Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-02
sReAT EVENTS or 1893.
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: Disaster: 10 killed and many injured in a
wreck on the Big Four road near Lafay-
cite, Ind.
k'Disaster: Il killed. injured BY 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 M.
Depew. in New York city.
= Fires: frankfort, Pa, Bromley & Burns
yarn dyeing mill destroyed; loss $4,000.
Chicago. the Shepard Hardware company
burned out; loss. 100000.
Miscellaneous: H. H. Warner the patent
medicine manufacturer Of Rochester, as
signed; liabilities estimated S5OO,uO.
= Fire: Utica, N. Y, J. B. Wells dry goods
store destroyed; loss over $4,000.
Personal: James H. Blount appointed United
States minister to Hawaii.
Miscellaneous: The Bank Of Victoria at Mel
bourne suspended, with e., 40 600 liabilities
10 Obituary: Joseph Francis, the noted life
boat inventor, at Otsego lake, New York.
DR.. Charles Carroll Lee, president of the
New York Medical society. in New York
cry; aged "a.
II. Fires: Spring Lake, Mich. half the village
burned: lossS $4,000. Rochester, elect rio
road plant destroyed; loss. 6O,0OO. Pittsbure;
loss. SlS0,ON0
Obituary: Gen. E. d. Townsend, adjutant
general OF the army, retired at Washing.
ton; aged rs.
L. Obituary: Gen. S. G. Armstrong, principal
of Hampton Normal institute and Indian
school, at Hampton, Va; aged 81.
Miscellaneous: The Sioux City Engine Works.
Sioux City, la, suspended; liabilities, 500.
>OU. The Cunard liner Campania reached
Liverpool 8 days II hours ~ minutes from
New York, breaking the east bound record.
u. Miscellaneous: Steel company at Belleville.
Ills, placed in hands of receiver. Ken
dali & Smith, grain dealers of Lincoln.
Neb., failed for over S2ju,Dn Bank failures
at Orleans and Rossville, Ind. at Freeport,
o., and Rockford, Mich.
"A. Obituary: Rev. w. II. 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
nsh coast; % lives lost.
Is. Sporting: Diabo 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 IL glucose factory at Geneva, Ills.
49, Personal: The lnfanta Eulalie of Spain ar
rived in New York city.
10. Obituary: James +. Murdoch, actor and
elocutonist, at Cincinnati; aged 49,
20. Fire: Saginaw, Mich, 40 houses burned;
loss over S1,50O,000
e. Miscellaneous: The cruiser New York sur.
passed the cruiser record of the world,
making a speed of q knots an hour.
%. Fires: Reading, Mich, lost Si50,0OO by
flames; deaths. South Salem, Mass, tan
merry destroyed loss, $l&a,000
%. Obituary. Dr. Lyman A. Abbott, a New
England cancer specialist. at Maiden, Mass;
aged Sc.
Miscellaneous: Ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Charles Foster of Fostora, o., assigned,
with Liabilities of nearly SlOO0,0O0
Is. Fire: Baltimore. sugar refinery destroyed;
loss, 100000.
20. Sporting: Jim Hall defeated Frank Slavin.
rounds, in London.
30 Disaster: Mains circus train wrecked at
Tyrone. Pa: deaths.
g. Fire: Omaha, Schinefick's furniture store
set In flames by lightning; loss over $780,
coo; 8 people killed by falling wall.
Disaster: 5 deaths in q burning fiat In New
York city.
Sporting: FRANK Ives defeated John Roberts
at billiards in London.
& Crime: 9 men raided the Peoples bank at
Little Rock and secured $4,000.
q Cyclone: The town Of Woodington, o.,
nearly demolished by storm of wind and
rain: death.
I. Fires: Fargo N. D., one-half the city de-
stroyed and 5000 people made homeless:
loss over S3.50O,OO0. Oshkosh. Wis, S20J,-
600 blaze on The main street. San Francis
co, dozen fine residences destroyed: loss,
$aD,0Uo: deaths. Minneapolis. the Brad
street-Thurber company's store damaged
to the extent of Si4D.tNO
Personal: James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald, seriously injured
by falling from coach in Paris.
al h.. inrf aU,-
dian, in New YORK city; aged 90. DR.. J. L.
Hendricks Il noted mathematician. at Dies
Moines: aged -
9. Fire. Montreal. the Vile Marie convent
destroyed; loss. Sl,OOU0.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. 0. H. Blue, prominent In
the Methodist church south. at Green's
boro, Ala; aged 20.
O. Disasters The floors OF Ford's old opera
house. Washing on. where Lincoln was as
sassinated, Tell, carrying down hundreds<i
government clerks at work in the building:
% deaths, over 80 injured.
Riot: men killed and several injured in
melee with strikers at Romeo. Ills.
IL Miscellaneous. Gen. Joseph A. Hall, a civil
war veteran of Maine, died on board New
York Central train near Syracuse.
Il 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.
%. Fire: Duluth, Mimi, frame block destroyer
loss, $4,000; 4 deaths.
Disaster: killed and 100 injured by the de-
railment of a train on the Long Island rail-
road at Parkviile, n. Y.
Sporting Lowlander won the suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
Miscellaneous: Lizzie Borden acquitted or the
murder of her father and mott her at New
Bedford. Mass.
q. Disaster: Lightning struck circus tent al
River Falls, Wis, and killed people.
Cyclone: jefferson county. KAN, swept oy
fierce tornado; - deaths.
Obituary: Senator Leland Stanford, the Cal
ifornia capitalist. at Palo Alto. Cal; aged ~
p Disaster: deaths from gas explosion IN
coal mine al Nanticoke, Pa.
q Disaster: The British battleship victoria
sunk in a collision with the battleship Cam
perdown in the Mediterranean sea: over 40
lives lost, including Admiral Tryon.
"a Sporting: Boundlcss won the American
Derby at Chicago.
o. Fire: Omaha, Wakeffeld's lumber yards
destroyed: loss, S;No.00
"A Disaster: The fremont hotel. Fort scott
Kan, collapsed. with loss OF life ana seri
Gus injury TO inmates
Miscellaneous: Governor Aitgeld OF limos
uar6oned the anarchists Fielden, Neeoe ana
Schwah. impris oned at Joliet Tor comphe'
ity in the Haymarket riot.
n Fire: Lake GeorSe, n. V. the Sycamore
hotel; loss, $3.50 q.
ot;,,.ry. Rev w W. Kone, the oldest Zap