The Sauk Centre herald., 1895-12-26
HHE EVENTS Of A YEAR.
"A Condensed Diary o. l.le Past
Twelve Months.

! we've MOncnS.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1895.
Full List Of Disasters by Land and Sea, So
cial. Philanthropic and Religious Gath
erings. Political and Personal Events,
the Obituary Roll and Index of Every
thing Worth Noting.
the following record of the leading
events Of the year 1895 has been carefully
compiled for Immediate or future refer
ence:
JANUARY.
Hon. p. P. Mast, Springfield o. build
ings destroyed at Coffeyville, KAN. loss.
SiO5,OO.
Obituary: DR.. George Marx, famous ento-
mologist In Washington: aged IS.
s. Obituary: David H. Craig, the first general
manager Of the Associated Press, at Asbury
Park.
g. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and 9th
ers burned during blizzard: loss, over
$l,OO0,0OO; several firemen killed.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. King, famous for aid
given to escaping slaves. In Clotham, Ont. !;
aged 81. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin-
guished Union veteran and a congressman
from Illinois, in Washington: aged 81.
Political: Uprising in Hawaii in the interests
of the deposed queen
8. Fires: Godey's flour mill and elevator
burned at Scottsville. N. Y; loss, sl25 900.
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man, critic and dramatist, in Port Rich
mond. N. Y; aged 46
10. Fires: The Osgoodby building and several
large business houses burned in Toronto;
..fn of tha
Hardware company burned ut st. Joseph,
Mo-. loss, $l5O,000.
Obituary: Aaron l.. Dennison, the father of
American matchmaking, in Birmingham,
England; aged 49, Gen. Alfred ". Eilet.
noted az leader of the Union ram fleet in
the Mississippi at FL Dorado, Kan.
H. Fire: 4 $l09 900 blaze at Barnesville, O.
Strike: Trolley motormen and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
15 Fire. Stadt theater, Milwaukee, damaged
to the amount of $I20,OOO
Obituary: Ex-Goy. S. f. Chadwick of Orc
gon, at Salem; aged 70. Charles G. Leigh,
active temperance leader, in Brooklyn;
aged 50.
Disaster: Explosion of several powder cars
at Butte, Mon; IS killed, LOO injured.
Political: President Casimir-P Perier of France
resigned.
II. Obituary; Gen. Israel N. Stiles, a Union
veteran prominent in public life in Chica-
go: aged So Col. John Kean, founder and
first president of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, in New York; aged 81.
Political: Francois Feli.. Faure elected presi-
dent of France.
IS. Criminal: Arrest and confession of Quig
ley, the bond forger, in New York amount
involved, $1440OO.
10. Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco.
20. Obituary: Prof. Augustus c. Merriam of
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 81.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn.
q. Financial: The Merchants bank of Bing-
hamton and private bank of Erastus Ross
& Sons closed their doors.
e. Obituary: Charles Secretall. noted Swiss
philosopher. at Lausanne; aSo;. 50.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturers
association met at Cincinnati. Militia
fred on trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
q. Obituary: DR.. Alfred L. Loomis, noted
medical professor and practitioner in New
York city; aged Ga. Brig. Gen Stephen v.
Benet, U. S. A, retired; aged SO.
"a. Obituary: Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Churchill prominent English politician. in
London; aged 49,
Criminal: Two masked men held up train
on the Cotton road near Mcneil, Ark, and
plundered the express car of s25, 600.
Is. Disaster: Five coal bargeS sunk in Long
Island sound; 12 people drowned. The
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck
ed on the Massachusetts coast; of the
crew drowned.
foreign affairs for many years. at st. Pc
tersburg; aged Is. Gen. Francis Darr,
prominent Union veteran, at Wayne, Pa.
aged 62.
A fierce gale along the New England, Long
Island and New Jersey coasts.
"a. Obituary: Mrs Emma G. Bostwick. "the
American Jenny Lind, at Morristown. N.
j.; aged about 90.
e. Obituary: Canrobert last marshal Of
France in Paris; aged S5.
Storms: Storm struck Galveston, capSizing
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
%. Obituary: DR.. Jamin Strong widely known
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland; /;
aged 20
90 Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with a small steamer
In the North and sunk with over 300
people.
3D. Obituary: Judge EbRsHof lockwood Hoar
in Concord, Mass. aged 70. Ward Meal
lister, noted society leader, in New York
city.
vention Of the American Woman's Suffrage
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY.
g. Obituary: Theodore Dwight Welde, once
prominent antislavery agitator, at Hyde
Park, Mass; aged 81.
L Fire: Phoenix Glass works burned at Mo-
naco, Pa; 1o5s SOC, Co.,
OBITUARY GGn. Manler u. MANSON, veteran Oh
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort,
Ind; aged 73. Gen. Rufus Barringer. a
Confederate veteran, at Charlotte, N. G. !;
aged "a.
Disaster: A trolley car plunged through an
open draw in Milwaukee,; killed, in
jured
g. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehouse
burned in Cincinnati; loss over $500, 900. A
$1C0 GOO fire in the business district of Leip
sic, O.
s.ss z, Fires: Denison hotel Indianapolis, dam
aged by fire to the extent Of $165, GOO; /
death. A $I0O, 900 blaze at Evansville Ind.
PERSONAL Gen John NJ. Schofeld made lieu
tenant general.
8. Obituary: John L. Stevens, ex-miniSter to
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me-: aged a. Rev.
DIR. William Markoe Taylor, prominent
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged 66.
Disaster: men run down by Pennsylvania
railroad express at Lecknow.
o. Fires: The union depot and hotel burned
at ST. Joseph, Mo-; loss, 5000 The Con-
gregational church burned ut Wellington, o.
Obituary. Prof. James r. Boise of the Chi
cago university, one Of the most noted
Greek scholars in the country, in Chicago;
aged 60
TO- FIRES The Syndicate block burned in Rock
ford, Ills. $75, 900. The state printing house
burned at Harrisburg.
IL. Fire: A store and factory burned at Rock
ford. Ills. loss. $40, 900.
Obituary Judge Charles E. A.. Gayarre, dis
tinguished writer and historian, in New
prominent writer and lawyer. ut Detroit;
aged 81. Gen. Montgomery Corse, Confed-
crate veteran, at Alexandria, Va. aged 10
10. Fires: Fatal fire at Lynn, Mass. !; B fremen
killed. injured. A 100000 fire in Salt
Lake City.