The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-01-07
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49, Over 700 violaters of the revenue laws in
Tennessee accept Government amnesty, and
are discharged. Steamship Grt al Rer uhlic lost
on tho Pacific coast; ten Of thu crew drowned
%. The town Of Eureka, New, nearly de-
stroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned. Ea
81. News from South Africa that the be-
sieged British at Ekowe have been relieved at
ter desperate fighting, in which 2,5oO zulus
were slain.
1913 The American horse Parole wins two |
more great races against the English horses at |
% Notre Dame University building at South |
Bend, Ind, burned. Seven miners suffocated |
in mine near Scranton, Pa Attempted as
sasslnatfon Of Edwin Booth on the stage OF
McVickers Theater, Chicago.
25. The Army Appropriation bill, with the
political riders passes the United States Senate
after a protraeted debate, having previously
gone through the House. .......- ...-l .g.ls
&C. S. D. Richards, the author of nine muir
ders, executed at Minden, Neb. Immense rains
and disastrous floods in Texas. The Stevens
murder trial ended at Chicago, after eighteen
days, with verdict of fourteen years. imprls-
onment for the accused. -,
81. Navigation on the great Northern lakes
opened
%. Intelligence of destructive earthquakes
20. President Hayes vetoes the Army Appro-
priation bill.
g. Great ire at OrenDurg, husslA
/. Intelligence that the King Of the Zulushas
2. F. B. Weber, q Chicago merchant, MUIR
dered by Mrs. Robert. A family OF six per-
sons drowned near Houston an Te1a dven fanatic
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass.
| s. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500, 900 worth
of property. Congress passes the Army bill.
with the vetoed section relating to the use OF
troops at elections materially modified
g.. A convention of Southern planters at
| Vicksburg, Miss, to take steps to check the
immigration Of colored people
8 The Ameer of Afghanistan makes over
lures to the British for peace. The American
horse Parole wins a fourth great race at Ches-
10. Destructive frs in st. Louis and Chi
il. President Hayes second time vetoes the
bill forbidd;ng the use of troops at the polls.
H. Disastrous fires at Orenhurg, Russia.
and Poonah, India. Destructive floods in Hun
is. An international congress meets at Paris
to devise plans for an interoceanic canal across
the Isthnlus of Darien.
10. Three persons drowned in New York har-
) Dor by the capsizing of yacht
Dc
India and Afghanistan
20. The United States Senate passes the Leg
; islative Appropriation bill, with the Demo
cratic political amendments.
! g. Meeting of the Iowa Democratic Con
! vention. Hermann Peer makes his great leaf
4 from Niagara suspension bridge A fishing
schooner and crew of twelve persons lost OF
Gloucester, Mass.
g. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa. .. .
D g. The National House of Representative
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill.
- "a. Six persons drowned In Calcaslen river
La, by the capsizing Of a small steamer.
49, An International Congress, at Paris, de
cides upon plan for ship canal across til
9 Isthmus Of Darien, and adjourns. Burning {
y the Washington House, Hagerstown, Nd TT
70 President vetoes the Legislative Appropriate
: bill
"a 30. Treaty of peace ratified between 1ndi
and Afghanistan
in 81 Terribly destructive tornado in Nilsson.
l. Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed ar
!, much property destroyed
B. 2. Resignation Of United States Circuit JUDI
Dillon, to take effect Sept. l.
10 8 Secretary of War McCrary nominated
~ succeed Judge Dillon: Meeting OF the On
10 Democratic and Greenback Conventions at
lumbus The formation of company to co
struct the Darien canal begun at Paris by
J: de Lesseps.
mt s. Six men killed by the falling OF a PARTIAL
IT,. burned building at Cincinnati, OHIO; Fo
10 men killed by a boiler explosion at freedo'
nd 8. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, G:
~ about dozen killed.
lls TO- Meeting of the Minnesota Greenback ST.
:. Convention.
II; ils H. Disastrous conhagration at Point Bree:
''' near Philadelphia Meeting of th~aoWa
publican Convention
IA. News of the outbreak of revolution
OF Mexico, and Of successful revolution Ia Pa
aguay.
re-; Is. Nine emigrants drowned by food
Buffalo gap, Dakota.
49, International boat race in England "
OK by H,nlan, of Canada
49, Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy.
ath IL e. P Weston, OF New York, won
Ashley long distance championship belt in L.
ter don.
LOU 23 Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvan
- five men killed.
ry, 25 Funeral car thrown from the Lake Sh
oe- track near Buffalo, N. Y; eleven persons
49,, jured, two fatally.
aea &C. The Khedive of Egypt abdcates in IA,
cen of his son Tewfk
MS q. Engineer and three others killed by bo
explosion in Philadelphia. Four persons XII
an an at Nebraska City, Neb, by explosion on bo
"a. q Government steamboat
inc 30. The Havana steamship City of New
eh' collided with and sunk the iron bark Helen;
lives lost.
va SOAA'
ian l. Extra session of Congress adjourned.
the 3. Terrible cyclone in Minnesota, Wiscol
and Iowa: twenty persons killed and m
ur- property destroyed.
/. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus
snte South Afrios. Seven excursionsts drowned
of overturning of a steamer on Lake Quins
mond. near Worcester, Mass.
N ). Explosion of five tons Of giant powde
ing, the Bodie (Cal) mine: eleven persons killed
IS. Quarantine established at nearly
arr Southern cities against Memphis, where
yellow fever broke out
cky IS. Eight people drowned by capsizing {
KY, yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada.
% in 81. Gen. Miles has fight with the Siou
csia, Montana.
26. Five workrnen killed by q railroad 9
Al dent to construction train at Waukesan. l
%. Great inundation in the oil region
'otel Western Pennsylvania; over $500,OOO wort
Ters property DESTROYED
ella 81 Destructive confagraton at Hami]
y Ont. three lives and 81, COG, 0C0 worth of p
erty destroyed. E.--
g Of ar7c11sT
5. Fourteen persons killed by explosio
powder magazine at Duralgo Spain.
,,,- 4. Terrific storm extending over large
to of England; immense damage inflicted to
vned crops.