Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-31

Espanola explodes, killing twenty persons and
wounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
by the Prohibitionists at Cleveland Ohio
ID. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in a
terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden,
Germany.
"a Gen. W. S. Hancock nominated by the
Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
%. Fifty passengers lost by the burning of
the Long Island sound steamer, Seawanahaka,
near New York city.
l. -Four persons are killed by the explosion of
the boiler of the pleasure boat Mary on Lake
Minnetonka
4. Seven persons drown by the overturning of
a yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota
-. raft with forty persons upon it breaks
to pieces In the Black sea, near Odessa. and all
are drowned.
Is. By an explosion in coal mine at Risca,
In Wales, 119 miners all in the shaft-are
killed.
49, Cleopatra's needle. presented to the city
of New York by the late Khedive of Egypt, ar
rives at that city.
81 The Jersey City tunnel, in process of con-
struction, caves in, burying twenty-one work
men.
%. Eighteen persons lose their lives through
the explosion of powder in the artillery works
in Kooisk, Southern Russia.
%. An excursion steamer runs over Yacht
in the Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
drowned.
AUGUST.
1. The Gillian transport Loa blown up by
torpedo in Callao bay, and $50 of her crew
killed.
II. BY a train running off the track of the
IL
persons are killed.
II. 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.
2. 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
off the coast of Florida, and only thirteen of
her passengers and crew of seventy-six are
saved.
T. Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan. near Candahar,
g. By an explosion of fire-damp in the Sea-
ham (England) colliery. 140 miners lost their
lives.
Is. The steamer Aurora, from Oporto for
southampton, founders at sea; fifty persons
are drowned.
49, News Is received of the starvation of 500
Of the 700 inhabitants of the island of st.
Lawrence Arctic ocean.
IA. Completion Of the Cologne Cathedral
commenced six centuries ago, is celebrated
Is. BY the explosion of cooker in Haas &
Powells distillery, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed.
16. A storm of unexampled severity sweeps
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and number of lives lost on the
%. By land side in the Province of Bengal,
British India, thirtyseven persons were killed,
most of them English officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
8. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katto-
WITT, Germany.
g. Thirty persons killed and a great many
severely injured by railway collision at Pitts
burgh.
H. Baltimore celebrates her 15Oth birthday.
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.
%. 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 a Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
5. A typhoon passes over Japan which de-
molishes 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 crucifed by
their leaders for disobedience of orders.
8. The propeller Zealand goes down on Lake
Ontario with all on board, sixteen persons.
9. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
of the steamer Thomas kingsford, on Lake On
tario.
IL. Seven men burned to death in a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
IL. Forty-seven miners killed by coal-mne
explosion in Nova Scotia.
16. The Minnesota State Insane Asylum at
st. Peter burned, and large number of the
inmates lost their lives.
10. The Kurds sack Persian village and put
200 people to the sword.
IL. Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
their lives by the wreck of the coaster Oilsa off
Wales. Twelve men suffocated in coal mine
in Belg TIM
20. The British steamer Mildred founders in
md-ocean with a crew of twenty-eight.
"a. By collision between the French steamer
Oncle Joseph and the Italian steamship Or
tigia the former is sunk and 232 persons go
down.
Is. The Persians ornament the walls of the
prison at Tabreez with the heads of 300 Kurds
taken in battle.
26. 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.
1. The Electoral Colleges meet in the various
State capitals and cast the electoral votes for
President and Vice President
8. Flogging abolished in the British navy.
TO- One hundred miners are killed by fire.
damp explosion in Welsh colliery.
II. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes the
death of crew of twenty-five persons.
H. Jay Goulds conservatory at Irvington,
on the Hudson, is destroyed by fire; loss,
$15O,OO0.
IS. About twenty boys lose their lives by
the burning of wallpaper factory at Buff
falo.
NEUROLOGY.