Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-27

ecord second in California by riding a
mile i'm 2.Oi.
4. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons-
r-Marne France, destroyed exhibition
models and mach mes valued at i,OOOOOO
Obituary: Paul Fcnimure Cooper, son OF the
novelist, in Albany; aged TO-
2. Obituary Albert Young, grand patriarch
Of the Romany people Of the continent"
died at Ross Park, opposite St. Louis; he
was G. years old
A. Obituary Col. Franklin Fairbanks, one Of
Vermonts most prominent citizens at st.
Johusbury.
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Coils.
Zenos r. Bliss and John J. Coppinger were
promoted to be brigadier generals.
Miscellaneous: Nat Jones, veteran speou-
latur of the "Big Four" died in Chicago.
Mrs Frank Leslie, first wife of the well
known New York publisher died at sho
kan, N. Y.
IS. Fire: The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; loss $780, 900; several fatal
ities; p persons injured.
Obituary Henry II. Scott, n prominent citi
zen and leading Democrat of San Francis
co, in that city.
%. Obituary Levi B. Taft, an eminent Michi-
gan iurist at Pontiac aged 73
%. Obituary Gustav Freitag, the popular Ger
man novelist, author Of ''Soll und Haben"
and other notable books, at Wiesbaden; aged
10.
l. Obituary: Mai Gen. John Newton, distin-
guished soldier of the Mexican and civil
wars and engineer Of Hell Gate, in New
York city aged ~. Gen. $. B. Hayman, a
veteran Of the Mexican and civil wars, in
H1ustonia, Mo. aged 75
Miscellaneous Third annual congress Sons
of the American Revolution began in Bos-
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
g. Disaster: American Powder company's
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up; 5
killed. Sioux City, Ia., and other towns
swept by tornado; over 250 killed.
g. Obituary. james Kelly, a Cook county pio-
neer and one of the founders of the Chica.
go Tribune at Winnetka, Ills.
g. Fires: New Carlisle o., had a $4,000 fire.
Strauss & Sons tanncry and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
s2lOO0O
Obituary. Ex-Gov Robert S. Green of New
Jersey, at Elizabeth, N J. aged G..
T. Obituary Field Marshal Gen. Won Pape,
distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor of Berlin, in that city; aged
81
Obituary: Ex.Gov. James A. Weston, at
Manchester N. H.. ; aged G3.
Convention: The thirty first international
convention Y. NJ. G. A. Of North America
met at Springfield, Mass.
q. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor Of the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle In New
York city; aged 80.
10. Obituary: Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
in the Confederate army at New Haven /;
aged %. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur-
geon general, U. s. A, in Washington;
aged 50.
II. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira j. Chase of Indiana,
at Lubcc, Ne. aged Gl.
l2. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
ed a grain elevator and flour mill; loss,
s2OO,OOO. AT Pratt City, Ala, the city hall,
hotel and church and 80 dwellings were
destroyed by fire,
Obituary: Julius II. Se6lye, ex-president Of
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged II.
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior,
died at Fort Reno, O. r.
a. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven-
ton of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
sociation began in New York. Biennial
convention of the Order of Railway Con
ductors began in Atlanta.
10. Obituary: Duke of Hamilton, twelfth Of
his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John j.
Almy, U. s. N, retired, in Washington; /;
aged 81. Peter II. Burnett, first governor
Of California, In San Francisco! aged g..
10. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in ST. Albans, Vt; loss, $3.50 600
Obituary: David S. S. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
n. Y; aged n. Hiram Barney, collector
of the port Of New York under Lincoln, in
that city; aged S4.
81. Fire At Angelica, N. Y, 6 stores, opera
house and other property burned; loss,
100000.
Obituary: Franz Won Suppe, the "Austrian
Offenbach, composer Of "Boccaccio," " etc,
in Vienna; aged IS. DR.. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon Of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
dren, in Chicago; aged GO.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal, of 5000
pounds Of nitroglycerin and 1900 pounds
Hercules powder; IA men killed. loss, $3.50,
600.
Miscellaneous; The income tax declared un-
constitutional by a vote of to A. The
fifth annual reunion Of the United Confed-
crate veterans convened at Houston, Tex.
a. Obituary Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of treasury 1865 to 1869, at Washington
aged 81.
26 Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse own
er and capitalist, Kerrville, Tex.
a. Obituary: Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged IS.
20. Fire: 90 business houses and dwellings
burned az Pattonsburg, No. loss, 800, 900.
Obituary; Walter Quinton Gresham, secre-
tary Of state, at Washington; aged G3.
Conventions: The seventeen anniversary
meeting Of the American Unitarian asso-
citation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty-frst ami
versary convention at Saratoga.
Shipwrocks: Pacific Mail steamer Colima ran
upon a reef off Manzanillo Mex, during a
gale, 1856 persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked off the Spanish coast
100 lives lost.
81. Obituary: Gen. G. NJ. Mitchell, Union vet
eran at Charleston, Ills. aged co.
JUNE.
/. Obituary: George N. Gray, a Chicago pio-
neer in that city; aged n.
2. Obituary: Hon. Vincent ID. Markham, 4
very distinguished iurist OF Colorado, al
Denver; aged GO.
0. Obituary: Miss Emily Faithful, the Eng
lish economist and philanthropist; aged 60
Gen. Primo Rivera, captain general of Mad.
rid, mortally wounded by a subordinate.
4. Obituary Samuel Washington Fuller, artist
and portrait painter, at Saratoga: aged 70
The one hundred and fourteenth annual con
clave Of the grand lodge Of Freemasons
opened in New York.
@. Fires: Carriage plant burned at Jackson
Mich. loss, $4,000. 2 elevators destroyed
at Appleton, Wis. loss, Sl5C,000.
7. Obituary Ralph Swinburne, an old engi
neer associated with George Stephenson
"father Of the locomotive" near Charles
ton, ". Va. aged 90.
s. Fire. At Cloquot, Mimi, $1,000 600 feet oi
choice lumber burned; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: John A. Forepaugh, the circui
manager, in Philadelphia; aged 43.
0. Fires; Dewing g. Sons lumber yard and
factory. with adjoining buildings destroy
ed by fire at Kalamazoo, Mich. loss $780,
900. Tho Leonard silk mill at Florence
Mass, destroyed by fire; loss nearly $50,
600.
10. Fire: Cameron, ". Va, almost wholly de
stroyed by fire; a relief train from Wheel
ing wrecked and 3 men killed.
Obituary William Steinhart, pioneer mer
chant of California in san Francisco; aged
65.
II. Obituary: Prof Daniel Kirkwood, LII. D..
late of the Indiana State university, at Riv
ersido, Cal. aged 81.
T.. Obituary: Theopilus Adam Wylie, emeritus
professor of ancient languages in the Uni