Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29

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 Convention; The ninth annual convention of the Newspaper Publishers association met in New York
 22. Fire: Several cottages and boarding houses burned et Hot Springs. 23. Personal: Gen, Matt ". Ransom, senator from North Carolina appointed minister to Mexico.
 24. Obituary: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, promi- nent Union veteran, in Troy, N. Y.; aged 67.
 Criminal: Capt. Howgate, accused of em- bezzlement and forgery, acquitted. 20. 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. 28. Obituary: Ex-Judge Richard 0'Gorlnan, once a prominent Fenian, in New York city; aged "A. -.4-
 MARCH. l. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb; loss, S65, 600.
 Disaster: G5 killed, 40 injured on the Inter- oceanic railway near the City of Mexico; train down m 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, $02, ,000. A $20O,0O0 fire at Bethalto, Ills. Obituary Prof. John Stuart Blackie of the University of Edinbu4gh, in that city: aged S5.
 8. Fire: sl, 25O,Oco fire in Toronto. the third great conhagration in two months; dozen large business houses, hotel and church de- stroyed.
 {, Fires: Electric power house burned st Edgewater, Ills loss s150O0O. A s15O, 600 loss by fire at Salina, Kan. Obituary Colonel w.. 0. Coup, the veteran snowman, at Jacksonville, Fla; aged 62 Rev. Daniel Vrooman, Q pioneer mission arY of China in San FraucfscO. arod 72 Personal Anna Gould youngest daughter of the late Jay Gould, married Count de Cas- tellane of France.
 B. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey Clendennin, veteran distinguished in the cavalry service, at Galesburg, Ills, :; aged 65. Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind. loss, $400, 900.
 Personal: William K. Vanderbilt, the noted railway magnate and multimillionaire, di- vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in New York city.
 g. Obituary Edwin Forbes, a well known American artist and veteran war core spondent with the Union armies, in Now York city; aged 56.
 2. Obituary: Hyde Clark, famous linguist and scientist, in London; aged 79 8. Obituary Frederick E. Siclxles, an engineer and inventor, in Kansas City. Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans packet Longfellow struck a channel span of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati and went down in minutes; lives lost and about % people saved by tug. H. Obituary: Cesare Canter, Italian historian and Liberal, at Milan; aged 00 John F. Temple noted abolitionist, in Chicago; aged 80. Worth, the famous dressmalser, in Paris; aged 70.
 Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as- sociation of America held its twelfth annual session at Utica, N. Y. 12. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn ed in Brooklyn; loss, $225, 900. Strikers riot at New Orleans; negroes kill ed at their work. l3. Fire; Large buildings burned in Kansas City; loss, s300, coo. 10. Fire: City hall at Saco, Me-, damaged s50,- 900 by fire. >eha.'F r--f :v.. Obituary: Rev. Dr. John W. Broadus, presi- dent of the Baptist theological seminary at Louisville, in that city, aged Fl. r. Fires: Rodgers 6 Co., elevator and ware house buried in St. Louis; loss, $200, 900. A building occupied by newspaper and news concerns burned at Cleveland loss, $150, GOO. men killed and 9 injured at the burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To- iedo.
 Obituary: Capt. D. I. Ezekiel. president Min ing exchange, in Denver. IS. Fire Business block burned at Perry, O. T.; loss, $G0,000
 10. Fire: 12 buildings burned in Burlington, Vt. loss S250.000
 Obituary: Gen. Adam Badeau. Grants mili- tary secretary, biographer. etc., at Ridge wood, N. J.. aged 65. 20. Fire: A $1o0, 900 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 first birth day.
 21. Fires: $500, 900 worth of cotton burned in the yards of the International Cotton press, New Orleans Warehouse and elevator burned at Sioux City, Ia; loss, $400,0OO. Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, IL. D., of Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. aged "A.
 %. Obituary: Richard Vaux, prominent Phil adelphian; aged 79. %. Disaster: deaths at fire in the St. James hotel, Denver. 24. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City burned; loss, $1, GOO 600. hotels, 0 church and bank burned at Decatur, Mich. Political: Lii Hung Chang, China's peace en- voy, shot by Japanese in Simonosek. 27. Fire: 20 business houses and other property s burned in Milwaukee; loss, sl,000,0O0. Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver well known mathematician at Cornell university, in Ithaca, N. Y.
 28. Fires: 45 buildings burned at St. Angus tine, Fla. 56 buildings burned at Canase raga, N. Y.; loss, $l85, 0O0. B0 Obituary: Anson c. Hessing, noted German editor, in Chicago; aged 72. Mrs. Paran Stevens, noted leader of society, in New York city.
 2. Fire: The business portion of the city of St. Charles destroyed by fire; loss, sl00, 600. Obituary: David M. Stone. formerly editor of The Journal of Commerce, in New York city, aged 7S.
 Disaster: workmen killed and 5 injured by boiler explosion at Woburn, Mass. g. Henry Hammon, noted abolitionist, at Danielsonville, Conn.,; aged 81. Rev. Bar ton H. Cartwright, pioneer Methodist of the west, at Oregon, Ills. aged 80. Jack Wallace, once the wealthiest landholder in Atlanta, died at Sherman, Tex. Captain Lauchlan Mckay well known navigator of the port, in Roxbury, Mass. aged 83. l Obituary: Ex-Gov. William R. Marshall of Minnesota, at Pasadena, Cal. aged 70. b Obituary: Thompson McDaniels, veteran of the Black Hawk war and pioneer of Kansas City; aged 9O G. Fire The American Starch works burned at Columbus, Ind. loss, $500,0OO. - Obituary: Anthony M. Cannon, a leading citizen of the northwest, in New York city. g. Fire: A s100,000 fire in the railroad works at Winslow, A. T. Obituary: Gov. Joshua H. Marvil of Dela- ware at Laurel; aged 70. Gen. James L. Kemper. ex-governor of Virginia and a leader of one of Pickett's briQades at Get