Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-01


Disaster: Boilers of the new German cruiser
Brandenburg exploded at Kiel; Al killed.
II. Obituary: r. W. English, a personal asso-
ciate Ut Ihnco,p, at Kansas City aged 50.
IS. Fires: At Ottawa, Stewards stables OF val
liable trotters burned: loss, $30O,0OO War
rem, o., the Griswold Linseed Oil company
lost a mill plant valued at $sO00o0.
Obituary: William T. Stansbury, a printer on
the Baltimore Sun since 1887, in Baltimore;
aged rs.
10. Obituary: Joseph Keppler, famous cartoon
list and one of the founders and owners of
Puck, in New York city; aged Sc. Miss
Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, who claimed
to be the originator of Grants Donelson
campaign, at Washington; aged IS. Sivari,
Italian violinist. at Genoa; aged 10,
John Y. McKane, the corrupt "boss" OF
states prison.
30. Obituary. Lieut.. Horatio Crane, an old
Boston militiaman, in Boston; aged "a.
"a. Fire: At Quincy, Ills, business portion Of
va the city damaged to the extent of sl75,000.
Obituary: Louis Wistar, wealthy Philadel-
phian, at Atlantic City; aged g.
A hazing freak at Cornell university caused
the death of a colored cook and the serious
Illness of several students. -
e. Disaster: 0 miners killed by an sexplosioa
at Blossburg. N. NJ. &
Obituary: Dr. William B. Iaphan, well
known Maine historian and geologist. at
Augusta, Me-. aged 66.
"a. Fire: 20 buildings burned at Mcdonald,
Pa; loss, 100000
Obituary; DR.. Martin Luther, physician
prominent IN Pennsylvania, at Reading
aged Co. Col. John M. Huger distin-
guished southerner and ex-Confederate, in
New York city; aged Sc. as
Is. Obituary: Steele MackayE actor, teacher
and playwright, at Timpss. Colo; aged 81.
26. Fires: PEBBLES sanitarium, San Antonio,
Tex. Bazaar OF Davis Bros, in San Fran
cisco; loss, $120, 600.
Obituary.: Mrs. Mandelhaum, the notorious
New York fence" at Hamilton, Ont,
where she was hiding from justice.
MARCH.
l. Fires: Alum Springs. hotel, near Danville,
KY; loss, 100000. Henry's Opera House
block, at North Baltimore, o.; loss, 500, 600.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. John G. Downey Of Cal
ifornia, at Los Angeles; aged 81. DIR. Fred
erick William Poole, d. D., eminent libra.
f rian Of Boston and compiler of a valuable
index to periodical literature, at Evanston,
Ills. aged %.
3. Obituary Gen. Jubal a. Early, . promi-
nent ex-obnE.dc-ate, at Lynchburg, Va;
aged 70.
Martial law declared in West Virginia on &c.
count of a strikers riot at Eagle.
8. Fire: At Shreveport Pa. wholesale drug
obituary usa: n Mary I'm MSarg Husband, noted
. volunteer anrse N the Union army, at
Washington; aged{7
Lord RosEaery arbohted premier of Eng
land.
4. Obituary: Jamess Montgomery Bailey, "the
Danbury Newss MIN humorist. author Ut
s. Fire: Deadwootk = D., nearly destroyed;
loss S125OOO
8. Obituary Benjamin Bunker, editor Of lie
Kennebec Democrat. at Waterville, Me.
aged "a.
10. Fire: The Lansing Lumber company, at
Clara, Mich. loss, $175,000
Miscellaneous: Morse & Smith, produce COM
mission merchants of Boston and Cedar
Rapids Ia, made an assignment; estimat-
ed liabilities, $4,000; assets, s65,0O0.
IL. Obituary: Rev. A. T. Wood, prominent
Presbyterian, at Omaha; aged IT.
IL. Miscellaneous: Da Cana, the insurgent adj
miral of BRAZIL surrendered with all his
followers. Lake navigation opened at Chi
cago, the earliest on record.
IA. Obituary: John T. Ford, the well known
theatrical manager, at Baltimore; aged Go.
| 15 Obituary: Capt. Frank E. Brownell the
ayenger of Col Ellsworth, il Washington.
| Regular troops called out to Prevent polit-
ical riot in Denver
| 16. Fire: Mobile; loss, 100000. .-.-
| II. Fires: Gloucester, Mass, block Of stores;
loss, SIPS, 0NO Lawrence Mass, brewery
loss, SIZE, 900.
| Martha j. Fuller, stenographer and type
writer, mysteriously murdered in the office
of her employer in New York city.
Is. Fire: Denver, union depot destroyed loss,
$500, 900.
| Disaster: l6 persons killed and so injured ia
| tornado at Longview and Emory, Tex.
! 10. Obituary: Commodore William ID Whiting,
rod IL, New York CITY. aged
II.
20. Fire. BUSINESS property worth $4,000 de-
stroyed at Fort Worth. Tex.
Obituary: Louis kossuth the Hungarian pa
! triot, at Turin; aged So. Professor Isaac
| T. Goodnow, a prominent Kansas pioneer
and educator, at Manhattan, Kan. aged 50.
Miscellaneous: Gen. Neal Dow, the Prohibi-
ton advocate, celebrated his n.netieth
birthday. Tornado in Texas; 20 deaths.
o. Fire: Denver; loss, $l35, co.,
| 49, Fire: A lumber plant, creosote works, ~
dwellings, and a schooner burned at Money
Point, suburb Of Norfolk; loss, s3OJ,G5O
25 Obituary: George Ticknor Curtis, an au-
thority and writer on constitutional law,
in New York city; aged 81.
49, Obituary: Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, SEN
ator from Georgia and a prominent e1 Con
federate, in Washington; aged 20. Com
nlander Verney Lovett Cameron, the loted
| African traveller, in England; aged 80.
q. Obituary: E. W. Hudson, well known
journalist, formerly managing editor Of the
New York Herald, at Wobu.n, Mass.
| &c. Fire: The business portion of the town OF
Barry, Ills, destroyed; loss, 5000
Obituary: Jane P. Austen, the novelist, in
Boston; aged 63.
APRIL. % 4, TX
/ /. Obituary: Maj. lie Caron, the notorious
British spy upon Irishmen in America, in
London DR.. Charles Edouard Brown-Se-
guard, the eminent French physician. dis
coverer Of the "elixir of life,' in Paris,
aged rs.
2. Personal: Patrick Walsh, editor Of the Ar.
gusta Chronicle, was appointed United
States senator from Georgia in place Of
Gen. Colquitt, deceased.
S. Fire: Clothing house, Rochester; loss, $l75,-
Co.,
| 4, Disaster: men killed during riot in the
Connellsville coke regions in Pennsylvania
6. Obituary: Virgil Whitcomb, famous old
time landlord in New York, in Brooklyn
aged SO.
T. Disaster: 10 killed and many injured by the
explosion Of a fireworks factory at Peters
| burg, Va.
Obituary: Richard Wistar, noted millionaire
in Philadelphia; aged 65. Ben King,xtht
/ Chicago poet and humorist, at Bowling
i Green, Ky.
i g. Disaster: deaths by the collapse Of . tene
ment, Memphis