The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume], January 08, 1898, French, Page 8, Image 4

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The Record of a Year.
Continued from paye
London ; aged 80. Chief Skenadoro ol
Oneida .'nduma, at Seymour, Ills. ; age
Disaster: Over 6,000 deaths in a typhoi
C'Xfr.ary William A. Stiles, editor of Forest
and Stream, in New York city. Sir John
Gilbert, noted painter and illustrator, ir
London ; aged 80. Chief Skenadoro of tin
god St*.
. .ilioon in
the Philippine islands.
7. Fire: 7 buildings, including an opera house,
burned in Detroit; loss, JOCO.lXXh
8, Fires: An 180,000 fire at Portland, Or. The
Second Presbyterian church burned at La
fayette, Ind.
Obituary : Hear Admiral John Brady Clitz,
U- 8. N., retired, in Washington; aged 70.
ft. General Pulger, noted Venezuelan warrior,
statesman and philanthropist, died at Ca
racas.
10. Obituary : Thomas Whiffen, actor, in Hert
Sn gland.
ary in the famous Mrs. Atkinson case
in West Virginia failed to agree. Senorita
ford, Engli
The jury i
so;
83. Disaster : A Hudson River railroad express
plunged into the river near Garrisons, >7.
Y. ; à) killed, many injured.
Convention: The biennial meeting of the
world's W. C. T. U. opened in Toronto.
Shipwreck : Steam schooner Caspar wrecked
off Point Arena, Cal. ; 13 sailors drowned.
34. Obituary: Prof. Francis Turner Palgrave
of Oxford university ; aged 73.
23. Destructive storm on the Atlantic coast
from Long Island to Hatteras.
Obituary : John Sartain, artist and engraver
of repute, in Philadelphia ; aged 89.
87. Fires: Offices of the Wabash railroad burn
ed in St. Louis ; loss, $600,000. The Woelfcl
Co.'s immense tannery at Morris, Ills., de
stroyed; loss, $20,000.
Obituary: The Duchess of Teck, Princess
Mary of Cambridge, at Richmond, Eng
land. Thomas G. Alvord, noted New York
politician, in Syracuse; aged 87.
Reunion: The twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee begun in Milwaukee.
88. Fire: Sturgis grain elevator burned at Buf
falo; loss over $290.<XX).
Conventions: The national convention of the
W. C. T. U. opened at Buffalo. Annual
meeting of the Association of Collegiate
Aluinnæ opened at Detroit.
83. Obituary : Henry George, social reformer,
in New York city; aged 58. Sir Hercules
Robinson, former chief commissioner of
Cape Colony, in London ; aged 73.
80. Accident: 6 miners suffocated in the Dia
mond shaft at Scranton. Pa.
NOVEMBER.
1. Union Pacific railroad sold at Omaha to re
organization committee for $57,564,982.76.
Col. J. R. M. Chard, V. C., hero of Rorke's
Drift, died at Taunton, England.
8. Fire: Central hotel andCorry block burned
at Marlboro, Mass. ; loss, $150,000.
Accident: 4 killed and 17 injured in the
wreck of a vestibule express on the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad near Charlottes
ville, Va.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas L. Clingham, noted
Confederate veteran, at Morgantown, N.
C. Dr. 8. R. Sheffield, inventor of the
tooth crown, died in New London, Conn.
8. Attempt to assassinate Dr. Moraes, presi
dent of Brazil.
I Fire : $100,000 fire at Texarkana, Ark.
7. Obituary: Cornelius O'Conuor, California
capitalist, in San Francisco; aged 60.
Fires: Hotel San Marco at St. Augustine.
Fla., burned; loss, $250,000. A$150,000 blaze
in Louisville.
Shipwreck : Transit steamer Idaho foundered
on Lake Erie; 19 sailors drowned.
8 . Obituary: Gen. James C. Duane, Ü. a A.,
retired, in New York city. Rear Admiral
Alexander Calder Rhtnd. ü. S. N., retired,
a noted war veteran, in New York city;
aged 76.
8 . Convention: Tho annual general assembly
Knighta of Labor, began at Louisville.
10. Fire: Largo machine works burned at Mid
dleboro, Ky; loss, $200,000.
Criminal: Mrs. Augusta Nack, companion
of the accused murderer Martin Thorn,
appeared as a witness against Thorn at his
trial in Long Island City.
-12. Fire: The ''Lion'' department store burned
in Milwaukee; loss, $200,000.
Obituary : John Hognald Burgess, distin
guished painter, in London; aged I».
IS. Sporting: The annual football game be
tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge,
Mass., resulted in a tie; score, 0 to 0.
Obituary: Henry C. Dorr, brother of Thomas
Wilson Dorr of "Dorr's rebellion" memory,
in New York city; aged 77. Homer Â.
Hibbard, a wealthy pioneer of Chicago, in
that city : aged 73. John M. Langston, fa
mous colored lawyer, congressman and
diplomat, first American negro elected to
office, in Washington : aged 08.
14. Obituary ; Dr. Thomas W ilson Evans, known
throughout the world ns "the American
dentist in Paris," friend of Napoleon UI
and Empress Eugenie, in Paris; aged 74.
15. Obituary: Mme. Verdi, for 50 years the
consort of th9 famous composer, died at
Ri me.
16. Business troubles: Tho Delta County bank
of Delta, Colo., suspended.
Obituary: Robert M. Steele, capitalist and
railroad promoter, at St. John's, Mich.;
aged 65.
17. Obituary: Rev. George Hendricks Hough
ton. rector of the Church of tho Transfigu
ration ( the '-Little Church Around the Cor
ner"), in New York city; aged 7Î.
Miscellaneous: Terrific gaies and shipwreck*
in the Mediterranean. German warship*
landed troops and guns in China with hos
tile intern.
■IS. Fire: Steamer Bluff City of St. Louis
burned at Chester, Ills. : loss, $100,000.
19. Fire: In the business portion of London:
loss, $25, (XX), 000.
JO. Obituary : Prof. Henry Calderwotxl of Edin
, burgh university in Edinburghj a;ve;l 62,
aged 99.
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, tho Cuban
girl who escaped from prison in Havana,
arrived in New York.
14. 7 tobacco warehouses and 8 dwellings burn
ed at Dur-.am, N. C. ; loss, $250,000.
15- Disasters : The dome of Robinson's Opera
House in Cincinnati fell during a perform
ance ; 5 persons killed, 60 injured.
17 Fires: The town of Yi'indsor, N. S., wiped
out and 3,o00 people homeless; loss, $3,000,•
000. A $300,000 factory flro in New York
city.
Obituary: Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sun, at Glen Cove, N. Y. ; aged
78.
Shipwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked off
the Cuban coast ; about 150 lives lost.
Obituary : Admiral John L. Worden, Lb 8.
N. , retire.'., the Monitor hero, Washing
ton ; aged 79. John W. Hague, v '11 know n
actor, in Boston ; aged 58.
19. Obituary : George Mortimer Pullman, the
palace car magnate, in Chicago ; aged 66.
O. P. Caylor, well known writer on base
ball, diet! at Winona, Minn.
20. A $100,000 fire at Osceola, Ark.
21. Miscellaneous: The hundredth anniversary
of the launching of the war frigate Old Iron
sides celebrated in Boston.
22. Business troubles: W. G. Hitchcock & Co.,
importers, assigned in New York city ; lia
bilities, »1,090, (AX). The Fowler Cycle Co.
of Chicago, assigned ; liabilities, $500,000.
Obituary: Justin Winsor, historian and libra
nan of Harvard university, in Cambridge ;
aged 06.
Miscellaneous: Princeton university's me
morial day commemorated. Uncle Charlie
Decker, an Indiana pioneer and the oldest
survivor of the civil war, died at Valparai
Sporting: YâTôiîéfeâfed frincefon af football
in New York; score. 6 to 0.
21. Obituary: Prof. William Seymour Tyler,
formerly of Amherst college, at Amherst,
Mass. ; aged£7. Gen. Albert Ordway, a not
ed Federal veteran, in New York ; aged 55.
25. Fire: 30 buildings burned at Pensacola, Fla.;
loss, $150,000.
Sporting : Michael defeated Starbuck in a 25
milo cycle race at Madison Square Garden,
New York; time, 50m. 29 l-5s.
Dr. Miner Raymond, the oldest
theological instructor in the
Obituary :
he United States.
at Evanston, Ills. ; aged 86.
28. Political riot in Vienna.
DECEMBER.
1. Personal: Justice Stephen Field retired
from tho bench of the United States su
preme court after 44 years' service.
Accident: U coal miners killed iu an explo
sion at Homburg, Bavaria.
2. Obituary : Judge D. U. Beiden, one of Colo
l-ado 's pioneers, at Denver; aged 76.
3. Fire: The "Brick" Pomeroy blots and an
opera house burned at Lacrosse. Wis. ; loss,
$296,006.
Sporting: Slosson won the final game in the
billiard tournament in New York city over
Schaefer, Ives, Daly and Sutton.
4. Obituary: Adolph Neuendorf, well known
German musical composer and director, in
New York city ; aged 54.
Accident: 4 killed and 4 injured in a trolley
collision at Birmingham, Mich.
5. Obituary: Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins,
well known writer, near New York city;
aged 50.
6. Obituary: Louis Mayer, a noted musical
artist and composer, in St. Louis; aged 59.
7. M. De Fourtou, French statesman, died in
Paris.
8. Dr. Campbell Morfitt, distinguished Ameri
can chemist in London, died in that city
9. Obituary: William Blakely, English coi:
actor, known in America, in London. Rear
Admiral Joseph F. Green, U. S. N., retired,
in Brookline, Mass; aged 86.
10. Obituary : Hon. Charles Fleishman, noted
Ohio politician, capitalist and turf patron,
in Cincinnati ; aged 63.
11. Orion Clemens, brother of Mark Twain, who
was a "forty-niner" and a picturesque lit
erary character, dled atjvcqkuk, la.
ty.
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Washington public life, in that city; aged
CÖ. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of the
president, at Canton, O. ; aged 88.
Sporting: Charles W. Miibr of Chicago w
the six day cycle race in New York, beating
Hale's world's record by scoring 2,093 miles
4 laps : Rii e came in second, Schinneer third
and Hale fourth.
Fire: 4 firms burned out on Chestnut street.
Philadelphia; loss, $750,900.
13. Obituary : Charles Butler, president of the
Union Theological seminary and a noted
lawyer, financier and philanthropist, in
New York city ; aged 95.
Gen. Justus McKinstry, a noted public man
of St. Louis, in that city ; aged 82.
14. Shipwreck: Schooner Susan P. Thurlow,
wrecked on Cushing island, off tho Maino
coast ; 6 sailors drowned.
16. Fire: At Harshaltown, la.; loss, $130,000.
Accident : 6 killed in a head on collision at
Fort Smith, Ark.
Obituary : Alphonse Daudet, the French aa
in Paris : aged 57.
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17. Fire: Hotel Dakota and other properties,
burned at Grand Forks, N. D. ; loss, $850,
000 .
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