The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-31
A YEARS. HAPPENINGS.
Chronology and Neurology of 1880.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.


O. BY ire at East Turner Hall, New York
city, hvc persons lose their lives.
.. -Four peraons consumed in a San Francisco
fire.
IL. The island OF 81. Kits, West Indies, de-
vastated by Hoods 200 hives are lost.
10. Terrible wind-storm in Oregon causes
loss OF life and property.
~. A terrible conflagration occurs at Toxic,
Japan, burning fifteen acres and destroying the
lives of over 100 people.
p. Colliery explosion near New Castle, En-
gland seventy-soven miners killed
". Bill for the gradual abolition OF slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
2. A flood in the eau "a valley, New Grenada,
destroys 81, 100000 worth of'property and a
number of hives.
25. The steamboat Charmer burns near the
mouth of Red river, In Louisiana eight lives
lost
2S Fifteen miners killed by on explosion in
baxony.
81. News is received of horrible massacres in
Aghanistan-
FEBRUARY.
/. Steamer Bengore from Penrath to Glib
raltar, founders, and thirteen OF her crew
drowned.
2. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine isl
ands.
3. Ten Chinamen cremated in u wash-house
hre IN San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
death in cabin near Columbia, s. @. The
Sl,000,000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
burned.
8. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
the fall of a barrack at Constantnope.
0. The Dublin Theater Royal burned ; eight
lives lott
10. Burning OF the City Hall at Albany, n. Y;
loss, 10000 O.
Ii. A family OF nine persons drowned by the
food near Mayfeld. Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt 10 kill the impe-
rial family of Russia by explosion of a mine al
the Winter Palace fails ten soldiers are
killed.
10. Eight men killed by the explosion Of the
boiler Of a Peoria Qil.) d shllery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso (South America) ar
senal
%. Bark Strathnairn, from London for Mel
bourne, sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned.
20. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sxty-five lives being lost
MARCH.
l. The St Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
s. Twenty-three persons killed by a boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland.
G. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatsmie
burns
T. Great fire in st. Paul, Mimi
g. Twemy-four soldiers killed by the blowing
up of the artillery barracks of Santiago, Chill.
g. Thirty villages swept away by Hood from
the river VIstnla on the Austro- Russian
frontier.
10. BY fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Ru STA, twenty-four persons are
burned TO death
IL. Boiler explosion in the haxseed-mills ut
Frankfort, Ind., by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
"a. Parliament prorogued by the Queen, and
new elections ordered
l. BY ire-damp explosion In o coal mine In
Belgium $50 miners are Killed
2 Nine mnrderers are hung ut various places
IN the United States.
g. Triumph of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed III Afghanlstan, and his army scattered.
4. Thirty-one dwell ngs burned at q village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perlshing.
g. The Peruvians defeat the Chilians, with q
loss OF / 800 killed.
g. Seven hun tred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, q sacrifice
to restore the Kings nealth.
L. BY the explosion of still In q creosote
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
IL A schooner, with all hands, goes down
In Long Island sound during a severe gale.
II. Thirty men torn to pieces by the explo-
sion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
Is. Marshf"ld, No., almost wiped out by q
properly desl royed.
49, Seyan men drowned off the north shore
OF Michigan by the swapping of their sailboat
q. The walls OF the Madison Square Garden,
N New York, give way, killing four persons
and woundiug several.
o. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation OF
the Beacon'ield Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned oil the Scotch coast.
o. Gladstone il asked to form Cabinet. A
hfe-saVin9 crew OF seven mon, of the coast OF
Michigan, lose their lives. A son of Mayor Kali
loch, OF San Francisco, kills Charles De Young,
editor OF the Chronicle.
20. Cycune al "a ICON, Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
tan county, Ill.
1. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
killing number of workmen-
4. a feet of fishing boats driven upon the
coast OF Oregon, and twenty-five Of the fisher
8. Fourteen persons killed at fire in Lon
don, England.
10. By an explosion OF powder In the st.
(iothard tunnel, h Switzerland, eighteen work.
men are killed.
IA Milton, Pa, is wiped ont by the flames
loss, So O00,0U0.
Is. An explosion in London England) iron
foundry kills twenty-five persons.
10. United States Senator Gordon, OF Geor-
gia, resigns. and ex-Gov. Brown is appointed.
%. Col. Hatch auacks the redSklns In New
Mexico, aud kills fifty-fivo of them.
g. Twenty persons persisted in the floods
caused by an excessive rain storm IN Boxas.
90 The town Of Savoy, Texas is wiped out
by cyclone about fifteen persons killed.
81 A fight with the indians occurs in New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
killed.
3. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
che Republicans, on the thirty-eixth ballot, al
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy-
clone in POttawattamis county. Iowa.
IL. j. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
~. Collision on Long Island sound between
the NaTraganse,t and Stonington, in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengerS.
IS The boiler ~ the Spanish war ship Cubs
Espano'a explodes, killing twenty persons and
wounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidenc,
by the Prohibitionists 1T Cleveland, Ohio.
ls. Sixtv-three persons lose their lives IN
terrible storm and waterspout Doar Dresden
Germany.
"a. Gen W. 4. Hancock nominated by thu
Democrats for President. at Cincinnati.
% Fifty passengers lost by the burning o
tbe ong Island sound steamer. Seswanahaka