Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29

A- Obituary: Rev. Alonzo A. Miner. D. D.,
 pastor emeritus of the Second Universalist church and prominent prohibitionist in Boston; aged el. s
 Disaster: 4 5Q horsepQwer engine exploded at
 Fall River, Mass, wrecking story build
 ing; peopik killed and injured. Personal: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
 her eighty-foi1rth birthday at Hartford.
 IS. Fire: At Bridgeport O., fire destroyed
 wholesale drug store, hotel, banks and
 several retail establishments; loss, $l00 900.
 16. Fires: An incepdiary ire destroyed
 church, newspaper offices and several stores; loss, s225, 900. Jacobs Third Avenue theater burned in New York. The Worlds woman's Christian conference opened in London. F. Miscellaneous: The Harlem ship canal con
 meeting North river with Long Island sound
 opened with ceremonies. 10. Obituary: ". II. 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, s2O0, GOO. 2l. Obituary: Henry B. Houston, "father of transportation interests in Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia; aged 75. Emperor William laid the keystone of the Kaiser Wilhelm tKiel canal 23. The soldier bicycle courier Matthey ended his 1s14 days ride from New York to Chi cago.
 2A Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri- angular boat race at Poughkeepsie over Cornell and Pennsylvania. Obituary: Thomas Henry Huxley, the scient- ist, at Eastborne, England; aged 70 years. | 25. Obituary: M. D. Boruck, a pioneer editor of California, in San Francisco; aged 61. Philip Phillips the evangelist, in Della ware, O.. aged 0l. | 27. Fire: San Francisco swept by the largest fire known there in over 90 years | 2S. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by 8l5 lengths at New London. Conn. | go. Obituary: Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, the | scientist, at Eastbourne, England; aged 70. ExPresident Peixoto of Brazil, near Rio Janeiro; aged 56. Daniel Cady Eaton, pro- lessor of botany at Yale, in New Haven; aged 6l. Gen. Green Clay Smith, Union veteran, at Washington; aged 65. JULY. (. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind, n bridge fell under a crowd witnessing boat race; 8s injured.
 Miscellaneous: 43 deaths in the region west of and adj ining the Mississippi by cloud bursts and lightning. postofiice burglars -Killoran. Allen and Russell-brolSe out of Ludlow Street jail, New York Mob at- tackled all A. P. A. parade in Boston. 5. Obituary: Alexander Hester, Americas
 ills. fns.''''' '''s N'' '''' p''' ''' '' ''''' 6. Fires Lumber plant burned at Scotia, Cal: loss, $250,0O0. At Duluth, Minn., S100,000 loss in warehouse fire. busi- ness places burned in Oswego, N. Y.; loss. $150,000.
 2. Terrific storm at Chicago and on Lake Michigan many deaths reported. 0. Obituary: David A. Daboll, publisher of Daboll's Almanac, at New London, Conn. {; aged 82.
 Disaster: 13 killed and S3 injured in a rear end collision on the Grand Trunk at Craig's Head, Quebec.
 TO- Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit; G deaths. Obituary: Allen Pettibone father of the Millerites, at Hartford aged 85. Disaster: Over loo people injured at Atlan- tic City by the collapse of the old casino. Sporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall at Henley for Grand Challenge cup. Il. Obituary: Molan Carvalho famous French prima donna aud the original Marguerite, at Dieppe.
 Convention: Convention of the United Soci- cities of Christian Endeavor opened in Bos-
 ton.
 14 Obituary: Dr. Norton s. Townshend.
 emeritus professor of agriculture in the
 state university, at Columbus, O.. aged 70.
 15. Fire: Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston,
 N. Y. loss about $25Q 9 ..
 1e. Fire: Business portion of Alta Vista wiped
 out by fire; loss, s75,0O0.
 Obituary: 6tambuloff, ex.premier of Bull
 garia by assassination, at Sofia; aged 40
 IT, Fire: fireman killed and 12 injured at @
 fire in Cincinnati property loss, $26O, ,OO0
 IS. Obituary: Charles Emanuel Schenck, ex-
 president of Switzerland. at Bern aged TO-
 Conventions Fifth international convention
 of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of
 America opened in Baltimore. Personal: Henry Irving. Walter Besant and Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
 2l. Fire ss0G, coo loss by burning of oil mill in Chicago sTi Disaster: l5 lives lost by steamboat collision in the gulf of Genoa. 22. Obituary ExGov. Alexander H. Rice of Massachusetts died at Melrose Prof. Ru- dolf Gnest, eminent German scholar and professor, instructor of the reigning kali ser, at Berlin; aged 60. 24. Fires: Y. NJ. c. A. building in Washington burned; loss, 5000. Ironton (O.) water works destroyed by fire; loss, s100,000 Obituary: James Bum, chief of the Shinne- cock Indians, at Southampton, N. Y.; aged about 85. Rev. Edward Beecher, one of the famous seven brothers in Brooklyn; aged p2.
 25. Obituary: Dr. Anthony Wilson Thorald, bishop of Winchester, at Surrey, England aged 70.
 2s Obituary: Col. Alfred M. Wood. mayor of Brooklyn during the war. in that city: aged 60.
 %. Obituary: John Barbee Minor. LL D.. pro- lessor of common and statute law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; aged 82. 30. Fort Scott, Tex, flooded by sudden pre- cipitation of rain. 81. Obituary: Richard M. Hunt, noted archi. tect, at Newport, R. l.; aged 6S. AUGUST. l. Obituary: Prof. Heinrich won Sybel. Ger man historian, in Marburg; aged 78. Fatal cloudburst in Wyoming. g. Fire: A business block at Lima, O., de- stroyed by fire; loss, $100,000. Obituary: Joseph Thompson. African ex- plorer, in London. 8. Fire: Sprague, the scat of Lincoln county. devastated by fire; loss nearly s1 900, ,000 (. Fire: Berlin, Md, almost wiped o'St by fire; loss, $200000. N B. Fire: steamers burned at Cincinnati; loss, s150000.
 Obituary: Charles Hubbs Foster, actor and playwright, in New York city: aged 61. G. Obituary: Charles Foster, an old time actor and manager, in New York; aged 62 Gen. M. A. StovaM. Confederate veteran, al Augusta, Ga. aged v. George F. Root the composer, at Bailey's Island, Me-; aged 75.
 '. Obituary: Associate Justice Howell Ed munds Jackson of the U. s. supreme court at West Meade, Tenn. aged 63. ] Disasters: An story building collapsed ir New York city. British steamer Catt. T. thorn from Sydney for Hongkong, went on the rocks near Sydney and sank in minutes: H lives lost. II. Fire: The James Kilsman & Co. stamping syorlra Noxro~A dectrovad Inv