The Sauk Centre herald., 1895-12-26

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ton; aged 49,
q. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Benjamin F. Prescott
Of New Hampshire at Epping. N. H.; aged
g.
Convention: The ninth annual convention Of
the Newspaper Publishers association met
In New York.
e. Fire. Several cottages and boarding houses
burned at Hot Springs
@. Personal: Gen. Matt W. Ransom, senator
from North Carolina, appointed minister
to Mexico.
"a. Obituary: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, promi-
nent Union veteran. in Troy. N. Y; aged
81.
Criminal: Capt Howgate. accused OF en-
bezzlement and forgery, acquitted.
2. Conventions: The National Dairy asso-
citation met in annual session at Washing
ton. The third annual session Of butter
and cheese makers began at Rockford Ills.
IS. Obituary: Ex-Judge Richard O'Gorman,
once a prominent Fenian, in New York
city; aged "a.
!. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb. !;
loss. $65, 900.
Disaster: 65 killed, 40 injured on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City Of Mexico;
train down an embankment.
2. Fires: The business portion Of the town of
Noche, N. D., burned; loss, $54, 600. China
company's works burned at Akron, o.. (;
loss. 600. A $2OO,000 fire at Bethalto,
Ills.
Obituary: Prof. John Stuart Blackie of the
University of Edinburgh, in that city: aged
8. Fire: A 81, ,250 900 fire in Toronto, the third
great conflagration in two months; a dozen
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed
4. Fires: Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, Ills.; loss, Sl500O0. A s15OOOO
loss by fire at Salina Kan.
Obituary: Colonel w. C. Coup, the veteran
Snowman at Jacksonville, Fla: aged 62.
Rev. Daniel Vrooman, a pioneer mission
ary of China, in San Francisco; aged IS.
Personal: Anna Gould, youngest daughter of
the late jay Gould, married Count de Cas-
tollane of France.
8. Obituary: Col David Ramsey Clendennin,
veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service. at Galesburg, HIS: aged 65.
Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind. !;
loss, $4OO, 900.
Personal: William X. Vanderbilt the noted
railway magnate and multmillionaire, di-
vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
New York city.
6. Obituary: Edwin Forbes, a well known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies, in New
York city; aged 56.
z. Obituary: Hyde Clark. famous linguist
and scientist in London aged 70.
8. Obituary Frederick E. Sickles an engineer
and inventor, in Kansas City.
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfellow struck channel span
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in minutes; 8 lives lost
and about 80 people saved by tug.
IL. Obituary: Cesare Canter, Italian historian
and Liberal, at Milan; aged 80. John F.
Temple, noted abolitionist, in Chicago;
nrth fho ,o1xo
in Paris; aged 20.
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as
sociation Of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, N. Y.
IL. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn
ed in Brooklyn; loss. 1925, 900.
Strikers riot at New Orleans; negroes kill
ed at their work.
13. Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss, $780, 600.
16. Fire: City hall at Saco. Me-, damaged $780,,
900 by fire.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. John W. Broadus presi-
dent of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville in that city: aged II.
II. Fires: Rodgers g Co.'s elevator and ware
house burned in st. Louis; loss $500, 900. A
building occupied by newspaper and news
concerns burned at Cleveland: loss, $780,
O0O men killed and injured at the
burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To-
ledo.
OOlGudry. Oapb u i. EZeklel, pr6SaOenG MIN.
ing exchange, in.Deuver.
Is. Fire: Business block burned at Perry, O.
T.; loss, SEQ. 900.
10. Fire: II buildings burned in Burlington,
VT. loss $3.50. 900.
Obituary: Gen. Adam Badeau, Grants mill.
tary secretary, biographer. etc., at Ridge
wood, N. j.: aged 65.
20. Fire: A $1OO, coo fire at Peoria, Ills
Obituary: Gen. Philip st. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
Disaster: 60 miners killed by an explosion at
Evanston. Wy.
Personal: Gen. Neal Dow. the apostle Of pro-
hibition, celebrated his ninety-f1rst birth
day.
21. Fires: $780, 600 worth of cotton burned in
the yards of the International Cotton press.
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, Ia. (; loss, $400, 900.
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, LII. D., Of
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. aged
"a.
%. Obituary: Richard Vaux. prominent Phil
adelphian; aged 70.
%. Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. James
hotel, Denver.
"a. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City
burned; loss, $1,0O0,0O0. hotels, church
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
. Political: Ii Hung Chang, China's peace en-
voy, shot by Japanese in Silnonoseki.
~. Fire. 20 business houses and other property
burned in milwaukee,: loss, 81, ,OOC, ,0O0
Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver, we'll known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
Ithaca, N. Y.
%. Fires: 45 buildings burned at st. Angus
tine, Fla. Sc buildings burned at Canase-
raga, N. T.; loss $135, eco.
30. Obituary: Anson G. Hessing, noted German
editor, in Chicago; aged ". Mrs. Paran
Stevens. noted leader of society, i'll New
York city.
2. Fire: The business portion Of the city Of
st. Charles destroyed by fire; loss, $100, ,O0c.
of The Journal of Commerce. in New York
city. aged IT,
Disaster: 8 worlrmen killed and 8 injured by
boiler explosion at Woburn, Mass.
8. Henry Harmon, noted abolitionist, at
Danielsonville Conn.,: aged 81. Rev. Bar
ton II. Cartwright, pioneer Methodist Of
the west, at Oregon, Ills. aged IS. Jack
Wallace. once the wealthtest landholder in
Atlanta. died at Sherman, Tex. Captain
Lauchlan Mckay, a well known navigator
Of the port in Roxbury, Mass. aged SO.
4. Obituary Ex-Gov. William r. Marshall Of
Minnesota. at Pasadena. Call: aged TO-
5. Obituary: Thompson McDaniels, veteran
of the Black Hawk war and a pioneer of
Kansas City; aged 90.
6. Fire: The American Starch works burned
at Columbus Ind. ; loss, $500, 600.
Obituary: Anthony M. Cannon, a leading
citizen Of the northwest, in New York city.
8. Fire: A 100000 fire in the railroad works
at Winslow, A. T.
Obituary: Gov. Joshua H. Marvil Of Della
ware, at LAUREL aged 70. Gen. James l..
Kemper, ex-governor Of Virginia and
leader of one of Piclkett's brigades at Get
tysburg in Orange county, Va: aged 72.
Disaster: 21 miners killed by gas explosion
at Lake Whutcom Wash.
D. Obituary: W. Jennings Demorest, founder
o. Demorest's Magazine and leader in
temperance movements, in New York city: {: