The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27
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ment dedicated at Gettysburg. The Fall
con, with Lieut.. Peary's exploring party on
board. started for the arctic regions.
L Disasters: Mine explosion in the Thornhill
mine, England, caused the death of 1873
miners. A passenger steamer on the Volga,
near ROmanOw, Russia, exploded her boil
ers; Is deaths; a Russian general was
among the victims.
Miscellaneous: Serious rioting broke out
among the students in Paris.
5. Fire: New Haven, opera house damaged by
flames to the amount of 100000.
Obituary: Commodore Francis Lockwood, U.
S. n. retired, at Flushing, N. Y; aged 80.
O. Fire: Mcdonald, Pa. 10 buildings, includ-
ing church. destroyed; loss, S90,O0O
Cyclone: Pomeroy, Kan, destroyed by a tor
nado; 50 people killed, 50 fatally injured
and $50 MANNED.
Obituary: Guy de Maupassant. the French
romanticist; aged A.
Miscellaneous: The Christian Endeavor in
ternatiOnal convention opened in Montreal.
The Duke of York prince George of Wales)
and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck mar
ried in London.
!. Obituary: Justice Samuel Blatchford of the
United States supreme court, at Newport,
R. l.; aged %.
9. Obituary: Ex-Governor A. K. Allison of
Florida in jacksonville; aged 50.
ID. Disaster: Is persons killed and 10 injured
at the burning of a cold storage warehouse
In the w Orld'S falr grounds.
Obituary: Charles Brenneke, formerly we'll
known as an architect and engineer, at Mar
shalltown, Ia; aged 70.
II. Fire: West Superior, Wis, the plant of
paint anu builders supply company de-
stroyed loss, 100000.
18. Disaster: people killed and 20 injured in
collision on the West ST ore road at New
burg, N. y.
Miscellaneous: The international convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples union of
America opened at IndiarH polis. Shots ex-
changed between Shame. M rts and French
gunboats at the mouth OF .,Ieinam rivers 20
Siamese killed and IA wounded
Id. Obituary: Gen. David w. Miles, a Penn
sylvania veteran, at Lancaster Pa; q red
81. Gen. j. G. Kelton, U. S. A., retired, at
Washington; aged 81.
10. Fire: Mount Washington, n. H.. the Glenn
House destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Gen. Edward Jardine. a union vet
eran, in New York city; aged G5 Rear Adj
miral Earl English, U. S. N, retired at
Washington: aged Is.
II. Fire. London, 80 buildings in the business
district destroyed; loss, e1, 100000.
Disaster: A locomotive crashed into
crowded street car in Chicago, killing 4
passengers.
Miscellaneous: The educational congress
opened at Chicago.
IL. Cyclone: destructive tornado swept over
".
Miscellaneous: Exciting bank panic in Den
70. Fire: Emen, Miss, the business portion en-
tirely destroyed; loss, S25O,OOO.
Obituary: Gen. j. G. Walker, veteran of the
regular army and of the Confederacy, in
Washington; aged 20.
81. Fire. Long Island City. N. Y, 81 buildings
burned; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith.
q. S. N, retired, at Green Bay, Wis; aged
IS.
q. Fires Paulding. O., 80 of the principal bust
ness houses destroyed; loss, $2OO,COO Port
Louis, the capital of the island Of Mauri-
titus, devastated by flames; the city was
wrecked in 1892 by hurricane.
"a. Fire: Columbus, o., the Ohio Transfer and
Storage company's buildings destroyed:
loss. 100000.
%. Miscellaneous: The Erie Railway COMPANY
placed in hands of receivers; floating debt.
$6,OOO,OOO.
rs. Obituary: Gen. George w. Morgan, a
Mexican and civil war veteran, at Fortress
Monroe, Va; aged 49,
~. Fire: LudingtOn, Mich, Carriers lumber
and single mill destroyed loss, S125,OOO.
Miscellaneous: $4,000 English coal miners
went out on strike.
-. Fire: Lockport, n Y, the United Indus
trial Fiber company burned out; loss, $780,
~. Fire: Plttsburg, the stores of the L. H. Har-
ris Drug company and of A. C. Henderson.
druggist. destroyed; loss, $4,000.
81. Disaster: men killed and badly injured
by the explosion of a farm engine boiler.
near Newark, o.
Obituary: John Stephenson, the noted street
car builder. at New Rochelle, N. Y: aged a.
AUGUST.
!. Miscellaneous: The national convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence union opened
a Arr ircrf oil
pit of the Chicago board of trade.
=. Fires Rhinebeck, N. Y, the barn and other
outbuildings Of ex-Vice President Morton's
farm destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Gen. William P. lines, civil war
veteran, at Grand Rapids.
& Fire: Kansas City, branch house of the
Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing com.
pany Of Akron, O., burned out; loss Sl25.OOO.
Disasters: seamen killed by the explosion of
grenade on the German armor clad steam
er Baden at Kiel. Germany. The pleasure
yacht Rachel, on Lake George, sank and
carried down persons.
Obituary: James l.. Wright one Of the seven
founders Of the Knights of Labor at Ger
mantown, Pa; aged rs.
Miscellaneous: The French blockade of Siam
raised.
I. Miscellaneous: Receivers were appointed
for the business of J. H. Walker company,
dry goods dealers, who succeeded to the Chi
cagO trade or A. L. Stewart q Co.; debts
about $2,OO0,0OO. N. l.. Corte & Co., the old
tin plate importers, assigned in New York
city; liabilities, $35O,OOO.
g. Fire: Oakland, CAL, Pacific Nail works
burned; loss, $25OOOO.
Disaster: 81 pleasure excursionists drowned
by the swapping of a rowboat in Swansea
bay, Port Talbot, Wales.
Obituary: Gen. George B. Bingham, Union
veteran, at Westboro, Mass.
Miscellaneous: The reservoir of the Portland
(Me) Water company burst, letting free
100000 gallons of water: houses crushed
and people killed.
Z. Fire: Snow Hill, Md, the business section
nearly destroyed; loss about $4,000.
POLITICAL: Congress met in extraordinary ses-
sion.
Obituary: Alfred Butler Starey, editor Of
Harper's Young People. in New York city.
Sporting: George Dixon defeated Eddie Price
for the worlds championship. at Coney Is
land.
.. Obituary: John B. Wright, manager Of
Ford's theater when President Lincoln
was assassinated. at Allston, Mass; aged
49, George Makepeace Towle, historian
and journalist, at Brookline, Mass; aged
e. William T. w. Ball, an old journals t.
In Boston; aged So. Rear Admiral Thorn
ton A. Jenkins, U. s. n, at Washington:
aged 81.
Miscellaneous: R. H. Coleman, the Iron
King" ofLebanon, Pa, assigned.
10. Obituary: George Shiras. father of Justice