Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-05

%. BY land slide 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
witz, Germany.
9. Thirty persons killed and great many
severely injured by railway collision at Pitts
burgh.
II. Baltimore celebrates her 15Oth birthday.
IS. News is received Of the starvation of 5O(
OF the 7Oo 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 &
Powells distilery, at Chicago, seven persons
| are killed.
49, A storm of unexampled severity sween,
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow
many vessels and number Of lives lost on the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Alpena
founders, with loss Of about eighty lives,
none being saved.
Is. Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
leo and his band scattered.
rs The coast of England visited by tor
11oie gale, and many ships and lives lost.
NOVEMBER.
g. Sixty robbers who plundered the Brazilian
town OF Jaunaria year before, are surprised
by soldiers and killed.
4. by the breaking of the hoisting apparatus
III Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
3. typhoon passes over Japan which de-
nohshes 1000 residences in Toxic and browns
lo0 fishermen. News received of the loss of
the Jeannette and a number of whalers in the
Arctic sea by being crushed by the ice. Thirty
hurdlsh marauders in Persia are crucified by
Their leaders for disohedience of orders.
8. The propeller Zealand goes down ON Lake
SIy
.. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
OF the steamer Thomas Kingsford, on Lake On
tario.
IL. Seven men burned to death in petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
II. Forty-seven miners killed by coal-mine
explosion in Nova Scotia.
II: 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 of
Wales. Twelve men suffocated in coal mine
in Belg' UNI.
20. The British steamer Mildred founders in
md-ocean with crew of twenty-eisht.
"a. BY collision between the French steamer
Oncle Joseph and the Italian steamship Or
tlSla the former is sunk and 232 persons 20
down.
%. The Persians ornament the walls of the
prison at Tabreez with the heads of 300 Kurds |
taken in battle.
26. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all on
board in Georgian bay. Lake Huron.
rs. 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 coiory.
II. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes the
1eath of a crew of twenty-five persons.
II. Jay Gould's conservatory at Irvington,
IN the Hudson, is destroyed by fire loss,
$3.50, ZOO.
49, About twenty boys lose their lives BY
he burning of wallpaper factory at Buff
alo.
%. Congress adjourned for the holiday sea-
III. passenger tram plunges through So
eet trestle at Llncolnton, n. c., killing four
ersons. Bark Bristolian wrecked on Anticosti
land; three Of the crew drowned and three
oxen to death.
%: Explosion of giant powder cartridges on
re Lehigh Valley road, Pennsylvania; two
lied and two badly injured.
II. Three men, John Shea. Chester Morse and
Bruce, while attempting to cross the Boston
I'd Albany railroad track in wagon near
alkers Grove, Natick, Mass, were struck by
ain and all instantly killed.
70. 4 train on the London Huron and Bruce
liway struck sleigh containing a pleasure
|rty, near Ciandeboyne Station, Ont. James
cGrath, hi wife, and brother Matthew, and
ton Blake, cousin, were instantly killed, {
cGrath's child, 10 months old, was danger
lsly hurt, Iut may recover. A sixth, named
cne NlcGrath. saved herself by jun ping.
p. The boiler il, Dodge's boot and shoe fac
Iry at Newburyport, Mass, explodes with ter {
&c effect, demo|ishins the greater portion of \
e building and several others adjoining it. \
mes Huntington, Daniel Bridges and John
Bailey were instantly killed and their bodies c
re taken from the debris frightfully scalded
ID mangled p
=; Storm on the Jersey coast. summer Il
Sldence at Monmouth Beach was damaged to {
e extent Of $4,000. The roads about Long J
anch were blockaded with snow. some drifts Fl
ing ten feet deep. At Coney Island the sea I
ept away the plaza Of the Oriental hotel and T
;l1ed Off about 200 feet of the bulkheads. a
Manhattan Beach hotel some of the outlv-
bath houses were smashed into kindling. n
od. The damage is estimated at from S75,- Z
} to 500, 900. Two men lost their lives near
d Bank, n. J. e
30. Eighteen villages in Holland flooded BY j,
} bursting Of dykes; damage immense; great fl
fering amongst the inhabitants. 81