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

q. Obituary: Hon. Carter II. Harrison. mayor
of Chicago. in Chicago; aged 6S; Mayor Har-
dergast.
Miscellaneous: Battle between Spanish troops
and Riffans at Melilla, in Morocco; Gen.
Margallo. the Spanish commander. and 20
of his men killed.
80. Obituary: Sir John Abbott, ex-premier OF
Canada, at Montreal; aged II.
Miscellaneous: The Worlds fair declared Of
tcially at an end.
NOVEMBER.
!. Fires Dixon O., lumber mill; loss, 100000.
Disaster: Steamship City Of Alexandria, of
Cajimar, Cuba; 35 people drowned
z Fires: GAINESVILLE. o., planning mill and lum-
Der ward; loss 100000. Iron Mountain
Mich. Roman Catholic church destroys.
the pastor Father Cavacchi, fatally burned.
Disaster: Boiler exploded in a street car sta
BILE in New York city; killed, ID injured.
Sporting: Directum, king of trotters, defeat
ed Mascot, king of PAGERS, at Fleetwood
park.
Disaster: Cargo of dynamite exploded at
the quay in Santander, Spain: nearly LOU
people killed and injured.
l. Disaster: 10 wOrkmen drowned from an
overloaded sailboat in New York harbor.
g. Fire: Galena. Ills. smelling works; loss
100000.
g. Disaster: "A castaway sailors drowned off
Point aux Barques by the swapping Of
boat
7. Fire: Danvers, Ills, the business district
nearly destroyed.
Crime Anarchist threw bombs into the
opera house at Barcelona, Spain; 30 killed.
50 injured.
Sporting: John S. johnson, bicyclist, with
flying start rode mile in minute 30 80
seconds; worlds record.
8. Fire. Memphis. Lyceum theater burned;
loss, S360,000.
Disaster: Twelve killed by rear end collision
on the Rock Island and Pacific in the
streets of Chicago.
Crime: Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the de-
faulting speculator, sentenced to 10 years
hard labor.
Obituary: Francis Parkman, eminent histo-
rian, at Jamaica Plains, Mass; aged TO-
9. Obituary: Annie Pixley, the actress, in Lon
don. Professor Herman August Hagen of
Harvard college, well known entomoogist
at Cambridge, Mass; aged Is.
II. Obituary: Ex-Governor Charles H. Bell Of
New Hampshire at Exeter, N. H.: aged 70.
IL. Fire: Utica. Ills, fire brick factory destroy
ed; loss $2O0,00O
Obituary: Mrs. j. Roosevelt Roosevelt, wife
of the newly appointed secretary Of the
American embassy, at London.
ID. Fire. Memphis, the SchmalZried block de-
stroyed; loss nearly sl,OOO,0OO; people
killed.
IA. Obituary: William A. Beane. prominent
Democrat of Indiana, editor of the Goshen
Democrat, died suddenly in the streets of
Goshen.
H. Fire: Fergus Mills, MIMI, the Page flour
mills and other property destroyed loss,
100000.
Crime: Robbers carried off a valise contain
ing $4,000 from the Office of the Indiana.
Illinois and Iowa Railroad company s Office
in Chicago
Obituary: Elizabeth Oaksmith, poet and
lecturer, at Hollywood, N. c.; aged 81.
16. Obituary: Samuel Augustus Cole, well
known art collector and critic, in St. Louis:
aged So.
II. Earthquake: Town of Kuchan, province Of
Khorassan, Persia, destroyed; 1900
persons killed.
18. Fire: Kansas City, the Western Warehouse
and Storage company burned out; loss,
S2OOOOO.
Obituary: Rev. Charles F. Deems, pastor of
the Church of the Strangers, in New York
city; aged 49,
Miscellaneous: The new cruiser Columbia
made the fastest time record in the
world. in trial trip; average speed, % knots.
1900 train operatives and telegraphers on
the Lehigh Valley went out on a strike.
q. Fire: Starkville, Miss. the Masonic and
Odd Fellows building and Watts Opera
House destroyed loss. 100000.
Disaster: men killed and badly injured in
the burning of the Merrill House at Beaver,
Pa.
Obituary: Hon. jeremiah McLain Rusk, ex-
governor of Wisconsin, and also secretary
of agriculture under President Harrison,
at Vroqua, Wis.,; aged So.
n. Fire. Springfield, Mass, several blocks
burned; loss, S45OOOO.
Sporting: Directum defeated Alix, queen Of
racing trotters, at Fleetwood park in
straight heats; best mile trotted in 2:O8.
q. Fire: Edison, Moore & Co.'S dry goods store
burned in Detroit; loss. $500, 600; Z employees
killed.
"a. Fire. Columbus, O., the Henrietta theater,
Chittenden hotel and Park theater and
auditorium destroyed; loss, $1,0OO,OOO.
Obituary: Ex-Governor John j. Jacob Of
West Virginia, at Wheelng aged "a.
25 Fire: Hannibal, Mo-, the William Voorhis
dry goods store, Kister hotel and other
buildings destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Congressman Charles O'Neill, the
father of the house," in Philadelphia:
aged u.
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at football:
score. to O..
g. Obituary. William L. Banning, political
and business leader of Minnesota, in st.
Paul; aged 70.
q. Personal: General Master Workman T. v.
Powderly, Knights of Labor. resigned.
Miscellaneous The proposed Democratic tar
III bill given to the public press. Earth
quake shocks in northern New York, New
England and Canada.
"a. Fires A business block burned in Oil City;
deaths; loss on property, $4,000.
~. Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at foot
ball: score, 6 too.
DECEMBER.
l. Fire: Philadelphia, the Thornton worsted
mills destroyed; loss. 1926. 900.
Obituary: William Lilly. prominent public
man and capitalist of Pennsylvania, at
Mauch Chunk, aged 70.
Miscellaneous: Admiral Mello escaped from
the bay Of Rio Janeiro on the flagship
Aquidaban after some hard fighting with
government forts and ships. A score or
more OF wrecks occuEed on the Lehigh
Valley road a result of the strike. Abe
Stein q Co., importers of goatskins, hides.
etc. IN New York, failed for over $1,000
OOO. j. R. Sovereign of Iowa installed gen.
eral master workman, Knights Of Labor.
\ Fire: Baltimore, $4,000 worth of property
destroyed in the business district.
Obituary: Pauline Cushman, the noted I'm
lon scout, in San Francisco.
Disaster: men killed at a slate quarry at
Welchtown, Pa, by the breaking of a cable
Crime: 3 highwaymen robbed several pas
sengers and employees on the Chicago and
Northwestern road at Luzerne, Ia
4 Fire: Rome, N. Y, the New York locomo-
tive works, valued at $4,000, almost to-
tally destroyed. Corsicana, Tex: loss, $780,
200.
Obituary: Professor John Tyndall, the cele-
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