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

4 Disaster: Cargo OF dynamite exploded a
the quay in Santander. Spain: nearly i.un
people killed and injured
L Disaster: 10 workmcn drowned iron IN
overloaded sailboat in New York hArbsr.
Z Fire: Galena. Ills. smelling works loss-
$4,000
{ Disaster. "a castaway sailors drowned oil
Point aux Barques by the swamping Of =
boat.
( Fire: Danvers, Ills. the business district
nearly destroyed
Crime: Anarchist threw bombs INTO the
opera house al Barcelona. Spain: ~ killed.
50 injured.
flying start, rode a mile in minute - Ri
seconds; worlds record.
& Fire: Memphis. Lyceum theater burned.
loss. $36o.0l.
Disaster: Twelve killed by q rear end collision
on the Rock Island and Pacific in the
streets Of Chicago.
Crime: Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the de-
faulting speculstor. sente need to 10 years
hard labor.
Obituary: Francis Parkman. eminent histo-
rian, at Jamaica Plains, Mass; aged 1G
& Obituary: Annie Pixley. the actress, in Lon
don. Professor Herman August Hagen OF
Harvard college, well known entomologist,
at Cambridge. Mass: aged "a.
q. Obituary: Ex-Governor Charles H. Bell OF
New Hampshire at Exeter, N. H.; aged 20.
u Fire: Utica Ills. fire brick factory destroy
ed: loss, SaO0,0O0
Obituary: Mrs. j. Roosevelt Roosevelt, wife
of the newly appointed secretary Of the
American embassy, at London.
a. Fire: Memphis. the Schmalzried block de-
stroyed: loss nearly $l0D.0CO: I people
killed.
Il Obituary: William A. Beane. a prominent
Democrat of Indiana, editor Of the Goshen
Democrat, died suddenly in the streets Of
Goshen.
Is Fire: Fergus Mills. Minn., the Page -four
mills and other property destroyed: loss.
slOo,Goo.
Crime: Robbers carried Off valise contain
ing S@0,U0 from the Office of the Indiana.
Illinois and Iowa Railroad company's office
in Chicago.
Obituary: Elizabeth Oaksmith. poe, and
lecturer, at Holly wood, n. c.; aged 81.
To- Obituary: Samuel Augustus Cole. we'll
known art collector and critic. in st. Louis:
aged IS.
u. Earthquake: Town of Kuchan, province of
khorassan, Persia, destroyed: over l2uO
persons killed.
10. Fire: Kansas City, the Western Warehouse
and Storage company burned out: loss.
SaO,0O0.
Obituary: Rev. Charles F. Deems, pastor Of
the Church of the Strangers, in New York
city: aged %.
Misce laneous: The new cruiser Columbia
made the fastest time on record in the
world. in trial trip: average speed, % knots
2OOO train operatives and telegraphers on
the Lehigh Valley went out on a strike.
n. Fire: Starkville. Miss. the Masonic and
Odd Fellows building and Watts Opera
House destroyed; loss. Sl9l.0W.
Disaster: men killed and badly injured in
ba hprpi nty of tha Nprrill Hnusa n Reaypr
Pa.
Obituary: Hon. jeremiah McLain Rusk, eX-
governor of Wisconsin. and also secretary
of agriculture under President Harrison,
at viroqua, Wis; aged 63.
2. Fire: Springfield, Mass, several blocks
burned: loss, $4J0,00O.
Sporting: Directum defeated Alix. queen Of
racing tr1tters, at Fleetwood park, in 8
straight heats; best mile trotted in POS.
B. Fire: Edison, Moore & Co.'S dry goods store
burned in Detroit: loss. $S00, 600; employees
killed.
n Fire: Columbus, o., the Henrietta theater,
Chttenden hotel and Park theater and
auditorium destroyed; loss, Sl.UO,OOO.
Obituary: Ex-Governor John J. Jacob of
West Virginia, at Wheeling; aged "a.
d. Fire: Hannibal, Mo-, the William Voorhis
dry goods store, Kister hotel and other
buildings destroyed; loss, S3tU,0O.
''father of the house," in Philadelphia;
aged 72.
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at foot ball.
score. u too.
%. Obituary: William l.. Banning political
and business leader of Minnesota. in st.
Paul: aged 70.
n. Personal: General Master Workman r. v.
Powderly, knights of Labor. resigned.
Miscellaneous: The proposed Democratic tar
h. h
quake shocks in northern New York. New
England and Canada.
3. Fire: A business block buried in Oil City:
4deaths; loss on property, $9D0W.
% Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at foot
ball: score, 8 too.
DECEMBER.
L Fire: Philadelphia, the Thornton worsted
mills destroyed; loss. S2>5,0O
Obituary: William Lilly. a prominent public
man and capitalist Of Pennsy lvania, at
Mauch Chunk, aged %.
Miscellaneous: Admiral Mello escaped from
the bay of Rio Janeiro on the flagship
Aquidaban after some hard fighting with
government forts and ships. score or
more Of wrecks occurred on the Lehigh
Valley road as a result of the strike Abe
Stein & Co.. importers of goatskins, hides
ETC., in New York, failed for over $lUD.-
600. J. r. Sovereign of Iowa installed gen.
eral master workman, Knights of Labor.
Z Fire: Baltimore, S40O,0 worth Of property
destroyed in the business district.
Obituary: Pauline Cushman, the noted In
Ion scout, in San Frar cisco.
Disaster: men killed at q slate quarry at
Welchtown, Pa, by the breaking of a cable
Crime: highwaymen robbed several pas
sengers and employees on the Chicago and
Northwestern road at Luzerne, Ia
L Fire: Rome, n. V, the New York locomo-
tive works. valued at 10000. almost to-
tally destroyed. Corsicana, Tex; loss, $780,
CO.,
Obituary: Professor John Tyndall, the cele-
brated British scientist, at Haslemere.
county Surrey, England: aged "a
Miscellaneous: Congress met in regular ses-
sion. Green b. Raum, Jr., general mer-
chant and Indian trader at Perry. D., T.,
failed for q large amount. The Citizens
National bank of Grand Island. Neb..
closed its doors.
L Miscellaneous: Annual congress of Baptists
of the United States met in Augusta, Ga.
Crime: Joseph II. Louis, bookkeeper for n. }.
Schloss d Co.. clothiers in New York. ar
rested for oefalcation. said to amount to
$4,000.
Personal: The president again nominated
William b. Hornblower of New York for
justice of the supreme court.
Miscellaneous: \. J. Schloss & Co., wholesale
clothiers in New York. assigned.
9. Fire: Norfolk navy yard steam engineering
department building destroyed: loss. S.s.,.-
co..
Disaster: British ship Jason wrecked OF
Highland Light. Mass; p seamen lost.
Miscellaneous: Lehigh Valley strike ended
by arbitration.
Crime: The South Bend dnd.) National