Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-12-27

of Chicago and formerly president Of
Browne university, in Boston; aged 70.
IA. Fire: buildings burned in the 'spaper
district of New York; loss, $3.50, 900.
Obituary: John Duke Coleridge, lord chief |
Justice of England, in London; aged 49,
Sporting: Miss Helen Helwig won the ladies' |
tennis championship Of America at Phila-
delphia
16. Fire: The abattoir Of the Central stock
yards Of Jersey City; loss, $1,5O0OOo
II. Obituary: Judge William Walter Phelps, |
business man and diplomat, at Englewood, |
N. j.; aged 55. "King Pharaoh, /" chief Of |
the Montauk Indians, at Franklinville, |
Suffolk county, N. "; aged 81. Commodore |
John N. Easley, .. s. A., retired, in Wash |
ington; aged rs. Alfred Kappes, N. A.. a |
strong painter of figures, in Yonkers; aged |
43.
Sporting: Cornell crew defeated the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania the upper Della
ware by IL 1l seconds.
l8. Obituary: William Hart, ~ A., wen /
known painter, at Mount Vernon. n. Y;
aged ~.
%. Disaster: so men walled in by flames and |
smoke in a burning mine near Birmingham, |
Ala; deaths.
The twenty eighth annual convention Of civil n
engineers opened at Niagara Falls. II
Il. Obituary: Professor Herbert Tuttle Of Cor |
nell university, at Ithaca; aged AZ. George |
A. Stewart prominent yacht designer, in
Boston.
sporting: Ramapo won the Suburban Handi- |
cap, Brooklyn.
%. Obituary: Archbishop Tache, a pioneer
missionary Of Manitoba at Winnipeg; aged
H.
%. Disaster: An explosion of fire damp in the |
Albion colliery, Wales, caused the death Of |
251 persons.
Obituary Nine Marietta Alboni, famous
contralto in Paris; aged TO- Alfred Post
Burbank, reader and actor, in New York |
city; aged 48.
Sporting: Rey el Santa Anita won the Amer
lean Derby at Chicago.
"a. Disasters: The city hall and other build |
ings wrecked by windstorIn at Brazil /
Ind. Fishing tug sank off At 4.ttic High |
lands, N. j. nearly 50 drowned.
25. Personal: Emma Juch, the prima donna, |
married in New York city to District At |
torney Wellman.
q. Disaster: Minnesota and South Dakota |
swept by windstorm: 10 deaths, many in
jured.
%. Obituary: Rear Admiral William Greenville |
Temple, U. s. N, veteran Of the Mexi-
can and civil wars, in Washington; aged 70. |
29 Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual boat race, New London.
30 Obituary: William G. Green, well known |
banker and railroad man and lifelong
friend Of Lincoln, at Tullula, Ills.
JULY.
g. Fire: The mill Of the Vermont Marble com
B.s
g. Beginning of the National Music Teachers
association at Saratoga.
d. Fires: Judson, Mass, 22 buildings destroy
ed; loss, $50O,0 ,0O0 Conestoga Center, Pa,
tobacco warehouse; loss, $685. 900. 81 build
ings burned at Edwards. N. y; loss, s62,-
COO.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Edwin e. Winans OF
Michigan, in Hamburg.
Personal: Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady
Churchill arrived at New York from
Queenstown
5. Fire: The large buildings surrounding
the court of honor at the Worlds fair de-
stroyed.
Obituary Sir Austin Henry Layard, the ex-
plorer in London; aged n.
6. Disaster: Rioting and incendiarism on the
outskirts Of Chicago
Obituary: Gen. Daniel Macaulay, Union
veteran, at Gamoapa, Nicaragua.
8. Collision between mob and United States
troops at Hammond, Ind.
10. Collision between rioters and regulars at
Ladd, Ills.; 2 rioters killed
Ii. Disaster: FATAL earthquake shocks at Con
stantinoplf /; 200 people killed.
Obituary: Gen. j. B. Fry, U. S. A.. retired,
at Newport, R. l.; aged 81.
IL. Fires Edou, o., ~ buildings; loss, S175, 600
Railway IN. j. fertilizer works; loss, $780,
600.
Christian Eudeavor convention opened at
Cleveland
10. Obituary: George R. Graham, founder Of
Graham's Magazine, at Orange, N. j. aged
81
IA. Obituary: Jules Emil Sarutn, noted paint
er, in Paris; aged 65.
The new United States cruiser Minneapolis
broke the record for cruisers by averaging
over % knots an hour on her trial trip.
l6. Disaster: 4 United States soldiers killed
and several wounded by the accidental ex
plosion of ammunition in Chicago.
ls. Obituary: Leeonte de Lisle, French poet
in Paris; rged 76
10. Fire: Business portion of Ell Paso, Ills,
destroyed; loss, $250.O0O.
Obituary: William H. Garfield, pioneer Bos-
ton agent for the New York daily papers,
in Boston; aged 81.
20. Fire: Minneapolis Central Market block;
loss, $500,0c0
Obituary: r L. G. Steele. California capi
talist in Oakland
2l. Fire: Birmingham, Ala, Caldwell hotel
and other property; losses, over $500000
Obituary: MRS.. Dundas Lippincott, prom
inent Philadelphian, at Bar Harbor Fred
erick Ferdinand Low, ex governor Of Cali
fornia and ex-minister to China, at San
Francisco; aged &C. Chief James r. Code
fray, last surviving chief of the Miami
tribe of Indians at Fort Wayne.
V. Obituary: Thnddeus Davids, pioneer in
sealing wax and wafer manufacturer, at
New Rochelle; aged Sc.
Vs. Fire: The Knox Express company and
Adams Express company stables burned in
Washington loss, over 500, 600; iremen
killed and over 200 horses burned.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. J. B. Mccullough, well
known Methodist preacher and editor, at
Chester Heights camp, Pa; aged Il.
g. Fire: Box factory, Norton. Mass; loss,
$15O,O0O
Disaster: Superintendent Addison G.. Mason
Of the Lehigh Valley collieries and Foreman
William Wilson Of the Exeter colliery killed
in cage accident at Pittston, Pa.
Obituary: Gen. Alfred j. Pleasonton, distin-
guished Union cavalry leader, in Philadel-
phia; aged So.
~. Fires: 20 business places at Celinn, o., de-
stroyed; loss, $150,0O0. The town Of Phil
lips, Wis, wiped out by forest fire, leav-
ing 5000 people homeless; loss, 81, 200;
about 20 persons lost their lives.
%. Fires: 60 buildings and business concerns
destroyed at Belle Plain, Ia; loss, $3.50, 600
Oil tank works burned at Fort Wayne; loss,
100000. Oshkosh Wis, lumber yard and
several buildings; loss, s150OOO. II build
ings at Brooklyn, Ia; losss S125, 900.
OBITUARY: James Mulligan of Blaine g Multi
gan letter. notoriety, in Boston. Cardinal
Ledochowski, old and determined enc
my of Bismarck, at Lucerne; aged II.
20. Obituary: John A. McDougall, once fa
nous artist and friend Of Poe, Willis, Irving
and others, at Newark, N. j.; aged g.
Archduke William Francis Charles Of Aus
tria, in Vienna.
30. Fires: IS business houses and residences
destroyed at Eagle Grove, Ia; loss, SO-
900. $4,000 worth of lumber and other
property destroyed at Minneapolis. Cooper
Tex. Mayo college; loss 100000.
Obituary: Walter Pater eminent English es-
sayist. at Oxford; aged IS.
AUGUST.
/. Fire: ss,OOO,0oO worth Of property in the
lumber district Of Chicago.
Obituary: Joseph Holt formerly cabinet
officer and judge advocate general under
President Lincoln, at Washington; aged 81.
Miscellaneous: Japan declared war upon
China The twenty fourth annual conven-
tion of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety of America opened at st. Paul.
| q Fires: The business center of Lamoure, N.
D., destroyed; less, $780, 600 fremen
killed and 8 injured in the burning Of
spinning mill in Philadelphia. Aliens
Opera House, jamestown, N. r.; loss, $780,
CO.,
8. Fires. Buainess portion Of Marion, La. loss,
100000. The business part Of Lake View
destroyed loss, $lo0,0OO. A fire in the bust
| ness section of Farmer City. Ills. loss, $780,
OOO
| Obituary: George Inness, noted American
landscape painter, in Scotland; aged 60.
| 9. Fires: A bridge and other property at st.
Paul; loss $120, 900. 20 business houses and
three residences at Adair, La.
Obituary: Elk Gov. Austin Blair, Michigan's
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