Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-31


fatally wounded.
| n Fire: Warehouse burned at Bcnicia, Colo. !;
loss, $l50,OO
II. Fire: AT Plattsburg, No., tho courthouse
and all the buildings on one side Of the
public square destroyed by fire: loss about
100000. Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon. Ills. /: loss nearly $4,000.
Obituary: james ". S,ott. editor and pub
Usher of the Chicago Times Herald, In New
York city: aged Is. Prof. James Dwight
Dams Of Yale, at New Haven: aged &c.
Is. Obituary: DIR. John p. Blackmar, prorni.
ncnt Prohibitionist. ut Springfield. Mass.
Earthquake: Heavy shocks in Italy and Aus
tria.
le Obituary: Hon. Levcritt saitonstall, prom
inent Democratic leader. At Brookiine,
Mass.
IL Obituary: r. c. wickliffe, ex-governor Of
Louisiana. at Shclbyville. KY. Granville
Perkins. the artist. in New York city; aged
6a
The fifth international convention Of the
Young Woman Christian association open
ed IN Pittsburg.
10. Obituary: Charles Z. Knox, the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged q.
20. Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered tie cycling
record e second in California by riding
q. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons-
sur-Marne. France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at 100000
francs.
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son Of the
novelist, in Albany; aged 20.
= Obituary: Albert Young. grand patriarch
Of the Romany people of the continent"
died at Ross Park. opposite st. Louis; he
was O. years old.
e. Obituary: Col. Franklin Fairbanks, ono OF
Nermont's most prominent citizens. 1t st.
J0hnsbury.
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Coils.
Zenos r. Bliss and John ]. Coppinger were
promoted to be brigadier generals.
Miscellaneous: Nat jones' a veteran specu-
lator 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.
g Fire: The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
cd in Montreal; loss, $500. 900; several fatal
tiles; p persons injured.
Obituary: Henry H. Scott, prominent citi-
zen and leading Democrat Of San Francis.
CO, in that city.
~. Obituary: Levi +. Taft, an eminent Michi-
gan iurist, at Pontiac: aged IS.
o. Obituary: Gustav Freitag the popular Ger
man novelist, author Of ''Soll und Haben'
and other notable books, at Wiesbaden; aged
20.
I. Obituary: Mai. Gen. John Newton distin-
guished soldier Of the Mexican and civil
wars and engineer Of He'll Gate, in Now
York city: aged ~. Gen. 3. B. Hayman, n
Houstonia, 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 companys
mills near Concord, Mass, blown I'M: s
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by "a tornado; over 80 killed.
b. Obituary: James Kelly, Cook county pio-
neer and one Of the founders Of the Chica-
go Tribune, at Winnetka, Ills.
Nssvx- III l, l--n n
Strauss & sons tannery and other proper
~ in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
Sa5D,0O.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Robert s. Green of New
Jersey, at Elizabeth, N. j.. aged 81.
2. Obituary: Field Marshal Cen Won Pane n
distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor Of Berlin in that city; aged
81.
g. Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
Manchester. n. H.; aged 6s.
Convention: The thirty first international
convention Y. NJ. L. A. Of North America
met at Springfield. Mass.
.. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor OF the
voted Confederate ram Albcmarlc. in New
York city; aged 81.
10. Obituary: Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
in the Confederate army. at New Haven;
aged 81. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex- sur
gccn general, L. s. A., in Washington
aged e..
II. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira ]. Chase Of Indiana,
ut Lubec, Me. aged 81.
II. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy.
cd grain elevator and -four mill: loss,
$4,000. At Pratt City, Ala, the city hall,
hotel and church and 90 dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
Obituary; Julius II. Scelye. ex-presidcnt Of
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged n.
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior
died at Fort Reno, o. T..
II. Convention: Tho sixteenth annual conycn.
tion Of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit a.
ISOLATION 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. &. N, retired. in Washington
aged 81. Peter H. Burnett, first governor
Of California, in San Francisco: aged q.
10. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in st. Albans, VT: loss, $s5O,0OO
Obituary: David q. 8. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon
N. v; aged q. Hiram Barney, collector
Of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city: eyed 81.
q. Fire: At Angelica, N. Y, Q stores, opera
house and other property burned: loss,
10000.
Obituary: Franz Won suppe. the "Austri.n
Onenbach, :" composer of 'Boccaccio, :" etc.,
in Vienna; aged IS. DIR. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon OF
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
tiren, in Chicago: aged g.
OIsaSter. Explosion AT t1nole, Cal, OF 500
pounds Of nitroglycerin and 1000 pounds
Hercules powder; II men killed: loss, $50.
go.
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared un-
constitutional by n vote of to 4. The
fifth annual reunion Of the United Confed-
crate veterans convened ut Houston, Tex.
"a. Obituary: Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
OF treasury 1895 to 1869. at Washington:
aged 81.
a6. Obituary: John A. Morris. race horse own
er and capitalist, Kerrviile. Tex.
z. Obituary Henry Lindiey Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati: aged ~.
~. Fire: 81 business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, No. loss, slO000O.
Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, sccrc-
tary Of state, at Washington: aged g.
Conventions: The seventeen anniversary
meeting Of the American Unitarian asso-
citation held i'm Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty first ami.
versary convention at Saratoga
Shipwrecks: Pacific Mail steamer Colima ran
upon . reef of Manxanillo, Mex, during n
gale; ld persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked on the Spanish coast
100 lives lost.
d. Obituary: Gen. g. II. Mitchell, Union vet
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