The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-12-27
Detroit; loss, $4,000. Knoxville. main


Disaster: Boilers of the new German cruiser
Brandenburg exploded at Kiel; II killed.
n. Obituary: r.. w. English, personal assoc
ciate of Lincoln at Kansas City; aged 49,
Is. Fires: At Ottawa, Stewards stables OF val
liable trotters burned; loss, $500, War
rem, O., the Griswold Linseed OIL company
lost n mill plant valued at 100000.
Obituary: William II. Stansbury, printer on
the Baltimore Sun since 1887, in Baltimore;
aged Is.
10. Obituary: Joseph Keppler, famous cartoon
list 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 70. Sivari,
Italian violinist, at Genoa; aged ~.
John Y. Mckane, the corrupt "boss' or
Grayesend, N. Y, sentenced to years In
states prison.
20. Obituary: Lieut.. Horatio Crane, an old
Boston militiaman, in Boston; aged "a.
q. Fire At Quincy, Ills, business portion OF
the city damaged to the extent OF $4,000.
Obituary: Louis WiStar, wealthy Phlladel-
phian, at Atlantic City; aged TO-
A hazing freak at Cornell university caused
the death Of u 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 at
Augusta, Me-. aged GO.
a. Fire: 20 buildings burned at Mcdonald,
Pa; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Dr. Martin Luther, physician
prominent in Pennsylvania, at Reading;
aged 6S. Col John M. Huger, distin-
puished southerner and ex-Confederate, in
New York city; aged So.
Is. Obituary: Steele Mackayc, actor. teacher
and playwright, at Tim,ts, Colo. aged 81.
%. Fires: PEBBLES sanitarium, San Antonio,
De- % nox VIC In, Sov
cisco; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Mrs. Mandelbaum, the notorious
New York "fence," at Hamilton, Ont,
whers she was hiding from justice.
MARCH.
I. Fires: Alum Springs hotel, near Danville,
KY; loss, 500, 0O0 Henry's Opera House
block, at North Baltimore, O. loss, $100, 900.
Obituary: ExGov. John g. Downey Of Cal
ifornia, at Los Angeles; aged 81. DR.. Fred
erck William Poole, D. D., eminent libra
rian Of Boston and compiler Of valuable
index to periodical literature, at Evanston,
Ills. aged 70.
2. Obituary: Gen. Jubal A. Early a promi-
nent ex-Confederate, at Lynchburg, Va;
aged rs
Martial law declared in West Virginia on &C.
count of a strikers riot at Eagle.
8. Fire: AT Shreveport, La, wholesale drug
house; loss, $125, 900.
volunteer nurse in the Union army, at
Washington; aged 70.
Lord RossbsTy. appointed premier of Eng
3E land. 9 ~ jjeal9g
- sObituasy James Montgomery Bailey, "the
"a Danbury News Man." humorist, author
and editor, at Danbury, Conn. aged 50.
: 5. Fire: Deadsvood, S. D., nearly destroyed;
loss, 1926, 600.
'tuary: Benjamin Bunker, editor of the
oebecs Democrat, at Waterville, Me-;
he Lansing Lumber company, at
fich. loss, $175,0O0.
GUS: Morse & Smith, produce COM
merchants of Boston and Cedar
5, la.sInade an assignment; estimat-
- liabilities, $2lO, 600; assets, s65, 900.
II. ohituarys RevSA. T. Wood, prominent
p E; 2sEisa 4 Omaha; aged u:
Ne gpiraf Of surrendered with all his
ISes followers. H4A navigation opened at Chi
cage, the earliest on record.
IA. Obituary: John II. Ford, the well known
theatrical manager, at Baltimore; aged Is.
Is. Obituary: Capt. Frank E. Brownell, the
avenger of Col Ellsworth, in Washington.
Regular troops called out to prevent polit
ical riot in Denver.
16. Fire: Mobile; loss, $500, 900.
II. Fires: Gloucester, Mass. block Of stores;
Joss, Si2o,O Lawrence, Mass, brewery;
~ loss, SIPS, 900.
Fsrtla J. E7uMsr, {, ote,soeraphef ana type
- ETitor, HystaIiOusly murdered in the Office
If her employer in New York city.
10. biifS:: Denver, union depot destroyed; loss,
20 ss,''eose00.2
+ sDisG5tera4G persons killed and so injured in
- a tornado at Longviaw and Emory, Tex.
! 49, Obituary: Commodore William d. Whiting,
Z. S. n, retired, in New York city; aged
II.
20. Fire: Business property worth S150,0O0 de-
strOyed at Fort Worth, Tex.
Obituary: Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pa
triot at Turin; aged 90. Professor Isaac
r. Goodnow, prominent Kansas pioneer
and educator, at Manhattan, Kan. aged so.
Miscellaneous: Gen. Neal Dow, the Prohibi
ton advocate, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday. Tornado in Texas; 20 deaths.
20. Fire: Denver; loss, $135, 900.
%. Fire: lumber plant, creosote works, 30
dwellings and schooner burned at Money
Point, suburb of Norfolk; loss, $500, 900.
%. Obituary: George Ticknor Curtis, an au-
thority and writer on constitutional law,
in New York city; aged 49,
26. Obituary: Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, SEN
ator from Georgia and prominent Exon
federate, in Washington; aged 20. Com
mander Verney Lovett Cameron, the noted
African traveller, in England aged so.
~. Obituary: E. W. Hudson, q we'll known
journalist, formerly managing editor of the
New York Herald, at Woburn, Mass.
30. Fire: The business portion Of the town Of
Barry, His, destroyed; loss, $500, OOO
Obituary. Jane P. Austen, the novelist, in
Boston; aged 63.
1. Obituary: Maj. lie Caron, the notorious
British spy upon Irishmen in America, in
London. DR.. Charles Edouard Brown Sc
guard, the eminent French physician, dis
coverer Of the "elixir of life" in Paris;
aged T6.
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, $175,-
600.
4. Disaster: men killed during riot in the
Connellsville coke regions in Pennsylvania.
6. Obituary: Virgil Whitcomb, famous old
time landlord in New York, in Brooklyn |;
aged 49,
z. Disaster: 10 killed and many injured by the
explosion of fireworks factory at Peters
burg, Va.
Obituary: Richard Wistar, noted millionaire,
IN Philadelphia; aged g. Ben King, the
Chicago poet and humorist at Bowling
Green, KY.
8. Disaster: deaths by the collapse of tene-
ment, Memphis.
Obituary: John Graham, the celebrated
criminal lawyer, in New York city aged Is.
o. Fire: The Davidson hotel and theater in
Milwaukee; 8 deaths; loss, SIZE, 600.
Disasters Severe gale and snowstorm on the
New England coast. The bark Belmont,
from Boston, wrecked on Peak Hill bars,
Mass. 6 sailors drowned.
10. Fires Scranton, Pa, the rockingham ar
cade, occupied with stores and offices; loss,
$4,000. Manions livery stable with 100
horses and $50 carriages, in Baltimore; loss,
$500, COO; l death.
Disaster: Wreck Of the schooners Albert W.
Smith and Kate Markee on the New Jer
sey coast; 16 sailors drowned.
Snowfall in central Pennsylvania, the heavi-
est since 1862.