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THE EVENTS OF A YEAR.
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A Condensed Diary of the Past
Twelve Months. ^
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CHB0N0L0GI0AL BEOOBD OF 1895.
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fall List of Disasters by Laml and Sea, So
cial, Philanthropic and Religious Gath
erings, Political and Personal Events,
the Obituary Roll and Index of Every
thing Worth Noting.
Tho following record of tho lending
svonts of the year 1805 has been carefully
compiled for immediate or futuro rofor
cnco:
JANUARY.
8. Fires: *225,000 damage at tho residence of
Hon. P. P. Mast, Springfield, O. 7 build
ings destroyed ut Coffey ville, Kan.; loss,
$105,000.
Obituary: Dr. George Marx, famous ento
mologist in Washington; aged 55.
$. Obituary: David H. Craig, the first general
manager of the Associated Press, at Asbury
Park.
9. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and oth
ers burned during a blizzard; loss, over
( $1,000,000; several firemen killed.
Obituary: Rev. Dr. King, famous for aid
{ given to escaping slaves, in Clotbam, Ont.;
/ aged 82. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, a distin
i guished Union veteran and a congressman
from Illinois, in Washington; aged fi2.
Political: Uprising in Hawaii in tho interests
of the deposed queen.
0. Fires: Godey’s flour mill and elevator
burned at Scottsville, N. Y.; loss, $125,000.
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man, critic and dramatist, in Port Rich
mond, N. Y.; aged 40.
10. Fires: Tho Osgoodby building and several
large busi&esi houses burned in Toronto;
loss, $1,000,000. Factories of the Wyeth
Hardware company burned at St. Joseph,
Mo.; loss, $150,000.
Obituary: Aaron L. Dennison, the father of
American watchmaking, in Birmingham,
l England; aged 83. Gen. Alfred W. Eliot,
noted as loader of the Union ram fleet in
tho Mississippi, at El Dorado, Kan.
14. Fire: A $100,(XX) blaze at Burnesville, O.
Strike: Trolley motormcn and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
16. Fire: Stadt theater, Milwaukee, damaged
to the amount of *120,000.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. S. F. Chadwick of Oro
gon, at Salem; aged 70. Charles C. Leigh,
' active temperance leader, in Brooklyn;
aged 82.
Disaster: Explosion of several powder care
ut Butte, Mon.; 76 killed, 100 injured.
Political: President Casimir-Perier of Franco
resigned.
4i \juiiuui y . vn n. 131 (K'i ii. nun a, u uiuuu
veteran prominent in public life in Chica
go; aged 62. Col. John Kean, founder and
, first president of tb" Central Railroad of
New Jersey, in New York; aged 81.
Politic«al: Francois Felix Faure elected presi
dent of France.
18. Criminal: Arrest and confession of Quig
ley, the bond forger, in New York; amount
involved, $144,000.
19. Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco.
20. Obituury: Prof. Augustus C. Merriam of
Columbia college, at Athens; nged 62.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn.
21. Financial: Tho Merchants’ bank of Bing
hamton and private bank of Erastus Ross
' & Sons closed their doors.
22. Obituary: Charles Secretan, noted Swiss
philosopher, at Lausanne; aged 80.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturers’
association mot at Cincinnati. Militia
fired on trolley strikers |n Brooklyn.
23. Obituary: Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, noted
medical professor and practitioner, in New
York city; aged 64. Brig. Gen. Stephen Y.
Benet, U. S. A., retired; aged 68.
\i. Qpltuazy: Loyd Randolph Henry 8pencor
i Churchill, prominent English politician, in
1 London; aged 46.
Criminal: Two masked men held up a train
on tho Cotton road near McNeil, Ark., and
plundered tho express car of $25,000.
85. Disaster: Five coal barges sunk in Lon'?
Island sound; 12 people drowned. Tho
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck
ed on tho Massachusetts coast; 4 of the
crew drowned.
M. Obituary: M. doGiers, Russian minister of
foreign affair., for many years, at 8t. Pe
tersburg; aged 75. Gen. Francis Darr, a
prominent Union veteran, at Wayne, Pa.;
aged 62.
A fierce gale along the Now England, Long
Island and New Jersey coasts.
17. Obituary: Mrs. Emma G. Bostwiek, “the
American Jenny Liud, ” at Morristown, N.
J. ; aged about 80.
Obituary: Canrobert, last marshal of
Franco, in Paris; aged 86.
Storms: Storm struck Galveston, capsizing
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
in Oklahoma.
W. Obituary: Dr. Jam in Strong, widely known
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland;
aged 70.
80. Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with a small steamer
in the North sea and sunk with over 000
people.
81. Obituary: Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
in Concord, Mass.: aged 79. Ward McAl
lister, noted society leader, in New York
' city.
Convention: The twenty-seventh annual con
vention of the American Woman’s Suffrage
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY,
8. Obituary: Theodore Dwight Welde, once a
• prominent antialavery agitator, at Hyde
Park, Mass.; aged 01.
4. Fire: Phoenix Glass works burnr I at Mo
naco, Pa.; loss, $200,000.
Obituary : Gen. Mahler D. Manson, veteran of
4 the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort,
i Ind.; aged 73. Gen. Rufus Barringer, a
< Confederate veteran, at Charlotte, N. C.;
aged 74.
Disaster: A trolley car plunged through an
open draw in Milwaukee; 8 killed, 8 in
jured.
6. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehouse
burned in Cincinnati; loss over $600,000. A
$100,000 fire in the business district of LeJp
sic, O.
7. Fires: Denison hotel, Indianapolis, dam
aged by fire to the extent of $165,000; 1
death. A $100,000 blaze at Evansville, Ind.
Personal: Gen. John M. Schofield mode lieu
tenant general.
8. Obituary: John L. Stevens, ex-minister to
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me.; aged 74. Rev.
Dr. William Markoe Taylor, a prominent
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged 66.
Disaster: 6 men run down by a Pennsylvania
railroad express at Lecknow.
fi. Fires: The union depot and hotel burned
at St. Joseph, Mo.; loss, $275,000. The Con
gregational church burned at Wellington,O.
Obituary: Prof. James R. Boise of the Chi
cago university, one of the most noted
Greek scholars in the country, In Chicago;
aged 80.
10. Fires: The Syndicate block burned In Rock
ford, Ills.; $75,000. The state printing house
burned at Harrisburg.
11. Wire: A store and a factory burned at Rock
ford. Ills.: loss, $100,000.
Obituary: Judge Charles E. A. Gayarre, dis
tinguished writer and historian, in New
Orleans; aged 00. JudgeCnarles L. Walker,
prominent writer and lawyer, at Detroit;
aged 81. Gen. Montgomery Corse, Confed
erate veteran, at Alexandria, Va.; aged 79.
18. Fires: Fatal fire at Lynn, Mass.; 8 firemen
1 killed, 0 injured. A $100,000 fire in Salt
Lake City.
14. Fire: Silk mill burned at Paterson, N. J.;
I loss, $800,000.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Gray. U. B. minister to
Mexico, in the City of Mexico.
15. Obituary: Richard F. Treveliick, promi
nent labor organizer, in Detroit; aged 69.
Dr. Samuel Spencer Stafford, founder of
the Stafford Ink company, in New York;
aged 69.
10. Strike: The Brooklyn trolley strike ended
on all linos except one. _
17 Criminal: Madge Yorke (Margaret Drys
dale), actress, murdered in Philadelphia
by James B. Gentry.*
19. Fires : Business places burned at Hamilton,
N. Y.; loss, $200,008.
Obituary: D. HamUl, one of Chicago's
oldest residents; aged 85.
Conventions: The annual convention _of ^Ju
perlntenAent-s* Nat* t association con
vened In Cleveland. The fourth conferees 1
of the Daughter* of the Revolution opened
iu Washington.
80. ^bituary: Frederick Douglass at Washing
ton j aged 78.
21. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Benjamin F. Prescott
New Hampshire at Epping, N. H.; aged
Convention: The ninth annual convention of
the Newspaper Publishers’ association met
in New York.
22. Fire: Several cottages and boarding houses
^u'TK'd i.t got Springs.
24. Obituary: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, a promi
nent Union veteran, in Troy, N. Y.; aged
67.
Criminal: Capt. Howgate, accused of em
bezzlement and forgery, acquitted.
20. Conventions: The National Dairy asso
ciation met in annual session at W’ashing
ton. The third annual session of butter
and cheese makers began at Roekford, III*.
28. Obituary: Ex-Judge Richard O'Uorman,
once a prominent Fenian, in New York
city; aged 74.
MARCH.
1. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb.;
loss. $65,000.
Disaster: G5 killed, 40 injtired on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City of Mexioo;
train down an embankment.
2. Fires: The business portion of the town of
Nocho, N. D., burned; loss, $54,000. Chlpa
company’s works burned at Akron, O.;
loss, $62,000. A $200,000 fire *.t Bethalto,
111*.
Obituary: Prof. John Ptuart Blackie of the
University of Edinl.. gh, in that city; aged
85.
8. Fire: A $1,250,000 fire in Toronto, the third
great conflagration in two months; a dozen
large business houses, hotel and church do
st roytd.
4. Fires: Electric power house burned at
Edgcwntor, Mis.; loss, $150,000. A $150,000
loss by fire at Kalina, Knn.
Obituary: Colonel W. C. Coup, the veteran
showman, at Jacksonville, Fla."; aged 62.
Rev. Daniel Vrooman, a pioneer mission
ary of China, in San Francisco; aged 78.
Personal: Anna Gould, youngest daughter of
the late Jay Gould, married Count do Cas
tellano of France.
6. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey Clendennin,
a veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service, nt Galesburg, Ills.; aged 65.
Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind.;
loss, $406,000.
Personal: William K. Vanderbilt, the noted
railway mugnate and multimillionaire, di
vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
New York city.
6. Obituxiry: Edwin Forbes, a well known
American artist and veteran war corre
spondent with the Union armies, in New
York city; aged 66.
7. Obituary: Hyde Clark, famous linguist
nnd scientist, in London; aged 79.
8. Obituary : Frederick E. Sickles, an engineer !
nnd inventor, in Kansas City.
Disaster; The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfellow struck a channel span
of tho Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in 8 minutes; 8 lives lost
and about 90 people saved by a tug.
11. Obituary: Cesare Canter, Italian historian
pjid liberal, at Milan; aged 00. John F.
Temple, noted abolitionist, in Chicago;
aged 80. Worth, the famous dressmaker,
in Paris; aged 70.
Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident as
sociation of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, N. Y.
12. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn
ed in Brooklyn; loss, $225,000.
Strikers’ riot at New Orleans; 6 negroes kill
id at their work.
13. Fire: Largo buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss, $300,000.
10. f’jre: Qtv hall at Baco, Me., damaged $50,
000 ny fire. * •» *■ ■■ ■:
Obituary: Rev. Dr. John W. Broadus, presi
dent of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville, in that city; aged 71.
17. Fires: Rodgers & Co.’s elevator nnd ware
house burred in St. Louis; loss, $200,000. A
building occupied by newspaper and news
concerns burned at Cleveland; loss, $150,
000. 8 meu killed and 9 injured at the
jmrning of the Wabash roundhouse in To
Obituary: Capt. D. I. Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver.
18. Fire: Business block burned at Perry, O.
T.; loss, $03,000.
19. Fire: 12 buildings burned in Burlington,
Vt.; loss $250,000.
Obituary: Gen. Adam Badeau, Grant’s mili
tary secretary, biographer, etc., at Ridge
wood, N. J.; aged 05.
20. Fire: A 1100,000 Are at Peoria, Ills.
Obituary: Gen. Philip St. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
85.
Disaster: 60 miners killed by an explosion at
Evanston, Wy.
Personal: Gen. Neal Dow, the apostle of pro
hibition, celebrated his ninety-first birth
day.
21. Fires: $500,000 worth of cotton burned in
the yards of the International Cotton press,
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, la.; loss, $400,000.
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppec, LL. D., of
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa.; aged
74.
22. Obituary: Richard Vaux, a prominent Phil
adelphian; aged 79.
23. Disaster: 4 deaths at a fire in the St. James
hotel, Denver.
24. Fires: Reed’s packing plant in Kansas City
burned; loss, $1,000,000. 2 hotels, a church
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
Political: Li Hung Chang, China’s peace en
voy, shot by a Japanese in Bimonoseki.
27. Fire: 20 business houses and other property
burned in Milwaukee; loss, $1,000,000.
Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver, well known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
Ithaca, N. Y.
28. Fires: 45 buildings burned at Bt. Augus
tine, Fla. 66 buildings burned at Canaso
raga, N. Y.; loss, $185,000.
80. Obituary: Anson C. Hessing, noted German
editor, in Chicago; aged 72. Mrs. Paran
6tevens, noted leader of society, in New
York oity.
APRIL.
t. Fire: The business portion of the city of
Bt. Charles destroyed by fire; loss, $100,000.
Obituary: David fcl. Stone, formerly editor
of The Journal of Commerce, in New York
city, aged 78.
Disaster: 6 workmen killed and 6 injured by
a boiler explosion at Woburn, Mass.
8. Henry Hammon, noted abolitionist, at
Dnnielsonvllle, Conn.; aged 81. Kev. Bar
ton H. Cartwright, a pioneer Methodist of
the west, at Oregon, Ills.; aged 86. Jack
Wallace, once the wealthiest landholder in
Atlanta, died at Sherman, Tex. Captain
Lauclilan McKay, a well known navigator
of the port, in Koxbnry, Mass.; aged 83.
4. Obituary: Ex-Gov. William R. Marshall of
Minnesota, at Pasadena, Cal.: aged 70.
6. Obituary: Thompson McDaniels, a veteran
of the Black Hawk war and a pioneer of
Kansas City; aged 00.
6. Fire: The American Starch works burned
at Columbus, Ind.; loss, $300,000.
Obituary: Anthony M. CannolT, a leading
citizen of the northwest, in New York city.
8. Fire; A $100,000 fire in the railroad works
at Winslow, A. T.
Obituary: Gov. Joshua H. Marvil of Dela
ware, at Laurel; aged 70. Gen. James L.
Kemper, ex-governor of Virginia and a
leader of ono of Pickett's brigades at Get
tysburg, in Orange county, Va.; aged 73.
Disaster: 21 miners killed by gas explosion
at Lake Whatcom, Wash.
•, Obituary; W. Jennings Demorest, founder
of Demorest'h Magazine and a leader in
temperance movements, in New York city;
aged 72. Gen. T. A. Harris, a Confederate
veteran, at Locust Lodge, near Louisville.
Disaster: 2 five story buildings fell In Wheel
ing, burying 10 men in the ruins; 6 deaths;
property loss, $200,000; among the victims
was Vloar General Psrke, who was passing
and was caught by the falling wall.
I. Crime: A WeUa-Fargo express wagon rob
bed of 116,000 in Colorado; the mossenger
fatally wounded.
B. Fire: Warehouse burned at Benicia, Colo.;
loss, $160,000.
14. Fire: At Plattsbnrg, Mo., the eonrthonse
and all the buildings on one side of the
public square destroyed by fire; loss about
1800,000. Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon, tils.; loss nearly 1880,000.
Obituary: James W. Boott, editor and pub
lisher of the Chicago Tlmee-Hcrald, in New
York city; aged d. Prof. James Dwight
Dana of Yale, at New Haven; aged 88.
16. Obituary: Dr. John P. Blackmar,_proml
nent Prohibitionist, at Springfield, Mass.
Earthquake: Heavy shocks in Italy end Aus
tria.
10, Obituary: Hon. Leveritt Baltonstall, prom
inent Democratic leader, at Brookline,
Mass. • , • ■
18. ObituaiV: R. C. Wickliffe, ex-governor of
Louisiana, at BbelbyviUe, Ky, Granville
jjhvkins, the artist, in New York city; aged
The fifth International convention of the
Young Woman's Christian association open
ed in Pittsburg. 5 ~
10. Obituary: Charles K. Knox, tho well known
-» New York hatter, in that city; aged 77.
80. Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered the cycling
record a second in California by riding a
mile in i &i~ *• —
21. Fire: Fire in the school of arts at Chalons
sur-Marne, France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at 1,000,000
francs.
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the
novelist, In Albany; aged 70.
22. Obituary: Albert Young, “grand patriarch
of the Romany people of the continent,"
died r.t Ross Park, opposite St. Louis; he
was 64 years old
24. Obituary; Cob Franklin Fairbanks, one of
Vermont's most prominent citizens, at St.
Johnsbury.
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Cols.
Zenos R. Bliss raid John J. Coppinger were
promoted to be brigadier generals.
Miscellaneous: Nat Jones, a veteran specu
lator of the “Big Four," died in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, first wife of tho well
known New York publisher, died at Sho
kan, I*. Y.
25. Fire: Tho McDonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; loss, $600,000; several fatal
ities; 25 persons injured.
Obituary: Henry H. Scott, a prominent citi
zen and leading Democrat of San Francis
co, in that city.
29. Obituary: Levi B. Taft, an eminent Michi
gan jurist, at Pontiac; aged 7B.
BO. Obituary: Gustav Freitag, the popular Ger
man novelist, author of “Soil und Haben"
and other notable books,at Wiesbaden; aged
70.
MAY.
1. Obituary: Maj. Gen. John Newton, distin
guished soldier of the Mexican and civil
wars and engineer of Hell Gate, in New
York city; aged 72. Gen. 8. B. Dayman, a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in
Doustonia, Mo.: aged 75.
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
of the American Revolution began in Bos
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
8. Disaster: American Powder company’s
mills near Concord, Mass., blown up; 5
killed. Sioux City, la., and other towns
swept by a tornadJJ over 250 killed.
6. Obituary: James Kelly, a Cook county pio
neer and one of the founders of tho Chica
go Tribune, at Winnetka, Ills.
0. Fires: New Carlisle, O., had a $76,000 fire.
Strauss & Sons’ tannery and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
$250,000.
Uuliuary • ivx-erov. nuwri d. ureun ui «uw
Jersey, at Elizabeth, N. J.; aged 64.
7. Obituary: Field Marshal Gen. von Pape, a
distinguished Prussian veteran and mili
tary governor of Berlin, in that city; aged
82.
8 Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
Mancbester, N. H.; aged 68.
Convention: The thirty-first international
convention Y. M. C. A. of North America
met at Springfield, Mass.
9. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor of the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city; aged 62.
10. Obituary: Gen. Joseph Colton, who served
in the Confederate army, at New Haven;
aged 82. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur
geon general, U. 8. A., in Washington;
aged 05.
11. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase of Indiana,
at Lubcc, Me.; aged 61.
12. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich., destroy
ed a grain elevator and flour mill: loss,
$200,000. At Pratt City, Ala., the city hall,
a hotel and church and 80 dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
Obituary: Julius H. Beelye, ex-president of
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged 71.
Chief Whirlwind, note<l Cheyenne warrior,
died at Fort Reno, 6. T.
14. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven
tion of the Hotel Men’s Mtitual Benefit as
sociation began in New York. Biennial
convention of the Order of Railway Con
ductors began in Atlanta.
16. Obituary: Duke of Hamilton, twelfth of
his line, died in Algic . Admirn1 John J.
Almy, U. 8. N., retired, in Washington;
aged 81. Peter H. Burnett, first governor
of California, in San Francisco: aged 07.
10. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in St. Albans, Vt.; loss, $760,000.
Obituary: David 8. 8. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
N. Y.; aged 77. Hiram Barney, collector
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city; aged 84.
21. Fire: At Angelica, N. Y., 6 stores, opera
house and other property burned; loss,
$100,000.
Obituary: Franz von Buppe, the “Austrian
Offenbach, ’ ’ composer of ‘4 Boccaccio, ’' etc.,
in Vienna; aged 75. Dr. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chil
dren, in Chicago; aged 66.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal., of 8,000
• pounds of nitroglycerin and 2,000 pounds
Hercules powder; 14 men killed; loss, $260,
000.
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared un
constitutional by a vote of 5 to 4. The
fifth annual reunion of tho United Confed
erate veterans convened at Houst-on, Tex.
24. Obituary: Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of treasury 18G5 to 1860, at Washington;
aired 87.
28. Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse own
er and cap.talist, Kerrville, Tex.
27. Obituary: Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged 88.
28. Fire: 86 business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo.; loss, $100,000.
Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, secre
tary of state, at Washington ; aged 63.
Conventions: The seventieth anniversary
meeting of tho American Unitarian asso
ciation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty-first anni
versary convention at Saratoga.
Shipwrecks: Pacific Mail steamer Colima ran
upon a reef ofT Manzanillo, Mex., during a
gale; 186 persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked off the Spanish coast;
100 lives lost.
81. Obituary: Gen. G. M. Mitchell, Union vet
eran at Charleston, Ills.; aged 60.
JUNE.
1. Obituary: George M. Gray, a Chicago pio
neer, in that city; aged 77.
2. Obituary: Hon. Vincent D. Markham, a
very distinguished jurist of Colorado, at
Denver; aged 66.
8. Obituary: Miss Emily Faithfull, the Eng
lish economist and philanthropist; aged 60.
Gen. Primo Rivera, captain general of Mad
rid, mortally wounded by a subordinate.
4. Obituary: amuel Washington Fuller, artist
and portrait painter, at Saratoga; aged 70
The ono hundred and fourteenth annual con
clave of tho grand lodge of Freemasons
opened in New York.
t. Fires: Carriage plant burned at Jackson,
Mich.; loss, $175,000. 2 elevators destroyed
at Appleton, Wis.; loss, $140,000.
f. Obituary: Ralph Swinburne, an old engi
neer associated with George Stephenson,
“father of the locomotive,” near Charles
ton, W. Va.; aged 00.
8. Fire: At Cloquet, Minn., 50,000,000 feet of
choice lumber burned.: loss, $160,000. "
Obituary : John A. Forepaugh, the circus
manager, ii^ Philadelphia; aged 43. _
8. Fires: Dewing A Sons’ lumber yard and
factory* with adjoining buildings, destroy
ed by fire at Kalamazoo, Mich.; loss, $200,
000. The Leonard silk mill at Florence,
Mass., destroyed by fire; loss nearly $160,
000.
|p. Fire: Cameron, W. Va., almost wholly de
stroyed by fire: a relief train from Wheel
ing wrecked and 8 men killed.
Obituary: William Steinhart, a pioneer mer
chant of California In San Francisco; aged
65.
11. Obituary: Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, LL. D.,
late of the Indiana State university, at Riv
erside, Oalj. aged 81.
18. Obituary: Theopilus Adam Wylie, emeritus
professor of ancient languages in the Uni
versity of Indiana, at Bloomington, Ind.;
aged 85.
Miscellaneous: Christian Endeavor annual
oanventkm opened in Boston. Destructive
storms and tornadoes in Minnesota and
Oklahoma.
18. Obituary: Henry Pronae Cooper, formerly
a well known. Hew York tailor, in Hew
York; aged. BO. Benor Zorilla, notad Boan
lrn reprtr.can leader, at Madrid: aged Cl.
14. Obituary: Rev. Alonro A. Miner, D. D.,
pastor emeritus of the Second Universalis*
churefc and a prominent prohibitionist in
Boston; aged 81.
Di saster: A SOh^r^epower engine exploded at
fall River. Mass., wrecking a 6 sfpry build
ing f*rpeo0l5 killed and 7 injured.
Personal: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her eighty-fourth birthday at Hartford.
15. Fire: At Bridgeport, O., ffre destroyed
wholesale drug store, hotel, 2 banks and
several retail establishments ; loss, $100,000.
16. Fires: An incendiary flro destroyed a
church, 2 newspaper offices and several
stores; loss, $226,000. Jacpb’f Third Avenue
theater burned in New Ydrk.
The World’s Woman’s Christian conference
opened in London.
17. Miscellaneous: The Hurlem ship canal con
necting North river with Long Island sound
opened with ceremonies.
10. Obituary: W. H. Shieffelln, head of the
great drug firm, in New York city; aged
59
20. Fire: Power house and cars of the street
railway in Beattie, Wash., burned; loss,
$200,000.
21. Obituary: Henry B. Houston, “father of
transportation interests in Pennsylvania,"
in Philadelphia; aged 75.
Emperor William laid the keystone of the
Kaiser Wilhelm (Kiel) canaL
23. The soldier bicj'ole courier Matthey ended
his 18J4 days’ ride from New York to Chi
cago.
24. Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri
angular boat race at Poughkeepsie over
Cornell and Pennsylvania.
Obituary : Thomas Henry Huxley, the scient
ist, at Eastborne, England; aged 70 years.
25. Obituary: M. D. Bo ruck, a pioneer editor
of California, in Ban Francisco; aged 61.
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, in Dela
ware, O.; aged 01.
27. Fire: Ban Francisco swept by the largest
Arc known there in over 80 years.
28. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by 8J£
lengths at New London. Conn.
29. Obituary: Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, the
scientist, at Eastbourne, England; aged 70.
Ex-President Peixoto of Brazil, near Rio
Janeiro; aged 56. Daniel Cady Eaton, pro
fessor of botany at Yale, in New Haven;
aged 61. Gen. Green Clay Bmith, a Union
veteran, at Washington; aged 68.
JULY.
4. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind., a bridge fell
under a crowd witnessing a boat race; 88
injured.
Miscellaneous: 43 deaths in the region west
of and adj -ining tho Mississippi by cloud
bursts and lightning, fi postofUco burglars
—Killoran, Allen and Russell—broke out of
Ludlow Street jail, New York. Mob at
tacked an A. P. A. parade in Boston.
5. Obituary: Alexander Hester, America’s
greatest duguerreotypist, died at Evanston,
Ills.
0. Fires: Lumber plant burned at Scotia,
Cal.: loss, $250,000. At Duluth, Minn.,
$100,000 loss in a warehouse fire. 8 busi
ness placeB burned in Oswego, N. Y.; loss,
$150,000.
7. Terrilic storm at Chicago and on Lake
Michigan; many deaths reported.
0. Obituary: David A. Daboll, publisher of
Daboll’s Almanac, at New London, Conn.;
agod 82.
Disaster: 13 killed and 83 injured in a rear
end collision on the Qrand Trunk at Craig’s
Hoad, Quebec.
10. Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit; 6 deaths.
Obituary: Allen Pettibono, father of the
Milleritcs, at Hartford; aged 85.
Disaster: Over 100 people injured at Atlan
tic City by the collapse of the old casino.
Bporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall at
Henley for Grand Challenge cup.
11. Obituary: Miolan Carvalho, famous French
prima donna and the original Marguerite,
at Dieppe.
Convention: Convention of the United Soci
eties of Christian Endeavor opened in Bos
ton.
14. Obituary: Dr. Norton B. Townshend,
emeritus professor of agriculture in the
state university, at Columbus, O.; aged 79.
15. Fire: Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston,
N. Y.: loss, about $250 ^ 0.
10. Fire: Business portion of Alta Vista wiped
out by flro; loss, $75,000.
Obituary: Stambuloff, ex-premier of Bul
garia, by assassination, at Sofia; aged 40.
17. Fire: 2 fireman killed and 12 injured at a
fire in Cincinnati; property loss, $260,000.
18. Obituary: Charles^fraanuel Schenck, ex
president of Switzerland, at Bern; aged 70.
Convention; Fifth International convention
of tho Baptist Young People’s Union of
America opened in Baltimore.
Personal: Henry Irving. Walter Bcsant and
Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
21. Fire: $800,000 loss by burning of an oil mill
in Chicago.
Disaster: 15> lives lost by steamboat collision
in the gulf of Genoa.
22. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Alexander H. Rico of
Massachusetts died at Melrose. Prof. Ru
dolf Gneist, eminent German scholar and
professor, instructor of tho reigning kai
ser, at Berlin; aged 09.
24. Fires: Y. M. C. A. building in Washington
burned; loss, 50,000. Ironton (O.) water
works destroyed by fire; loss, $100,000.
Obituary: James Bunn, chief of tho Shinne
cock Indians, at Southampton, N. Y.; aged
about 85. Rev. Edward Beecher, one of the
famous seven brothers, in Brooklyn; aged
P2.
25. Obituary: Dr. Anthony Wilson Thorald,
bishop of Winchester, at Surrey, England;
aged 70.
28. Obituary: Col. Alfred M. Wood, mayor of
Brooklyn during the war, in that city;
aged 69.
29. Obituary: John Barbee Minor, LL. D., pro
fessor of common and Btatute law in the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
aged 82.
80. Fort Scott, Tex., flooded by sudden pre
cipitation of rain.
81. Obituary: Richard M. Hunt, noted archi
tect, at Newport, R. I.; aged 68.
AUUUBT.
1. Obituary: Prof. Heinrich von Sybel, Ger
man historian, in Marburg: aged 78.
Fatal cloudburst in Wyoming.
2. Fire: A business block at Lima, O., de
stroyed by fire; loss, $100,000.
Obituary: Joseph Thompson, African ex
plorer, in London.
8. Fire: Sprague, the scat of Lincoln county,
devastated by fire; loss nearly $1,000,000.
4. Fire: Berlin, Md., almost wiped o^> by
lire; loss, $200,000.
6. Fire: 2 steamers burned at Cincinnati;
loss, $150,000.
Obituary : Charles Hubbs Foster, actor and
playwright, in Now York city; aged 61.
6. Obituary: Charles Foster, an old time actor
and manager, in Now York; aged 62. Gen.
M. A. Stovall, a Confederate veteran, at
Augusta, Ga.; aged 77. George F. Root,
the composer, at Bailey’s Island, Me.; aged
75.
T. Obituary: Associate Justice Howell Ed
munds Jackson of the U. S. supreme court
at West Meade, Tenn.: aged 63.
Disasters: An 8 story building collapsed in
New York city. British steamer Catt« r
thora, from Sydney for Hongkong, went
on the rocks near Sydney and sank in 20
minutes: 64 lives lost.
Si. Fire: The James Kilsman & Co. stamping
[ works at Newaffe, N. J., destroyed by Are;
J loss, $600,000. Fire destroyed property val
ued at $260,000 at Lockport, Ills.
Obituary: Frank M. Pixlcy, a veteran Jour
nalist, at San Francisco.
10. Fire: 2 factories, 14 dwellings and other
properties burned in Philadelphia; loss,
$300,000.
Obituary: Lncien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse,
French explorer and engineer,‘in PtAb.
18. Obituary: Dr. William Dean, noted Baptist
missionary among the orientals, at San
. Diego, Cal.; aged 88.
Conventions: The first national convention
of commercial lawyers opened in Detroit.
The seventeenth conference of the Ameri
can Library association began in Denver.
The National Association of Newsdealers
met in Brooklyn.
14. Obituary: Baron Christian Bernard von
Tauchnitz, the European publisher, at
Leipsic; aged 70. Thomas Hovonden, fa
mous artist, at Norristown. Pa.
American Pharmaceutical association opened
at Denver^ 1
15. Obituary: P. F. Rothermel, painter of the
“Battle of Gettysburg” and other celebrat
ed pictures, at Linfield, Pa. Gen. John D.
Imboden, famous Confederate cavalryman,
at Abingdon; aged T6.
16. Obituary: Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey, a Con
federate veteran and ex-U. 8. senator from
Texas, at Eureka Springs, Ark.; aged 70.
The UUrtigtt' annual reunion of the Broth
erhood. ef Locomotive Engineers opened a't
Pittfbarg.' *4
18. Obittmnr: Ex-Justice William Strong of
the y. B. supremo court, at Lake Minne
waska, K. Y.; aged 87. Leonard W. Volk,
the $ttlptorf at Osceola, Wis.; aged 08.
Di^fter: 7 people drowned at Ocean City,
Ma., from an qvercrowdod skiff.
20. Disaster: Boiler explosion and fire destroy
ed theiGumry hotel, Denver; 25 deaths.
22. Fire: The Union steamboat dock and ware
house an4 other property burned in Mil
waukee* lbas, $800,000.
Obituary; Ex-Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Con
necticut, at New Haven; aged 08.
25. Fire: At Rosendale, N. Y., 25 buildings
burned; loss, $129,000.
Obituary: H. O. Houghton, head of tho Bos
ton publishing house, at North Andover,
Mass.; aged 78.
28. Obituary: Patrick Gavan Duffy, formerly
police Justice and known* as the “little
judge,” at Toms Rivor, N. J.
61. Obituary: Gen. Ely 8. Parker, an Indian
who served on Grant’s staff, at Fairfield,
Conn.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Obituary: Marshal McDonald, U. S. com
missioner of fish and fisheries, in cashing*
ton.
Miscellaneous: Sedan day, twenty-fifth anni
versary of the French surrender celebrat
ed throughout Germany. Earthquake
shock in tho eastern states.
2. Disaster: A runaway locomotive dashed
into a crowded train on tho Coney Island
railroad; 70 people injured.
8. Fire: Phoenix Flour mills burned in Evans
ville, Ind.: loss, $110,000.
4. Fire: Boston and Albany wharf and freight
Bhcds in Boston destroyed by fire; loss,
$500,000.
Obituarj’: Sven Loven, distinguished Swed
ish naturalist, aged 87. William Henry
Hurlbert, tho American journalist, at Ca
denabbia, Italy; uged 68. Gen. A. V. Kautz,
U. 8. A., retired, in Seattle, Wash.; aged 67.
5. Obituary: Peter Styers, a locomotive engi
neer who had been on the rail 46 years, at
Bethlehem, Pa.; aged 78.
7. Obituary: Henry Bentley, “father of the
local telegraph,” near Rhincbeck, N. Y.;
aged 01.
Disaster: 85 miners entombed by fire in the
Osceola mine at Houghton, Mich.; 80
deaths.
Sporting: The American yacht Defender won
the first race against Valkyrie III by 8
minutes and 49 seconds.
8. Fire: Eowler’s brewery burned at Amster
dam, N. Y.; loss, $200,000.
0. The G. A. R. mot in annual encampment
at Louisville.
10. Obituary: Harrison Millard, popular song
writer, in New York city; aged 05.
Sporting: Valkyrie III fouled the American
yacht Defender and won by 47 seconds.
11. Obituary: Henry Lindenmyer, well known
paper dealer of New York, in that city;
aged 60.
uisasior: o miica ana many injured in »
head end collision on the Great Northern
near Melby, Minn.
12. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall, prom
inent Episcopal divine, In Brooklyn; aged
75.
Sporting: Lord Dun raven withdrew the Eng
lish yacht Valkyrie IH, giving the race for
the America’s cup to the Defender.
14. Obituary: Prof. Sigismund Lasar, promi
nent instructor and composer, in Brook
lyn ; aged TO.
The Mora indemnity of $1,419,000 paid by
Spain.
17. Fire: The business portion of Dodge, Neb.,
destroyed by fire; loss, $150,000.
18. Firo: A $750,000 blaze in the business por
tion of Indianapolis. 1 death and a prop
erty loss of $375,000 in a fire at Oshkosh,
Wis.
Obituary: Marian Sefton, one of the oldest
actresses in America, died at Naveslnk
Highlands, N. J.; born in England in 1810.
Miscellaneous: A storm destroyed several
lives and $150,000 worth of property in
Michigan. The Atlanta exhibition formally
opened.
19. Firo; 0 lumber dry kilns burned at Wash
ington, N. C.; loss, $120,000.
Obituary’: Charles le Clercq, well known
actor, in New York city; aged 72. Alex H.
Ritchie, formerly well known as an artist
and engraver, in New Haven; aged 78.
Disaster: The Spanish cruiser Sanchez Bar
caiztcgui run down and sunk in the haf
bor of Havana; 8 officers and 83 sailors
drowned.
20. Fire: At Green Bay, Wis., $125,000 lost by
fire.
21. Obituary: Prof. Abralum Victor Rydberg,
Swedish author, at Stockholm.
22. Fire: Lumber yards and mills burned at
Fon du Lac, Wis.; loss, $250,000.
23. Fire: Paper mill and dwelling burned at
Nowburg, N. Y.; loss, $125,000.
24. Convention: The Catholic Young Men’s Na
tional Union league began its twenty-first
annual convention in St. Louis.
20. Obituary: Hon. E. W. Bull, a prominent
agriculturist, originator of the Concord
grape, in Concord, Mass.; aged 89.
27. Obituary: Prof. Louis Pallens of Dart
mouth, noted scholar in French and Ger
man, at Hanover: aged 57.
The French army entered the capital of Mad
agascar.
28. Fires: At Superior, Minn., the elevator of
tho Daisy Flour mill burned. A $135,000
factory fire at Woonsocket, R. I.
OCTOBER.
1. Fire: 3 Arcs in i'Miadeipma; losses, jaw.uuu.
Obituary: Charles E. Brown, the first male
schoolteacher in Chicago, died at Qlenese,
Ills.
2. Fire: At Cambridge, O., fire destroyed Lin
den hotel, Taylor block.
Obituary: Gen. Orlando M. Poe, U. B. engi
neers, at Detroit; aged 02.
Personal: Maj. Gen. Milos ordered to com
mand the army in place of Lieut. Gen.
Schofield, retired.
8. Obituary: Harry Wright, veteran baseball
manager, died at Atlantic City.
4. Obituary: Prof. Hjalniar Hjorth Boyesen of
Columbia college, well known as an author
and critic, in New York city; aged 47.
A. Obituary: Prof. Henry Maurice Willkorn,
distinguished German botanist.
Sporting: Yale athletes defeated Cambridge
at Manhattan field, winning 8 out of 11
events and the international collegiate
championship.
f. Obituary: George I. Tyson, president of
the American News company, at Riverside,
Conn. Miss Ada Cavendish, the actress,
died in London. William Wetmoro Story,
distinguished American sculptor and poet,
at Vallambrosa, Italy; aged 76.
8. Obituary: Gen. William Mahone, a promi
nent Confederate veteran and ex-U. S. sen
ator from Virginia, at Washington; aged 69.
9. Disaster: 80 people injured in a wreck on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Pittsburg,
10. Obituary: Dr. Albert E. Foote, distinguish
ed mineralogist, expired suddenly while at
thw Atlanta exposition.
11. Fire: Holand Radiator works in Bremen,
lnd., destroyed by fire; loss, 9150,000.
12. Prof. Thomas Coates, leader of-the first
circus band in America, died at Easton,
Pa.
18. Fire: Campbells, N. Y., a hamlet in Steuben
county, destroyed by fire.
Obituary: Gen. William J. Landrum, veter
an of the Mexican and civil wars, at Lan
caster, Ky.; aged 07. F. L. Pope, noted
electrical engineer, killed by a shock in his
cellar at Great Barrington, Mass.
Disaster: 8 killed and 12 injured by a runa
way trolley car at Pittsburg.
14. Obituary: Gen. ErasmusD. Keyes, a prom
inent Union general in 1882, at Nioe,
France: aged 85. Clara Doty Bptes, the
authoress, in Chicago. Andrew J. Mould
er, pioneer educator of San Francisco, In
that city; aged G8.
15. Obituary: Franklin Davis, a well known
and most successful nurseryman, at Wav
erly, Md.; aged 66.
18. Personal: Gen. John Gibbon elected com
mander in chief Military Order of the Loy
al legion.
17. Firo: At Champaign, Ills., Empire Cordage
mill destroyed by fire; loss, 9100,000.
18. Fires: At Blanchester, Q., 60 stores, 20
dwellings, 2 churches, 2 banks And Masonic
ball burned: loss. 9150,000. A 9800.000 lire
in Now Orleans. Fire swept 4 blocks in
Credo, Colo., and destroyed property valu
ed at 9150,000.
Thu national W. C. T. U. convened In Balti
more.
19. Fire: Atlanta suffered a loss of 9100,000by
fire.
Obituary: John W. Mackay, Jr., killed whfW
racing in France.
29. Fire: 9 squares burned in New Orleans:
1,000 people homeless; loss nearly 9600,000.
Obituary: Henry Augustus Loop, well'known
artist, at Lake George; fgud 04- Rachael
Elam, the first woman settler in.Chicago*
died in that city.
£1. Fire: Town of Bagwell, Tex., destroyed.
fire; loss, 1100,000.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas Q. Pitcher, U. B. A.*
retired, at Fort Bayard, N. M.; aged 7L
Asbac|Clark Kendrick, D. D., LL. D„ not
ed Greek scholar, at Rcx-hestar; aged 88.
Oliver Amos, ex-governor of Massachusetts*
in North Easton ; aged 64.
22. Fire: 40 buildings destroyed In Madison*
Wis.; loss, 8130,000.
Obituary; Signor Dougbi, celebrated Italian,
author, scholar and statesman, at Naples;
aged C7.
24. Obituary: Ex-U. S. Senator Charles H. Van
Wyck of Nebraska, in Washington; aged TL
25. Obituary: Charles Halle, noted pianist, la
Manchester; aged 76.
27. Lynching mob fired upon by mUitla at
Tiffin, O.; 8 killed.
28. 10 inches of snow fell at Ncgaunee, Mich.
80. Fire: Logonda hotel burned at Springfield,
O.; loss. $100,000. At Columbus, Ga., the
girls’ high school and 11 residences were
burned.
NOVEMBER.
1. Criminal: Durant convicted of tho murder
of Blanche Lamont at Son Francisco.
8. Criminal: Holmes convicted of the murder
of Pitezel.
8. Disaster: 2 killed and 25 or 80 injured in a
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio near
Wheeling.
4. Fire: 4 business blocks burned at Decatur,
Ills.; loss, $250,000 to $900,000.
Obituary: Eugene Field, the popular journal
ist and verse writer, in Chicago; aged 45.
5. Fire: The Empire bank and Manhattan
Savings bank burned in New York city; 20'
flrewon injured: loss, $750,000.
Obituary: William Libby, former partner of
A. T. Stewart in New York city: aged 74.
Rachel Cantor, tho oldest living actress ia
tho United States, at Worcester; aged 85.
6. Obituary: Mrs. D. P. BowerH, well known
actress, at Washington: aged 66.
Disaster: 40 killed and 20 wounded by ua
explosion ip Detroit, The Evening Journaw
office wrecked; loss, $60,000.
Personal: Duke of Marlborough married to
Consuelo Vapderbilt in New York.
The Erie railway sold under a foreclosure for
$20,000,000.
7. Obituary: Rear Admiral Robert Wilson
Shufeldt, U. 8. N., in Washington ; aged 78.
Thirty-third congress of tho Society For the
Advancement of Women met in New Or
leans.
Sporting: The single scull raco for the
world’s championship won by Guudaur at
Austin, Tex.
8. Obituary: Dr. Robert Battey, originator of
tho “Battey operation” in surgery, at
Rome, Ga.; aged 07. W. Rhode Hill, a not
ed citizen of Atlanta, in that city; aged OB.
12. Obituary: Henry G. Ashton, inventor of
the Ashton safety valve, at Somerville,
Mass.; aged 40.
Personal: The eightieth birthday of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton celebrated by a large
gathering In New York.
Miscellaneous: The thirteenth Baptist con
gress of the United States opened at Provi
dence.
15. A daughter born to the czar and czarina of
Russia.
10. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, author
of “America,” in Boston; aged 87.
Disaster: An car fell into a draw at
Clevoland; 19 deaths.
17. Fires: A WOO,000 fire at Meridian, Miss.
Banner brewery burned at Cincinnati.
18. Fire: 82,000 barrels of naphtha burned at
Whiting, Ind.; 8 deaths.
19. Fire: Factory building burned at Dallas,
Tex.; loss, $75,000.
Obituary: Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson of
Lucien, at Rome; aged 67.
£0. Fire: The Parker block burned nt Lowell,
Mass.; loss, $220,000.
Obituary: Rustem Pasha, Turkish embassa
dor to Great Britain, in London.
21. Fire: 17 Anns burned out in Chicago Are
and many lives imperiled; loss, (500,000.
Obituary: Sir Henry Ponsonby, private sec
retary to Queen Victoria, at Cowes, Eng
land : aged 70. r.
Miccllancous: Calvert Vaux, a noted Ameri
can landscape architect, found drowned in
New York bay. Verdict of not guilty in
the sensational Hannlg&n murder trial in
New York.
22. Fire: 6 deaths in a lh*e in the Dry Goods
and Woolen Exchange building in Chicago;
loss, $400,000.
28. Obituary: M. Bartholemy Saint Hilaire,
prominent in French literature, in Paris:
aged 90.
Obituary: Maurice Frederick De Haas, noted
marine artist, in New York city; aged 68.
Edwin A. Meyers, a veteran newspaper
man of Pittsburg, in that city; aged 02.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at New
York; score 20 to 10. Pennsylvania defeated
Harvard at football by a score of 17 to 14.
25. Disaster: 71 deaths by an explosion of car
tridges at Barcelona, Spain.
Convention: The eighth annual session of
the Transmississipi congress began in Oma
ha ; 24 states and territories represented.
27. Obituary : Alexandre Dumas, noted French
writer and author of “Camille,” in Paris;
aged 71. Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothing
ham, noted Unitarian, in Boston; aged 78.
28. Obituary: Geh. Thomas Jordan, a promi
nent ex-Confederate and Mexican veteran,
in New York city; aged 76.
Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornoll at
footbalHnWestPhiladelphia; scoro, 46 to2.
20. Obituary f Count Von Taafo, Austrian
statesman, in Bohemia; aged 62.
Disaster: Explosion, at the Tilly Foster mines
near Carmel, N. Y.; 9 killed and 11 injured.
DEC EM BKIi.
1. Obituary: James Harvey Partridge, edu
cator and author, at Cranford, N. J.; aged
85.
2. Congress opened.
8. Obituary: Capt. Oscar Taylor, a Union
veteran who captured Mosby the guerrilla,
in New York.
Personal: Rufus W. Peckhain appointed jus
tice of United States court.
Fire: 7 mercantile firms burned out ii. In
dianapolis; loss, $400,000 ; 2 firemen killed.
4. The Empire State express, New' York Cen
tral railway, broke the record between
New York and Buffalo, making the schedule
time 53H mile* an hour.
8. Personal: W. E. H. Lecky, the historian,
elected to the house of commons for the
Dublin university.
Fire: Fire broke out in the U. 8. assay of
fice with $2,000,000 in gold bars lying loose
and $21,080,000 in the vaults; damage slight.
0. Fifteenth annual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor opened in New
York city.
19. Centenhial of American commercial liberty,
celebration.
Mean Way of Patting It.
Ethel—I beliova firmly in having onl
one's ' beauty sloop."
Mabel—Poor girl, how you must suffer
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