Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-08
FEBRUARY,

FEBRUARY.
L. Alarm in Europe over the spread of tho
plague, and preparations to stay its progress.
s. The =. s. Senate adopted Senator Ed
munds' resolutions affirming the validity of the
later constitutional amendments.
& Gov. Iiden testified as witness before
committee of Congress at New York, denying
any knowledge of the famous cipher tele-
grams Fhe Reno Court of Inquiry concludes
the taking Of testimony at Chicago.
g. DeGnidve treaty of peace between Russia
and Turkey signed.
10. British troops defeated by natives in
South Africa. Senator Chriatisncy, Of Mich
igan, resigns.
II Six railroad laborers killed by an earth
slide at Kansas City, Mo.
ID O'Kelly, the last of the imprisoned Fe-
mans, released by the British authorities.
15 The lower house Of Congress passes the
bill restricting Chinese immigration.
10 A family of three persons burned to
death at Somerville, Me.
H. Turkey effects G. $40 00O,000 loan.
49, Russians begin the evacuation of Turkey
Several persons killed by a railway accident
near Selma, Ala.
O. A boiler explosion at Stockton, Cal, kills
| sixteen people and mains twenty six others
&c. A bark wrecked at Corunna, Spain, and
thirty five lives lost.
81 An avalanche at Marburg, Austria, kills
twenty people
%. A man named Lunsford and six of his
children burned to death at Carbon Hill, Ohio
MARCH.
l. News OF the death Of Shere Ali, Ameer of
Afghanistan.
! 2. The town Of Reno, Neb., destroyed by fire;
| five people burned to DEATH
i. Adjournment of Congress
5. Nineteen persons killed by a coal-mine ex-
| plosion in England
9. A family of five people burned to death
| in their house at East St. Louis, Ill
| 10. News of the loss of fifty Gloucester
| (Mass) fishing boats, and the drowning of $50
| fishermen.
H. A food in the River Thesis. in Hungary.
| oyerwhelms the city of Szegedin; immense de-
| struction of life and property.
| Ia. Mrs. Taylor and her two children drowned
in a pond at Matte, ct Archbishop Purcell
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors.
Is A pilot boat sunk in the English Chan
mel, and her crew of eight persons drowned.
End of the six-days' pedestrian match for the
worlds championship, at New York; Rowell,
| of England, the victor.
1S. Congress meets in special session.
! 10 Many people killed by series of ava
lanches in the Austrian Tyrol The Haytian
steamer Michael sunk by a collision in the
West Indies; sixty people drowned.
| 20. B. G. Porter, a well-known actor, muir
dered at Marshall, Texas.
81. The French floating battery Arrogante
lost in the Mediterranean, and forty-seven OF
her crew drowned.
%. Discovery of 500, 900 defalcation by N.
P. Pratt, savings bank treasurer, at Reading,
Mass
IS. Four people burned to death in wharf
| boat at Hickman, Ky.
26. Judge J. M. Elliott, of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, murdered at Frankfort, KY,
by Col Buford. News Of dreadful famine in
| Upper Egypt Violent earthquake in Persia,
by which many people are killed.
n. Judge Edwards, leading lawyer Of Al
| bany, N. Y, commits suicide.
20. Five persons burned to death in hotel
at Claremont, N Fl. The European powers
| agree upon the joint occupation of Roumelia.
30. Two thousand Afghans defeated by q
force Of British troops
81. Five seamen drowned by the upsetting OF
q boat at Eastport, Me.
!. A body of French troops overtaken by a
| snow. storm IN Algeria, and many frozen to
death. Fifty British cavalrymen drowned
| while trying to cross a river in Afghani5tan.
2 Five persons drowned by the capsizing Oh
q boat at Newbern. N. C.
8. The British in India defeat 5000 Of the
| enemy in battle,
l. The city Of Miragoane, in Hayd, destroyed
by fire.
O. News of the massacre of forty English
soldiers by the Zulus, in South Africa
g. Disastrous fires in St Louis and Phila-
| delphia
10. Horrible massacre OF NihiIist prisoners
by Russian soldiers. at Keff, in Russia
a. Attempted assassination OF the Gar OF
Russia.
Is. News Of horrible ravages OF pestilence
| and famine in Morocco. Destructive tornado
at Coliinsvilie, Ill.
16. Tornadoes in Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina destroy much property and kill many
people.
II. The American horse Parole wins the New
market handicap in England.
10. Russia inaugurates extraordinary re-
pressive measures against the Nihilists Mr..
Thurman elected President pro tenn. of the
| United States Senate. Secretary Sherman Of
fers $15O, 0O0, COO of 4-per-cent bonds, and the
entire amount subscribed for by New York
| bankers
19 Over 700 violaters Of the revenue laws In
| Tennessee accept Government amnesty. and
are discharged Steamship Great Rer ublic lost
on the Pacific coast; ten of the crew drowned.
20 The town of Eureka, New, nearly de-
stroyed by fire. Eight hundred French Com
munists pardoned
21 News from South Africa that the be-
sieged British at Ekowe have been relieved af-
ter desperate fighting, in which $500 Zulus
were slain.
22-S The American horse Parole wins two
more great races against the English horses al
Epson.
% Notre Dame University building at South
Bend, Ind burned. Seven miners suffocated
IN o mine near Scranton, Pa Attempted as