Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-27
THE EVENTS OF A YEAR.
A Condensed Diary of the Past
Twelve Months.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1895.

erinRs, 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.
3. Fires s225,OOO damage at the residence
Hon. p p. Mast, Springfield, o. z build
ings destroyed at Coffeyville, Kan. loss,
Sl05,OOO
Obituary. DR.. George Marx, famous ento-
mologist in Washington aged 50.
8. Obituary David II. 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
Si,000,0O0; several iremen killed.
Obituary Rev. DR.. King, famous for aid
given to escaping slaves, in Clotham, Ont
aged 50. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin-
guished Union veteran and congressman
from Illinois, In Washington aged G2.
Political Uprising in Hawaii in the interests
of the deposed queen.
g. Fires: Godey's flour mill and elevator
burned at scottsville. N. Y. loss, Sl25 OOO.
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man, critic and dramatist, in Port Rich
mond, N. Y. aged 49,
TO- Fires: The OsgOodby building and several
large business houses burned in Toronto;
loss, $l,OO0OO0. Factories of the Wyeth
Hardware company burned at st. Joseph,
Mo. loss, Sl5J,OOO.
Obituary Aaron l.. Dennison, the father Of
American matchmaking, in Birmingham,
England aged 50. Gen. Alfred W. Ellet,
noted as leader of the Union ram fleet in
the Mississippi, at Ell Dorado, Kan.
H. Fire: A SlOO,0OO blaze at Barnesville, o.
Strike: Trolley motormen and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
Is. Fire. Stadt theater, Milwaukee, damaged
to the amount of $4,000.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. S. f. Chadwick Of Ore
gon, at Salem; aged 20. Charles G. Leigh,
active temperance leader, in Brooklyn;
aged 81
Disaster Explosion Of several powder cars
at Butte, Mon. 75 killed. 100 injured
Political: President Casimir- Perier Of France
resigned
L. 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 Felix Faure elected presi-
dent of France.
l8. Criminals Arrest and confession of Quig-
ley, the bond forger, in New York; amount
involved, Sl4l,OOO
10. Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco.
20. Obituary: Prof. Augustus G. Merriam of
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 50.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in p. .oo!lyn.
2l Financial: The Merchants bank of Bing
hamt"~ -L, private bank of Erastus Ross
"us closed their doors
%, Charles Secretan, noted Swiss
philos os7',her, at Lausanne aged 50.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturers
association met Mt Cincinnati. Militia
fired on trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
%. Obituary: DIR. Alfred l.. Loomis, noted
medical professor and practitioner, in New
York city aged Ga Brig. Gen. Stephen V.
Benet, U. S. A., retired; aged g.
"a. Obituary: Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Churchill, prominent English politician, in
London; aged 80.
Criminal Two masked men held up train
ON the Cotton road near Mcneil, Ark, and
plundered the express car of $4,000.
e5 Disaster: Five coal barges sunk in Long
Island sound; u people drowned. The
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck
ed ON the Massachusetts, coast; of the
crew drowned.
90. Obituary. NJ. de Giers, Russian minister of
foreign affairs for many years. at st. Pc
tersburg; aged I5. Cen Francis Darr, n
prominent Union veteran, at Wayne Pa.
aged g.
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 SO
23. Obituary; Canrobert, last marshal of
France, in Paris; aged IS.
Storms Storm struck Galveston, capsizing
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
in Oklahoma.
20. Obituary Dr. Jamin Strong, widely known
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland;
aged 20.
30. Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with "A small steamer
IN the North sea and sunk with over 800
people.
81. Obituary: Judge Ebenezer lockwood Hoar
In Concord, Mass. aged TO- Ward Meal
lister, noted society leader, in New York
city.
Convention: The twenty-seventh annual con
vention of the American Woman's Suffrage
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY.
g. Obituary Theodore Dwight welde, once a
prominent antislavery agitator, at hyde
Park, Mass aged Of.
T. Fire: Phoenix Glass works burned at Mo
naco, Pa. loss, S2OO,OOO.
Obituary Gen. Mahler ID. Manson, veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort,
Ind; aged 73 Gen. Rufus Barringer, n
Confederate veteran, at Charlotte, N. C..
aged "a.
Disaster; A trolley car plunged through an
open draw in Milwaukee; killed, in
jured.
8. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehouse
burned in Cincinnati loss over $4,000. A
SlO0, 900 fire in the business district Of Leip-
sic, O.
2. Fires: Denison hotel, indianapolis, dam
aged by fire to the extent of Sl65,000;
death. A $4,000 blaze at Evansville, Ind.
Personal: Gen. John NJ. Schoheld made Lieu
tenant general
8. Obituary John L. Stevens, ex-mnister TO
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me-; aged a. Rev.
DIR. William Markoe Taylor, a prominent
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged co,
Disaster: men run down by Pennsylvania
railroad express at Lecknow.
o. Fires: The union depot and hotel burned
at st. Joseph, Mo. loss, S275,OO0 The Con-
gregational church burned at 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 S0
10. Fires The Syndicate block burned in Rock
ford, Ills. S75, 900, The state printing house
burned at Harrisburg.
II. fire: store and factory burned at Rock
ford. Ills los, 100000.
Obituary Judge Charles f. A. Gayarre, dis
tinguished writer and historian, in New
Orleans; aged 90. Judge Charles L. Walker,
prominent writer and lawyer, at Detroit
aged 81. Gen. Montgomery Corse, Confed-
crate veteran, at Alexandria, Va. aged 20.
l8 Fires: Fatal fire at Lynn, Mass. 3 fremen
killed, injured. A 100000 fire in salt
Lake City.
a. Fire: silk mil burned at Paterson, N. J.
loss, $4,000.
Obituary Ex-Gov. Gray. U. S. minister to
Mexico, in the City Of Mexico.
Is Obituary: Richard +. Trevellick, promi-
nent labor organizer, in Detroit aged 90.
DR.. Samuel Spencer Stafford, founder Of
the Stafford Ink company, in New York
aged 90.
I6. Strike The Brooklyn trolley strike ended
on an lines except one.
Criminal: Nudge Yorlke (Margaret Drys
dale). actress, murdered in Philadelphia
10. Fires: Business places burned at Hamilton