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

~. Inc United States Senate passos tba Iag
isl.tive Appropriation bill, with the Demo.
n. Meeting Of the Iowa Democratic Tan.
yention. Hermann Peer makes his great La =
from Niagars suspension bridge. 4 ashins
schooner and crew OF twelve persons lost of,
Gloucester. hass W
Y. Disastrous are al Clinton, Iowa
23. Tho National House Of Representa- ivoa
passes the Legislative Appropriation Bin
~. six persons drowned Ia Calcasen ,,vor
La by the capsizing OF . small steamer.
20 An International Congress, Al Paris IA
cidos upon plan for . ship canal scro.s ths
lsthmus Of Darien, and Adjourns. Turning m
Tho Washington House, Hsgerstown, Md. TSs
President vetoes tho Legislative Appropriation
80. Treaty Of peace ratified between Indi.
and AfghAnistan.
81. Terribly destructive tornado In Missouri.
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed.
JUNE:
.. Resignation OF United States Circuit Judge
Dillon, to take effect sept ].
4 SocrotAry of War McCrary nominated 20
succeed Judge Dillon. Mooting Of tho Ohio
Democratic and Groonback Conventions at Co.
lumbus. Tho formation Of q company 10 con-
strnot tho Darion canal begun at Paris by NJ
do Lessops,
B. siI men killed by tho falling Of partially
burned building Of Cincinnati, Ohio Four
mon killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
Ia.
o. Riot botween negroes at Mcintosh, Ga |;
about dozen killed
TO- Meeting Of tho Minnesota Grccnback State
Convention.
II. Disastrous confagraton at Point Breeze,
near Philadelphia Meeting OF the Iowa Re-
publican Convention.
IL, News OF tho outbreak Of Q revolution In
Mexico, and OF successful revolution In Par
aguay.
, 10 Nine emigrants drowned by . food as
Buffalo gap, Dakota
10 International boat race in England won
by Hanlan, Of Canada
Is. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy.
-. r. l.. Weston, OF New York, won the
don.
q. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania;
-. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
track near Buffalo, N. Y; eleven persons In
Jured, two fatally.
N The Khcdiyeo Of Egypt abdieates in favor
"a. Engineer and three others killed by boiler
explosion In Philadelphia Four persons killed
Al Nebraska City, Mob, by explosion ON board
. Government steamboat
~. The Havana steamship City OF New York
collidod with and sunk tho iron bark Helen; Ave
lives lost
l. Extra session Of Congress adjourned.
Terrible cyclone In Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa; twenty persons killed ana much
property destroyed
T. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus In
south Africa. Seven oxcursionists drowned by
overtnrntng OF steamer ON Lake Quinsiga-
mond, near Worcester. Masa
O. Explosion OF Ave tons OF giant powder Of
tho Bodie Gal mine; eleven persons killed.
Ii. Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Memphis, whore the
yellow fever broke ont
IL Eigh. people drowned By oapsizins of .
2l. Gen. Miles has fight with tho Sioux In
Montana
III Five workmen killed ty railroad acci-
dent TO construction train AZ Waukegan, Ill.
"a. Great inundation In the oil regions OF
Western Pennsylvania; over s50O, 600 worth OF
property destroyed.
81. Destructive confagration at Hamilton,
Ont three lives and 81 ,OiO, OoO worth Of prop
srty destroyed
4 Fourteen persons killed by explosion Of
powder magazine NJ Duralgo, Spain.
4 Terrific storm extending over largo area
OF England; immense damage inflicted 10 the
crops.
g Tho steamship LOUIS David wrecked OF
Ushant France. and twenty. seven lives lost
d One thousand houses burned 1t Serajevo.
the capital Of Bosnia
L. Count Andrassy retired from the Austrian
Ministry, and Count 1aafe succeeded him. Ire
mont Temple, Boston, destroyed by fire; lose,
ID Fight between sections of the Shin Labor
ers Union. at Quebec, Canada; sil men killed.
Is storm OF wind and rain throughout the
Eastern seaboard; much damage to shipping
and crops.
n Isaac & Kalloch, candidate of the San
Francisco workingmen for Mayor, shot In the
street by Charles Dc Young, editor Of the
ChroniciC, great excitement in that city,
III Castle Thunder, the Richmond VA mill
tary prison, burned.
80. Statue to Cen Custer unveiled at West
Point
SEPTEMBER.
q BY tho capsixing of sail-boat near Sack
drowned
d Maj. Cavagnari, English Resident, at Ca
bul, Afghanistan, with his escort-seventy nine
men In all-massacred by Afghan troops.
q Fire at Quincy, Ill. loss, sl0O,ooo One
man and two children killed by tho falling OF q
10. Seven soldiers mAssacred by CHEYENNE.
Indians in Southern New Mexico.
IL. state Institute for the Deaf and q.
At Delavan, Wis, burned down; loss ESQ ooS:
IL News received def q Capture of King
persons burned to deaf by 4 tenement-b ons s
IN. w nigh, to9k place in New Mexico be-
ana n"r,v ~ snies OF United States troops
Al. ~ RS u Indians. Five soldiers killed
Ia. a." Grant arrived In San Francisco from
Na-sS years and four months tour Of the
q. Four men killed by tug. boiler explosion
just outside Chicago harbor.
u Alliance formed between Germany and
Austria
- The business portion Of Carroll, Iowa,
burned; loss, SaOONn.
26. The mining town OF Deadwood, Dakota,
almost wiped out by the flames; loss about
ea,0o0oo0 Train blown mp in Mexico by the
explosion OF l0 Kegs OF ,gunpowder on board,
"a. Rowell, the Englishman, won the fifth
York.
~ Maj. Thornburgh and command were
ambuscaded by the Ute Indians, near Milk
river, Col. and the Major and thirteen others
mAssacred. Ten bandits in the Indian Terri
tory killed
10. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern
Italy; . railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away.
.. Grand stand at Lenawee county fair.
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
about 100
8 Balloon and two occupants blown agains,
telegraph wires and the Aeronauts thrown out
and killed, At San Francisco, Cal
@ Fighting in front OF Cabul, AfghAnistan;
Brihsh loss toward 100
.. Train robbed Of about 50, 600 by marked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, No.
10 Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
road. at Jackson, Mich; about twenty persons
II. Four persons killed by a collision on the
Baltimore aud 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 Merritfs
IL The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul. Afghanistan-
Ia Nows received OF Russian reverse In
Central Asia; rout Of the expeditionary foroes
Ia Great floods IN several provinces OF
Spain; about 800 lives and millions Of property
DESTROYED
Mexico; many settlers massacred
~ The Uintah Indians, i'm Utah, go on the
war path, and murder . number Of settlers
~ Heavy storm In the Island OF Jamaica,
doing immense damage to property.
"a Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
wife and daughter OF Indian Agent Meeker
rom tho Ute Indians, In Colorado, with sew
eral other captives.
~ Eleven Afghans, convicted OF completely
IN the massacre at the English embassy In
Cabul, executed.
30 Nearly 100 persons and vast amount OF
property destroyed by another great food in
Spain
NOVEMBER.
destroyed by fire..
Nineteen persons were killed and FORTY