The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-01-07

T. Fire 1t Quincy, NJ loss, 100000 One
man and two children killed BY the falling Of
building at Cheyenne Wyoming Ter
+ 10. Seven soldiers massacred BY Cheyenne
Indians in Southern New Mexico.
IS State Institute TO- the Deaf and Dumb,
~ ialavan, Wis, burned down; loss, $3.50, GOO;
uninsured. b .l lssi
Is. News received Of the capture Of King
Cetywavo. of the South African Zulus. Five
persons burned to death by tenement-house
fire in South Boston.
tween two companies of United States troops
and a 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.
90 Alliance formed between Germany and
| Austria
Is The so business ines o portion Of Carroll Iowa.
almost wiped out by the flames; loss about
! 81. 600, 600. Train blown up in Mexico by the
| explosion of 400 kegs Of gunpowder on board,
and ten passengers killed ...
| 27, Rowell the Englishman, won the nth
| contest at long distance pedestrlanlsm, At New
York.
20. Mai. Thornburgh and command were
ambuscaded by the Ute Indians, near MILK
river COL. and the Major and thirteen others other;
massacred. Ten bandits IN inc molsn ierrl-
tory killed.
30. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern
Italy; railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away. .
2. Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons ana nJurlng
about 100
5. Balloon and two occupants blown against
; telegraph w1res and the aerOnauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
6. Fighting in front of Cabul, Afghanlstan;
British loss toward 100. "
Z Train robbed of about $50, 600 by masked
: robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo- :,
10. Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
t road, at Jackson, Mich; about twenty persons
) killed. ,
II. Four persons killed 10y collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
, W. Va.
H. Bodies OF Agent Meeker and the employees
of the White River Indian Agency, COLORADO;
killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merrltts
| command.
a 13. The English troops, under Gen. Roberts
entered Cabul, Afghanistan.
!. Is News received of Russian reverse IL
i Central Asia; rout of the expeditionary forces
= 16. Great floods in several provinces O
Spain; about 300 lives and millions Of propert.
is DESTROYED. .."- t.
s H. Further depredations by Indians in Nov
| Mexico: many settlers maSeaCrcQ.
g. The Uintah Indians, in Utah, 60 on tn
war path, and murder a number of settlers.
y o. Heavy storm in the island Of Jamaica
doing immense damage to property.
p %. Gen. Adams succeeds in regainlng tn
, wife and daughter OF Indian Agent Meeke
l. eral other captives. 49,.
% 49, Eleven Afghans, convicted of complicit
lg in the massacre at the English embassy
If Cabul. executed. .. .& H. .-2
80. Nearly 100 persons and vast amount {
:. Spain s
r. 2. One third of the town of Mound City, III
- destroyed by fire. s#
. 4, Nineteen persons were killed and fort
he 1ve wounded by the sinking OF railway en-
~ bankment in British India, three of the kille
ba being Europeans.
n' 8. BY collision between the steamsh
"a Champion, of the New York and Charleste
liz line with the ship Lady Octavia, off the Del
ware cages thirty two Of the passengers ger "a. al
IA of the North Missouri railroad bridge over Il
Missouri, at st. Charles, Mo-, fell, dropping
train Of seventeen stook-cars into the rive
four cattle men we're killed. ~
,ro q. Six survivors of the whaling schoon
~ Petrol were saved from the hulk, the 9th
to fifteen having been washed off and drowned
hjo the Atlantic ~,
To- TO- The CHILEAN town of Pisaque was boz
On barded and captured by the Peruvians, 8
the STACKING party party Of 5o fhirtytwo e Ct
ly- zsns of New Mexico killed in fight with Vi
our toria's band of Apache Indians, in the State
I'm. Chihuahua, Mexico.
IL. Reception OF Gen. Grant at Chicago;
a. immense crowd present
10 Gov. Croswen appoints F. G: Beaman
tate fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sena
Zach Chandler, Of Michigan
wa Is The schooner Breed overturned by
~ 49, Ho>% md
men drowned .Err
! in II: Thirteen persons were drowned while
ar turning from fair, attempting to cross
river on the island Of nsay, in Scotland I
at new French cable landed at Boston.
Beaman declined tho appointment Of Sena
won from Michigan, and ex-Gov. Henry
Baldwin, of Detroit, was appointed.
49, About forty Cinnamon were killed by
the explosion IN anew railroad tunnel in Califorl
'on- Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on l.
Ontario III
ington. The Confederate cruiser Shenand,
,ore sunk in the Indian ocean; the vessel belon,
in to the Sultan of Zanzibar. r.sss. -., ...
20. Great storm along the lakes and g
vor board; many vessels beached. The steal
,iler with thirty lives. .o
lied a. The Peruvians were defeated in ba
bard with Chilians, near 1quique: -,
%. Three prominent Irishmen arrested
LOfk OlSO, luz Scult1uuS spooCucSS SIcdt oAC1tcu
Eve there in consequence. ~
Is. New York Eighth avenue stables burn
100 horses and $3.50 900 worth of property
stroyed; fireman killed.
rs. VIM. H. Vanderbilt sold $50, 600 shs
nsin of New York Central stock to syndicate
luch $25.0OO,OOO .. .......
~. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Tex
S in massacred BY Indians about 100 miles f
d by Ell Paso.
siga- % Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish Gene
and escort of seventy men, slaughtered in
er at garia.
d. 49, By the fall OF building in which tive
all seven persons were dancing, at Naples, I,
the twenty were crushed to death. King Alto
of Spain. married at Madrid to Marie Christ
of p of Austria.
50. Three persons burned to death at the
Tx IN strucion of the Toronto (Canada) Opera Ho
loss, $50. 600. Cuban insurgents defeated,
acct acct g loss of twenty three killed.
Is of DECEmbEh.
tn OF g. An unsuccessful attempt to blow ul
train on which the Gar of Russia was trs
ilton, ing, near Moscow.
prop 6. A tidal wave swept over an island in
Bay of Bengal, India, drowning several
dred DorsOns