The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

Ii. By train running off the track of the
Midland railroad in England, about a dozen
persons sre killed.
10. Twenty persons are killed by collision
between two excursion trains near Atlantic
City, n. j.
is. The town Of Eureka, New, is second
! time almost wiped out by fire.
II. Great parade Of Knights Templar in
Chicago.
SEPTEMBER.
g. By the giving way of a pontoon bridge
over the river Ebro, in Spain, over 100 officers
and men were thrown into the water. most of
them being drowned
8. The steamer City Of Vera Cruz founders
of the coast of Florida, and only thirteen of
her passengers and crew of seventy-six are
saved.
4 Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans Under
Ayoob Khan near Candahar,
8. By an explosion of fre-damp in the Sea-
ham (England) colliery, lao miners lost their
lives.
10. The steamer Aurora, from oporto for
southampton, founders at sea fifty persons
are drowned
%. BY land side il the Province of Bengal,
British India, thirty-seven persons were killed,
most of them English officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
g. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katie
WITT, Germany
8. Thirty persons killed and great many
severely injured by railway collision at Pitts
burgh
ii. Baltimore celebrates her l50th birthday.
b. News IL received OF the starvation of 500
of the 700 inhabitants of the island of St.
Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
IL Completion of the Cologne Cathedral,
commenced six centuries ago, Is celebrated.
Is By the explosion of cooker in Haas &
Powell's distillery, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed.
49, A storm of unexanpled severity sweeps
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and number of lives lost on the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Alpena
founders, with loss of about eighty lives,
none being saved.
Is Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
2S The coast of England visited by ter
rible gale, and many ships and lives lost,
NOVEMBER.
8. Sixty robbers, who plundered the Brazilian
| town of Jaunaria year before, are surprised
by soldiers and killed.
4. By the breaking of the hosting apparatus
in Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
| D. A typhoon passes over Japan which de-
| moiishes 1000 residences in Toxic and browns
| 100 fishermen. News received of the loss of
the Jeanette and number of whalers in the
Arctic sea by being crushed by the ice. Thirty
! Kurdish marauders in Persia are cruciied by
| their leaders for disobedience of orders.
8. The propeller Zealand goes down On Lake
| Ontario with all On board, sixteen persons.
8. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
of the steamer Thomas Kingsford, on Lake On
| taTio.
| H. Seven men burned to death In a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa. I-
-. Eorty-seven mintrs killed by ccal-mine
| explosion in Nova Scotia.
is. The Minnesota State Insane Asvlum at
| st. Peter burned, and large number OF the
| inmates lost their lives.
1o. Tho Kurds sack Persian village and put
200 people to the sword.
49, Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
their lives by the wreck Of the coaster Ollsa of
Wales. Twelve men suffocated in a coal mine
III Belg un.
90 The British steamer Mildred founders in
md-ocean with crew of twenty-eight.
a. BY collision between the French steamer
| 0ncle Joseph and the Italian steamship Or
tigia the former is sunk and 232 persons go
down.
IS. The PersiaEs ornament the wallis of tho
| prison at Tabreez with the heads Of 800 Ktlrds
| taken in battle.
&C. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all on
| board in Georgian bay. Lake Huron.
%. Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, Of Colorado, is
killed by miners near Leadville.
DECEMBER.
/. The Electoral Colleges meet in the various
| State capitals and cast the electoral votes for
| President and Vice President
| s. Flogging abolished in the British navy.
10. One hundred miners are killed By fire.
| damp explosion in Welsh coliery.
IL. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes the
| death of a crew of twenty-five persons.
| r. jay GOuld's conservatory at Irvington,
on the Hudson, is destroyed by fire; loss,
$15n,OnO.
18. About twenty boys lose their lives by
the burning Of wallpaper factory at Buf-
| falo.