Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-01-19
THE YEAR 1881.
A Chronological Table-NotahIe Events of
the Year.
JANUARY.

JANU AIRY.
2. Great floods in England and
France.
3 Parnell and Dillon arrive in New
York.
4. A Gypsy camp is found in Prus-
sian Silesia with eleven persons sitting
around the remains of fire frozen to
death
5. By fire at East Turner Hall,
New York City, five persons lose their
lives.
6. Four persons consumed ir San
Francisco fire.
II. The island of St Kits, West In
dies, devastated by foods; 200 lives are
lost.
Is. Terrible wind storm IN Oregon
causes loss of life and property.
10. A terrible confagration occurs
at Toxic, Japan, burning fifteen acres
and destroying the lives of over 100 peo-
pie.
81. Colliery explosion near New Cas-
tic, England; seVenty-seveu miners kill
ed.
81 Bill for the gradual abolition of
slavery in Cuba passes the Spanish Cor
tes.
% A flood in. the Cauca Valley,
New Grenada, destroys 81 100000
worth of property aud number of
lives.
25. The steamboat Charmer burns
near the mouth of Red River, in Louis
lana; eight lives lost.
%. Fifteen miners killed by an ex-
plosion in Saxony.
81. News is received of horrible
massacres in Afghanlstan.
FEBRUARY.
|. Steamer Bengore, from Penratb
to Gibraltar, founders, and thirteen of
her crew drowned.
2. Terrible hurricane IN the Philip
pine island.
5. Ten Chinamen cremated in
wash-house fire IN San Francisco. Nine
negroes burned to death in a cabin near
Columbia, s. G. The 81 ,G0G,0U Court
House at Dallas, Texas. burned.
8. Two hundred Turkish soldiers
killed by the fall of barrack at Con-
stantinople.
9. The Dublin Theater Royal burn
ed eight lives lost
10. Burning of the City Hall at Al
bany, N. Y; loss, 81 100000.
16 A family of nine persons drown
ed by the food near Mayfeld, Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill
the imperial family of Russia by ex-
plosion of mine at the winter Palace
fails; ten soldiers are killed.
10. Eight Elen killed by the explo-
sion of the boiler of a Peoria Ill dis
tillery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the ex-
plosion of shells in the Valparaiso
(South America) arsenal.
%. Bark Stathnairn, from London
for Melbourne. sunk by collision, and
sixteen persons drowned.
20. A steamer between two East In
dian ports founders, sixty five lives be-
ing lost.
l. The St. Gothard tunnel through
the Alps is cut through.
5. Twenty-three persons killed by a
boiler explosion at Glasgow. Scotland.
6. The Kansas Insane Asylum at
Osawatomle burns.
7. Great fire III St. Paul, Mlnn.
8. Twenty-four soldiers killed by the
blowing up of the artillery barracks at
Santiago, Chill.
9. Thirty villages swept away by
flood from the river Vistula on the Aus
tro-Russian frontier.
10. BY fire in the great weaving
works at Moscow, Russia, twenty-f0ur
persons are burned to death.
IL. Boiler explosion in the faxseed
mills at Franfort, Ind, by which ten
employees were torn to pieces.
"a. Parliament prorogued by the
Queen, and new elections ordered.
APRIL.
l. BY fire-damp explosion in a coal
mine IN Belgium $50 miners are killed.
2. Nine murderers are hung at vari-
Gus places in the United States.
3. Triumph of the Liberals at the
English Parliamentary elections. Mo-
hammed Jan killed in Afghanlstan, and
his army scattered.
4. Thirty-one dwellings burned at IL
village of Savoy, seventeen persons
perishing.
8. The Peruvians defeat the Chilians.
with loss of | 300 killed
8. Seven hundred men, women and
children burned alive at Mandalay,
Burmah, as sacrifice to restore the
Kings health.
II. By the explosion of a still in
creosOte factory, near London, eleven
persons lose their lives.
IA. A schooner, with all hands, goes
down IN Long Island Sound, during
severe gale.
II. Thirty men torn to pieces by the
explosion of giant powder, near San
Francisco.
Is. Marshfeld, Mo-, almost wiped
out by cyclone; about 100 lives and
S3O0.0OO worth of property destroyed.
10. Seven men drowned off the north
shore of Michigan by the swamping of
their sailboat.
81. The walls of the Madison Square
Garden, in New York, give way, killing
four persons and wounding several,
%. Queen Victoria accepts the re-
signation of the Beaconsfield Ministry.
Nineteen fishermen drowned off the
Scotch coast.