The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-06
THE DEAD PAST.
Record Of the Important Happen.
fmgs of the Year 1850.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUAR ".

JANUARY.
q Great floods in England and France.
8. Parnell and Dillon arrive at New York.
4. A Gypsy camp is found in Prussan Silegia,
with eleven persons sitting around the remains
of a fire frozen to death.
5. By fire at East Turner Hall, New York
city, five persons lose their lives.
6. Four persons consumed in a San Francisco
fire.
Ii. The island of st. Kits, West Indies de-
vastated by floods 200 lives are lost.
Is. Terrible wind-storm in Oregon causes
loss of life and property.
19. A terrible conflagration occurs at Toxic,
Japan, burning fifteen acres and destroying the
lives of over 100 people.
q. Collery explosion near New Castle, En-
gland seventy-seven miners killed.
o. Bill fer the gradual abolition o. slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Oortes.
%. A flood in the Cauca valley, New Grenada,
destroys $1,o00.o00 worth Of property and q
number of lives.
Is. The steamboat Charmer burns near the
mouth of Red river, in Louisiana eight lives
lost
2s Fifteen miners killed by an explosion in
Saxony.
81. News is received of horrible massacres in
Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY.
1. Steamer Bengore, from Penrath to Glib
raItar, founders, and thirteen Of her crew
drowned.
q Terrible hurricane in the Philippine ISL
ands. ~,
5. Ten Cinnamon cremated in wash-house
fire in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
81, 900, 600 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
burned.
s. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
the fall of a barrack at Constantinople.
9. The Dublin Thsater Royal burned eight
lives lost.
10. Burning Of the City Hall at Albany, N. T.;
loss, 81 ,000, 600.
16. A family Of nine persons drowned by the
flood near Mayfeld, KY.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill the impe-
rial family of Russia by explosion Of mine at
the Winter Palace fails; ten soldiers are
killed
49, Eight men killed by the explosion Of the
boiler of Peoria Qll) distillery.
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.
49, A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, si1ty-fiye lives being lost.
MARCH.
1. The St. Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
S. Twenty-three persons killed by boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland.
6. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatemie
burns.
T. Great fire in st. Paul, MINI.
up of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill.
g. Thirty villages swept away by food from
the river Vistula 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 faxseed-mills at
Frankfort Ind, by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
a. Parliament prorogued by the Queen, and
new elections ordered.
1. By fre-damp explosion in q coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed.
2. Nine murderers are hung at various places
| in the United States.
8. Triumph of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed in Afghanstan, and his army scattered.
| 4. Thirty-one dwellings, burned at o village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perishing.
8. The Peruvians defeat the Chilians, with a
loss Of 1 100 killed.
g. Seven hundred men, women and children
| buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, as sacrifice
| to restore the Kings health.
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
a. schooner, with all hands, goes down
| in Long Island sound, during severe gale.
| men COTu 10 pieces w tuo cAplO-
| sion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
Is. Marshfield, Mo-, almost wiped out by q
| cyclone about 100 lives and $500, 900 worth of
| property destroyed.
| 19. Seven men drowned of the north shore
| of Michigan by the swamping Of their sailboat.
| 21. The walls Of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
| and wounding several.
a. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation of
the Beacons6eid Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned off the Scotch coast.
%. Gladstone is asked to form Cabinet. A
| life-sav1ng crew of seven men, on the coast OF
| Michigan, lose their lives. A son OF Mayor Kali
loch, Of San Francisco, kills Charles De Young,
editor of the Chronicle.
| rs. Cyclone at Macon, Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
tian county, Ill.
| 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.
8. Fourteen persons killed at 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, $4,000 900.
16. An explosion in a London EnglanO iron
10. United States Senator Gordon, Of Geor-
| gia, resigns, and ex-Gov. Brown is appointed
25. Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico, and kills fifty-fve of them.
%. Twenty persons persisted in the floods
| caused by an excessive rain storm In Texas
20. The town of Savoy, Texas, is wiped Out
by cyclone about fifteen persons killed.
81. A fight with the Indians occurs in New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
killed.
8. Gen. Garfield nominated for President BY
the Republicans on the thirty-sixth ballot, a
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy
clone in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
II. ]. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
12. Collision on Long Island sound between
the Narragansett and Stonington, in which th'
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengers.
IS. The boiler Of the Spanish war ship Cubs
Espanola explodes, killing twenty persons ant
wounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidenc,
by the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
18. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in
Germany.
a. Gen w. 8. Hancock nominated by tn,
Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
%. Fifty passengers lost by the burning O.
the Long Island sound steamer, Seawanahaka
near New York city.
JULY.
1. -Four persons are killed by the explosion o
the boiler of the pleasure boat Mary, on LAX
Minnetonka.
4. Seven persons drown by the overturning O
yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota.
12. A raft with forty persons upon it break
to pieces in the Black sea, near Odessa, and al
are drowned.
Is. By an explosion in O coal mine at Risca
in Wales, 119 miners all in the shaft-ar
killed.
18. Cleopatra's needle. presented to the cit
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.
a. Eighteen persons lose their lives through
the explosion Of powder in tho artillery work
| in Kooisk Southern Russia