The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-06
1880
4 Chronology Of the Stirring Evcs.ts ef Tx
1<~S-Reco,l =Oj' thG Distisa-
vts;she6t Itssd.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.

JANUARY.
2. Great foods in England aud France.
3. Parnell aud Dillon arrive at New York.
1. A Gypsy camp Is found in Prussian Sileiia
with eleven persons sittins around the remain
OF . 8re frozen to death.
s. By fire At East Turner Hall, New Yori
city, dve persons loae their lives.
6. -Four persons consumed in = San Ftancisc,
fire.
ii: The island Of St. Kits, West Indies, de
| vastated by floods 200 lives are lost
Is. Terrible wind-stOrm in Oregon cause:
loss of life and property.
19. terrible contiagration occurs at Toxic
Japan, burning ffteen acres and destroying th,
lives Of over 1Co people.
81. Co>liery explosion near New Castle, En-
gland seventy-seven miners killed.
%. Bill for the gradual abolition Of SLAYER,
in Oaba passes the Spsnish Cortes. 8 =. &
q. x d0od In the Cauca valley, New Grenada
destroys 100000 worth Of property and !
number Of lives.
Is The steamboat Charner burns near thu
mouth Of Red river, in Louisiana eight live:
| lost.
2s. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion il
81. News is received Of horrible m.ss.cres in
| Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY.
|. !. Steamer Bengore, from Perath to Glib
]
| drowned.
2: Terrible hurricane in the Philippine i'll.
| ands.
g. Ten Cinnamon cremAted in wash-house
fire in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
death in cabin near Columbia, 8. G. The
| sl,0 100000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
! burned.
S. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
! tho fall Of a barrack ut Constantinople.
| 9. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
lives lost.
10. Burning m M Of the City Hall at Albany, N. "
! loss, 8, 1,O00, 600.
l6. A family OF nine persons drowned BY the
flood near Mayheld, Ky.
II. All unsuccessful attempt to kill the irnpe-
| rial family OF Russia hy explosion Of mine ST
the Winter Palace tails i; ten sot.iiers are
| killed.
-. Eight men killed BY the explosion Of the
~. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells i'll the Valparaiso (Solth Aa.erioa) ar-
| sensl.
%. Bark Str4thnairn from London for Mel.
| bourne, sunk bS collision, aud sixteen perso.s
| drowned.
2a. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sixty-five lives being lost.
l. The st. dothard tunnel through the Alps
ia cut through.
5. Twenty three persons killed by = boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland.
6: The Kansas Insane Asylum At osaw.tsmie
2. Great fire in st. Paul, MINI.
8. Twenty-four soldiers killed by tho blowing
up Of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill,
9. Thirty villages swept away by ao&'d from
the river Vistula On the Austro-ls1ssial,
| frontier.
10. By fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Russia, twenty-four persons are
burned to death.
II. Boiler explosion in the haxseed-mills at
Frankfort, Ind., by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
-. Parliament prorosued BY the Queen, and
new elections ordered.
APRIL.
|. By ire-damp explosion in coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed.
2. Nine murdercrs are hung at various places
in the United States.
3. Triumph Of the Liberals at the Enel;sh
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed III AfGhanistan, AMI his army scattered.
4: Thirty-one dwellings burned at 4 village
OF savoy, seventeen pers.,ns per1shing.
8. The Peruvisns defeat the Chilians with
loss of ], 800 killed.
8. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, as a sacrifice
to restore the Kings health.
IL. By the explosion of = still in . creosote
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
H. A schooner, with all hands, goes down
in Long Island sound, during severe gale.
IL. Thirty men torn to pieces by the explo-
sion OF giant powder, near San Francisco
IS. MarshAeld, No., almost wiped out BY
cyclone about 100 lives and $500, 600 worth OF
property destroyed.
of Michigan by the swamping Of their saiboat.
q: The walls OF the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
and woundins several.
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation Of
the Beaconstcld Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned of the Scotch coast.
%. Gladstone ia asked to form a Cabinet. A
ife-savlng crew of seven men, off 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
Rsaseos s,sn counts si RsoRe killed BY storm in Chris
!: A Are-works9actory, near Paris, blows up.
killing number of workmen.
4. A feet of fishing boats driven upon tho
coast Of Oregon, and twenty-five Of the ashe,.
men are dro Nned.
8. Fourteen person. killed At fire in Lon
don, England. ;,
II. By m explosion of powder in tho st.
aoth:sa :se ;',ns tanas in Switzerland eighteen work
IL. IL y si3tsn se G Ps' is wiped out by tho .es
.15. An explosion in 4 London Eneland) iron
foundry kills twenty-five persons.
l9. United States Senator Gordon, of Geoe-
gla. resigns, and ex-Gov. Brown is appointed.
%. Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico, and kills ffty-five Of them.
2S. Twenty persons perished In tho floods
caused BY an excessive rain-storn IN Texas.
29. The town Of Savoy, Texas, is wiped out
bya cyclone; about fifteen persons killed.
81. fight with the Indians occurs In New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
killed.
8. Con- Garfield nominated for President by
the Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot, 1t
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives BY = cy-
clone In Pottawattamie county. Iowa.
T., =: ): B. Weaver ,. nominated BY the Green
II. Collision on Long Island sound between
the Narragansett and Stonington, in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengers. ~:
IS. The boiler OF the Spanish war ship Cubs
Espanola e1plodes, killing twenty persons and
| II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
/
18. 6ixty-throe persons lose their lives in 1
terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden
| Germany.
| "A. Gen. W. 8. Hancock nominated by tn.
! Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
28: Fifty passengers lost by tho burning o1
the Long Island sound steamer, 6eawanahaka
oeaE New York city.
JULY.
1. Four persons arc killed BY the explosion o,
the boiler Of the pleasure boat Mary, on LAX.
| Hinneto0ka.
4. seven persons drown by the overturning Of
yacht on White Bear lake, in Mihnesots.
IL. A rsft with forty PERSONS upon it break
to pieces in the Black sea, near Odessa, and al
are drowned. - -
16. Byan e1p'onon in coal mine at Risca
In Wales 1l9 miners all in the shaft-arl
Ekilled. -: 81 s:--5sE -. = :
ls. Cteopatra's needle. presented to tho cit,
Of New: York b The late Khedive Of Egypt, ~
zives at that { :..s> s> - -.
n. Tho Jersey City tunnel, In process Of con
stroetion, esves IN; barIyinG twsnty-one work
a. Eightesn persons los their Hves through
tlle a1plosion Of por6ee2 IN sfho aItilleey wugi
In Kooisk, Southern 1uDGia y s:s'ss ~ =
j q. An excursion runs over . yaoh
j y tho Dshuit rivee; ~ seventeen pefso9e &,