Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-27
great drug firm in Now York city, aged

t.UlUuU.
21. Obituary: Henry B. Houston, "father Of
transportation interests in Pennsylvania" "
in Philadelphia aged 75
Emperor William laid the keystone OF the
Kaiser Wilhelm tKic) canal.
%. The soldier bicycle courier Matthey ended
his 1874 days ride from New York to Chi
cago.
"a. Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri-
angular boat race at Poughkeepsie over
Cornell and Pennsylvania
Obituary: Thomas Henry Huxley, the scient-
list, at Eastborne England; aged 20 years.
p5. Obituary NJ. d. Boruck, a pioneer editor
of California, in San Francisco; aged 6l.
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, in Della
ware, o. aged o.
%. Fire. San Francisco swept by the largest
fire known there in over 80 years.
%. sporting Yale defeated Harvard by 81
lengths at New London. Conn.
20. Obituary; Prof Thomas II. Huxley, the
scientist, at Enstbuurne England; aged 10.
TX President Peixoto OF Brazil near Rio
Janoiro; aged 50. Daniel Cady Eaton, pro
fessor OF botany mt Yale, in New Haven
aged 81. Gcn Green Clay Smith, Union
veteran, at Washington; aged Gs.
JULY.
4. Disaster: At Ellkhart, Ind, a bridge fell
under a crowd witnessing boat race; Ss
injured
Miscellaneous 53 deaths in the region west
of and adjoining the Mississippi by cloud
bursts and lightning. 3 postoffice burglars
-Billuran, Allen and Russell-brolSe out OF
Ludlow Street Jail, New York. Mob at
tackled an A. p. A. parade in Boston.
8. Obituary: Alexander Hester, Americas
greatest daguerreotypist, died at Evanston,
Ills
g. Fires: Lumber plant burned at Scotia,
Cal loss, S95O,OJO. At Duluth, Mimi,
SlOO, coo loss in Il warehouse fire bust
l1rrr iu V , 1paa
Sl50,0
T. Terrific storm at Chicago and on Lake
Michigan; many deaths reported.
o. Obituary. David A. Daboll, publisher OF
Daboli's Almanac, at New London, Conn. ;
aged 81.
Disaster: 10 killed and s3 injured in a rear
end collision on the Grand Trunk at Craig's
Head, Quebec.
| 10. Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit: deaths.
Obituary: Allen Pcttihone, father Of the
Millerites at Hartford; aged 50.
Disaster: Over 100 people injured at Allan.
tic City by the collapse of the old casno
Sporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall at
Henley for Grand Chollenge cup.
| II. Obituary Miulan Carvalho, famous French
prima donna and the original Marguerite
at Dieppe.
Convention: Convention Of the United Soci-
! eties Of Christian Endcnvor opened in Bos-
ton.
| a. Obituary. DR.. Norton S. Townshend,
emeritus professor Of . riculture in the
state university, at Columbus, o. aged 70
| 10. Fire; Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston,
N. y; loss, about Sl5JO OOO
| 10. Fire; Business portion of Alta Vista wiped
| out by fire loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Stamlulolf, ex premier Of Bull
garia, by uss"si iuution, at Sofia; aged 40,
/ II. Fire: fireman killed and II injured mt q
fire in Cincinnati; property loss, $3.50, 600,
! Is. Obituary: Charles EEarucl Schenck, ex.
president of Switzerland, at Bern; aged 40.
! Convention: Fifth International convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union Of
America opened in Baltimore.
Personal: Henry Irving, Walter Besant and
Lewis Morris knightcu by the queen.
81. Fire: $500, GOO loss by burning Of an oil mill
! in Chicago.
Disaster: l5Olives lost by steamboat collision
in the gulf Of Genoa.
%. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Alexander II. Rice Of
| Massachusetts CiCd az MClrose. Prof. Ru-
dolf Gncist, eminent German scholar and
professor, instructor of the reigniug kai-
ser, at Berlin; aged CO.
"a. Fires: Y. NJ. G. A. building in Washington
burned; loss, 5O,0lO lronton CO.) water
works destroyed by fire; loss 100000.
Obituary James Bunn chief of the Shinne-
cock Indians, ut Southampton, N. Y. /; aged
about So. Rev. Edward Beecher, one of the
famous seven brothers, in Brooklyn; aged
g2.
25. Obituary: DR.. Anthony Wilson Thorall,
bishop of Winchester, at Surrey, England
aged 40.
%. Obituary. Col. Alfred NJ. Wood, mayor OF
Brooklyn during the war, in that city
aged 90.
90 Obituary John Barbee Minor, ILL., D.. pro.
fessor of common and statute law in the
University Of Virginia at Charlottesville
aged 81
30 Fort Scott Tex, flooded by sudden pre-.
cipitation Of rain.
81 Obituary: Richard H. Hunt, noted archi.
tect at Newport, r. l.; aged 6s
AUG UsT.
l. Obituary Prof Heinrich Won sybel, Ger.
man historian, in Marburg; aged 49,
Fatal cloudburst in Wyoming
g. Fire A business block at Lima, o., de-
stroyed by fire. loss, 100000.
Obituary: Joseph Thompson, African ex
plorer, in London.
Q. Fire: Sprague, the scat Of Lincoln county,
devastated by fret loss nearly Sl,OOO,0OO.
4. Fire: Berlin, Md, almost wiped out by
fire; loss, S2OO,OOO
8. Fire: steamers burned at Cincinnati
loss, Sl5O,OOO.
Obituary Charles Hubbs Foster actor and
playwright in New York city; aged 81.
G, Obituary Charles Foster, an old time actor
and manager In New York aged g. Gen
NJ. A. Stovall, Confederate veteran, at
Augusta, ia; aged Il. George f. Root
the composer, at Bailey's Island Ne aged
75
Z. Obituary: Associate Justice Howell Ed
munds jackson Of the U. S. supreme court
at West Meade, Tenn; aged So.
Disasters An story building collapsed In
New York city. British steamer Cater
thorn. from Sydney for Hongkong, went
on the rocks near Sydney aud sank in u
minutes; "a lives lost.
II. Fire. The james Kiisman & Co. stamping
works at Newark, N. j., destroyed by FIRE
loss, $JO0,O00 Fire destroyed property val
ued at S250,OOO at Lockport, Ills.
Obituary Frank NJ Pixley, a veteran jour
AaHat, at San Francisco.
~. Firs 2 factories, IA dwellings and othsi
properties burned in Philadelphia loss
$500, 900.
Obituary Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse
French explorer and engineer, in Paris.
10. Obituary: DR.. william Dean, noted Baptis
missionary among the orientals, at Sal
Diego, Cal aged IS.
Conventions: The first national convention
Of commercial lawyers opened in Detroit
The seventeenth conference of the Ameri
can Library association began in Denver
The National Association Of Newsdealer
met in Brooklyn.
H. Obituary: Baron Christian Bernard vol
Tauchnitz, the European publisher, a
Leipsic; aged ~. Thomas Hovenden, fa
nous artist at Norristown, Pa.
American Pharmaceutical association opene
at Denver.
IS. Obituary P. F. Rothermel, painter Of tn
"Battle Of Gettysburg and other celcbrat
ed pictures, at Lindeld, Pa. Gen. John i
Imboden, famous Confederate cavalrymar
at Abingdon; aged IS.
10. Obituary Gen. samuel Bell Maxey, a Cor
federate veteran and eX-U. S. senator fror
Texas, at Eureka Springs, Ark, aged 10.
The thirtieth annual reunion of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers opened a
, Pittshurg.
Is. Obituary: EN-Justice William Strong &
the u. s. supreme court, at Lake Mime
. Waska, ~ Y agod 81. Leonard w. Noll