The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-12-20
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IL. Fire: At Plattsburg, Mo-, the courthouse
and all the buildings on one side of the
public square destroyed by ire; loss about
$500, OOO Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon Ills. loss nearly $250,0
Obituary: James W. Scott, editor and pub
Usher of the Chicago Times Herald, in New
York city: aged As. Prof. James Dwight
Dana of Yale. at New Haven; aged 50.
Is. Obituary: DR.. John P. Blackmar, proml'
nent Prohibitionist, at Springfield, Mass.
Earthauake: Heavy shocks in Italy and Aus
tria.
i6. Obituary: Hon. Leveritt Saltonstall, prom
inent Democratic leader, at Brookline,
Mass.
1s. Obituary: R. c. wickliffe, ex-governor Of
Louisiana, at Shelbyville, Ky. Granville
Perkins, the artist, in New York city; aged
65
The fifth international convention of the
Young Woman s Christian association open
ed in Pittsburg.
10. Obituary: Charles K. Knox, the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged IT,
20. Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered tie cycling
record second in California by riding
mile in 2:04.
81. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons-
sur Marine, France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at l,OOo,0OO
francs
Obituary Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the
novelist, in Albany aged TO-
"a.
of the Romany people of the continent,
died at Ross Park, opposite st. Louis; he
was GA years old.
a. Obituary: Col. Franklin Fairbanks, one OF
Vermont's most prominent citizens, at 81
Johnsbury.
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merrltt 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 specu
lator of the "Big Four died i'll Chicago.
Mrs Frank Leslie, first wife OF the well
known New York publisher, died at Sho-
kan, N. Y.
! Of Fire. The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
| ed in Montreal; loss, $500, 900; several fatal
| tiles; 25 persons injured.
Obituary: Henry Fl. Scott, prominent cltl-
zen and leading Democrat of San Francis
co, in that city.
! 20. Obituary: Levi B. Taft, an eminent Mlchl-
gan jurist at Pontiac; aged 70.
70. Obituary: Gustav Freitag the popular Ger
| man novelist author of "Soll und Haben'
and other notable books, at Wiesbaden; aged
70.
1. Obituary Maj. Gen. John Newton, distin-
guished soldier of the Mexican and civil
| wars and engineer of He'll Gate, in New
York city; aged ~. Gen. S. B. Hayman, a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in
Houstonia, Mo-; aged 70.
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
| of the American Revolution began in Bos'
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
g. Disaster: American Powder company
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up;
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by tornado; over $50 killed.
g. Obituary: James Kelly, Cook county pio
neer and one of the founders of the Chlca
go Tribune, at WinnetIa, Ills.
g. Fires: New Carlisle, o., had $4,000 fire
Strauss 81 Sons tannery and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; Hsss
$3.50 900.
Obituary: Elk 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; agec
so.
8 Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A Weston, a
Manchester, N. H.; aged 68.
Convention: The thirty first internatlona
convention Y. NJ G. A. of North Amerlci
met at Springfield, Mass.
o. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor OF TN
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city aged 81 ~
IN 0bitnarv. Gen. Joseph Cotton, who Starved
in the Confederate army, at New Haven
aged 81 Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur
geon general U. S. A., in Washington
aged Go.
IL. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira j. Chase OF lnulana
at Lubec, Me-; aged Oh.
IL. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
, ed a grain elevator and flour mill: loss
5000 600. At Pratt City, Ala, the city hall
a hotel and church and 30 dwellings wer
destroyed by fire.
Obituary: Julius H. Seelye, ex-president 9
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged u
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior
died at Fort Reno, o. t.
ID. Convention: The sixteenth annual CONVEX
tion of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit al
ISOLATION began in New York. Biennlf
convention of the Order Of Railway Cor
ductors began in Atlanta.
1e. Obituary: Duke of Hamilton, twelfth {
| his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John {
Almy. u. s. N, retired, in Washington
aged 81 Peter H. Burnett, first governo
of California, in San Francisco: aged o.
49, Fire: 40 business places and lOO dwelilns
destroyed in st. Adams, VT. loss, $780,
Obituary: David S. S. SAINTS, the we
, known Fire Island boniface in Babylon
N. Y; aged n. Hiram Barney, collectc
r of the port of New York under Lincoln, !
that city; aged "a.
Z q. Fire: At Angelica N. Y, stores, oper
j house and other property burned; los
100000
Obituary Franz Won Suppe, the Austria
Offenbach, composer of "Boccacclo, etc
in Vienna; aged rs. DR.. Mary Harr
Thompson, founder and head surgeon {
p the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chi
dren, in Chicago; aged &C.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal, OF S,U
pounds of nitroglycerin and 200 pounc
Hercules powder; IA men killed; loss, S25O
, 600.
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared Ill
, constitutional by a vote of to 4. III
: fifth annual reunion of the United Confe'
crate veterans convened at Houston, Tex
. a. Obituary Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretar
}. of treasury 1865 to 1869, at Washington
aged 81.
n | &C. Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse owl
a er and capitalist Kerrville, Tex
. q. Obituary. Henry Lindley Fry, noted woo
carver, near Cincinnati; aged 81.
| %. Fire: 80 business houses and dwelling
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo-: loss, slUJ,uo
4 Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, seer
l. tary of state, at Washington; aged U.s.
r Conventions: The seventeen annlVersal
< meeting of the American Unitarian ass
citation held in Boston. The America
= Baptist union began its eighty'h first ann
yersary convention at Saratoga.
1 Shipwrecks: Pacific Mail steamer Collma rs
: upon a reef off Manzanillo, Mex, during
4 gale: 1856 persons drowned. French steam'
K Dom Pedro wrecked off the Spanish coas
n 100 lives lost.
y n. Obituary: Gen. G. NJ. Mitchell, Union We
r eran at Charleston, Ills. aged 60.
JUNE.
1. Obituary: George NJ. Gray, Chicago pi
n neer. in that city; aged n.