Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-12-27
WOODBURY.. N. ], THURSDAY DECEMBER 27, 1894
Detroit; loss, $4,000. Knorville. main

Detroit; loss, $4,000. Knoxville. main
building and annex OF Knoxville college.
Disaster: Boilers Of the new German cruiser
Brandenburg exploded at Kiel; Al killed.
~. Obituary: R. w. English, personal asso-
ciate Of Lincoln, at Kansas City; aged SO.
IS. Fires: At Ottawa, Stewards stables Of val
liable trotters burned; loss, $500, ,O0O War
rem, O., the Griswold Linseed Oil company
lost mill plant valued at 100000.
Obituary: William T. Stansbury, a printer on
the Baltimore Sun since 1887, in Baltimore
aged rs.
10. Obituary: Joseph Keppler, famous cartoon
ist and one Of the founders and owners of
Puck, in New York city; aged Sc. Miss
Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, who claimed
to be the originator Of Grants Donelson
campaign, at Washington; aged rs. Sivari.
Italian violinist at Genoa; aged 70.
John Y. McKane. the corrupt "boss" CT
Gravesend, N. Y. sentenced to 6 years in
states prison.
20. Obituary: Lieut.. Horatio Crane, an old
Boston miltiaman, in Boston; aged "a.
q. Fire: AT Quincy, Hls., business portion Of
the city damaged to the extent of SIZE, 600.
Obituary; Louis Wistar, wealthy Philadel
phian, at Atlantic City: aged 66
A hazing freak at Cornell university caused
the deat th of a colored cook and the serious
Illness Of several students.
". Disaster: miners killed by an explosion
at Blossburg, N. M.
Obituary: DR.. William B. Lapham, well
known Maine historian and geologist, ut
Augusta, Me-. aged 66.
"a. Fire: 20 buildings burned at Mcdonald,
Pa; loss, 100000.
Obituary: DR.. Martin Luther, physician
prominent in Pennsylvania, at Reading;
aged 68. Col. John M. Huger, a distin-
guished southerner and ex-Confederate, In
New York city; aged Ss
rs. Obituary: Steele Mackaye, actor, teacher
and playwright, at Timpas, Colo aged 52
26. Fires: PEBBLES sanitarium. San Antonio,
Tex Bazaar of Davis Bros, in San Fran
cisco; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Mrs. Mandelbaum, the notorious
New York ssfence," at Hamilton, Ont,
where she was hiding from Justice.
MARCH.
1. Fires: Alum Springs hotel, near Danville
KY; loss, 100000. Henrys Opera House
block, at North Baltimore, o. loss, 500, ,OO0
Obituary: Ex-Gov. John G.. Downey Of Cal
ifornia, at Los Angeles; aged 81. DR.. Fred
erick William Poole, ID. D., eminent libra
rian Of Boston and compiler of a valuable
index to periodical literature, at Evanston,
His; aged 73.
2. Obituary: Gen. Jubal A. EARLY, promi-
nent ex-Confederate, at Lynchburg, Va.
aged rs. a ss -1F
Martial law declared in West Virginia on ac-
count Of a strikers riot at Eagle.
8. Fire: At Shreveport, La, wholesale drug
house; loss, sl25, 90.
Obituary Mary Norris Husband, a noted
volunteer nurse in the Union army, at
Washington; aged 73
Lord Rosebery appointed premier of Eng
land. .h y
{. Obituary: James Montgomery Bailey, "the
Danbury News Man." hurnorist, author
and editor at Danbury, Conn.,; aged 50.
s. Fire: Deadwood, s. D.. nearly destroyed;
loss, $125,OD
8. Obituary: benjamin Bunker, editor of the
Kennehec Democrat at waterville.s Me
10. Fire: The Lansing Lumber company, at
Clara, Mich. loss, $175,0O0.
Miscellaneous: Morse g Smith, produce COM
mission merchants Of Boston and Cedar
Rapids, Ia, made an assignment; estimat-
ed liabilities $4,000; assets, $65, 900.
IL. Obituary: Rev. A. T. Wood prominent
Presbyterian, at Omaha; aged n.
IL. Miscellaneous: Da CANA, the insurgent ad-
miral OF Brazil, surrendered with all his
followers. Lake navigation opened at Chi
cago, the earliest on record.
IA. Obituary: John T. Ford, the well known
theatrical manager, at Baltimore; aged 65.
15 Obituary: Capt Frank E. BrownelI, the
ayenger of Col. Ellsworth. in Washington.
Regular troops called out to prevent polit
ical riot in Denver.
l6. Fire Mobile; loss, $200. 900.
II. Fires: Gloucester, Mass, block Of stores;
loss, sl25,0o0 Lawrence, Mass, brewery;
loss, $4,000.
Martha j. Fuller, a stenograrher and type
writer, mysteriously murdered in the office
Of her employer in New York city.
Is. Fire: Denver, union depot destroyed; loss,
$3o0,00o. 7 N
Disaster: 16 persons killed and 50 injured in
tornado at Longview and Emory, Tex.
10. Obituary: Commodore William D. Whiting,
o. s. N. retired. in New York city aged
20. Fire: Business property worth s15O,OOO de-
stroyed at Fort Worth, Tex.
Obituary: Louis Kosstth, the Hungarian pa
triot, at Turin: aged o. Professor Isaac
T. Goodnow, prominent Kansas pioneer
and educator, at Manhattan, Kan; aged 30.
Miscellaneous: Gen. Neal Dow, the Prohibi-
tion advocate, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday. Tornado IN Texas; 20 deaths.
%. Fire: Denver loss, s135,00O. E
%. Fire: A lumber plant, creosote works, 30
dwellings and a schooner burned at Money
Point, q suburb OF Norfolk; loss, $500, 900.
Is. Obituary: George Ficknor Curtis, an au-
thority and writer on constitutional law,
IN New York city; aged SO.
%. Obituary Gen Alfred Holt Colquitt, SEN
ator from Georgia and a prominent exCon-
federate, in Washington; aged 20. Com
nldlALtI trucy 1ONtGb NRttucEO1l3 bl0 llOItu
African traveller, in England; aged so.
"a. Obituary: E. W. Hudson, a well known
Journalist, formerly managing editor Of the
New York Herald, at Koburn, Mass.
B0 Fire: The business portion Of the town Of
Barry, Ills. destroyed; loss, $500, 600.
Obituary: Jane P. Austen, the novelist, in
Boston; aged SO. -t
ei APRIL.
l. Obituary: Maj. lie Caron, the notorious
British spy upon Irishmen in America in
London. DR.. Charles Edouard Brown-Se-
guard, the eminent French physician, dis
coverer Of the 'felixir of life, " in Paris;
aged 76.
2. Personal: Patrick Walsh, editor of the Au-
gusta Chronicle, was appointed United
States senator from Georgia in place Of
Gen. Colquitt, deceased
8. Fire: Clothing house. Rochester; loss, s175,
600.
Z. Disaster: 9 men killed during riot in the
Connellsville cokeregions in Pennsylvania.
8. Obituary: Virgil Whitcomb, famous old
time landlord in New. York, in Brooklyn;
aged So.
2. Disaster: 10 killed and many injured by the
explosion Of a fireworks factory at Peters
burg, Va. ~
Obituary: Richard Wistar, noted millionaire,
in Philadelphia; aged s.. Ben King, the
Chicago poet and humorist. at Bowling
Green, KY.
8. Disaster: deaths by the collapse Of tene-
naent, Memphis.
Obituary: John Graham, the celebrated
criminal lawyer, in New York city aged 73
g. Fire: The Davidson hotel and theater in
Milwaukee; 8 deaths; loss, $225, 900.
Disasters: Severe gale and snewstorm on the
New England coast. The bark Belmont,
from Boston, wrecked on Peak Hill bars,
Mass. 20 sailors drowned.