The Newtown bee., 1880-12-22

Elcho shield at Wimbledon. Yachtin Detroit river cut in two by an excur- sion steamer and sixteen persons drowned .... 26. Sixteen persons drowned by upsetting of an excursion steamer on Lake Bienne, Switzerland ....29. Report received of the ami hilation of a whole British brigade by Afghans before Candahar.
 AUGUST.-3. Chilian transport Loa reported blown up by a Peruvian tor pedo in the harbor of Callao, Peru. 4 Eight men killed by a coal mine explosion near Wrexham, England ....5 Eighty out of the 100 houses in Jaurrietta, Spain, destroyed by fire. v. '. Dr. Tanner completes his forty days fast. Damaging floods in Aus. tria reported ...lO. News received that the steamer Jeddah, from Sings pore, with 953 pilgrims on board, foundered, and all but twenty -one persons lost. More than twenty vii. lages reported destroyed by floods ln the district of Ratibor, Germany. l2. Twenty-six persons killed by colli- sion between two excursion trains a. Mays Landing, N. J....l6. Eleven persons drowned by flood in county Donegal, Ireland. ...l7. Great con claye of Knights Fem plar at Chicago. Eureka, NeY, again about totally de- stroyed by fire. ....lJ. Heavy floods reported to have caused much loss oi lie and property in Silesia and DOT tions of Prussia. .2l. Business por- tion of Edenburg, Pa, destroyed by fire. =. .26. News received of 8 disas- trous cyclone in island of Jam aica. go. Steamer Vera Cruz wrecked off Florida coast and of the seventy-nine persons on board only eleven saved. SEPTEMBER 2.-About I25 Spanish soldiers drowned by the giving way of bridge at Lograno, Spain. .'.5: Thirty persons killed by explosion of 2 floating kerosene reservoir on I rlveI Volga, in Russia. A. News received that Ayob Khan, the Afghan leader, has been signally defeated by the Brit ish under General Roberts. '. State elections in Vermont and Arkansas. British parliament prorogued- S. About l50 miners killed by fire-damp explosion near Durham. England. ... I2 Daughter born to queen ot Spain. l3. Maine election. ....lS. Boston celebrates the 250th anniversary of it's settlement. Maud s. beats the best time on record by trotting mile at Chicago in ? :l03. 20. A new French cabinet formed. .2l. About ninety buildings at Green Bay, Wis, burned. Thirty-seven persons, ncluding eleven British officers, reported to have lost their lives by a land-slip in India. ... 23. Centennial of Andres capture celebrated at Tarrytown, N. Y.
 OCTOBER.-l. Opening ot 1nterna- tional exhibition at Melbourne, Aus tralia. Celebration of the centen- nial of the battle of Kings Mountain, in North Carolina. News received that during hurricane atSt. Michaels, Azores islands, two British steamers founded, and third went ashore. ... g. Railroad collision at Pittsburg, Pa |, caused a loss of about thirty lives. Corner stone of obelisk laid with Ma sonic rites in New York. News re- ceived that Chilian war vessel Cova donga, while cruising off the coast of Peru, was blown to pieces by tor pedo and only four of her crew saved ....ll Baltimore began & weeks fes- tivities in honor of the l50th anniyer- sary of it's settlement. The Su tan Of Turkey at last agrees to surrender Dulcigno to Montenegro. Msrauding 2 Kurds pillage many villages in Persia and murder the inha bitants. .l2 Elections in Oaio, Indiana and H. linois. ,. IA. News received that the Apache chief Victoria and about sev- enty of his band have been killed cn
 
 three lives lost and seventeen vessels wrecked during a terrifi storm on the Western lakes. ..l9. Czar of Russia marries Princess Dolgouki. ..23. Sea port town of Iquique, Peru, almost wholly destroyed by fire. .26. Arri- val of Sarah Bernhardt in New York. Twelve students drowned at Minden, Holland. .95. Disastrous storm in England and Ireland. 80. Seven teen lives reported as lost and many cottages swept away by & flood in Italy. tions. ...3. Accident in the mine ai | Mons, Belgium, Causes loss ot thIr- teen lives. British government in diets Parnell and other prominent irish agitators. ...5. Irish land league issues an address, advising resistance to English tyranny.".. ..6. A force | of GOO Kurds repulsed with grea slaughter by the Persians. ...9. Many vessels wrecked and numerous lives lost during a disastrous storm on Lake Ontario Half of the town Of Agram Austria, destroyed by an earthquake Troops ordered to Ireland to proven trouble in connection with the har vesting of MT. Boycott's crops. l2 Fifty miaers killed at Stellarton Nova Scotia, by Q gas explosion. l5. Hanlan defeats Trickett il TO wing match on the Thames. Stat insane asylum at St. Peter, Minn. partially destroyed by fire and twenty six inmates lose their lives... IS. Schooner Abraham Lincoln, witt thirty lives, lost on coast of Liberia Africa, and British ship Galatea, wit twenty.one lives, lost off Cape Clea ....19. British steamer Mildred, wit twenty-three hands, and British coast ing steamer Ailsa, with twenty-seve persons on board, reported lost. 2. 90. Laycock wins international boa race on the Thames. .24. Italia steamer Ortigia rans into Frenc steamer Oncle-Jo Joseph off the coas of Italy and of 300 persons on boar 250 lost
 DECEMBER.-3 General Gonzales il augurated president of Mexico. .4 Ross defeats Trickett in rowing mate on the Thames. .6. Insurgent Basl tos of South Africa defeated wit heavy loss by colonial troops. Cor gress opens and Presidents messae read. ...7. E G. Arnold 6 Co.,, largei tea and coffee importers m the Unite States, fail for over Sl, 800, 900. D. structive cyclone in Missouri. | New York aldermen confirm Mayo Cooper's nomination of Allan Caml bell to succeed John Kelly as conn troller. ...l2 Jay Gould's greenhou! at Irwin gton, on the Hudson, the fine private conservatory in the countr destroyed by fire, causing an estimate loss of $l50, GOO. Nine tenths of tl business portion ot Pensacola, Fla burned.
 
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