The Sauk Centre herald., 1895-12-26

was vicar deneral parKe, VINO was passing
and was caught by the falling wall.
IL Crime: A Wells Fargo express wagon rob
bed Of $4,000 In Colorado; the messenger
fatally wounded.
A. Fire: Warehouse burned at Benicia, Colo.
loss, $150,000.
II. Fire: At Piattshurg. Mo-, the courthouse
and all the buildings on one side OF the
public square destroyed by fire: loss about
500, OO0 Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon, Ills. /: loss nearly $25O.0
Obituary: James w. Scott, editor and pub.
Usher Of the Chicago Times Herald, In New
York city; aged 40. Prof. James Dwight
Dana OF Yale. ut New Haven aged 81.
70. Obituary: DR.. John p. Biackmar, promi.
nent Prohibitionist, at Springfield. Mass.
Earthquake: Heavy shocks In Italy and Aus
tria
"a Obituary: Hon. Leveritt Saltonstall. prom.
inent Democratic leader. at Brookline,
Mass.
lR. Obituary: r. @. wiokliffe. ex-governor Of
Louisiana. at Shelbyville. Ky. Granville
Perkins. the artist. in New York city: aged
66.
The fifth international convention of the
Young Woman's Christian association open.
ed in Pittsburg.
TO- Obituary: Charles K. Knox, the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged ".
20. Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered tie cycling
record a second in California by riding q
mile IN .U4.
Fl. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons.
sur -Marne, France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at 1000 OO(
francs.
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son Of the
novelist, In Albany aged 70.
e. Obituary: Albert Young. "grand patriarch
Of the Romany people Of the continent, ,
died at Ross Park, opposite st. Louis; he
was "a years old.
Culinary. Col arlx1iY Fairhoy,Es ono nj
Vermont's most prominent citizens at st.
Johnsbury. 1ft
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt 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 in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, first wife of the well
known New York publisher, died at Sho-
kan, n. Y.
Is. Fire: The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; less, $500, 900; several fatal
ities; 70 persons injured.
Obituary: Henry H. Scott, prominent citi-
zen and leading Democrat Of San Francis
co, in that city.
%. Obituary: Levi B. Taft an eminent Michi-
gan jurist, at Pontiac; aged 70.
80. Obituary: Gustav Freitag, the popular Ger
man novelist, author of 'sSoll 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 r. Gen. s. B. Hayman, a
veteran Of the Mexican and civil wars, in
Houstonia Mo. aged Is,
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
of the American Revolution began in Bos-
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
3. Disaster: American Powder company s
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up;
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by tornado; over 250 killed.
8. Obituary: James Kelly, Cook county pio-
neer and one of the founders of the Chica-
go Tribune, at Winnetka, Ills.
6. Fires: New Carlisle, o., had SIS, 600 fire.
Strauss g. Sons tannery and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
$3.50, 600.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Robert S. Green Of New
Jersey, at Elizabeth, N. j.. aged 81.
z. Obituary: Field Marshal Gen. Won Pape, a
distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor of Berlin, in that city; aged
49,
8. Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
Manchester, N. H; aged 6S.
Convention: The thirty-fr international
convention Y. M. G. A. of North America
met at Springfield, Mass.
9. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor of the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city; aged 81.
10. Obituary: Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
in the Confederate army, at New Haven !;
aged 50. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur-
geon general, U. S. A., in Washington :
aged Is.
II. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira j. Chase of Indiana,
at Lubec, Me-; aged 81.
IL. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
ed grain elevator and flour mill: loss,
$500, 900. At Pratt City, Ala, the city hall,
hotel and church and 30 dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
Obituary: Julius n. Seelye, ex-president Of
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged II.
) Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior.
died at Fort Reno, O. T.
ID. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven.
tion of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
sociation began in New York. Biennial
convention Of. the Order of Railway Con-
ductors began in Atlanta.
16. Obituary: Duke of Hamilton, twelfth OF
his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John J.
Almy, U. s. NJ, retired In Washington; !;
aged 81. Peter II. Burnett, first governor
Of California, in San Francisco: aged 81.
19. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in st. Albans, VT: loss, $3.50, ,O00
Obituary: David S. s. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
N. Y; aged ". Hiram Barney, collector
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city; aged 84
q. Fire: At Angelica, N. Y, stores. opera
house and other property burned: loss,
100000
Obituary: Franz Won Suppe, the Austrian
Offenbach, (" composer of "Boccaccio, " etc.,
in Vienna; aged rs. DR.. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon Of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
dren, in Chicago; aged 66.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal, of 5000
pounds of nitroglycerin and 1000 pounds
Hercules powder; IA men killed; loss, $780,
OO0
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared un-
constitutional by a vote Of to 4. The
fifth annual reunion of the United Confed-
crate veterans convened at Houston, Tex.
"a. Obituary Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of treasury 1885 to 1869, at Washington !;
aged 81.
8. Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse own
er and capitalist, Kerrville, Tex.
H. Obituary: Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged 80.
%. Fire: B6 business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo-: loss, $10O, ,O0O
Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, secre-
tary Of state, at Washington: aged 68.
Conventions: The SEVENTEEN anniversary
meeting of the American, Unitarian asso-
citation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began it's eighty first anni-
versary convention at Saratoga.
. 6hipwrecks: Pacific Mail steamer Colima ran
upon reef off Manzanillo, Mex, during .
gale; 186 persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked of the Spanish coast: !:
100 lives lost.
81. Obituary: Gen. g. NJ. Mitchell, Union vet
eran at Charleston, Ills. aged 60
JUNE
/. Obituary: George M. Gray, q Chicago pio-
neer, In that city: aged ".
2. Obituary: Hon. Vincent D. Markham. y
very distinguished jurist Of Colorado, at
Denver: aged GO.
8. Obituary: Miss Emily Faithful, the Eng.
lish economist and philanthropist; aged 60.