The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-06
EATON OHIO 6 NUMB

II. By a train running OF the track of the
Midland railroad, in England, about dozen
persons are killed.
II. Twenty persons are killed by collision
between two excursion trains near Atlantic
City, N. J.
16. The town of Eureka, New, is O second
time almost wiped out by fire.
II. Great parade of Knights Tempiar in
Chicago.
SEPTEMBER.
2. By the giving way of pontoon bridge
over the river Ebfo, in Spain, over 100 officers
and men we're thrown into the water, most of
them being drowned.
8. The steamer City of Vera Cruz founders
off the coast of Florida, and only thirteen of
her passengers and crew Of seventy-six are
saved.
4. Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans under
Ayoob Khan, near Candahar
g. By an explosion of fire-damp in the Sea-
ham England) colliery, 14O miners lost their
| lives
49, The steamer Aurora, from Oporto for
Southampton, founders at sea fifty persons
| are drowned.
%. BY a land side in the Province of Bengal,
British India, thirty-seven persons were killed,
| most of them English officers and soldiers.
OCTOBER.
8. Fifty miners suffocated in mine at Katto-
| WITT, Germany.
0. Thirty persons killed and q great many
| severely injured by railway collision at Pitts
| burgh.
Ii. Baltimore celebrates her 15Oth birthday
13. News is received of the starvation Of 500
of tho 700 inhabitants OF the island OF st.
| Lawrence, Arctic ocean.
a. Completion of the Cologne Cathedral,
| commenced six centuries ago, is celebrated.
| 15 BY the explosion of a cooker in Haas &
| Powelrs disillery, at Chicago, seven persons
| are killed.
16 A storm of uperapnnled severitv avaeps
over the Northwest, accompanied by snow ;
| many vessels and number Of lives lost on the
lakes. The Goodrich Line steamer Apena
founders, with a loss of about eighty lives,
| none being saved.
Is. Victoria, the Apache chief, killed in Mex
| leo and his band scattered.
%. The coast of England visited by ter
rible gale, and many ships and lives lost
NOVEMBER.
s. Sixty robbers, who plundered the Brazilian
town of Jaunaria q year before, are surprised
by soldiers and killed
4. By the breaking of the hoisting apparatus
In Belgian mine sixteen miners are killed.
| B. typhoon passes over Japan which de-
| mollshes ], 600 residences in Toxic and browns
| 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 marauders in Persia are cruci6ed by
their leaders for disobedience of orders.
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Ontario with all on board, sixteen persons.
8. About twenty persons drowned by the loss
of the steamer Thomas Kingsford, on Lake On
tario.
IL. Seven men burned to death in a petro-
leum blaze near Bradford, Pa.
| IL. Forty-seven miners killed by coal-mine
| explosion in Nova Scotia.
16. 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.
l8. Twenty sailors and seven passengers lose
their lives by the wreck of the coaster Oilsa of
| Wales. Twelve men suffocated in coal mine
in Belgium.
40. The British steamer Mildred founders in
mid-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 &C
down.
Is. The Persians ornament the walls of the
prison at Tabreez with the heads of 800 Kurdi
taken in battle.
26. Propeller Simcoe goes down with all or
board in Georgian bay. Lake Huron.
2S. Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, of Colorado, ii
| killed by miners near Leadville.
DECEMBER.
1. The Electoral Colleges meet in the various
State capitals and cast the electoral votes fo
President and Vice President.
8. FlOgging abolished in the British navy.
10. One hundred miners are killed by fire
damp explosion in Welsh coliery.
IL. A shipwreck off Nova Scotia causes tn,
death of a crew of twenty-five persons
IL. Jay Gould's conservatory at Irvington
on the Hudson, is destroyed by fire; loss
$150,000.
49, About twenty boys lose their lives b,
the burning Of wallpaper factory at Buf
falo.