Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-01-09

,truCI LILO DaTlou Caual DeSun At faIls ny d.
le Lesseps.
s. Six men killed BY the falling of partially
burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio Four
men killed by a. boiler explosion at Freedom,
"a.
g. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, Ga.
about a dozen killed.
10. Meeting OF the Minnesota Greenb back State
Convention.
II. Disastrous cont1agration at Point Breeze,
aear Philadelphia. Meeting Of the Iowa Re-,
publican Convention.
Il. News Of the outbreak Of a revolution in
Mexico, and Of successful revolution in Par
aguay. =, g,
l5 Nine emigrants drowned by food at
Buffalo gap, Dakota.
Is international S boat race in England won
by Hanlan, Of Canada
j., Is. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy.
21 D. P. Weston, OF New York, won tho
Ashley long distance championship belt in Lon-
don.
g. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania;
five men killed.
IS. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
tr ngsd near Faa f Bnilo N y eleven in
: 30: The Khedive of Egypt abdicates in favor
of his son Tewfk.
81. Engineer and three others killed by boiler
explosion in Philadelphia Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Neb., by explosion on board
30: The Havana steamship City Of New York
collided with and sunk the iron bark Helen; five
lives lost.
l. Extra session of Congress adjourned.
s: Terrible cyclone in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa; twenty persons killed and much
4: Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa. Seven excurAonists drowned by
overturning of q steamer on Lake Quinsiga-
mond, near Worcester, Mass
9. Explosion Of five tons of giant powder at
the Bodie (Cal mine; eleven persons killed.
u. Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Memphis, where the
yellow fever broke out
10 Eight people drowned by capsizing of
yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada.
81. Gen. Miles has fight with the Sioux in
Montana.
g. Five workmen killed by railroad acct
dent to construction train at Waukegan, III.
q. Great inundation in the oil regions Of
Western Pennsylvania; over $500, GOO worth Of
property destroyed.
81. Destructive confagration at Hamilton,
Ont three lives and 81 ,OO0, GOO worth Of prop
erty destroyed.
AUGUST.
s. Fourteen persons killed by explosion Of
powder magazine at Duralgo, Spain
4 Terrific storm extending over q large area
of England; immense damage inflicted to the
crops.
8. The steamship LOUIS David wrecked off
Ushant, France, and twenty seven lives loso.
8. One thousand houses burned at Serajevo,
the capital of Bosnia
IA. Count Andrassy retired from the Austrian
Ministry, and Count Taafe succeeded him. Ire
mont Temple, Boston, destroyed by fire; loss,
$25O.0O0.
Is. Fight between sections of the Ship Labor
ers' Union, at Quebec, Canada; six men killed
IS. Storm Of wind and rain throughout the
Eastern seaboard; much damage to shipping
and crops.
49,. Isaac s. Kalloch, candidate Of the San
street. by Charles De Young, editor Of the
Chronicle; great excitement III that city.
26. Castle Thunder, tho Richmond (Va.) mill
tary prison, burned.
30. Statue to Gen. Custer unveiled at West
Point. -
SEPTEMBER.
5. By the capsizing of sail-boat near Sack
etes Harbor, N. Y, seven persons were
drowned.
s. Maj. Cavagnari, English Resident at Ca
bull, Afghanistan, with his escort seventy nine
men in administered by Afghan troops.
"a. z. Fire at Quincy, Ill; loss, 100000. Ono
man and two children killed by the falling of
building at Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter
10. Seven soldiers mastered by Cheyenne
Indians in Southern New Mexico
15 State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
at Delavan, Wis, burned down; loss, $25O,OO0;
uninsured.
Is. News received of the capture of King
Cetywato, of the South African Zulus. Five
persons burned to death by tenement-houso
fire in South Boston. ID,
49, A fight took place in New Mexico be-
tween two companies of United States troops
and-aparty of Indians. Five soldiers killed.
, 90 Gen. Grant arrived in san Francisco from
his two years and four months tour of the
world.
o. Four men killed by tug boiler explosion
Just outside Chicago harbor.
g. Alliance formed between Germany and
Austria. u:
Is. The business portion. of Carroll, Iowa,
burned; loss, $500, 0OO
26. The mining town of Deadwood, Dakota,
almost wiped out by tho flames; loss about
$4,000, 600. Train blown up in Mexico by the
explosion of 400 kegs of gunpowder on board,
and ten passengers killed.
81. Rowell, the Englishman, won the fifth
contest at long distance pedestrianism, at New
20. Maj. Thornburgh and command we're
ambuscaded by the Ute Indians, near Milk
river, COL, and the Major and thirteen others
massacred. Ten bandits in tho Indian Terri
tory killed
so. Destructive storm, in Sicily and Southern
Italy; q railroad bridge with passenger train
eAf''oo away OCTOBER.
q Grand stand at Lenawee county fair,
Mich, fell, killing six persons and injuring
s. Balloon and two occupants blown against
telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
6. Fighting in front Of Cabul, Afghanistan;
British loss toward 100
z. Train robbed OF about $50, 600 by masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo.
soad, at Jackson, Mich; about twenty persons
H.: Four persons killed by 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. Merrites
Is. The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabu1, Afghanistan.,
Is. News received Of Russian reverse in
Central Asia; rout Of the expeditionary forces.
> IL. Great floods in several provinces of
Spain; about 300 lives and millions of property
destroyed ~
II. Further depredations by Indians in Now
Mexico; many settlers massacred.
; q. Tho Uintah Indians, in Utah, go on the
war path, and murder a number OF settlers. =
"a. 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.
from the Ute Indians, in Colorado, with sew
eraA other esptivee. 81
20. Eleven Aghans, convicted of completely
in the massacre at the English embassy in
Cabul. executed.
80. Nearly 100 persons and q vast amount of
Spain. ~
! LIZ ra;.. j NOVEMBER.
2 One: third Of the town Of Mound City, ILL.,,
: 4. Nineteen persons were killed and forty
i've wounded by the sinking Of railway en-
bankment in British India, three Of the killed
being Europeans. .,-''
8. By q collision between the steamship
Champion, Of the New York and Charleston
line, with the ship Lady Octavia, of the Della
waro.cspes; thiirty=two of the passengers and
crew Of the steamer were drowned. One span
Of the North Missouri railroad bridge over the
Missouri, ct st. Charles, No., fell, dropping q
train Of seventeen stock-cars into the river;
four cattle men we're killed. .s,.asgsi
Petrol were saved from the hulk, the other
fifteen having been washed OF and drowned in
the: Atlantic. 49,. .,.:.. :, -..,.,
10 The Chilian town Of Pisaque was bonn
barded and captured by the Peruvians, 800
persons being killed in the city, with 4 loss to
the attacking party Of 500 Thirty-two citi-
gems Of New Mexico killed in fight with Vic
toris's band Of Apache Indians, in the State Of
Chihuahua, Mexico
II. Reception Of Gen, Grant. 1t Chicago; an
immense crowd present
1a Gov. Croswell appoints F.. O. Beaman to
GIL the vacancy caused by the death Of Senator
Zach Chandler OF Michigan ~ "s'