The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-12-27
,r,ca rerd,nand Low, ex-governor Of Gait.

erick Ferdinand Low, ex-governor Of Cali.
fornia and ex-minister to China. at San
Francisco; aged Go. Chief james Il. Code
fray, last surviving chief Of the Miami
tribe of Indians, at Fort Wayne.
u. Obituary: Thaddeus Davids, pioneer in
sealing WAX and wafer manufacturer, at
New Rochelle; aged 50.
Is. Fire: The Knox Express company and
Adams Express company stables burned in
Washington; loss, over 500, 600; firemen
killed and over 200 horses burned.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. j. B. Mccullough, well
known Methodist preacher and editor, at
Chester Heights camp, Pa. aged II.
%. Fire: Box factory, Norton, Mass; loss
$150000
Disaster: Superintendent Addison G.. Mason
of the Lehigh Valley coiieries and Foreman
William Wilson of the Exeter colliery killed
in cage accident ut Pittston, Pa.
Obituary: Gen. Alfred j. PleasontOn, distin-
guished Union cavalry leader, in Philadel-
phia: aged So.
q. Fires; 20 business places at Celina, o., de-
stroyed loss, $l50,O00. The town of Phil
lips Wis, wiped out by a forest fire, leav-
ing g. 600 people homeless; loss, s., $50, 600;
about 20 persons lost their lives.
Is. Fires 60 buildings and business concerns
destroyed at Belle Plain, Ia. loss, $3.50, 600.
Oil tank works burned at Fort Wayne; loss,
100000. Oshkosh, Wis, lumber yard and
several buildings; loss, $l5O,OOO II build
ings at Brooklyn, H.. loss, $l25,OOO
Obituary: James Mulligan of Blaine 'Mulli-
gan letter" notoriety, in Boston. Cardinal
Ledochowski, an old and determined enc
my of Bismarck, at Lucerne; aged Il.
%. Obituary: John A. McDougall, a once ia
nous artist and friend of Poe, Willis, Irving
and others, at Newark n. j.; aged 81.
Archduke William Francis Charles Of Aus
tria, in Vienna.
30. Fires: Is business houses and residences
destroyed at Eagle Grove, Ia. loss, $70,-
600. 100000 worth of lumber and other
property destroyed at Minneapolis Cooper,
Tex, Mayo college; loss, 100000
Obituary: W2ltcr Pater, eminent English es-
sayist, at Oxford; aged 55.
AUGUST.
1. Fire: $3,0C0,OCO worth of property in the
lumber district of Chicago
Obituary: Joseph Holt, formerly n cabinet
officer and Judge advocate general under
Pr, ident Lincoln, at Washington; aged 81.
Miscellaneous: Japan declared war upon
China The twenty -fourS annual conven-
ton of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety of America opened at st. Paul.
q. Fires: The business center Of Lamoure, n.
D., destroyed; loss $4,000. 2 fremen
killed and injured in the burning Of a
spinning mill in Philadelphia. Aliens
Opera House, jamestown, n. Y. loss, $780,
CO.,
y, t1reS: BUSINESS pOrtlOn OF marion, H. ) loss,
500, OO0 The business part of Lake View
destroyed; loss, $lOO, 900. A fire in the bust
ness section of Farmer City, Ills. /; loss $780,
600.
Obituary: George Inness, noted American
landscape painter, in Scotland; aged SO.
9. Fires: A bridge and other property at st.
Paul; loss, $4,000. 20 business houses and
three residences at Adair. Ia.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Austin Blair, Michigan's
sswar governor" at jackson; aged 76.
DR.. j. C. Long, professor of church history
at Grocer seminary, Chester Pa, at Char
lotteville, Va. aged CO. Henry E. Insley,
one of the pioneer photographers of Amer
lea, in Roczland county, N. Y; aged SO.
=. Fire: Pueblo, Colo, grocery warehouse;
loss, $3.50, 900.
Obituary: Auguste Nicolas Cain, famous
French sculptor Of animals in Paris; aged
Y.
The National Association of Dentists began
its annual session at Fort Monroe.
8. Fire: Strykers pottery at San Jose, Cal. !;
loss, nearly 100000
Obituary: Joseph P. Wightman, an early set
tier at Burlington, Ia, in Chicago; aged "a.
8. Fires Pigeon, small town III Elk county,
Pa, destroyed. Clifford, Ills, wiped out.
Minneapolis, the Coliseum; loss, $50, 0OO
The heaviest hailstorm in the history of Re-
we're, Mass, prevailed, causing great de-
struction of garden crops and window
glass, Stones fell measuring 81 Of an inch
TO Ia inches 11f'CllameUer.
Disaster: II passengers burned to death and
9 severely injured in a trestle wreck on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific near Lin
coin, Neb.
II Obituary: John Quincy Adams son Of
Charles Francis Adams and grandson Of
President Adams, at Quincy, Mass; aged 81.
II. Fire: The Hawley silk mills at Port Jervis,
N. Y, destroyed; loss, $500, 600.
Obituary: Charles Robinson, the first govern
or elected by the Free State party Of Kan
sas, at Lawrence; aged 76. John P. Ray, q
prominent New England manufacturer and
steel railway capitalist; aged a.
10 Obituary: Col. John Atkins, editor Of The
Rocky Mountain News at Denver; aged 81
George Parkes, a well known actor, at the
Edwin Forrest home. Burton G. Cook,
lawyer and statesman Of Illinois, at Evans
ton; aged Is.
q. Fire. Drug plant and wholesale grocery
destroyed at Memphis; loss $4OO, 600.
The ninth annual encampment Of the Union
Veterans union held at Rochester.
a Fire. Two blocks destroyed at Bowling
Green, KY; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Stephen X. Fowler, well known
Anancier Of New York and New Orleans,
at Bedford, Mass. aged 81.
r. Obituary: Judge Norman L. Freeman, the
Oldest court reporter In the United States,
at Springfield, Ills.
- Disaster: Mining catastrophe at Franklin,
Wash. 81 miners suhOcated.
Obituary: Amzi Benedict Davenport, an old
and influential citizen Of Brooklyn. in
Brooklyn; aged 70.
Is Obituary: John Newell president Of the
Lake Shore railroad. at Youngstown. o. !;
aged Ga.
Sporting: The Butterflies won the Futurity,
Brooklyn.
a. Obituary: Mrs. Celia Thaxter, poet, at isle
OF Shoals; aged IS.
Political: The new tariff bill became a law at
midnight without the signature of the
president.
q. Obituary: Benson J. Sherwood, one Of the
best known stage carpenters in this coun-
try, at Amityville, N. Y; aged 81. Hon.
w. C. Howells, father Of the novelist, in
jefferson o.; aged 50. Simon Stevens, a
prominent lawyer in New York city, for
merly Of Pennsylvania and Washington
in New York; aged Co.,
q. Fire: The town Of Ellston, Mon, destroyed;
loss 100000.
SEPTEMBER.
I. Obituary: Gen. Nathaniel p Banks, dis
ttnguished Union soldier, at Waltham
Mass :; aged 49, Samuel .Kirkwood, Iowa 3
"war" governor, at Des Moines; aged 81.
4 Fire: The towns Of Hinckley, Pokegama
and Mission Creek destroyed by forest
fires; over $50 lives lost and many injured
q Obituary: Josiah Parsons Cooke, Harvard 8
great chemist, at Newport, R. l.. aged 81.
4 Obituary: James M. Adsit, a veteran bank
er Of Chicago, in that city; aged IS.
4 Obituary: Gen. George Stoneman ex-gov-
ernor of California and at one time chief
Of cavalry in the Army Of the Potomac, at
Buffalo: aged n.
q Obituary: Gen. Henry Eugene Davies. .
Union veteran. in New York city; aged &c.
French royal family, in London; aged So.
q Fire: The business portion Of Kitsop. WASH,
destroyed; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Gen. r. e. Levin, Union veteran.