Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-01-19

| upon the coast ot Oregon, and twenty
five Of the fishermen are drowned.
8. fourteen persons are killed at a
fire iD London. England.
III. BY an EXPLOSION ofpowder in the
St Gothard tunnel, Switzerland, eigh-
teen workmen are killed.
II. Milton. Pa Is wiped out by the
flames; loss, $4,000, 900.
Is An ex, losion in London, Eng
land, iron foundry kills twenty-five per-
sons.
10. United States Senator Gordon,
of Georgia, resigns, and exG Gov. Brown
is appointed.
% Col. Hatch attacks the redskins
in New Mexico, and kills ftty-fvc of
them.
%. Twenty persons perished in the
floods caused by an excessive rain-storm
IN Texas.
20. The town OF Savory, Texas, Is
wiped out by a cyclone about fifteen
persons killed
81. A fight with the Indiaus occurs
in New Mexico, in which about a dozen
white men are killed.
JUNE.
s. Gen. Garfield nominated for Pre-
sldent by the Repubilcaus. on the thir-
tv-sixth ballot, al Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives
by cyclone in PottawattamIe county,
Iowa.
II. j. b. Weaver nominated BY the
Greenbackers for the Presidency, at
Chicago.
u. Collision On Long Island sound
between the Narragansett and Stoning-
ton, IN which the former takes fire and
goes down, with fifty passengers.
3. The boiler of the Spanish war
ship Cuda Espanola explodes. killing
twenty persons and wounding Il3.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the
Presidency by the ProhIbitionlsts at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Is. Sizty-three persons lose their
lives IN terrible storm and waterspout
near Dresden, Germany.
"a. Gen. w. S. Hancock nominated
by the Democrats for President, at Gin
cinnati.
2S. Fifty passengers lost by the burn
ing Of the Long island sound steamer,
Seawanhaka, near New York city.
l. -Four persons are killed by the ex-
ploslon of the boiler of the pleasure
boat Mary, on Lake Minnetonka.
4. Seven per-ons drown by the over
turning of Yacht on White Bear lake,
in Minnesota.
II. A raft with forty persons upon
1t breaks to pieces in the Black sea,
Odessa, end all are drowned
15. BY an explosion in a coal mine
at Risca, i'll Wales, ll9 mipers-a all in
the shaft-are killed.
Is. Cleopatra's needle, presented to
the City of New York by the late Khe-
dive of Egypt, arrives at tina, city.
81. The Jersey City tunnel, in pro
ces of construction, caves in, burylng
twenty-one workmen.
%. Eighteen persons lose their lives
through the explosion of powder in the
artillery works in Kooisk, Southern
Russia
%. An excursion steamer runs over
a yacht in the Detroit river, and seven
teen persons are drowned.
AUGUST.
l. The ChIlian transport LOa blown
uu by TORPEDO in Callao bay, and $50
of her crew killed.
II. By train running off the track
of the Midland railroad, in England,
about dozen persons were killed.
u. Twenty persons are killed by
collision between two excursion trains
near Atlanta City, n j.
16. 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 pontoon
bridge over the river Ebro, in Spain,
over 100 officers and men were thrown
into the water, most of them beng
drowned.
3. The steamer City of Vera Cruz
founders off the coast of Florida, and
only thirteen of her passengers aud crew
of seventy-siX are saved.
4. Gen. Roberts defeats she Afghans
under Ayoob Khan, rear Candahar.
8. BY an explosion of fire damp in
the Seaham (Eneland) colliery, 40
miners lost their lives.
IS. The esteamer Aurora, from Oporto
for Southampton, founders at sea fifty
persons are drowned.
-. BY land slide in the Province
of bengal, British India, thirty-seven
persons were killed, most of them En-
qlish officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
8. Fifty pIners suftocated IN Il NINE
at Kattowitz. Germany.
9. Thirty persons killed and great
many severely injured by railway col
lision at Pittsburgh.
IL. Baltimore celebrates her l50th
birthday.
13. News is received of the starva-
ton of 500 Of the 700 inhabitants of
the island of ST. Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
IA. Completion of the Cologne Ca
thedral, commenced six centuries ago,
is celebrated
Is BY the explosion Of a cooker in
Haas q Powell's disrilIery, at Chicago,
seven persons are killed.
l6. A storm Of unexampled severity
sweeps over ,bt Northwest, accon pam
led by snow; many vessels and num-