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

, The Pollard breckenridge suit decided in IA
vor Of the plaintiff: damages awarded, sl5-
=, 600.
Is. The Missionary society of the Methodist
Episcopal church celebrated its seventy
fifth anniversary in New York city.
, Is. Obituary: Count Adolphe Frederick Won
Setback. wealthy art collector and author.
Gen. Oliver Lathrop Shepherd. U. s. A.,
retired, civil war veteran. in New York
city; aged 81.
: II. Fire: Burnham (Pa.) Iron and Steel works;
loss, $4,000.
| Disaster: The famous Brazilian insurgent
| warship Aquidaban sunk by govern
| ment torpedo boat.
Obituary: Henry g. Ives, the "rapid' finan-
cier, ct Asheville, N c.
IS. Fire: The City Electric Power company Of
1 Sacramento destroyed; loss, $4,000.
J Miscellaneous: The dispensary law OF South
1 Carolina declared Unconstitutional The
\ Charles L. Webster Publishing company,
Of which Mark Twain was the principal
owner assigned in New York
10. Personal: Ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis was
i appointed United States senator from
Il North Carolina to succeed Senator Vance,
I deceased.
20. Fire: The National Linsced Oil works, st.
Louis; loss $4,000.
i Disaster: Fatal and destructive earthquake
Il in Greece.
a. Obituary: William B. Daniels, ex-governor
/ OF Idaho, ut Tacoma; aged 20. James W.
Throckmorton, ex-governor of Texas, at
Il Mckinney; aged 20.
q. Obituary: Jesse B. Selicman. the New York
Il banker, at Coronado Beach, Cal
.. Obituary: Gen. II. S. Granger, U. S. A. re-
tired, in Washington; aged 49,
Reunion OF United Confederate veterans ut
Birmingham. Ala.
&c. Fires: The village of Townsend Vt nearly
!. destroyed. The Colorado Smelter at Butte,
Mon, destroyed; loss, 100000
: Obituary Nathaniel Springer Berry, war
governor Of New Hampshire, at Bristol, n.
. H nref N
% Fire: Gasport On. " business portion dc.
| stroyed.
| 2S Fire: The famous old st. Charles hotel. in
II New Orleans, destroyed loss s5CD,O
81 Disaster: An earthquake DESTROYED 2 towns
ii in Venezuela; heavy loss of life and prop.
crty.
%. Fire: A business block destroyed at Win
chester, Va loss, 100000.
Fl Obituary: Francis B. Stockbridge. United
States senator from Michigan. in Chicago
. | aged Gs Maj. Joseph Kirkland, well
known veteran and author, in Chicago;
II aged 81.
30. Fire: Ashland Wis. the Vaughn Library
building; loss sl2O.CO0.
| Obituary: Frank Hatton editor of the Wash
Z ington Pest, in Washington; aged IS.
81 Landslide ct st. Alban, near Quebec, turned
~ the ST. Anne river into a new bed and de-
stroyed property amounting to Sj00,0OO.
8 MAY.
| /. Obituary: George ". Aber proprietor of
the baitlmOre sum- IN Baltimore.
Miscellaneous: Coxey's ''conuonwealers''
entered Washington, and the leaders were
expelled from the capitol grounds. The
fourth annual meeting of the National As
ISOLATION Of Military Surgeons opened in
Washington. The ninth annual convention
- of the National League of American Musi-
clans opened in Baltimore.
| =. Fires: The Eenwood felt mill at Albany:
y loss, s25O000. An enormous sawrnill plant
. at Maurillon, France; loss. s1.2i0,0O0.
II A 49,.
I'll prominent in Samoan and Hawaiian affairs
ut Dorchester Mass; aged "a.
!, Serious rioting by the unemployed in Cleve
land
IL 4. Fire: A million dollar fire in Dublin.
8. a destructive storm of wind, hail and
II lightning in southern Minnesota
!" Obituary: John Jay, ex-Iuinister to Austria
" in New York city; aged ~
ie 6. Fire; The William N. Whitley Reaper and
/. Mower works, at Muncie, Ind. /: loss s245
Destructive storm in Kentucky. Ohio ant
81 West Virginia; also in central New York.
~ Obituary: Gen. Thcophilc Adrien Ferrer. q
Il French veteran of the Crimean. Algerian
and Franco-Prussian wars, in Paris: aged
q. John HapgoOd Maynard, prominent
resident of Manchester, n. H.; aged 30.
z. Obituary: Frances Elizabeth Barrow, 50 Aun
children, in New York city; aged 81. Viii
LII liam F. Sayles, the third richest man il
Rhode Island, at Pawtuciet aged 90
81 S. Obituary: Leon Liable, noted French sur
~ geon, in Paris. Thomas &. Latto, wei
known Scotch American poet, in Brooklyn
e. aged &C.
0. Obituary: Gen. Matthew NJ. Trumbull.
W. Union veteran, in Chicago; aged 6S.
nc 10. Fire: The town of Norway, Me-. destroyed
er loss, $2:D.0OO.
~ IL. Fire: The Akron Varnish company, at Ak
d. ron, o.. loss $4,000.
tn Obituary: Sowel L. Jewell, a noted aboli
ticnist. in HavcriIl. Mass: aged S..
3D. Rev. DIR. Talmage's new Tabernacle ant
~ the Hotel Regent adjoining destroyed
eyl losses over 100000.
Il Disaster: Harvard students drowned il
u Boston harbor by the capsizing of cat
Wi boat.
IA. Obituary: A. c. Hunt, OK governor of Col
n orado, at Tenallytown, Washington
m aged 6o. Louis Clovis Bonaparte grand
nj nephew. of the first Napoleon, in London
ca aged 80. Professor Henry Morley, Englis
lecturer and writer. in London aged ~.
vn Is. Fire: y acres of territory burned i
he Boston; nearly 200 buildings destroyed
loss about 81 .0O00
OF Sporting: DIR. Rice won the Brooklyn Hand
cap.
IN l6. Fire: Coal and lumber yards burned a
Pawtucket, X. !. 3: loss $5JO,0O.
Obituary: Chauncey Shaffcr, well know
lawyer, in New York city; aged IS. Rev
-: DR.. Edward Bright, editor of The Examir
err, in New York city; aged 81. Consul Ger
>: eral ". II. Edwards of the United State.
. in Berlin
10 l.. Miscellaneous Storms destroyed propert
valued at sl,00O,0U in Ohio, Michigan an
.u states westward. The one hundredth an
sixth general assembly of the Presbytcria
church met in Saratoga. The souther
;. Presbyterian general assembly met 4
o. Nashville
IS. Fire: Hillsboro o.. Hillsboro college; los
ne $4,000.
in. A fierce stor,, ON Lake Michigan heavy In
Did of life ammy sailors
III 10. Obituary: Andrew j. Graham, author
the Graham system of shorthand,
.ne Orange, N. j.; aged Ga.
Is 70. Fire: Several millinery, lace and trim
establishments destroyed in PHILADELPHIA,
To loss, $3.50, 900.
lhe Miscellaneous: The middle Atlantic Goa
As swept by terrible storm. Floods in Il
Schuylkill and Susquchanna rivers.
NO Obituary: Edmund Yates English auth,
and journalist in London: aged 63.
w, e 81 Obituary: Gen. Phil Cooke. distinguish
10 Confederate Yeter.n. in Atlanta. ared z