Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-12-27

Mckinney; aged 20.
%. Obituary: Jesse B. Seligman, the New York
banker, at Coronado Beach, Cal.
25- Obituary Gen. r. S. Granger, U. S. A., re-
tired, in Washington; aged s..
Reunion of United Confederate veterans at
Birmingham, Ala.
26 Fires: The village of Townsend vt, nearly
destroyed. The Colorado Smelter at Butte,
Mon. destroyed loss, S10O, ,0OO
Obituary: Nathaniel Springer Berry, war
governor Of New Hampshire, at Bristol, N.
H; aged 9S.
a. Fire: Gasport IN. " business portion de-
stroyed.
g. Fire: The famous old St. Charles hotel, In
New Orleans, destroyed; loss, $4,000.
Disaster: An earthquake destroyed 2 towns
in Venezuela; heavy loss of life and prop
erty-
g. Fire: A business block destroyed at Win
chester, Va; loss, 500, 900.
Obituary: Francis B. Stockbridge, United
States senator from Michigan, in Chicago;
aged 6s. Maj. Joseph Kirkland, a well
known veteran and author, in Chicago:
aged a.
3d. Fire: Ashland, Wis, the Vaughn Library
building; loss, $120, COO.
Obituary: Frank Hatton, editor Of the Wash
ington Post, in Washington; aged 48.
Landslide at st. Alban, near Quebec, turned
the St. Anne river into a new bed and de-
stroyed property amounting to $4,000.
MAY.
l. Obituary: George W. Abel, proprietor Of
the Baltimore Sun, in Baltimore.
Miscellaneous: Coxey's COMMONWEALTH"
entered Washington, and the leaders were
expelled from the capitol grounds The
fourth annual meeting Of the National As
sociation of Military Surgeons opened in
Washington. The ninth annual convention
Of the National League of American Musi-
clans opened in Baltimore.
q Fires: The Kenwood felt mill at Albany;
loss, s250,O00. An enormous sawmil plant
at Maurillon, France; loss, s., ,250, 900.
Obituary Col A. B. Steinburger, formerly
prominent in Samoan and Hawaiian affairs,
at Dorchester, Mass. aged 81.
Serious rioting by the unemployed in Cleve-
land.
4. Fire: A million dollar fire in Dublin
5. A destructive storm of wind, hail and
lightning in southern Minnesota.
Obituary John Jay, ex-ninister to Austria,
in New York city; aged n.
6. Fire: The William N. Whitley Reaper and
Mower works, at Muncie, Ind. loss, S245,
600. @
Destructive storm in Kentucky, Ohio and
West Virginia. also in central New York
Obituary Gen. Theophile Adrien Ferren, a
French veteran Of the Crimean, Algerian
and Franco-Prussian wars, in Paris; aged
81. John Hapgood Maynard, prominent
resident Of Manchester, N. H. +; aged 90.
T. Obituary Frances Elizabeth Barrow, Aunt
Fanny" popular author and writer for
children, in New York city, aged 81. Will
liam F. Sayles, the third richest man in
Rhode Island, at Pawtucket; aged 70.
8. Obituary: Leon Liable, noted French sur
geon, in Paris. Thomas @. Latto well
known Scotch American poet. in Brooklyn
aged 70.
0. Obituary; Gen. Matthew M. Trumbull, q
Union veteran, in Chicago; aged 68.
10. Fire: The town of Norway, Me-, destroyed;
loss, $3.50
IL. Fire: The Akron Varnish company, at Ak
ron, O.; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Sewen E. Jewell, noted aboli-
ZIONIST, in Haverill, Mass. aged 85.
1S. Rev. DR.. Talmage's new Tabernacle and
the Hotel Regent adjoining destroyed;
losses, over $1,000.000.
Disaster: Harvard students drowned in
Boston harbor by the capsizing of a cat
boat
IA. Obituary: A. G. Hunt, ex-governor Of Col
orado, at Tenallytown, near Washington;
aged e5. Louis Clovis Bonaparte grand
nephew of the first Napoleon, in London;
aged IS. Professor Henry Morley English
lecturer and writer, in London; aged ".
Is. Fire: II acres of territory burned over in
Boston; nearly 200 buildings destroyed;
loss, about 81. 100000
Sporting: DIR. Rice won the Brooklyn Handi-
cap.
10. Fire: Coal and lumber yards burned at
Pawtucket, r. l. loss, $500,000.
Obituary Chauncey Shaffer, well known
lawyer, in New York city; aged 75. Rev,
DR.. Edward Bright, editor Of The Examin-
er, in New York city; aged 49, Consul Gen
eral W. H. Edwards of the United States,
in Berlin.
II. Miscellaneous Storms destroyed property
valued at s1,00O,0O0 in Ohio, Michigan and
states westward. The one hundredth and
sixth general assembly of the Presbyterian
church met in Saratoga. The southern
Presbyterian general assembly met at
Nashville.
18. Fire: Hillsboro. o.. Hillsboro college; loss
$4,000.
A fierce storm on Lake Michigan; heavy loss
of life among sailors.
10. Obituary: Andrew j. Graham, author Of
the Graham system of shorthand, al
Orange, N. j.; aged g.
20. Fire: Several millinery, lace and trimming
establishments destroyed in Philadelphia
loss, $3.50, 900.
Miscellaneous: The middle Atlantic coast
swept by terrible storm. Floods in the
Schuyllkill and Susqrehanna rivers.
Obituary: Edmund Yates, English author
and journalist, in London; aged SO.
q. Obituary: Gen. Phil Cooke, a distinguished
Confederate veteran, in Atlanta; aged n.
%. Fire: The residence of E. B. Haskell, one
of the proprietors of the Boston Herald, al
Auburndale; loss, $780, 900.
Sporting Fourth American whist congress
opened in Philadelphia.
q. Sporting: Lord Roseberys Ladas won the
English Newmarket.
25. Obituary: DR.. Alexander Kohut, distin.
guished rabbi and famous oriental scholar
in New York city; aged 81. Charles Defor
est Fredericks, one Of the pioneers of pho
Biography, in New York city; aged II.
26. Obituary: Rev. DIR. jerome Allen, well
known educator, in Brooklyn; aged GA.
% The eightieth anniversary of the American
Baptist Missionary union at Saratoga.
g. Mordecai L. Hopkins, an old Chicago jour
nalist, in Chicago.
80. Fire: 2 acres of icehouses and other prop
erty destroyed at Arlington, Mass. loss
over $1OO,OC0.
Disaster: Several deaths in a wreck on the
Wisconsin Central, at Mayville, Wis
Confederate soldiers and sailors monument
unveiled at Richmond.
JUNE.
l. Worlds conference of the Y. NJ. C. A. open
ed in London.
q Fire: Machinery plant, Minneapolis; 1oss
s130,O00
Q. Fires: I5 shops and stores and 20 houses at
Ottumwa, Ia; loss, s225, 600; deaths. La
coma IN. H. } car works; loss, 100000.
4. Miscellaneous. ch1ldren at CaCnOllc
home near Tarrytown, N. Y, were fatally
poisoned by enting plant mistaken for flag
root. Ths Dominion line steamer Texas
from Montreal for Bristol wrecked off New
foundland; loss, $4,000. A windstorm
wrecked several houses and stores in Ia
coma; 6 persons buried under the debris.
Obituary Ex Governor Charles Calls Van
| Zandt, at Berkshire Mass G.. ". Wilson,
capitalist and inventor of the sewing ma
chine, at San Jose, Cal
s. The fifty fifth annual convention Of the
American Medical association opened in
San Francisco.
6. Miscellaneous: Striking miners at Wesley,
Ills, used dynamite in an attack on a min
ing plant; deaths and many injured
Riotous miners applied the torch to prop
erty on the Mon0ngahela, Pa Lord Rose
berry g colt Ladas won the English Derby.
The nineteenth annual convention of the
Association Of the American Nursery met
at Niagara, NY. The fifty fifth annual con-
v9Ztion Of the American Medical associa-
tion opened in San Francisco. The thirty
fourth annual session of the Brewers as
sociation of the United States began at
Syracuse. Fiftieth anniversary Of the Y.
M. @. A. celebrated by jubilee in London.
2. Disaster. 10 Coxeyites from Denver drown
ed while attempting to cross Platte river
in frail boats.
Obituary Professor William Dwight Whit
ney, eminent philologist of Yale college, in
New Haven, aged g. Ex-Gov. Rodman
NJ. Price of New Jersey, a pioneer of
California, at Hazelwood, N. j.; aged 78
Miscellaneous: The sixth annual congress of
the Scotch Irish Society of America began
at Des Mcines- The a tn annual conven-
tion Of the Boot and : zoe Workers Inter