The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-06
THE DEAD PAST.
A Record of the Important Happen.
ings of the Year 1850.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.

3. Parnell and Dillon arrive at New York.
4. A Gypsy camp is found in Prussian Silesia,
| with eleven persons sitting around the remains
| of fire frozen to death.
s. By fire at East Turner Hall, New York
city, five persons lose their lives.
6. Four persons consumed In 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.
10. A terrible confiagration occurs at Toxic,
Japan, burning fifteen acres and destroying the
| lives of over 100 people,
81. Colliery explosion near New Castle, En-
| gland seventy-seven miners killed.
o. Bill for the gradual abolition Oh slavery
| in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
%. A flood in the Cauca valley, New Grenada
destroys $1,0OO,0O0 worth of property and a
number of lives.
| 25. 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.
/. Steamer Bengore from Penrath to Glib
| raltar. founders, and thirteen of her crew
| drowned.
| 2. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine isl
| ands.
s. Ten Chinamen cremated in a wash-house
|
| death in a cabin near Columbia, 8. G. The
| S1,0OO, 900 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
| burned
| s. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
the fall Of barrack at Constantinople.
g. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
| lives lost.
10. Burning of the City Hall at Albany, N. T.;
| loss, 81, 100000.
16. A family Of nine persons drowned by tho
flood 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 Peoria GIL distillery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso South America) ar
| senal.
29. Bark Strathnairn, from London for Mel
| bourne, sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned.
20. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sixty-ive 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.
g. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatemie
| burns.
T. Great fire in st. Paul, MINI.
| g. Twenty-four soldiers killed by the blowing
up of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chilli.
| g. Thirty villages swept away by flood from
the river Vistula on the Austro-Russian
| frontier.
10. By fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Russia, twenty-four persons are
II. Boiler explosion in the fiaxseed-mills at
Frankfort, Ind, by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
| "a Parliament prorogued by the Queen, and
| new elections ordered.
| APRIL.
1. BY a fire-damp explosion in q coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed.
2. Nine murderers are hung at various places
in the United States.
3. Triumph of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed i'll Afghanistan, and his army scattered.
4. Thirty-one dwellings, burned at village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perlshing.
s. The Peruvians defeat the Chilians, with Q
loss of 1900 killed.
Q. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, as sacrifice
| to restore the Kings health.
| IL. By the explosion of q still in a 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 meu torn to pieces by the explo-
sion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
49, Marshfield, No., almost wiped out by q
cyclone; about 100 lives and $500, 600 worth OF
property destroyed.
IS. Seven men drowned off the north shore
| of Michigan by the swamping of their sailboat.
q. The walls of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
| and wounding several.
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation OF
the Beaconsfeid Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned off the Scotch coast
23 Gladstone is asked to form a Cabinet.
ife-savlng crew of seven men, of the coast OF
Michigan, lose their lives. A son Of Mayor Kal
loch, of San Francisco, kills Charles De Young
editor of the Chronicle.
25. Cyclone at Macon, Miss. kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
J tan county, Ill.
1. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up
killing a number of workmen.
4. A fleet of fishing boats driven upon tht
| coast of Oregon, and twenty-five of the fisher
men are dro Sned.
8. Fourteen persons killed at fire in Lon
don, England.
To- By an explosion of powder in the st
2 Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work
a. Milton, Pa, is wiped out by the flames
| loss, So, 900, 600.
l Is. An explosion in London Englan4 irol
, foundry kills twenty-five persons.
! 10. United States Senator Gordon, of Geor
gia, resigns, and ex-Gov. Brown is appointed
25. Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in Ne,
Mexico, and kills fifty-fve of them.
2S. Twenty persons persisted in the flood
caused by an excessive rain-storm In Texas.
3 20. The town of Savoy, Texas, is wiped ou
by cyclone about fifteen persons killed.
6 81. A fight with the Indians occurs in NeN
l Mexico, in which about dozen white men ar
9 killed.
JUNE.
, 8. Gen. Garfield nominated for President
l the Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot, q
2 Chicago.
, 10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy
/, clone in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
II. J. B. Weaver nominated by the Greer
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
!, II. Collision on Long Island sound betwee
: the Narragansett and Stonington, in which th
:. former takes fire and goes down, with fifty paf
4 sengers.
O Is. The boiler of the Spanish war ship Cub
r Espanola explodes, killing twenty persons an
wounding lib.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidenc
z by the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
18. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in
r terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden
l. Germany.
l. "a. Gen. W. s. Hancock nominated by th
=, Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
28 Fifty passengers lost by the burning
the Long Island sound steamer, Seawanahak,
|, near New York city.
JULY.
1. Four persons are killed by the explosion
the boiler of the pleasure boat Mary, on Lal
-. Minnetonka.
" 4. Seven persons drown by the overturning
5, a yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota.
v u. A raft with forty persons upon it breal
ic to pieces in the Black sea, near Odessa, and a
If are drowned.
, Is. By an explosion in a coal mine at Rise
=, in Wales, 119 miners all in the shaft-al
10 killed.
S. 1s. Cleopatra's needle. presented to the eli
10 of New York by the late Khedive of Egypt a
le rives at that city.
,e 81. The Jersey City tunnel, in process of col
# struction, caves in burying twenty-one wor
:: men.
Ii %. Eighteen persons lose their lives throue
the explosion of powder in the artillery worl
in Kooisk, Southern Russia.
ID %. An excursion steamer runs over q yacl
n in the Detroit river, and seventeen persons a,
- drowned.
u AUGUST.