The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-07

H. BY train running of the track of the
Midland railroad, III England, about dozen
! persons are killed.
12 Twenty persons are killed by collision
between two excursion trains Atlantic
City, n. J.
16. The town Of Eureka, New, is second
time almost wiped ont by fire.
II. Great parade Of knights Templar in
Chicago.
SEPTEMBER.
q BY the giving way Of pontoon bridge
over the river Ebro, in Spain, over 100 officers
and men were thrown into the water, most Of
them being drowned.
8. The steamer City Of Vera Cruz founders
of the coast Of Florida, and only thirteen OF
Ter passengers and crew of seventy-six are
saved.
4. Gen Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan, near Candahaf,
.. BY an explosion Of fre-damp in the Sea-
ham (England) coliiery, 140 miners lost their
ls' The steamer Aurora, from Qporto for
ssslthalngtgr lEoa'l6e5s at SEA; 2 - persons.
~ BY a land side in the Province of Bengal,
British Indit, thirty-seven persons were killed,
most Of them English officers and soldiers
OCTOBER.
g. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katto-
WITT, Germany.
.. Thirty persons killed and a great many
severely injured 10y railway collision at Pitts
hurgh.
H. Baltimore celebrates her l5Oth birthday.
13. News is received of the starvation Of 300
OF the 700 inhabitants OF the island Of St
Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
H. Completion Of the Cologne Cathedral,
commenced siK centuries ago, i celebrated.
Is. By the explosion Of cooker in Haas Il
Powell's dis,iuery, at Chicago, seven persons
are killed.
Is. 4 storm or unexampled severity sweeps
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and a number OF lives lost on the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Npena
founders. with loss Of about eighty lives,
none being saved.
Is. Victoria, the Apache chief killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
2s. The coast OF England visited by ter
rlbie gale, and many ships and lives lost.
NOVEMBER.
3. Sixty robbers. who plundered the Brazilian
town Of Jaunaria year before, surprised
by soldiers and killed.
4. By the breaking Of the hoisting apparatus
IN q Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
5. A typhOOn passes over Japan which de-
mollshes 1000 residences IN Toxic and dfOwns
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 maraudoTs IN Persia are crucitied by
their leaders for disobedience Of orders.
s. The propeller Zealand goes down on Lake
Ontario with all on board. sixteen persons.
o About twenty persons drowned by the loss
Of the steamer Thomas kingsford, on Lake on
tario.
II. Seven men burned to death in a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford. Pa.
u. Forty-seven miners killed by coal-mine
explosion IN Nova Scotia.
10. The Minnesota State Insane Asylum al
I st. Peter burned, and large number OF the
inmates lost their lives.
10. The Kurds sack n Persian village and put
/ 200 people 70 the sword.
/ IS. Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
! their lives by the wreck Of the coaster Oilsa OF
| Wales. Twelve men sunOcated III a coal mine
/ in Belgium.
20 The British steamer Mildred founders in
/ mld-ocean with 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 60
down
%. The Persians ornament the walls OF the
/ prison at Tabreez with the heads OF 500 Kurds
/ taken in battle.
26. 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.
s. FlOgging abolished in the British navy.
10. One hundred miners are killed by lirc-
damp explosion in Welsh colliery.
II. A shipwreck of Nova Scotia causes the
death of crew of twenty-five persons.
u. Jay Gould's conservatory at Irvington.
on the Hudson, is destroyed by FIRE; loss,
| $4,000.
ls. About twenty boys lose their lives by
the burning Of a wallpaper factory at Buff
falo