Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07

i. Intelligence that the King CT the Zulus has
sued for peace.
dered by Mrs. Robert. A family of six per-
sons drowned near Houston, Texas.
8. @. L. Freeman, q Second Advent fanatic
murders his child at Pocasset, Mass.
5. Dynamite explosion at Stratford, Canada,
kills several people and destroys $500, 900 worth
with the vetoed section relating to the use Of
troops at elections materially modified
Ga. 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 fourth great race at Ohes-
ter England.
10. Destructive fires in St Louis and Chi
cago.
IL. President Hayes second time vetoes the
bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls.
Il. Disastrous fires at Orenburg, Russia,
and Poonah, India. Destructive floods in Hun
gary. Three children burned to death at Tor
onto, Canada.
Is An international congress meets at Paris
to devise plans for an interoceanic canal across
the Isthmus of Darien.
is. Three persons drowned In New York har-
Dor by the capsizing of yacht
19. News of the conclusion of peace between
India and Afghanistan.
20. The United States Senate passes the Leg
islatve Appropriation bill, with the Demo-
cratic political amendments.
81. Meeting Of the Iowa Democratic Con-
vention. Hermann Peer makes his great leap
from Niagara suspension bridge A fishing
schooner and crew Of twelve persons lost of
Gloucester. Mass.
%. Disastrous fire at Clinton, Iowa.
%. The National House of Representatives
passes the Legislative Appropriation bill.
"a. Six persons drowned in Calcasien river,
La, by the capsizing of small steamer
%. An international Congress, at Paris, de-
cides upon plan for ship canal across the
Isthmus of Darien, and adjourns. burning of
the Washington House, Hagerstown, Md The
President vetoes the Legislative Appropriation
bill
80 Treaty of peace ratified between India
and Afghanistan.
81. Terribly destructive tornado in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska; many people killed and
much property destroyed
JUNE:
g. Resignation Of United States Circuit Judge
Dillon to take effect Sept. /.
g. Secretary of War McCrary nominated to
succeed Judge Dillon. Meeting of the Ohio
Democratic and Greenback Conventions at Co
lumbus. The formation of company to con-
struct the Darien canal begun at Paris by III.
de Lesseps.
s. Six men killed by the falling of partially
burned building at Cincinnati, Ohio. Four
men killed by boiler explosion at Freedom,
Pa.
g. Riot between negroes at Mcintosh, Ga |;
about dozen killed
TO- Meeting of the Minnesota Greenback State
Convention.
IL. Disastrous confagration at Point Breeze,
near Philadelphia Meeting Of the Iowa Re-
publican Convention
Il News Of the outbreak Of revolution in
Mexico, and of a successful revolution in Par
aguay.
15- Nine emigrants drowned by food at
Buffalo gap, Dakota.
16. International boat race In England won
by Hanlan, of Canada.
Is. Destructive earthquake at Aci, Italy.
81. e. p Weston, Of New York, won the
Ashley long distance championship belt in Lon
don.
%. Mine explosion in Eastern Pennsylvania;
five men killed.
Is. Funeral car thrown from the Lake Shore
track near Buffalo, N. Y; eleven persons in
20. The Khedive of Egypt abdicates in favor
of his son Tewfk
%. Engineer and three others killed by boiler
explosion in Philadelphia. Four persons killed
at Nebraska City, Neb., by explosion on board
Government steamboat.
49, The Havana steamship City Of New York
collided with and sunk the iron bark Helen; five
lives lost
l. Extra session Of Congress adjourned
8. Terrible cyclone in Minnesota wisconsin
aad Iowa; twenty persons killed and much
property destroyed.
4. Lord Chelmsford defeated the Zulus in
South Africa Seven excursionists drowned by
overturning of a steamer on Lake Quinsiga-
mond, near Worcester. Mass.
9. Explosion of five tons Of giant powder at
the Bodie (Cal) mine; eleven persons killed.
Is. Quarantine established at nearly all
Southern cities against Memphis, where the
yellow fever broke out.
Is. Eight people drowned by capsizing of .
yacht off Point aux Trimbles, Canada.
81. Gen. Miles has fight with the Sioux In
Montana.
90 Five workmen killed by railroad acct
dent to construction train at Waukegan, Ill.
81. Great inundation in the oil regions Of
Western Pennsylvania; over $500, 600 worth Of
property destroyed.
81. Destructive confagration at Hamilton.
Ont. three lives and 81 ,0O0, 600 worth of prop
erty destroyed.
AUGUST.
8. Fourteen persons killed by explosion Of
powder magazine at Duralgo Spain.
4 Terrific storm extending over large area
Of England; immense damage inflicted to the
crops.
g. The steamship Louis David wrecked of
Ushant, France. and twenty seven lives lost.
.. One thousand houses burned at Serate
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,
$3.50, 900.
Is. Fight between sections of the Ship Labor
ers' Union, at Quebec, Canada; sia men killed.
Is. Storm of wind and rain throughout the
Eastern seaboard; much damage to shipping
and crops.
%. Isaac 8. Kalloch, candidate Of the San
Francisco workingmen for Mayor, shot in the
street by Charles De Young, editor of the
Chronicle; great excitement in that city.
26. Castle Thunder, the Richmond (Ya.) mill
tary prison, burned.
30. Statue to Gen. Custer unveiled at West
Point.
SEPTEMBER.
g. By the capsizing of sail-boat near Sack
ett's Harbor, N. Y, seven persons were
drowned.
g. Maj. Cavagnari, English Resident at Ca
bull, Afghanistan, with his escort-seventy- mine
men in all-massacred by Afghan troops.
T. Fire at Quincy, Ill. loss, 100000 One
man and two children killed by the falling Of q
building at Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter
TO- Seven soldiers massacred by Cheyenne
Indians in Southern New Mexico.
Is State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,