The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-01-08
A YEARS HAPPENINGS.
Chronology and Neurology of 1880.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUAR Y.

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! 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 conhagr,tion 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.
! %. Bill for the gradual abolition Of slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes.
g. A flood in the Cauca valley, New Grenada,
! destroys 81, DOC, 900 worth of property and
number Of lives.
| rs. The steamboat Clarmer burns near the
mouth of Red river, in Louisiana eight lives
! lost.
o. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion in
/ Saxony.
81 News is received Of horrible massacres in
! Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY.
l. Steamer Bengore, from Penrath to Glib
raltar, founders, and thirteen Of her crew
drowned.
O. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine ISL
ands
5. Ten Cinnamon cremated in a wash-house
fire in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned to
100000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
| burned.
s. Two hundred Turkish soldiers killed by
the fall of barrack at Constantinople.
9. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
lives lost.
10. Burning of the City Hall at Albany, NJ Y;
! loss, 81, COO, 900.
16. A family Of nine persons drowned by the
food near Mayfeld, Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill the impe-
the Winter Palace fails; ten soldiers are
killed.
19. Eight men killed by the explosion of the
boiler of Peoria Oll.) distlllery.
20. Twenty persons killed by the explosion of
shells in the Valparaiso (South America) ar
senal.
%. Bark Strathnairn, from London for Mel
bourne, sunk by collision, and sixteen persons
drowned
20. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sixty-fve lives being lost.
MARCH.
l. The st. Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
s. Twenty-three persons killed by boiler
explosion at Glasgow Scotland.
6. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatomie
burns.
7. Great fire in St. Paul, MINI.
s. Twenty-four soldiers killed by the blowing
up of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill.
y. d
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
IL. Boiler explosion in the faxseed-mills at
Frankfort, Ind, by which ten employees were
torn to pieces.
"a. Parliament pror0gued by the Queen, and
new elections ordered.
APRIL.
l. BY fire-damp explosion in coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed.
q Nine murderers are hung at various places
in the United States.
g. Triumph of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. Mohammed Jan
killed in Afghanistan, and his army scattered.
4. Thirty-one dwellings burned at a village
of Savoy, seventeen persons perlshlng.
g. The Peruvians defeat the ChlIans, with
loss of 300 killed.
g. Seven hundred men, women and children
buried alive at Mandalay, Burmah, as sacrifice
10 restore the Kings health.
II. By the explosion of still In a creosote
factory, near London eleven persons lose THEN
lives.
IA. A schooner, with all hands, goes down
In Long Island sound, during severe gale.
II. Thirty men torn to pieces by the explo-
sion of giant powder, near San Francisco.
IS. Marshfeld, Mo-, almost wiped out by q
cyclone; about 100 lives and $780, 600 worth Of
49, Seven men drowned off the north shore
of Michigan by the swapping of their sailboat.
q. The walls of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York give way, killing four persons
end wounding several
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation Of
the Beacons6eld Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned off the Scctch coast.
%. Gladstone is asked to form Cabinet. A
life saving crew of seven men, off the coast of
Michigan, lose their lives. A son Of Mayor Kali
loch, of San Francisco, kills Charles De Young,
editor of the Chronicle.
Is. Cyclone at Macon Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm in Chris
tan county, III
1. A fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
killing number of workmen.
4. fleet of fishing boats driven upon the
coast of Oregon, and twenty-five or the fisher
men are dro Tned.
8. Fourteen persons killed at fire in Lon
don, England.
10. By an explosion of powder in the st.
Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work.
men are killed.
IA. Milton, Pa, il wiped out by the flames;
loss, s., 000, 900.
Is An explosion in London England iron
foundry kills twenty-five persons.
10. United States Senator Gordon, Of Geor-
gia. resigns, and eI-Gov. Brown is appointed.
Is. Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico, and kills fifty-ive of them.
%. Twenty persons persisted in the floods
caused by an excessive rain-storm In Texas.
20. The town of Savoy, Texas is wiped out
by cyclone; about fifteen persons killed
81. fight with the Indians occurs IN New
Mexico in which about dozen white men are
killed.
g. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
the Republicans, on the thirty-sixth ballot, at
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by a cy
clone in Pottawattamie county, Iowa.
II. j. B. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
~. Collision on Long Island sound between
the Narragansett and Stonington, in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
senGerS.
10. The boiler of the Spanish war ship Cuba
Espanola explodes, killing twenty persons and
wounding 113.
H. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
by the Prohbitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
Is. Sixty-three persons lose their lives in
terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden,
Germany.
"a. Gen. W. s. Hancock nominated by the
Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
2S Fifty passengers lost by the burning Of
the Long Island sound steamer, Seawanahaka,
near New York city.
1. Four persons are killed by the explosion of
the boiler of the pleasure boat Mary, on Lake
Minnetonka
f. Seven persons drown by the overturnlng Of
n Yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota.
II. A raft with forty persons upon it breaks
TO pieces in the Black sea, near Odessa, and all
are drowned.
Is. By an explosion in coal mine at Risca,
IN Wales, 119 miners all III the shaft-are
killed.
10. Ceopatras needle. presented to the city
of New York by the late Khedive of Egypt, ar
rives at that city.