Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-12-27
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
SUMMARY OF THE NOTABLE EVENTS
OF 1894.


OF 1894.
A Chronological Record Of Accidents, Fire
Disasters, Commercial Troubles, AIiscel-
laneous Events, Important Conventions
and the Work of the Grim Destroyer.
JANUARY.
l. Obituary: DR.. D. B. Cheney, an old Bap-
tist minister of Chicago, in that city; aged
IA.
! 2. Obituary: Col. Floyd CIarkson, well known
| G. A. r. veteran. in New York; aged g.
Orlando B. Potter, prominent in New York
| circles, in New York; aged II. William p.
Earle, an old New York hotel keeper, in
| New York; aged 50.
| Miscellaneous: Theodore Walton, ssthe plum
ger, made an assignment in New York
| 8. Fires: An s850000 fire in Toledo, which de-
| stroyed the Chamber of Commerce, eleva-
tors, museum and wholesale drug store.
Drug house of Hinchmann g. Sons burned
in Detroit; loss Sle0,000
4. Obituary: Harry Kennedy. song writer and
| ventriloquist in Brooklyn. Elizabeth Pea
body, pioneer in education and reform, in
Boston; aged 80. a--A
5. Fire: A granite block in Worcester. Mass,
burned; loss, $4,000. 7.
| Collision between troops and rioters in Sici
ly; 40 rioters killed.
| Obituary: Benton j. Hall well known Iowa
lawyer, at Burlington, Ia; aged 50. a
8. Fires: The cyclorama of Gettysburg burned
at Niagara Falls. The Albany theater
burned at Albany; loss, s125, 900.
| Obituary DR.. Clinton Cavendish. English
traveller and scientist at San Antonio Tex:
! aged 53.
| 8. Fire: Chicago Worlds fair buildings loss,
about 81, 900, ,0OO
| Q. Obituary: Rev. Father Patrick Corrigan, a
| prominent Romanist. at Hoboien, N. j.:
aged 58 is ~
10. Fire: Factory Of the Starr Manufacturing
company, at Richmond. Ind, totally de-
| stroyed by fire: loss, $3.50 900.
| Obituary: Rear Admiral Donald Mcneil
Fairfax, q. S. N, retired at Hagerstown,
Md; aged 20. Frank Bolles, well known
! as an author and secretary OF Harvard
university, in Boston. e
IL Obituary: Mrs. William M. Thackeray,
widow of the novelist, at Leigh, England;
aged 75.
10. Fires: Tinkham's woolen mills at Harri
sonville R. l., burned; loss, $3.50, 900. Three
| blocks burned at Ipswich, Mass. loss,
$4,000
British troops defeated 1900 Sofas in Sierra
Leone; ESQ Sofas killed.
IA. Fire: The ersSyndicate block" Minneapolis
| damaged $4,000 by fire.
| Disaster: sailors Of the Dutch steamer
| Amsterdam drowned while attempting to
| rescue the crew of sinking schooner in
the Atlantic. 4- M
Is, Disaster: In a telescoping collision on the
| d., l.. and W. at Hackensack meadows, N.
j., IL persons were killed, 80 injured
II. Obituary: Gen. William b. Forney, Con-
| federate veteran, superintendent Of Gettys
burg battlefield. at Admission, Ala; aged II.
Is. Obituary: George Bartlett Prescott, author
| and electrician, in New York; aged g.
10. Obituary: John Haley Spears, an associate
Of Lincoln, at Jacksonville; aged 90. Ex-
| Governor William CASTOR of Massachusetts,
IN Boston; aged "a.
20. Obituary: Helen A. Shafer, president Of
Wellesley college, at Wellesley, Mass. aged
81. Eugene Nus, French dramatist in
Paris; aged rs. Ex-Governor William Gil
| pin of Colorado, at Denver; aged 81. Gen.
Emile Mellinet, a French veteran of the
wars Of the first and second empires, at
Nantes; aged 90.
22. Obituary: Constance Fenimore Woolson,
Fenimore Cooper's grandniece, at Nice
Italy; aged 49,
%. Fire: Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind,
almost destroyed by fire; loss. $4,000.
Obituary: Laura Schirmer Mapleson, the
singer, in New York: aged 50,
Twenty fourth annual convention of the ma
tional board Of trade in Washington.
"a. Fire: The Sherman oil and cotton mill at
Sherman, Tex, burned; loss, s100, 900.
| Obituary: D. W. Irwin, a prominent business
man Of Chicago in that city; aged g.
25. Fire: Residence Of Senator Palmer at
| Springfield, His, destroyed.
| Miscellaneous Timbuktu entered by French
| troops. Corbett defeated Mitchell for the
worlds championship at Jacksonville.
"a. Obituary: Rosina Vokes, actress, in Tor
quay, England aged 40
%. Fire: $500 coo fire at Bath, Me-, which de-
| stroyed hotel, 8 banks and several stores.
Obituary Cavelier celebrated French sculp-
| tor, in Paris; aged 50. A
| FEBRUARY.
| 2. The famous war corvet Kearsarge wreck
| ed on Roncador reef.
| 8. Fires: In Omaha 2 stores, Catholic church
| and schoolhouse destroyed; loss, $3.50, 900.
Wilmington, Del, the Brandywine mill
| burned; loss, $50, 900.
Obituary Ann Hathaway, the actress, in In
dianapolis; aged 66. George W. Childs,
proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, in
Philadelphia; aged 65.
| Z. Obituary: Morton s. Wilkinson, ex United
| States senator from Minnesota, IN Wells,
Mimi; aged rs.
| 8. Obituary: L. Schofeld, pioneer manufac-
turer Of iron rails in the south at Chatta-
nooga; aged 50. Harry Watkins, actor and
playwright in New York city.
| g. Fire: At Dublin. Tex, a cotton compress
burned loss, s15O,0OO
/ Obituary: Gen. Jacob Ammen, q prominent
| Union veteran, at Yorkland, o. aged s8.
DR.. Theodore Biilroth, distinguished Ger
man surgeon, near Vienna; aged 65.
| 2. Fires: II stores and offices burned at Mont
| gomery, Mo. loss, $4,000. At Pine Ridge
agency, s. D., the Ogalalla Indian school
building destroyed; loss $60, 900. - -
g. Obituary: R. M. Ba1iantyne English writ
! er Of stories of adventure, at Rome; aged
So ]. G. Weaver, popular landlord of New
port and New York, in New York city. DIR.
Gustave Leipnitz, well known character
on the coast, in San Francisco; aged 80.
/ fy-1 -. IN
noted Indian fighter, near San Antonio;
aged 72.
Q. Fire: tobacco factories burned at Hender-
son, KY; loss, 500, 600.
Obituary: Maxine du Camp, noted French
author, at Paris; aged "a.
10. Obituary: Abraham Gottlieb, well known
architectural and bridge engineer, in Chi
cago; aged S. Vicar General Thomas A
Casey, a wealthy and charitable priest. at
Erie, Pa.
II. Fires: wapa- -Koneta, o. T., $4,000 worth
of business property. Colts firearms fac
tory near Hartford damaged to the extent
of $3.50, 900. At Duluth the board of trade
building was burned; loss, s94, ,OO0
Destructive storm in Mississippi and Louisi-
| ana.
Obituary: Gen. l.. B. Northrup prominent
ex-Confederate, at Baltimore; aged 50.
u. A blizzard Of rain and snow prevailed from
New England to Nebraska.
Is. Fires: The Bath Iron works, at Bath, Me-,
| damaged to the extent of $150,000 2 hotels
5 burned and the new courthouse damaged
4 at San Antonio, Tex. I; loss, 500, 900.
Disaster: A cavein at the Gaylord mine,
Plymouth. Pa, imprisoned ID miners In 9
gangway.
Obituary: Homer Ramsdell. expressions Of
i the New York and Erie railroad, at New
Ii burg, N. "; aged 49, Hans Won Bulow, the
Il celebrated pianist, at Cairo. Egypt; aged 81.
L. Obituary: Gen. Edward Hincis, a civil war
veteran, at Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Myra
Bradwell, editor Of The Legal News and
the first woman lawyer in Illinois, In Chi
II cago: aged So.
Temperature 40 degrees below zero at Fort
II Fairfield, Me.
Is. Fires: Oneonta, N. Y, the state normal
i school; loss, about $4,000. A dry goods
i store and several tenements burned In
Columbus, o.; loss, $24O, 900.
| Obituary: Col. Jonathan Drake Stevenson, q
prominent Californian, In San Francisco;
aged o.
16- Fires: A wholesale drug house burned In
ACNE. ECZEMA, SUPERRLUOUS HAIR
no,es. w.r.., - luArs. Mouths.