Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-05
A YEARS HAPPENINGS,
Chronology and Neurology of 1880.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.

2. Great floods in England and France.
8. Parnell and Dillon arrive at New York.
4: Gypsy camp is found in Prussian Silesi
with eleven persons sitting around the romai
of fire frozen to death.
s. By a fire ut East Turner Hall, New Yo
city, five persons lose their lives.
s. -Four persons consumed in San Francis
FIRE.
II. The island Of St. Kits, West Indies, d
vastated by floods 200 lives are lost.
Is. Terrible wind-storm in Oregon caus,
loss of life and property.
10. A terrible cont1agration occurs at Toki
Japan, burning fifteen acres and destroying tt
lives Of over 100 people.
81. Colliery explosion near New Castle, FL
gland seventy-seven miners killed.
%. Bill for the gradual abolition Of SLAYER
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
%. 4 flood in the Cauca valley, New Grenad,
destroys 100000 worth Of property and
number of lives.
rs. The steamboat Charmer burns near tl
mouth of Red river, in Louisiana eight live
lost.
%. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion i
Saxony.
81. News is received Of horrible massacres il
Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY.
l. Steamer Bengore, from Penrath to Glib
raltar, founders, and thirteen of her crey
drowned.
2. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine isl
slids.
D. Ten Cinnamon cren,ated in a wash-hous,
lre in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned tt
death in cabin near Columbia, S. c. TIL
sl.oOo.0OO Court House at Dallas, Texas
burned.
5. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed b,
the fall of a barrack at Constantinople.
9. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eigh,
lives lost.
10. Burning of the City Hall at Albany, N. Y.
loss. 21,GO0,OO0.
IL; A family Of nine persons drowned by the
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.
10. Eight men killed by the explosion of the
boiler Of Peoria OH. } distlllery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso (South America) az
senal.
q. Bark Strathnairn, from London for Mel
bourne, sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned.
%. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, slxty-ive lives being lost.
MARCH.
l. The St. Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
5. Twenty-three persons killed by boiler
eAploSlOu aI UtlSkOW, ScOllanQ.
6. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatemie
burns.
7. Great fire in St. Paul, MINI.
E. Twentv-four soldiers killed by the blowing
up Of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill.
8. 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
burned to death,
H. Boiler explosion in the haxseed-mils at
Franhf 'rt, Ind, by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
"a. Parliament prorogued by the Queen, and
new elections ordered.
l. By fre-damp explosion in 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
allied IN Afghanlstan, and his army scattered.
1. Thlrty-one dwellings, burned at a village
ii SAVOY, seventeen persons per1shing.
g. The Peruvians defeat the Chiians, with q
oss of 1900 killed.
8. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay. Burmah as a sacrifice
% restore the Kings health.
II. By the explosion of a still in creosote
actor, near London, eleven persons lose their
ives.
II. A schooner, with all hands, goes down
n Long Island sound, during severe gale.
II. Thirty men torn to pieces by the explo- !
ion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
IS. Marshtield, No., almost wiped out by !
vclone about 100 lives and $500, 900 worth Of !
properly destroyed. |
10. Seven men drowned off the north shore /
+ Michigan by the swapping of their saiboat. !
u. The walls Of the Madison Square Garden,
l New York, give way, killing four persons |
nd woundluy several
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation of
BE E"tc"n>ticl,l Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
rownel off tho Scotch coast
%. Gladstone is asked to form a Cabinet 4 !
Re saving crew of seven men, Off the coast of
[ich!gan. lose their lives. A son of Mayor Kal-
'ch, of San Francisco. kills Charles De Young,
1itor of the Chronicle.
25. Cyclone at Macon, Miss, kills seventeen
ersons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
an county, Ill
l. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
Hing number of workmen.
4. \ feet of fishing boats driven upon the
0ast of Oregon, and twenty-five Of the fisher
zen are dro sned.
8. Fourteen persons killed at fire in Lon
on, England.
TO- By an explosion Of powder in the St.
othard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work.
len are killed.
IA. Milton, Pa, is wiped out by the flames
'ss, :2,OoO,000.
Is. An explosion in London (Engand) iron
oundry kills twenty-five persons
49, United States Senator Gordon, of Geor-
ia. resigns and ex-Gov. Brown is appointed.
% Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in New
[exico, and kills ffty-fve Of them.
%. Twenty persons persisted in the floods
aused by an excessive rain-storm IN Texas.
%. The town Of Savoy, Texas, is wiped out
"a cyclone; about fifteen persons killed.
81. fight with the Indians occurs in New
lexico, in which about q dozen white men are
lied.
8. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
le Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot, at
hicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by q cy-
lone in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
II. J. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
ackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
II. Collision on Long Island sound between
ae Narragansett and Stonington, in which the
1rmer takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
engers.
13. The boiler Of the Spanish war ship Cuba
'spanola e1plodes, killing twenty persons and
'ounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
y the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
Is. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in
elribe storm and waterspout near Dresden,
Germany.
"a. Gen. W. s. Hancock nominated BY the
democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
%. Fifty passengers lost by the burning of
he Long Island sound steamer, seawanahaka,
ear New York city.
JULY.
1. -Four persons are killed by the explosion of
he boiler Of the pleasure boat Mary, on Lake
Iinnetonka.
4. Seven persons drown by the overturning Of
yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota.
II. A raft with forty persons upon it breaks |
0 pieces in the Black sea, near Odessa, and all |
re drowned.
15 By an explosion in coal mine at Risca,
4 Wales, 119 miners all in the shaft-are
Tiled.
IS. Cleopatra's needle. presented to the city
f New York by the late Khedive Of Egypt, ar
ives at that city.
81. The Jersey City tunnel, in process Of con-
truction, caves in, burying twenty-one work.
men.
%. Eighteen persons lose their lives through
he explosion of powder in the artillery works
n Kooisk, Southern Russia.
%. An excursion steamer runs over yacht
n the Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
rowned. g,..
AUGUST.