The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27


Panther and barge Luykens Valley wrecked
of southampton, n. "; II sailors drowned.
Fierce gale on the New England, New York
and New Jersey coasts; vessels and summer
hotels wrecked; many deaths.
Obituary: Mrs. Anna Hyde died at Peek
skill, N. ". at the age of l04
n. Disaster: Is killed and Is injured in a COLI
sion on the Long Island railroad at New
town.
Cyclone: A West India hurricane devastated
the South Carolina and Georgia coasts; APP
palling death lists in Savannah, Port Royal,
Beaufort and neighboring islands. The
steamer City of Savannah, from Boston,
wrecked on the South Carolina shoals.
%. Personal: DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes cele-
brated his Saith birthday.
30. Sporting: Domino won the $685. 600 Futurity
stakes at Sheepshead Bay, n. Y.
81. Disaster: 20 killed and many injured by the
collapse of bridge on the Boston and AL
bany road near Chester, Mass.
SEPTEMBER
l. Fire: The Thornton worsted mill at Provi-
dence destroyed; loss. S225 600.
8. Disaster: people killed and 40 injured by
runaway electric car in Cincinnati.
Obituary: Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, grand
nephew of Napoleon l, at Pride's Crossing,
Mass; aged g.
Miscellaneous: DR.. Thomas Thatcher Graves,
the alleged whisky poisoner, died mystic
riously in his cell at Denver.
3. Miscellaneous: The twenty-seventh annual
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic opened at indianapolis.
6. Obituary: Miss Emma M. Converse, a noted
astronomical writer. at Whitefield, n. H.;
aged 70.
Disaster: The Haytian warship Alexander
foundered off Cape Tiburon, Hayti, carry
ing down 50 people; among the lost were
several Haytian diplomats.
Z. Disasters: The schooner Windemere from
Key West capsized in squall $50 miles off
Mobile; the captain, his wife, first mate,
steward and one seaman drowned. l. killed
and 10 injured in head end collision at
Colehour near Chicago people killed by
a tornado at Lockport, La.
Obituary: EN-Secretary of State Hamilton
Fish at Garrson's, n. Y: aged SIS.
10. Fire: Spokane, Wash, the exhibition build
ing burned; loss, 100000. Mount Vernon
Ind, elevator destroyed; loss, 100000
IL. Crime 20 masked men held up a Lake Shore
train near Kendallville, Ind, and rifed an
express safe of nearly $50 600.
II. Miscellaneous: De Lesseps, the Panama
canal protector, released from prison at
Paris.
ID. Obituary: Frederick Lathrop Ames, the
wealthiest man in New England, on board
the sound steamer Pilgrim; aged SO.
IA. Fire: Schell City, Mo-, 20 buildings de-
stroyed loss, $4,000.
Miscellaneous: Rebel warships bombarded
the government forts at Rio Janeiro, Bra
iii.
l6. Miscellaneous: 100000 acres in the Chero-
kee strip opened to settlers.
II. Fire: Patterson, o., the town partially de-
stroyed; loss. 100000.
Crime: negroes lynched at New Orleans for
shielding the murderer of a Judge.
IL. Miscellaneous: The insurgent ships at Rio
Janeiro turned their guns upon the city.
The centennial anniversary of the laying of
the cornerstone of the capitol celebrated
at Washington.
10. Fire. Canton, Ills, opera house burned;
several missing: many injured in IA panic.
Disaster: killed and 20 injured in a rear end
collision Manteno, Ills.
Obituary: Sir Alexander T. Gait, a proIni-
nent Canadian official. at Montreal; aged 76
20. Miscellaneous: Citizens attempted to lynch
negro at Roanoke, Va, and were fired
upon by militia; 6 killed, many injured.
q. Disaster: 5 killed and injured by an ex-
Pa. " ''''
Miscellaneous: Robert Smith, the negro who
caused the riot at Roanoke, Va, on the
10th, hanged by mob. The twenty fourth
annual reunion of the Army of the Cumber-
land opened at Cleveland.
q. Fire: Red Wing, Mimi, lumber plant
burned: loss, $4,000.
Disaster: An express wrecked by an open
switch on the Wabash at Kingsbury, Ind:
IL killed, many injured.
g. Fire: Chicago. the Purcell company's malt
houses burned; loss, 100000.
"a Crime: Train robbers foiled at St. Joseph,
Mo-, by train load of policemen; robbers
shot dead.
Is. Fire: st. Joseph, Mo-; loss nearly ST. 600 OOO
Is. Miscellaneous: Thirtieth annual convention
of the grand lodge of Good Templars opened
in Hartford. Eighteenth annual convention
of the Knights of st. John and Malta met
in Philadelphia.
q. Obituary: Professor J. F. Parish Steele of
Illinois, a well known writer on agricul-
ture, in Mobile; aged Is. Louis LANCE,
German journalist and publisher, in st.
Louis; aged "a.
70. Disaster: Is miners drowned in the Mans
field mine, Mich, by a break in the bed of
the Michigamme river, which ran above
the mine.
%. Miscellaneous: Cold wave in the northern
states; snow in the New England and mid
die states.
l. Obituary: Judge Irving B. Randle, who was
an intimate friend Of Lincoln, at Alton,
Ills; aged 81.
2. Fire: Omaha, Farnham Street theater de-
stroyed; loss, $25OOOO.
Cyclone: Terrible storm on the gulf coast:
over 1900 lives lost, damages several mil
Z. Sporting: The American yacht vigilant
won the first race in the contest for the
Americas cup over the English yacht Val
kyrie by minutes 48 seconds
3. Sporting: The American yacht Vigilant
won the second race from the English
yacht Valkyrie by 10 minutes IS seconds.
Miscellaneous: Over 100000 persons visited
the Worlds fair in honor of Chicago day.
A carload of powder exploded near ALI
ance. O.; loss, $250,0O0; 2 deaths.
II. Fire: 30 buildings burned in the business
district of Sioux City. Ia: loss about
$4,000
l8. Sporting: The American yacht vigilant
won the third race against the English
yacht Valkyrie by 10 seconds, deciding the
contest for the Americas cup in favor of
America.
Disaster: Rear end collision of Worlds fair
excursion trains ON the Michigan Central
at jackson; II killed, 40 injured
"A. Disaster: Storm on the great lakes; the
propeller Dean Richmond lost at Van
Buren, Point, carrying down IS sailors. the
captain, his wife and children.
ID. Fires: King City, Mo-. 30 buildings burned:
loss, $4,000. Detroit; loss, $4,000
II. Fire: New York city, 2 blocks including
factories and dwellings, destroyed: loss.
$1,5OO,OOO
Obituary: Lucy Stone Blackwell, the woman
suHragist, at Dorchester, Mass; aged rs.
MacMahon. Duo de Magenta, marshal Of
France and ex-president Of the republic. in
Paris; aged s..
Disaster: killed and injured bv a dvna-