American horse Parole wins two
moro great races against the English horses at
EPSON.
~ Notre Dame University building at South
Bend, Ind burned. Seven miners suffocated
In q mine near scranton, Pa Attempted as
fascination Of Edwin Booth on tho stage Of
Mcvicker's Theater, Chicago.
political riders, passes the United States Senate
gone through the House.
%. Il d. Richards, the author OF nine muir
ders, executed at Mindon. Neb. Immense rains
and disastrous floods In Texas. The Stevens
murder trial ended at Chicago, aftcr eighteen
days, with verdict Of fourteen years. impris-
onment for tho accused
opened.
~ Intelligence Of destructive earthquakes
In Persia
90 President Hayes vo,oos the Army Appro-
30 Great hro ct orenbury, Russia