The Sauk Centre herald., 1895-12-26

i - FIRES: OeWIpR q sons lumber yard and
factory. with adjoining buildings, destroy
cd by nre ut Kalamazoo, Mich. loss. $780,
VN Iha Leonard silk mill at Florence,
OOO
10. Fire: Cameron, W. Va, almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire; relief train from Wheel
ing wrecked and men killed.
Obituary: William Bteinhart. pioneer mer-
chant Of California in San Francisco; aged
II. Obituary: Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, IL. D.,
late OF the Indiana State university, at Riv-
erside, Cal. !; aged 81.
| I2. Obituary :.Theopilus Adam Wylie emeritus
professor Of ancient languages in the Uni
versity Of Indiana. at Bloomington, Ind.
aged g.
Miscellaneous: Christian Endeavor annual
convention opened In Boston. Destructive
storms and tornadoes In Minnesota and
Oklahoma.
l8. Obituary: Henry Prouse Cooper, formerly
we'll known New York tailor, in New
York: aged 50. Senior Gorilla, noted Span
tsh republican leader. at Madrid: aged 81.
II. Obituary: Rev. Alonzo A. Miner. d. D.,
pastor emeritus Of the Second Univer1alist
church and prominent prohibitionist in
Boston: aged 81.
! Disaster: A SO horsepower engine exploded at
Fall River. Mass, wrecking story build
! ing; people killed and injured.
Personal: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her eighty fourth birthday at Hartford
Is. Fire. At Bridgeport O., fire DESTROYED
! wholesale drug store, hotel, 2 banks and
several retail establishments; loss $100, 600.
IL. Fires: An incendiary fire destroyed a
church. 2 newspaper offices and several
stores; loss, $22225, GOO. Jacobs Third Avenue
! theater burned in New York.
/ The Worlds WOman's Christian conference
opened in London.
II. Miscellaneous: The Harlem ship canal con-
| Meeting North river with Long Island sound
I opened with ceremonies.
; 10. Obituary: ". Fl. Shieffelin, head Of the
great drug firm, in New York city: aged
{, 20. Fire: Power house and cars of the street
/ railway in Seattle, WASH, burned: loss,
! $2C0, 600.
21. Obituary: Henry 3. Houston, 'father of
transportation interests in Pennsylvania =
in philadelphia; aged IS.
Emperor William laid the keystone of the
Kaiser WiIhelra (Kiel) canal.
%. The soldier bicycle courier 7-atthcy ended
his 49,! days rice frcn New Io1l, to C,.i-
cago
"a. Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
! ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri-
| angular boat race at Poughkeepsie over
Cornell and Pennsylvania.
| Obituary Thomas Henry Huxley, hescient-
/, ist, at Eastbor;le. England; aged 70 years.
25. Obituary: M. D. Borucl, pioneer editor
of California, in San Francisco aged C1.
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, IL Della
! ware, O.; aged 6l
; 27. Fire: San Francisco swept by the largest
fire known there il over 90 years.
%. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by 81
lengths at New London. Conn.
| 70. Obituary: Prof. Thomas II. Huxley, the
! scientist, at Eastboui-le, England; aged 70.
| ExPresident Peixcto of Brazil, near Rio
! Janeiro aged SO. Daniel Cady Eaton. pro-
! fessor Of botany at Yale, in New Haven
| T-,,;o
veteran, at Washington aged 6s
| 4. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind, bridge fell
under crowd witnessing boat race; SO
! injured.
of and adjoining the Mississippi by cloud
bursts and lightning. postoffice burglars
| -Killoran, Allen and RuSsell-broke out of
Ludlow Street Jail, New York. Mob at
tackled an A. P. A. parade in Boston
! 5. Obituary: Alexander Hester, America s
greatest daguerreotypist died at Evanston,
Ills.
+, 6. Fires Lumber plantN burned at Scotia,
! CAL: loss, $3.50, ,000 kt Duluth, Mimi,
100000 loss in a WAREHOUSE fire. bust
/ ness places burned in pswego, n. Y. loss.
| $150, ,0O0
| z. Terrific storm at Chicago and ON Lake
I Michigan; many deathk reported.
| 8. Obituary: David A. Eaboll, publisher of
J Daboll' Almanac, at New London, Conn.
aged 49,
! Disaster: Is killed and rs injured in rear
| end collision on the GRIND Trunk at Craig s
Head, Quebec
/, 10. Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit 6 deaths
Obituary: Allen Pettibone, father of the
Millerites, at Hartford; ageI85.
DlsaStcf: over luU people injured at Attain
tic City by the collapse OF the old casino.
Sporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall at
! Henley for Grand Challenge cup
| II. Obituary: M1olan Carvalho, famous French
prima donna and the original Marguerite,
at Dfeppe.
Convention: convention OF the United Soci-
cites OF Christian Endeavor opened III Bos-
| ton.
II. Obituary: DR.. Norton s. Townshepd.
% emeritus professor OF agricuiture In the ~
state university. at Columbus, o.; aged 10.
10. Fire: Steamer Cabola burned at Lewiston,
N. Y: loss. about $2oOOW.
10. Fire: Business portion OF Alta Vista wiped
out by hre: loss, 75. GOO.
| ODltuary: StamDulon' eX-premler OF Bull
garia' by assassination' at Sofia; aged 40.
| II. FIRE: nreman Killed and IL injured at a
hre In Cincinnati; property loss, $780, 600.
| IL. Obituary: Charles Emanuel Schenck, ex-
president OF Switzerland. at Bern; aged TO-
convention: FlItn INTERNATIONAL convention
America opened in Baltimore. ~ -
Personal: Henry Irving, Walter Besant and
Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
II. Fire: S8OOOOO loss by burning OF an oil mill
In Chicago
Disaster: $50 lives lost by steamboat collision
In the gulf OF Genoa
q. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Alexander n. Rice of
Massachusetts died at Melrose. Prof Ru-
dolf Gneist, eminent German scholar and
professor, instructor of the reigning kai-
ser. at Berlin; aged 69.
"a. Fires: Y. M. G. A. building in Washington
burned; loSs 81, ,00O. IrontOn (O.) water