The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-08

80. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern
Italy; q railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away.

80. Destructive storm in Sicily and Southern
Italy; q railroad bridge with passenger train
carried away.
2. Grand stand at Ienawee county fair.
Mich, fel, killing six persons and injuring
s. Balloon and two occupants blown apainst
telegraph wires, and the aeronauts thrown out
and killed, at San Francisco, Cal.
8. Fighting in front Of Cabul, Afghanistan;
British loss toward 100.
2. Train robbed OF about $50, GOO by masked
robbers fifteen miles from Kansas City, Mo.
10 Collision on the Michigan Central rail-
killed. ' p0''
II. Four persons killed by collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
W. Va.
H. Bodies Of Agent Meeker and the employees
Of tho White River Indian Agency, Colorado,
killed by Indians, discovered by Gen. Merritt's
command,
13 The English troops, under Gen. Roberts,
entered Cabul, Afghanistan.
15 News received of q Russian reverse in
central Asia; rout Of the expeditionary forces.
Spain; about 800 lives and millions of property
DESTROYED
III: Further depredations by Indians in Now
Mexico: many settlers massacred.
~. 1no UMtah Indians, in Utah, go on the
war path, and murder number of settlers.
~. Heavy storm in the island of Jamaica
dong immense damage to property.
~. Gen. Adams succeeds in regaining the
wife and daughter of Indian Agent Meeker
from the Ute Indians. IN Colorado, with sew
eral other captivos
29: Eleven Afghans, convicted of completely
IN m inc massacre at the English embassy in
Cabul, executed.
~. Nearly l0O persons and vast amount of
property destroyed by another great flood in
NOVEMBER.
4 One, third of tho town Of Mound City, Ill.,,
destroyed by fire.
T. Nineteen persons were killed and forty
nse WOundec by the sinking Of a railway en-
Dankment in British India, three of the killed
being Europeans.
.. by collision between the steamship
Champlor, OF tho New York and Charleston
hne, with the ship Lady Octavia, off the Della
ware c. caRos' thlrty-two of the passengers and
ct the North Missouri railroad bridge over the
Missouri, at st. Charles, Mo-, fell, dropping a
tram OF seventeen stock-cars into tho river:
1onr cattle mon Wero killed.
| j. Six survivors of the whaling schooner
Petrol wero saved from the hulk, the other
fifteen having been washed of and drowned in
! the Atlantic
! 10 The Chiian town of Pisaouo was bonn
| barded and captured by the Poruyians, 800
persons being killed in tho city, with loss to
tho attacking party Of 500 Thirty-two citi-
zens of New Mexico killed in a fight with Vic
t0ris's band Of Apache Indians, in the State Of
IL Reception OF Gen. Grant at Chicago; an
! immense crowd present
fill the vacancy caused BY tho death . Of Senator Of
Zach Chandler, OF Michigan.
Tt,o
squa]l on Lake Erie, and the Captain and six
men drowned
| II: Thirteen persons were drowned while re-
turning from fair, attempting to cross q
river on the island of llsay, III Scotland. Tho
new French cable landed at Boston. Mr.
Beaman declined the appointment Of Senator
from Michigan, and ox-Gov. Henry p
Baldwin, OF Detroit, was appointed.
! is. About forty Cinnamon were killed by an
explosion III now railroad tunnel in California
| Twelve sailors were drowned in gale on Lake
| Ontario
IT, Statue OF Con- Thomas unveiled at WASH
inSton. Tho Confederate cruiser Shenandoah
sunk in the Indian ocean; the vessel belonged
| to the Sultan Of Zanzibar
~ Great storm along tho lakes and sea-
| board; many vessels beached. The steamer
Pallaa from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, lost,
| with thirty lives
~. The Poruvians wero defeated in a battle
| with Chilians, near Iquique.
Three prominent lrishnlen arrested at
Sligo, for seditious speeches; great excitement
there in conpoquence.
225 New York Eighth avenue stables burned:
100 horses and $225O, 600 worth of properly do
stroyed; q fireman killed
| rs VIM. II. Vanderbilt sold 250,0O0 shares
of New York Central stock to a syndicate for
So. O,000
r. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one Texans
massacred nj by Indians about 100 miles from
2S Mukhar Pasha the Turkish General.
and escort OF seventy mon, slaughtered in Bull
garia.
~ By the fall OF building in which twenty
seven persons were dancing, at Naples, Italy,
twonty wero crushed to death. Kiug Alfonso
| OF Spain. married at Madrid to Mario Christine,
| Of Austria.
49, Three persons burned to death at the DO
struciion OF the Toronto (Canada) Opora House:
loss, sso,oVl Cuban insurgents defeated, with
a loss Of twonty-three killed
! DECEMBER
| 2. An unsuccessful attempt to blow up the
| train on which. tho Gar OF Russia WAS travel
ing, near Moscow.
6. tidal wave swept over an island in the
Bay OF Bengal, India, drowning several hun
dred persons.
| Z. Several shirt and collar factories at Troy.
N. Y, burned; loss, s45O,000
=. Three chil'lron burned to death at Belle
vue Hospital, New York. Five persons killed
by boiler eXplosion on a steam tug near Black
river, Lake Eric.
| Dec. o--News "f the loss lof the Gloucester
| fishing fleet.
! Dec. lO--Grant's visit to Louisville
! Dec. 11-Prisoner skot dead in Saltwater
renitcntinry by Deputy Warden Hall. Grants
reception ut Cincinnati. Terrible sto,m in the
| northwest.
Dec. 12-Villasc Of Rcd Rock, Pa, destroyed
| by fire.
Dec 13-Rcccption to Grant at Pittsburgh.
Dec. l4-Suicde of Lieut. Morrill,, Ninth
cavalry, att Santa Fe.
! Dec. 15-Decisinn Of the Maine returning
board .ous,ing Republican members elect of
the Legislature.
| Dec. lG-General Mahonc nominated for
United States Senator by the Virginia Leg
islatnrc.
Dec. 17.-Chicago selected as r l, cation for
the Republican pational convention.
Dec. lS-Mceting in St. Paul, to express
sympathy with the Irish tenantry.
! Dec. 19.-Adjournment Of Congress until
January 9th, 1881.
| Dec. 2O-Rclicf of the famine in Silesia
! Dec. 2l-Succcss Of Edison's electric light
assured.
Dec. 22Burning of Bcst's brewery in Mil
Yankee. Two negroes lynchcd in Russell
| county, Alabama.
| Dec. 23-The steamship Bornssin abandoned
| at sea and l70 lives lost.
| Dec. 25-ltcpulsc Of the Ghilzais by tho
| British troops in Afghanistan.
| Dec. 2G-Great excitement throughout Maine
I over the electoral troubles and threats of vi,-
icnce. Railroad accident at Bardan, Iii. Three
persons killed, many wounded.
Dec. 2S.-The Utes at Los Pinos reported on
the war path. kout "f the Afyha,ls by the
British ut CsbuI, with tremendous loss. Ter
riblc fire ut Boston. Loss S2 100000. Railroad
train blown off bridge across the Firth Of
| Tay and $50 passengers drowned.
.NECROLOGY