The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-09

81 as rom Amsterdam 70 Copenhagen, lost
~ The PsruviAns were defeated I'm = bsss,,
with Chilians, near Iquique.
| a. Three prominent lrishmon arrested q
| Sligo, for seditious speeches; great excitemenl
there In consequence
1 New York Eighth avenue stables burned
100 horses and s25O, 600 worth Of property de.
~ VIM. H. Vanderbilt sold 25o, 600 shares
OF New York Central stock 10 syndicate fou
N. Thanksgiving day. Thirty-one TEXANS
massacred BY indians about l00 mules from
- Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish General,
and escort OF seventy mon, slaughtered IN Bull.
ID by the fall Of building in which twenty
seven persons were dancing, at Naples Italy.
twenty were crushed 10 death. King Alfonso
OF spain, married at Madrid to Mario Christine,
~. Three persons burned 20 death m tho ae-
struotion OF the Toronto (Canada) Opera House
loss, SsO,OO0 Cuban insurgents defeated, with
loss Of twenty three killed.
DECEMBER.
2 An unsuccessful attempt 10 blow m the
train on which the Cxar OF Russia was travel
ing, near Moscow.
q A tidal wave swept over an island in the
Bay OF Bengal, India, drowning several hun
uTeu pcTbOnc
z. Several shirt and collar factories NJ Troy.
n Y. burned; loss, s45o,OO0
4 Three children burned b. death al Belle
yue Hospital, New York. Five persons killed
oy boiler explosion ON steam tug near Black
river, Lake Erie
Is. British troops under Gen. Robert
recapture Bala.liissar, the citadel al Cabul,
Afghanistan. Attempted assassination OF
Lord Lytton at Calcutta.
10. The Chilians defeat the allies, with a
loss OF 1900 killed and wounded. Gen.
Grant finishes his circuit OF the world at
Philadelphia. Twenty miners killed by an
explosion in q salt mine at Wurtemberg,
Germany.
IL. Meeting Of Republican national CON-
mittee at Washington; Chicago, June 5,
named for next convention. Gen. Malone
elected u. 3. senator by the Virginia legis.
lature.
Is. Twelve business houses burned at
Bismarck, ID. T.
10. Congress adjourps for the holidays.
A storm At Aspinwall damaged the Pacific
Mail Steamship company's wharf 100000,
and that Of the Panama Railroad company
10000; three hundred and twenty. nine tons
OF coal were lost by vessels sinking.
20. Fall OF two brick structures IN course
OF erection At Wilmington, De-, killing
Chas. Rush and Lewis Lynde, aaa wound.
ing four others. Arrival OF steamer at
Queenstown with portion OF crey Of steamer
Borrusa, which foundered on tie I'd, caus.
ing loss OF over 100 lives. Steamer Maggie
Barker burned to the waters edge at No.
bile, Alabama; loss $4,000. Stones shoddy
mill at Bennington, VT, burned: Seymour
life.
u. James Glason's house 81 Ayersyille,
Inn xr,s 70 al L -. u.
dren. Best d Co.'S brewery, Milwaukee,
partially destroyed by FIRE; loss about
$200, 600.
20. Destruction Of Bradley q CAry's corset
factory at New York, involving loss Of
$500, 900.
"a. Explosion in g colIiery at Bolton,
Eng; eleven injured, one fatally.
%. Rapid rise in the Licking river; coal
barges with contents valued at sl7 600 swept
away.
%. Mohamedan fanatics run amuck
through the British camp at Candahar; Gen.
Tyler wounded and four Of the fanatics
killed. Gen. Roberts completely routs the
Afghan adversaries at Cabul, and re-oecupies
Balla H'ssar.
%. Steamer Prairie City sxplodes her
boiler on the Wabash river; four lives lost.
%. Large building in Boston. occupied by
Osgood Co., publishers, and Others,
burned; loss, s., 00', 900.
20. Explosion OF gas in q coal mine at
Irwin's Station, Pa; two killed and one
wounded. A train plunges through the iron
bridge across the Firth OF Tay, Scotland, to
the sea below, q distance Of nearly 100 feet;
loss Of life estimated at over 100.
81. Attempted assassination Of the King
Of Spain by youth named Gouzales: the
king escapes unscathed. Gov. Van Zandt,
Of Rhode Island, reconsiders his acceptance
Of the Russian mission aud declines on
account Of inadequate salary; Gen. Burn.
side declines il for similar reasons.
81. Severe storm throughout Great Bri-
tain; great damage TO shipping; a Fren I'll
bark lost with eight Of her crew. Train
jumps the track and down the Mississippi
embankment near Mendoza Junction,
Mimi. six passengers severely injured.