Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-05
A YEARS HAPPENINGS.
Chronology and Neurology of 1880
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.

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s. BY a fire at East Turner Hall, New York
city. five persons lose their lives
s. Four persons consumed in a San Francisco
Are.
IL. The island of st. Kits, West Indies, de-
vastated by floods 200 lives are lost.
15 Terrible wind-storm in Oregon causes
loss of life and property.
49, A terrible conhagration occurs at Toxic,
Japan, burning fifteen acres and destroying the
lives Of over 100 people.
q. Colliery explosion near New Castle En-
gland seventy-seven miners killed.
o. Bill for the gradual abolition of slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
%. A flood in the Cauca valley, New Grenada,
destroys 100000 worth of property and a
number of lives.
g. The steamboat Charmer burns near the
mouth of Red river, in Louisiana eight lives
lost
o. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion in
Saxony.
81 News is received of horrible massacres in
Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY.
l. Steamer Bengore, from Penrath to Glib
raltar, founders, and thirteen of her
drowned.
2. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine ISL
ands
5. Ten Cinnamon cremated in wash-house
fire in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
death in cabin near Columbia, S. G. The
100000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
burned
s. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
the fall of barrack at Constantinople.
9. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
lives lost
TO- Burning of the City Hall at Albany, N. Y;
loss. 81, 100000.
16. A family of nine persons drowned by the
food near Mayfeld, Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill the impe-
rial family of Russia by explosion of a mine at
the Winter Palace fails; ten soldiers are
killed.
10. Eight men killed by the explosion of the
boiler of a Peoria Oil. } dIstllery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso (South America) ar
senal
%. Bark Strathnairn. from London for Mel
bourne sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned.
g. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sixty-five lives being lost.
MARCH.
1. The St Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
5. Twenty-three persons killed by boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland
6. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatomle
burns.
T. Great fire in st. Paul. Mimi.
s. 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 Histula on the Austro-Russian
frontier.
10. By fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Russia, twenty-four persons are
burned to death.
II. Boiler explosion in the flaxseed-mills at
Frankfort, Ind, by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
"a. Parliament prorogued by the Queen. and
new elections ordered.
APRIL.
|. BY a fire-damp explosion in a coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed.
2. Nine murderers are hung at various places
in the United States.
g. Triumph of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed in Afghanistan and his army scattered.
4. Thirty-one dwellings, burned at village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perlshing.
s. The Peruvians defeat the Chlllans, with
loss of 1900 killed.
g. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay. Burmah, as a sacrifice
to restore the Kings heath.
H. By the explosion of still in a creosote
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
Il A schooner, with all hands, goes down
In Long Island sound, during severe gale.
II. Thirty men torn to pieces by the explo-
sion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
Is. Marshfeld, Mo-, almost wiped out by
cyclone about 100 lives and $500, 900 worth of
property destroyed.
49, Seven men drowned off the north shore
of Michigan by the swapping of their sailboat.
q. The walls of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
and wounding several
O. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation Of
the Beacons6eld Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned off the Scotch coast.
%. Gladstone is asked to form a Cabinet. A
life -sa vlng crew of seven men, off the coast of
Michigan. lose their lives. A son of Mayor Kali
loch, of San Francisco, kills Charles De Young.
editor of the Chronicle.
Is. Cyclone at Macon Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
tan county, IL
1. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
killing a number of workmen.
4. A feet of fishing boats driven upon the
coast of Oregon, and twenty-five Of the fisher
men are dro Sned.
s. Fourteen persons killed at a fire IN Lon
don England.
10. By an explosion of powder in the st.
Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work
men are killed.
IA. Milton, Pa, is wiped out by the flames |;
loss, $2,OOO,OOO.
Is An explosion in a London England iron
foundry kills twenty-f persons
10. United States Senator Gordon, of Geor-
gia, resigns. and. ex-Gov. Brown is appointed.
%. Col Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico, and kills ffty-five of them.
g. Twenty persons persisted in the floods
caused by an excessive rain-storm III Texas.
49, The town of Savoy, Texas, is wiped out
by a cyclone; about fifteen persons killed.
81. A fight with the indians occurs in New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
killed.
JUNE.
g. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
the Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot at
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy-
clone in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
IL. J. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
r. Collision on Long Island sound between
the Narragansett and Stonington. in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengers.
49, The boiler of the Spanish war ship Cuba
Espanoa explodes, killing twenty persons and
wounding 113.
IT. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
by the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
IS. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in