Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-05

tn Kooisk, Southern Russia.
49, An excursion steamer runs over yacht
in the Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
drowned
1. The CHILEAN transport Loa blown up by a
torpedo in Callao bay, and 15O of her crew
killed.
H. BY train running off the track of the
Midland railroad. in England, about dozen
persons are killed.
II. Twenty persons are killed by collision
between two excursion trains near Atlantic
City, n. J.
L. The town of Eureka, New. is second
time almost wiped out by fire.
IL. Great parade of Knights Templar in
Chicago.
SEPTEMBER.
2. By the giving way of a pontoon bridge
over the river Ebro, in Spain, over 100 officers
and men were thrown into the water most of
them being drowned.
g. The steamer City of Vera Cruz founders
off the coast of Florida, and only thirteen of
her passengers and crew of seventy-six are
saved.
4. Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan near Candahar,
9. Bv an explosion of fire-damp in the Sea-
ham England) coliery, 140 miners lost their
10. The steamer Aurora, from Oporto for
southampton, founders at sea fifty persons
are drowned.
%. By land side in the Province of Bengal
British India, thirty-seven persons were killed,
most of them English officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
s. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katto-
WITT. Germany.
g. Thirty persons killed and q great many
severely injured by a railway collision at Pitts
burgh.
II. Baltimore celebrates her 15Oth birthday.
10. News is received Of the starvation of 500
of the 700 inhabitants of the island of st.
Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
IA. Completion of the Cologne Cathedral,
commenced six centuries ago, is celebrated.
Is. By the explosion of cooker in Haas
Powel's distillery, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed
Is. A storm of unexampled severity sweeps
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and a number of lives lost on the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Alpena
founders, with a loss of about eighty lives,
none being saved.
10. Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
%. The coast of England visited by ter
nble gale and many ships and lives lost.
NOVEMBER.
8. Sixty robbers, who plundered the Brazilian
town Of Jaunaria year before, are surprised
by soldiers and killed.
4. By the breaking of the hosting apparatus
IN Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed
b. A typhoon passes over Japan which de-
molshes 600 residences in Toxic and browns
100 fishermen. News received of the loss of
the Jeanette and number of whalers in the
Arctic sea by being crushed by the ice. Thirty
Kurdish marauders in Persia are crucifed by
their leaders for disobedience of orders.
s. The propeller Zealand goes down on Lake
Ontario with all on board, sixteen persons.
9. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
Of the steamer Thomas kingsford, on Lake On
tario.
IL. Seven men burned to death in a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
II. FOrty-seven miners killed by coal-mine
explosion in Nova Scotia.
16. The Minnesota State Insane Asylum at
st. Peter burned, and large number of the
inmates lost their lives.
10. The Kurds sack Persian village and put
200 people to the sword.
Is. Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
their lives by the wreck of the coaster Oilsa off
Wales. Twelve men suffocated in coal mine
in Belg um.
90 The British steamer Mildred founders in
mld-ocean with a crew of twenty-eight.
a. BY collision between the French steamer
Oncle Joseph and the Italian steamship Or
tigia the former is sunk and 232 persons go
down.
25. The Persians ornament the walls of the
prison at TabreeZ with the heads of 800 kurds
taken in battle.
&c. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all on
board in Georgian bay Lake Huron.
%. Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, of Colorado, is
killed by miners near Leadville.
DECEMBER.
l. The Electoral Colleges meet in the various
State capitals and cast the electoral votes for
President and Vice President.
8. Flogging abolished in the British navy.
10. One hundred miners are killed by fire.
damp explosion in a Welsh colliery.
II. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes the
death of a crew of twenty-five persons.
II. JAY Goulds conservatory at Irvington
on the Hudson, is destroyed by fire; loss.
$15O,00O.
IS. About twenty boys lose their lives by
the burning of wallpaper factory at Buff
falo.
%. Congress adjourned for the holiday sea-
son. A passenger tram plunges through 80
feet trestle at. Lincolnton, N. c., killing four
persons. Bark Bristolian wrecked on Anticosti
island; three Of the crew drowned and three
frozen to death.
23. Explosion of giant powder cartridges on
the Lehigh Valley road, Pennsylvania; two
killed and two badly injured.
"a. Three men. John Shea. Chester Morse and
J. Bruce, while attempting to cross the Boston
and Albany railroad track in wagon near
Walkers Grove, Natick, Mass, were struck by
train and all instantly killed.
IS. A train on the London, Huron and Bruce
railway struck a sleigh containing pleasure
party, near Clandeboyne Station, Ont. James
McGrath, his wife, and brother Matthew, and
Elton Blake, cousin, were instantly killed
McGrath's child, Is months old, was danger
ously hurt, but may recover. A sixth, named
Annie McGrath, saved herself by jun ping.
q. The boiler in Dodge's boot and shoe fac
tory at Newburyport, Mass, explodes with ter
rife effect, demolishing the greater portion of
the building and several others adjoining it.
James Huntington, Daniel Bridges and John
r. Bailey were instantly killed and their bodies
were taken from the debris frightfully scalded
and mangled.
II. Storm on the Jersey coast summer
residence at Monmouth Beach was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 The roads about Long
Branch were blockaded with snow, some drifts
being ten feet deep. At Coney Island the sea
swept away the plaza of the Oriental hotel and
carried off about 200 feet of the bulkheads.
At Manhattan Beach hotel some of the outly-
ing bath houses were smashed into 8indling
wood. The damage is estimated at from $75,-
600 TO $1,000 Two men lost their lives near
Red Bank, N. j.
80. Eighteen villages in Holland flooded by