The Newtown bee., 1880-12-22
THE PAST YEAR.
A Review of Important
 Events in 1880.

L NSIllS LII 1ooos
 ANUARY.-l. Arrival of Parnell aud Dillon, the Irish agitators, Tn the Uni ted States. ...2. Much property dam. aged by heavy floods in Austria and France. ...6. Eight persons killed at fire in the New York Turn Hall, and eight persons killed by an explo- sion in celluloid factory at Newark, N. J. News received that President Prado, oi Peru, has been denosed and General Pierola made dictator. ...7. The Maine legislature organized by the Fusionists. ...9. National green back labor conference in Washing ton. ...ll. Two hundred lives lost and great destruction ot property by floods in island of St. Kits, West Indies. l2. Ohio legislature elects General Garfield to U. s. Senate as Mir. Thur mans successor. ... IS. About twenty five persons killed during a riot in Pesth, Hungary. ..l6. Joseph l.. Smith elected governor of Maine by Fusion legislature. ...H. Daniel x. Davis elected governor of Maine by Republican members of legislature. 10. End of Hayden trial at New Ha- ven by disagreement of jury. Maine supreme court decides that Re- publican legislature is the only legal body. ...28. Maine Fusionist legisla- ture adjourns. Ten men killed and nine injured by explosion of fire damp in colliery at Meissen, Saxony.
 fEBRU ARY.-3. Great damage done by a heavy storm along the Atlantic coast. 4. Five members of the Don. nelly family killed by lynchers at I.ucan, Ontario. Queen Victoria opens British parliament... ...7. The body of Miss Dolly Hartman cremated at Washington, Pa....9 Eight per sons killed and thirteen severely in jured at the destruction by fire of the Theater Royal, Dublin. ....l0. Mardi Gras festival in Southern cities. l7. Attempt made to assassinate the Russian imperial family by blowing up the Winter palace at St. Peters burg; explosion kills five soldiers and wounds thirty-tive more. ..24. M. de I.esseps, of Suez canal fame, arrives in United States to further his Panama canal scheme. .29. Completion of the Mount St Gothard tunnel. which con- nects Switzerland and Italy.
 MARCH.-2. Celebration in Russia of the twenty-fifth year of the czar's accession to the throne. ...5. Thirty three persons killed by n boiler ex- plosion in Glasgow. President issues proclamation in regard to an international canal. Twenty four persons burned 10 death and twenty nine injured at a fire in Moscow, Russia. ...ll. Ten men killed by eX- plosion of boiler at Frankfort, Md ....20. Thirty persons injured by fall of floor in public hall at Elphratah, Pa. .24. Queen Victoria announces dissolution of British parliament. 27. United States slip Constellation sails for Ireland laden with provisions and clothing for the destitute Irish people. ..3I Beginning of elections in England for members of parliament. APRIL.-9. Great success of the Lib ernl party in English elections. Much damage to life and property done by q cyclone in Kansas. s....3. Beginning of six-day pedestrian contest for OIeary belt in New York. ...7. State election Fin Rhode Island; No choice for governor. ..10. Frank Hart wins the six-day pedestrian match, making 565 miles. ...l2 Eleven persons killed and others in- jured by an explosion in a creosote manufactory In London. IA. Inn W Jersey. Otero Gonzales executed at Madrid for trying to kill the king of Spain. ...l7. Fifteen white men and fifteen Chinamen killed by ar explo- sion in giant powder works near San Francisco. .. .l9. More than 100 per- sons killed and 200 injured at Marsh field. Mo, and town destroye by a cyclone. 20. International fishery exposition opened in Berlin. ..2l Four persons killed and many more injured by fall of hall during pro gress of fair at Madison Square gar den, New York. .. .23. Charles De Young. senior proprietor San Fran cisco Chronicle, shot and killed by MSyor Kalloch's son. Queen Victoria summons William E. Gladstone to tie premiership of Great Britain. .2i. Mir. Gladstone beg ns the formation of a new British cabinet. .25 Fatal cyclone in Mississippi. ...29. New English parliament formal y opened ....30. English training ship Ata- lanta, having on board 300 young sea- nen, beside officers and crew, finally given up as lost, having been over three months overdue.
 MAY. A. Deficiency appropriation bill vetoed. ...6. Great fire in the oil regions surrounding Bradford. Pa. Anti Third Term Republican Nation al convention in St. Louis. -. Great strike in the cotton-spinning districts of France. ..9. Rexford, Pa, part of Kinderhook, N. Y, and thirty houses at Allegheny, Pa, destroyed by lire ....ll. Six men killed by explosion of condemned shell at Fort Mo Henry, Baltimore. Disastrous cyclone in Illinois... IS. Stuyvesant, N Y.. almost totally destroyed by fire. Foul men hanged at Lebanon. Pa. ...l4 NearIy ali tue business part of Milton, Pa, destroyed by fire and 5000 per- sons rendered homeless. Great forest fires in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and on Long Island. IS. Forty buildings, comprising about the whole of Cou- dersport, Pa., burned. .. 20. Hanlan defeats Courtney in boat race at Washington. Opening of new British parliament. .2l. Failure of Philadel- phia and Reading railroad and coal companies. .. .22 Edenburg, Pa., partly consumed by the flames. ..M. Fifteen persons killed and many more injurs d by train's jumping the track near Big Trees, Cal. .25. M. Leon Say elected president of the French senate. Horse Bend Or wins the Derby ....31. Decoration day, Savoy. Texas, destroyed by cyclone. West Point Sourt of inquiry in Whitaker case report that the colored cadet had mu- tilated himself.
 JUNE --1. Taking of the national cen- sus begun throughout the United States ....2. Opening of the National Repub- lican convention at Chicago. o....6. Garfield and Arthur nominated at buried at St. Petersburg. Opening oi the National Greenback convention as Chicago. ...1l. Weaver and Cham Sers nominated at Chicago. Ahou' fifty lives lost on steamer N Narragansett which coIlided with the steamer Stonington on Long Island Sound took fire and sank. Is Congress adjourns