Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-31
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
SUMMARY OF THE NOTABLE EVENTS
OF 1894.
A Chronological Record Of Accidents, Fire
Disasters, Commercial Troubles. SKisceI-
Ianeous Events, Important Conventions
and the Work Of the Grim Destroyer.

and the Work Of tho Grim Destroyer.
JANUARY.
!. Obituary: DR.. d. B. Cheney. an old Bap
fist minister OF Chicago in that city; aged
"a.
.. Obituary: Col Floyd Cinrlson. well known
O. A. r. veteran, ia New York. aged g.
Orlando D. Potter. prominent in New York
circles in New York; aged H. William P.
Earle. an old New York hotel keeper, in
. New York; aged s..
Miscellaneous: Theodore Walton, "the plum
r-cr' made an assignment i'll New York.
O. Fires: An $4,000 fire in Toledo, which de
stroyed the Chamber of Commerce, eleva-
tors, n museum and wholesale drug store.
Drug house of Hinchmann & Sons burned
in Detroit; loss, slGO,U0
T. Obituary; Harry Kennedy, song writer and
ventriloGuist, in Brooklyn. Elizabeth Pea
body, pioneer in education and reform, in
Boston; aged 50.
g. Fire: A granite block in Worcester. Mass,
burned loss, $4,000.
Collision between troops and rioters in Sici-
ly; 40 rioters killed.
Obituary: Benton Hall, a well known Iowa
lawyer, ut Burlington, Ia. aged 81.
6. Fires: The cyclorama of Gettysburg burned
ut niagara Falls. The Albany thcater
burned at Albany; loss, sl25,000
Obituary: DIR. Clinton Cavendish, English
traveller and scientist, Mt San Antonio, Tex.
aged 81
g. Fire: Chicago Worlds fair buildings; loss,
about si,0O0O00.
o. Obituary: Rev. Father Patrick Corrigan, O
prominent Romanist at Hobokcn, n. j.;
aged IS.
10. Fire: Factory OF the Starr Manufacturing
company, at Richmond. Ind, totally de-
s,royed BY fire. loss, S250,OOO.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Donald Mcneil
Fairfax, L. S. N, retired, at Hagerstown,
Md: aged 30. Frank Bolles, well known
as an author and secretary OF Harvard
university, in Boston.
II. Obituary: Mrs. William NJ. Thacl;eray,
widow OF the novelist. at Leigh. England:
aged So
Is. Fires. T;nkham's wooden mills Mt Har-i-
sonvillc T. l., burned: loss, $4,000. Three
blocks burned at Ipswich. Mass. loss,
10000
British troops defeated 1900 Sofas in Sierra
Leone; 30 Sofas killed
u. Fire: Tho "Syrdcate block Minneapolis
damaged sll3.GO by fire.
Disaster: sailors of tho Dutch steamer
Amsterdam drowned while attempting to
rescue the crew of u sinking schooner in
the Atlantic.
Is Disaster: In n tclescoping collision on the
D., l.. and ". at HcrlSensack meadows, \.
J., IL persons were killed, 20 injured.
l.. Obituary Gen. William II. Forney, Con-
fcdcratc veteran, superintendent of Gettys
burg battlefield, at Anniston Ala. aged a.
Is. Obituary George Bartlett Prescott, author
and electrician. in New York; aged O..
II. Obituary: John Haley Spears, an associate
81 Lincoln. at Jacksonville; aged 90. Ex-
Governor William CASTOR OF Massachusetts
IN Boston: aged 81.
70 Obituary; Helen 4. Shafcr, president OF
Wellesley college, IA: Wellesley, Mass. aged
~. Eugene Nus, French dramstist, in
Paris: aged IS. Ex-Governor William Gil
pin uf Colorado mt Denver: aged 81. Gen.
Emile licliinet, a French veteran OF the
wars of the first AMI second empires, ut
EantCs: aged o.
"a Obituary: Constance Fcniriorc wooleon
Fcnimorc Cooper's grandniece, at Nice,
Italy; AGED 81.
2. Fire: Purdue university, Lafayette. Ind.
almost destroyed by fire; loss, slso,oC0.
Obituary: LAURA SchirIncr Mapleson, the
singer, IN Now YORK; aged 81.
Twenty fourth annual convention OF the M.
tioral board Of trade in Washington.
81 Fire: The Sherman oil and cotton mill az
sherman. Tex, burned: loss, $4,000.
Obituary: ID. ". irwin. n prominent business
man OF Chicago, III that city; aged O..
%. Fire: Residence of Senator Palmer at
Springfield, Ills, destroyed.
miscellaneous: TimbulStu entered by French
troops. Corbett defeated Mitchell for the
worlds championship at Jacksonville
=. Obituary: Rosira Vokes. actress, in Tor
quay, England: aged 10.
Is Fire: SJJC.CDO fire Mt Bath, Nc, which de-
stroycda hotel, banks and several stores.
Obituary: Cavelicr, celebrated French sculp-
Norf IN cU
FEBRUARY.
.. Tho famous war corvct Kcarsargc wreck
ed on Roncador reef.
y. Fires: In Omaha stores. n Catholic church
and n schCuihouse destroyed; loss, $3.50 O0O.
wilmington, Del, the Brandywine mill
burned, loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Ann Hathaway, tho actress, in In
dianapn!is; aged CO. George ". Childs,
proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger in
Philadelphia; aged 60.
T. Obituary: Morton $. wilkinson, cx-United
States senator from Minnesota, in Wells,
Mimi: aged IS.
5. Obituary: l.. schofcld, pioneer manufac-
turcr of lion rails in the south ct Chatta-
noora: aged 10. Harry Watkins actor and
playwright, i'll New York city
%. IRE: AT Dublin, Tex, n cotton compress
burned; loss, $4,000
Obituary: Gen Jacob Ammcn, a prominent
Union veteran, at Yorkland. o.. aged So
DIR. Theodore Billroth, distinguished Ger
man surgeon. near Vienna: aged s..
Z. Fires: IL stores and offices burned at Mont
gomcry Mo. loss, sl3.OOO. At Pine Ridge
agency, 5. d., the Ogalala Indian schoo
building destroyed: loss, sfO,OD
8. Obituary: r. NJ. Ballantyne, English writ
or Of stories of adventure. at Rome; aget
e.. j. q. Weaver, popular landlord of New
port and New York in New Yorl, city. DR.
Gustavc Lcipnitz, well known character
On the coast, in San Francisco aged So
noted Indian fighter, near San Antonio
aged az.
o. Fire: tobacco factories burned Mt Hendcr
son, KY. loss, s2OO0O0.
Obituary: Maxine du Camp, o noted Frencl
author. ut Paris; aged -.
". Obituary: Abraham Gottlieb, well know,
architectural and bridge engineer, in Chi
cago: aged Sc. Vicar General Thomas A
Casey. wealthy and charitable priest, a
Erie. Pa.
II. Fires: Wapa- Koneta, o. T., 100000 WORT
of business property. Colts firearms fac
tory near Hartford damaged to tho exten
of $2Jc,OC0. AT Duluth the board of trad
building was burned; loss. $4,000
Destructive storm in Mississippi and Louisi
Obituary: Gen. L. Il. Northrup q prominen
cx-Confcdoratc. ut Baltimore: aged 81.
L.. n blizzard of rain and snow prevailed fror
New England to Nebraska.
u. Fires: The Bath Iron works, at Bath. Ne
damaged to the extent of Si50.C0O. hotel
burned and the new courthouse damage
at San Antonio, Tea; loss, $4,000.
Disaster: a cavein ut the Gaylord mine
Plymouth, Pa. imprisoned Is miners IN