The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-12-20

ed by fire at Kalamazoo, Mich loss $0Uo''
900. The Leonard silk mill at fiorence'
Mass. destroyed by ire; loss nearly sioo'
600.
10 Fire. Cameron, W. Va, almost wholly de-
stroved by fire: relief train from Wheel
inc wrecked and men killed.
Obituary: william Steinhart, pioneer mer
chant of California i'll San francisco; ageo
Go. ~
II. obituary Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, LII. D''
Lotto Of the Indiana State university, at Rlv-
erside, Cal. i; aged 81.
10 obituary; Theopilus Adam Wylie emeritus
professor of ancient languages in the Uni
versity of Indiana, at Bloomlhg'on' inu'
aged So. .,
Miscelloneous: Christian Endeavor annual
convention opened in Boston. Destructive
storms and tornadoes in Minnesota and
Oklahoma.
~ Culinary: Henry Prouse Cooper, formerly
well known New York tailor IN ne"
York: aged So Senior Gorilla, noted span
isb republican leader, at Madrid; aged 6l.
IA obituary: Rev. Alonzo A. Miner, ID. D.,
nastor emeritus of the Second Universallst
church and prominent prohibitionist In
Boston, aged 81.
Disaster: A so horsepower engine exploded a'
Fall River, Mass, wrecklng D STORY puiio
ing: people killed and injured.
personai: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her eighty fourth birthday at Hartford
IL Fire: At Bridgeport, o., hre desuroyeo
wholesale drug store, hotel, banks ana
several retail establishments; loss, sloo,ooo
is. Fires: An incendiary nre oestroyeu
church, newspaper offices and several
stores loss, 1925, 900. Jacobs Third Avenue
theater burned in New York
The Worlds Woman's Christian conference
opened in London.
| II. miscellaneous The Harlem ship canal con-
| Meeting North river with Long Island SCUM"
| opened with ceremonies.
| 10 Obituary: w. H. Shieffelin, head OF the
great drug firm, in New York city; aged
N. Fire: Power house and cars Of the street
| railway in Seattle, Wash, burned; loss
| $500, 900.
p. Obituary: Henry B. Houston, "father OF
Transportation interests in Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia aged TO-
Emperor William laid the keystone OF the
| Kaiser wilhelm (KieD canal.
| q. The soldier bicycle courier Matthey ended
| his 1874 days ride from New YORK TO chi
| cago.
d Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
| ministry resigned. Columbia won the trl-
angular boat race at Poughkeepsle over
| Cornell and Pennsylvania.
| Obituary: Thomas Henry Huxley, the sclent'
ist, at Eastborne, England aged ~ years.
25 Obituary: M. d. Boruck, pioneer edltoi
| of California in San Francisco; aged 81
Philip Phillips the evangelist, in Della
ware, o.; aged 81.
81 Fire: San Francisco swept by the largest
fire known there in over 30 years
%. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by 81
lengths at New London, Conn.
| o. Obituary: Prof. Thomas ii. Huxley, the
scientist at Eastbourne, England; aged ~
Ex.President Peixoto of Brazil, near Rlc
| Janeiro; aged So. Daniel Cady Eaton. pro
fessor of botany at Yale, in New Haven
aged g. Gen. Green Clay Smith, Unior
veteran at Washington; aged 6S.
JULY.
A. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind, bridge fel
under a crowd witnessing boat race; u
injured.
Miscellaneous: 43 deaths in the region ives
of and adjoining the Mississippi by cloud
bursts and lightning. postof1ce burglars
-Killoran, Allen and Russell-broke out o
Ludlow Street Jail, New York. Mob at
tackled an A. P. A. parade in Boston.
4. Obituary: Alexander Hester, America
greatest daguerreotypist, died at Evanston
Ills.
8. Fires: Lumber splant burned at Scotia
Cal: loss $25O,OO0. At Duluth Mimi.
500. 900 loss in a warehouse fire. bust
ness places burned in Oswego, N. y; loss
. $50, 900.
2. Terrific storm at Chicago and on LAX
Michigan; many deaths reported
i 0. Obituary. David A Daboll, publisher o
Daboll's Almanac, at New London, Conn.
; aged 81.
Disaster: ID killed and 80 injured in rea
: end collision ON the Grand Trunk at Craig
Head, Quebec.
TO- Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit: deaths.
Obituary: Allen Pettibone, father OF tn
Millerites, at Hartford: aged 80.
; Disaster: Over 100 people injured at Allan
, tic City by the collapse of the old casino.
Sporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall a
Henley for Grand Challenge cup.
l IL. Obituary: Miolan Carvalho, famous Frenc
. -. n Mo- 1nrlt n
; at Dieppe.
Convention: Convention of the United Soc
cites of Christian Endeavor opened in Bos
, ton.
. A. Obituary: DR.. Norton S. Townshend
emeritus professor of agriculture in tn
1, state university, at Columbus O.; aged Is
: Is. Fire: Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston
N. Y. loss, about $3.50, Co.,
. 49, Fire: Business portion of Alta Vista wipe
out by fire; loss, $3.50
. Obituary: Stambuloff, ex.premier of Blu
garia, by assassination, at Sofia; aged 40.
= H. Fire: fireman killed and IL injured at
- fire in Cincinnati; property loss, $3.50 600.
> 49, Obituary: Charles Emanuel Schenck, e1
president of Switzerland, at Bern; aged x
Convention; Fifth international conventio
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union c
America opened in Baltimore.
Personal: Henry Irving, Walter Besant an
Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
- 81. Fire: 100000 loss by burning OF an OIL MI
:, in Chicago
5 Disaster: $50 lives lost by steamboat collisio
u in the gulf of Genoa.
% Obituary. Ex-Goy. Alexander ii. Rice {
~ Massachusetts, died at Melrose. Prof. Rr
dolf Gneist eminent German scholar an
% professor instructor of the reigning ka
) ser, at Berlin aged &c.
"a. Fires: Y. M. c. A. building in Washingto
! burned loss, $1,000 1ronton (OD water
e works destroyed by fire; loss, 100000
Obituary: James Bum, chief of the Shinnt
cock Indians, at Southampton, N. Y. age
about IS. Rev. Edward Beecher, one OF th
i famous seven brothers, in Brooklyn; age
3d.
l. 25. Obituary: DR.. Anthony Wilson Thoralt
bishop Of Winchester, at Surrey, England
aged 20.
o. Obituary: Col. Alfred NJ. Wood, mayor {
. Brooklyn during the war, in that city
: aged &c.
, 20 Obituary: John Barbee Minor, LII. D., pre-
lessor of common and statute law in th
University Of Virginia at Charlottesville
. aged g.
n 10 Fort Scott, Tex, flooded by sudden pr
cipitation Of rain.
a. obituary: Richard NJ. Hunt, noted arch
u tect, at Newport, R. l.. aged 6S.
IT AUGUST.
1 Obituary: Prof. Heinrich Won Sybel, Gel
| in MarburO. aged 70,