Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-31


rem, O., the Griswold Linseed Oil company
lost mill plant valued at 100000
Obituary: William T. Stansbury, q printer OF
the Baltimore Sun since 1887, in Baltimore
aged IS.
10. Obituary: JOSEPH Keppler famous cartoon
ist and one of the founders and owners o.
Puck. in New York city; aged Sc. Miss
Anna Ella Carroll OF Maryland, who claimed
to be the originator of Grants Donelsor
campaign at Washington; aged IS. Sivari
Italian violinist, at Genoa: aged 30
John Y. McKane, the corrupt .sboss'' O.
Gravescnd, N. Y, sentenced to 6 years il
states prison.
~. Obituary: Lieut.. Horatio Crane, an ole
r, Boston lnilitiaman, in Boston; aged o.
Il. FIRE: AT Quincy, Ills, business portion o.,
the city damaged to the extent Of s175, 900.
opituary; Louis Wis.ar, wealthy Philadel
phian, at Atlantic City; aged g.
A hazing freak at Cornell university caused
the death of n colored cook and the scriou.
illness of several students.
%. Disaster: miners killed by an exnlosior
ut Blossburg. N. NJ.
Obituary: DIR. William B. Lapham, wei
known Maine historian and geologist a,
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 Gs. Col. John NJ. Huger, n distin
guishcd southcrner and ex-Confederate, ir
New York city; aged So
%. Obituary: Steele Mackaye, actor, teacher
and playwright at Timpas, Colo; aged 81
&c. Fires: Pebbles sar,itarium, San Antonio
Tex. Bazaar of Davis Bros, in San Fran
cisco: loss, Sl20 900.
Obituary: Mrs. Mandclbaum the notoriou:
New York "fcnce," at Hamilton, Ont.
where she was hiding from justice.
MARCH.
Fires. Arm, S,,r;rrs bota, ,oar napvi1lc
Ky: loss, sl00C0G. Hcnry's Opera Hous'
block, at North Baltimore, o. loss, S1O0. 900
Obituary: Ex-Gov. John G. Downey of Cal
ifornia. ut Les Angeles: aged ca. DIR. Fred
cric!s William Poole, d. D.. eminent libra
rian of Boston and compiler of a valuable
index to periodical literature, at Evanston
Ills. aged %.
g Obituary: Gen. Juhal A. Early, a promi
ncnt cx-Confederate, at Lynchburg. Va.
aged 1s.
Martial law declared in West Virginia on &C
count of ! strikers riot at Eagle
!? Fire: At Shreveport, La, Wholesale tru
house; loss, s125, 900.
Obituary; GIary Morris Husband, note
volunteer nurse in the Union army, a
Washington; aged IS.
Lord Rosebery appointed premier of Ems
land.
4. Obituary: James Montgomery Bailey, 18th
Danbury News Man." humorist, autho
and editor, ut Danbury, Conn. aged IS.
D. Ere: Dondwood, 5. D., nearly destroyed
| loss, SIZE, 900.
s. Obituary: Benjamin Bunker editor of tn
kennebec Democrat at Waterville, Me.
| aged ~.
| 10. Fire: The Lansing Lumber company, q
| Clara, Mich; loss, s115oO0.
Miscellaneous Morse & Smith, produce con-
mission merchants of Boston and Ceda
| Rapids, Ia, made an assignment; estima,
cd liabilities, s2l0, Geo; assets, $f5,000.
| II. Obituary: Rev. a. T. Wood, q prominer
Presbyterian, ut Omaha; aged 81
| -. Miscellaneous: Da CANA, the insurgent nc
| miral Of Brazil, surrendered with all hi
| followers Lake navigation opened at CHI
| c;igo the earliest record.
| IA. Obituary: John T. Ford, the well know
theatrical manager, at Baltimore; aged G.
| ID Obituary Capt. Frank f. Browncll tn
! avengcr O. Col. Ellsworth, in Washington
Regular troops called out to prevent poll
zeal riot il Denver.
| IG. Fire: Mobile; loss, 5000, 900.
| IL. Fires: Gloucester, Mass, block of stores
loss, sl25,0C0 Lawrence Mass, brewery
| loss. sl25,Oo0.
Martha j. Fuller. stenographer and typ
! writer, mysteriously murdered in the offic
| Of her employer in New York city.
| iS. Fire: Denver, union depot destroyed: los
| S:pO,o00,
Disaster: 10 persons killed and 50 injured i
tornado at Longview and Emory, Tex.
TO- Obituary Commodore William d. Within,
L. S. N, retired in New York city; age
| II.
| 70. Fire: business property worth $3.50, 00e Il
stroyed ut Fort Worth. Tex.
Obituary: Louis Kossuth. the Hungarian p
| triot, at Turin: aged g2. Professor lisa,
| T. Gcotlnow, Il prominent Kansas piono,
and educator, at Manhattan, Kan; aged s
Miscellaneous: Gen Neal Dow, the Prohi.
ton advocate, celebrated his ninetiet
birthday. Tornado in Texas; 20 deaths
| %. Fire: Denver: loss, Sl.;5.tOO.
70. Fire: "A lumber plant, creosote works,
dwellings and schooner burned at Mon,
Point, suburb Of Norfolk; loss, $500, 900.
%. Obituary: George Ticknor Curtis, an a
| thority End writer on constitutional II,
in New York city: aged 81.
&c. Obituary: Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, Sc
ator from Georgia and q prominent exec
fcdcrate. in Washington; aged 20. Cor
mander Verney Lovctt Cameron, the not,
African traveller, in England; aged So
%. Obituary: E. ". Hudson, well know
| journalist, formerly managing editor of Il
New York Herald, at Woburn, Mss.
GO. Fire: The business portion of the town
Barry. Ills. destroyed; loss, s200,O
Obituary Jane P. Austen, the novelist,
Boston aged g.
/. Obituary: Maj. lie Caron, the notorio
British spy upon Irishmcn in America,
London. DR. Charles Edo uard Brown S
4
coverer of the elixir of life, in Pari
| aged !6.
9. Personal: Patrick Walsh, editor of the A
! gusta Chronicle, was appointed Unit
States senator from Georgia in place
Gen. Colquitt, deceased.
g. Fire: Clothing house, Rochester: loss, SIT
| coo.
L. Disaster: men killed during riot in {
Connellsville coke regions in Pennsylvania
6. Obituary: Virgil Whitcomb, a famous G
time landlord in New York. in Broolly
aged So.
Z. Disaster: 1Okilled and many injured by t
explosion of a fireworks factory at Petel
burg, We.
Obituary: Richard wistar, noted millionail
in Philadelphia: aged 6o. Ben King. t
Chicago poet and humorist, ut BOWL
Green, Ky.
6. Disaster: 7teaths by the collapse Of a ter
ment, Memphis.
Obituary: John Graham, the celebrat
criminal lawyer, in New York city aged
.. Fire: TIE Davidson hotel and theatcr
Milwaukee; 8 deaths; loss, $22jO00.
Disasters: Severe gale and snowstorm on
New England coast. The bark Belmol
from Boston. wrecked Oh Peak Hill ba
| Mass. q Sailors drowned.