Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-02

wrecked on the South Carolina shoals.
=. PERSONAL DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes csle-
brated his S4th birthday. 4
o. Sporting: Domino won the 5000 FutuSfty
stakes At Sheepshead Bay. u Y.
q. Disaster: 20 killed and many Injured BY the
collapse Of . bridge on the Boston and Al
hany road near Chester. Masa
SEPTEMBER.
1 Fire: The Thornton worsted mill 1t P.ovi-
dence destroyed: loss S..,5M0
Z Disaster: people killed and 20 injured by
arunaway electric car in Cincinnati.
Obituary: Colonel jerome Bonaparoe. grand
nephew of Napoleon l. at Pride's Crossing.
Mass: aged s..
Miscellaneous: DR.. Thomas Thatcher Graves.
the alleged whisky poisoner. died mystic
riously in his cell at Denver.
1 Miscellaneous: The twenty seventh annual
encainpment of the Grand Army of the
Republic opened at Indianapolis.
{ Obituary: Miss Emma NJ. Converse, q noted
astronomical writer. At Whitefeld. n. H.;
aged "a
Disaster: The Haytian warship Alexander
foundered of Cape Tiburon. Hayti, carry
ing down so people; among the lost were
several Haytian diplomats.
]. Disasters The schooner Windemere from
Key West capsized in q squall $50 miles of
Mobile; thu captain: his wife, first mate,
steward and one seaman drowned. L. killed
and 10 injured in q head end collision at
Colehour. near Chicago. 5people killed by
. tornado at Lockport, La.
Obituary: Ex-Secretary Of State Hamilton
Fish at Garrison's, n. Y: aged IS.
10. Fire: Spokane, Wash, the exhibition build
ing burned: loss. 100000. Mount Vernon,
Ind, elevator destroyed: loss, $lO0O.
II. Crime: 20 masked men held up Lake Shore
train near Kendallville, Ind. and rified an
express safe Of nearly $4,000
Y. Miscellaneous: De Lesseps. the Panama
canal protector, released from prison at
Paris.
Ii Obituary: Frederick Lathrop Ames. tie
wealthiest man in New England, on board
the sound steamer Pilgrim; aged S.
Il Fire: Schell City, No., % buildings de-
strOyed: loss, $4,000.
Miscellaneous: Rebel warships bombarded
the government forts at Rio Janeiro, Bra
zil.
lA Miscellaneous: 100000 acres in the Chero-
kee strip opened to settlers.
II. Fire: Patterson, o., the town partially de-
stroyed loss. $4,000.
Crime: negroes lynched at New Orleans for
shielding the murderer of judge.
l& Miscellaneous: The nsurgent ships at Rio
Janeiro turned their guns upon the city.
The centennial anniversary of the laying of
the cornerstone of the capitol celebrated
at Washington.
10. Fire: Canton, Ills, opera house burned;
several missing: many injured in a panic.
Disaster: killed and 20 injured in a rear end
collision Manteno, Ills.
Obituary: Sir Alexander T. Gait, a promi.
nent Canadian official, at Montreal: aged 16.
20. Miscellaneous: Citizens attempted to lynch
a negro at Roanoke, Va, and were fired
upon by militia; killed. many injured.
q. Disaster: killed and injured by an ex-
plosion in the Lance colliery at Plymouth,
Pa.
Miscellaneous: Robert Smith. the negro who
caused the riot at Roanoke, Va, on the
Goth, banged by a mob. The twenty fourth
annual reunion of the Army of the Cumber-
land opened at Cleveland.
q. Fire: Red Wing, Mimi, lumber plant
burned; loss, Sl30,U0.
Disaster: An express wrecked by an open
switch on the Wabash at Kingsbury, Ind;
II killed, many injured.
%. fire. Chicago the Purcell company's malt
houses burned; loss. $4,000.
"a. Crime: Train robbers foled at st. Joseph,
Mo-, by train, oad of policemen: 2 robbers
shot dead.
Is. Fire: St. Joseph, Mo-; loss nearly 81 COCOA
%. Miscellaneous: Thirtieth annual convention
of the grand lodge of Good Iemplars opened
in Hartford. Eighteenth annual convention
of the knights of St. John aud Malta met
in Philadelphia.
q. Obituary: Professor J. F. Parish Steele OF
ture, in Mobile; aged g. Louis Lange, a
German journalist and publisher, in St
Louis; aged 81
g. Disaster: Is miners drowned in the Mans.
field mine. Mich, by break in the bed OF
the Michigamme river, which ran above
the mine.
%. Miscellaneous: Cold wave in the northern
states; snow in the New England and mid
die states.
OCTOBER.
l. Obituary: Judge Irving B. Randle. who was
an intimate friend of Lincoln. at Alton
Ills: aged So.
4 fire. Omaha, Farnham Street theater de.
stroyed: loss. S2jO,MU.
Cyclone: Terrible storm on the gulf coast
over 1900 lives lost. damages several mil
lion dollars.
Z. Sporting: The American yacht vigilant
won the first race in the contest for the
Americas cup over the English yacht Val.
kyrie by 8 minutes ~ seconds.
q Sporting: The American yacht Vigilant
won the second race from the English
yacht Valkyrie by 10 minutes 50 seconds.
Miscellaneous: Over lOoo0O persons visited
the Worlds fair in honor of Chicago day.
A carload of powder exploded near Ali.
ance, o.; loss. S2:0OOO: deaths.
L. Fire: 30 buildings burned in the business
district of Sioux City. Ia: loss about
$5D,UU.
n Sporting: The American yacht Nlgilam
won the third race against the Engli7b
yacht vaikyrie by ~ seconds, deciding the
contest for the Americas cup in favor OF
America.
Disaster: Rear end collision Of Worlds fair
excursion trains on the Michigan Contra
at jackson; II killed. ~ injured.
IL Disaster: Storm on the great lakes: the
propeller Dean Richmond lost at Var
Buren, Point, carrying down Is sailors. the
captain, his wife and children.
Is, Fires: King City, Mo-. 30 buildings burned;
loss, Sl50OU. Detroit: loss, S2O0.0O.
II, Fire: New York city, 2 blocks, including
factories and dwellings. destroyed: loss
81 100000.
Obituary. Lucy Stone Blackwell, the womal
suffragist, at Dorchester, Mass: aged IA
MacMahon, Due de Magenta, marshal OF
France and ex-president Of the republic. *
Paris; aged 50.
Disaster: killed and injured by a dyna-
mite explosion at EmiDgton. Ills.
is Sporting: Directum trotted mile in 20j14
at Nashville: new worlds record for trct-
tiers.
10. Fire: Springfield. Mass: loss, $I40.oO
Obituary: Gen. Dennis F. Burke, one Of the
commanders Of the Irish brigade, in New
York cfly: aged 50.
90. Disaster: A head end collision on the Grand
deatn Of IS people.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. Philip Schaff, celebrated
Biblical exegete and church historian. in
New York city: aged "a.
e Fire: East Douglass. Mass. a Sano,0O blaze