Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-27


IN New York
22 Fire; Several cottages and boarding houses
burned al Hot Springs.
o. Personal. Gen. Matt W. Ransom, senator
from North Carolina, appointed minister
to Mexico.
a. Obituary Gen. Joseph B. Carr. a promi
nent Union veteran, In Troy, n. y; aged
e.
Criminal: Capt. Howgatc accused Of EN-.
bezzlemont and forgery, acquitted.
20. Conventions: The National Dairy Hsso-
citation met in annual session at Washing
ton. The third annual session Of butter
and cheese makers began at Rockford, Ills
%. Obituary EX-Judge Richard O'Gorman,
once prominent Fenian, in New York
city; aged "a.
MARCH.
/. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb.
loss. S65,O0O.
Disaster: G5 killed, 10 injured on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City Of Mexico;
train down an embankmont.
2. Fires: The business portion of the town of
Noche N. D., burned; loss, $4,000. China
company's works burned at Akron, O.
loss, $4,000. A $2OO,OJO fire at Bethalto,
Ills
Obituary: Prof. John Stuart Blacse Of the
University of Edinburgh, in that city; aged
S..
8. Fire: A 81 25O, 600 FIRE in Toronto, the third
q
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed.
4. Fires: Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, Ills. loss S150,OOO A Sl50 QUO
loss by fire at Salina, Kan.
Obituary: Colonel W. G. Coup, the veteran
Snowman, at Jacksonville Fla; aged 81.
Rev. Daniel NruOman, a pioneer mission
airy Of China, in San Francisco; aged IS.
Personal: Anna Gould, youngest daughter Of
the late jay Gould, married Count de Cas-
tclane of France.
g. Obituary Col. David Ramsey Clcndcnuin,
a veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service, at Galcsburg, Ills. aged G5.
Disaster. Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion Of natural gas at Anderson, Ind. !;
loss $lOO, 900.
Personal: William X. Vanderbilt, the noted
railway magnate and multimilliouairc, di
vorced by his wife ON statutory grounds in
New York city.
6. Obituary: Edwin Forbes, well known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies, in New
York city; aged 90.
T. Obituary: Hyde Clark, famous linguist
and scientist, in London; aged 10.
g. Obituary Frederick e. SicSlcs, an engineer
and inventor In Kansas City.
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfcllow struck a channel span
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in minutes: lives lost
and about 80 people saved by a tug.
IL. Obituary Ccsure CHntor Italian historian
and Liberal, at Milan; aged so. John f.
Temple, noted abulitonist, in Chicago;
aged %. Worth, the famous dressmaker
in Paris: aged 10.
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as
sociation Of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, n. Y.
IL. Fire. Tiyoh hall and other properties burn.
ed in Brooklyn; loss, 1925 OjJ,
Strikers riot at New Orleans. q negroes kill
ed at their work.
10. Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss, S3OUUUJ.
l6, Fire: City hall at Saco, Ne, damaged $50
OOO by fire.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. John ". Broadus presi-
dent Of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville in that city aged II.
II. Fires; Rodgers & Co.'S elevator and ware
house burned in st. Louis; loss $2OO,OOO A
building occupied by newspaper and ncws
concerns burned ut Cleveland: loss, $3.50,
90 men killed and injured at the
burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To-
lpdo.
Obituary. Capt. D. !, Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver.
IS. Fire Business block burned at Perry, O.
T.. loss, 100000
10. Fire u buildings burned in Burlington,
VT. loss $2jO,0JO.
Obituary Gen. Adam Badeau. Grants mill
tary secretary, biographer, etc, at Ridge
wood N. j. aged G5.
20. Fire A SlUO,OO fire ut Peoria, Ills.
Obituary Gen. Philip st. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
So
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.
81. Fires: $4,000 worth Of cotton burned in
the yards of the International Cotton press,
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, Ia. loss, 100000.
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, LII. D., of
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. aged
"a.
%. Obituary: Richard Vaux prominent Phil
adelphian; aged 70
%. Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. James
hotel, Denver.
"a. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City
burned loss, Si,O0O0O0 2 hotels, church
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
Political: Ii Hung Chang, China 5 peace en-
voy, shot by japanese in Simonoseh.
q. Fire: 20 business houses and other property
burned in Milwaukee; loss, 81, 100000.
Obituary: Prof. Jamcs e. Oliver, well known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
Ithaca, n, Y.
2S Fires: 45 buildings burned at st. Angus
tine, Fla. SO buildings burned at Canase
raga, n. Y. loss, sl35OOO.
90 Obituary Anson G. Hessing, noted German
editor, in Chicago; aged y. Mrs. Parar
Stevens noted leader of society, in New
York city.
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