The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27
g. Cyclones: The town of Cisco Tex. wiped
ont: N killed and ~ iniured

M1SCell0ncOUS: International naval ship re.
view in New York harbor and in the Hud-
son river.
%: Fire: Woburn. Mass. Currying factory
burned; loss, $175,0
30. Miscellaneous: The National bank of Aus
tralasia failed for 81 100000.
MAY.
l. Miscellaneous: Worlds fair opened at Chi
cago.
8. Fire: Steam and Electric Power company
burned out at Louisville; loss, 100000
1. Obituary: Ex-United States Senator J. w.
Patterson of New Hampshire, at Hanover,
n. H.
Personal: Dean William Lawrence chosen
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts to sue
coed Phillips Brooks, lately deceased.
.. Disaster: 10 killed and many injured in a
wreck on the Big Four road near Lafay-
cite, Ind.
7. Disaster: II killed, njured by a boiler ex-
plosion on the steamer Ohio running on the
Mississippi river.
Obituary: Col Ward H. Lamon, at one time
Lincoln's private secretary, at Martins
burg, w. Va. The wife of Chauncey NJ
Depew, in New York city.
g. Fires: Frankford, Pa, Bromley & Burns
yarn dyeing mill destroyed; loss, S24O, OOO
Chicago, the Shepard Hardware company
burned out; loss, 100000.
Miscellaneous: H. H. Warner, the patent
medicine manufacturer of Rochester, as
signed; liabilities estimated $500,000
8. Fire: Utica, N. Y, J. B. Wells dry goods
store destroyed; loss over S25O, 600.
Personal: James H. Blount appointed United
States minister to Hawaii.
Miscellaneous: The Bank of Victoria at Mel
bourne suspended, with g., 400, 900 liabilities.
10. Obituary: Joseph Francis the noted life
boat inventor, at Otsego lake, New Yo1 k.
DR.. Charles Carroll Lee, president Of the
New York Medical society, in New York
city; aged "a.
II. Fires: Spring Lake, Mich. half the village
burned; loss, $S0,000. Rochester, electric
road plant destroyed; loss, 60,C00 Pittsburg;
loss, S1S0,W0.
Obituary: Gen. E. D. Townsend, adjutant
general of the army, retired at Washing
ton; aged rs.
IL. Obituary: Gen. S. G. Armstrong, principal
OF Hampton Normal institute and Indian
school, at Hampton, Va. aged "a.
Miscellaneous: The Sioux City Engine Works.
Sioux City, Ia, suspended; liabilities, $780,
600. The Cunard liner Campana reached
Liverpool days II hours 27 minutes from
New York, breaking the east bound record
Ii. Miscellaneous: Steel company at Belleville,
1lls placed in hands of receiver Ken
dali q Smith, grain dealers of Lincoln,
Neb., failed for over S25O,OOO. Bank failures
at Orleans and Rossville, Ind, at Freeport,
O., and Rockford, Mich.
IA Obituary: Rev. w. H. A. Bissell, bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Yer
mont, at Burlington; aged so.
Disaster: 10 miners killed by falling down
shaft at the Calumet and Hecla mine,
Mich. The steamer City of Hamburg run
down the ship Countess Evelyn off the Cor
nish coast; 25 lives lost.
Ii. Sporting: Diablo won the Brooklyn handi-
cap at GraveSend n. Y.
Miscellaneous: Erastus Wiman, New York
capitalist, made an assignment.
II. Disasters: % lives lost in storm on Lake
Erie. deaths by the explosion of gener-
ator in glucose factory at Geneva, Ills.
10. Personal: The Intanta Eulalie of Spain ar
rived in New York city.
10. Obituary: James E. Murdoch, actor and
elocutionst, at Cincinnati; aged 49,
20. Fire: Saginaw, Mich, 200 houses burned:
loss over 81 100000.
%. Miscellaneous: The cruiser New York sur
passed the cruiser record of the world,
making speed of q knots an hour.
%. Fires: Reading, Mich, lost $l50,0OO by
flames: 2 deaths. South Salem, Mass, tan
merry destroyed: loss, S132, 900.
%. Obituary: DR.. Lyman A. Abbott, a New
England cancer specialist, at Maiden Mass
aged Sc.
Miscellaneous: Ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Charles Foster of Fostoria, O., assigned,
with liabilities of nearly $1,OOO,0OO.
%. Fire: Baltimore, sugar refinery destroyed;
loss, $1,0OO0O.
%. Sporting: Sim Hall defeated Frank Slavin.
Grounds, in.London.
30. Disaster: Mains circus train wrecked at
Tyrone. Pa: deaths.
g. Fire: Omaha, Schinerick's furniture store
set in flames by lightning; loss, over $780,
900; people killed by falling wall.
fer. n q lot In
York city.
Personal: Mrs. James G. Blaine, widow Of
Secretary Blaine, sailed for England, where
she will reside permanently.
Sporting: Frank Ives defeated John Roberts
at billiards in London.
& Crime: men raided the Peoples bank at
Little Rock and secured $4,000.
e. Cyclone: The town of Woodington, O.,
nearly demolished by storm of wind and
rain; death.
7. Fires: Fargo, N. D., one-half the city de-
stroyed and 1900 people made homeless:
loss over $3,5OO,OOO. Oshkosh. Wis, $780,
OOO blaze on the main street. San Francis
CO, a dozen fine residences destroyed; loss,
100000; 4 deaths. Minneapolis. the Brad
street-Thurber company's store damaged
to the extent of $4,000.
PERSONAL: James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald, seriously injured
by falling from coach in Paris.
Obituary: Edwin Booth, the eminent TRACE
dian, in New York city; aged GO. DR.. j. E.
Hendricks, a noted mathematician, at Des
Moines; aged 70.
8. Fire: Montreal, the Vile Marie convent
destroyed; loss. 81 100000.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. 0. r. Blue, prominent in
the Methodist church south. at Green's
boro Ala; aged 70.
9. Disasters: The floors Of Ford's old opera
house, Washington, where Lincoln was as
sassinated, FELL carrying down hundreds of
government clerks at work in the building;
q deaths, over 80 injured.
Riot men killed and several injured in q
melee with strikers at Romeo, Ills.
II. Miscellaneous: Gen. Joseph A. Hall, civil
war veteran Of Maine, died on board New
York Central train near Syracuse.
1a. Disaster: deaths in the burning of q
''sweat shop" in New York city.
II. Miscellaneous: The Viking ship from Nor
way arrived in New York harbor.
20. Fire: Duluth, MIMI, frame block destroyed;
loss, $4,000; 4 deaths.
Disaster: killed and 100 injured by the de-
railment of q train on the Long Island rail-
road at Parkville, N. Y.
Sporting: Lowlander won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
Miscellaneous: Lizzie Borden acquitted of the
murder of her father and mother at New
Bedford, Mass.
q. Disaster: Lightning struck circus tent at
River Falls, Wis.,, and killed people.
Cyclone: jefferson county, Kan, swept by q
fierce tornado; 20 deaths.
Obituary: Senator Leland Stanford, the Cal
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