The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-12-20

dale). actress, murdered in Philadelphls
by James B. Gentry.
49, Fires: Business places burned at Hamilton
N. Y; loss, S@uOUO0.
Obituary: Eliza d. Hamill, one of Chicagos
oldest residents; aged 50.
Conventions: The annual convention OF SUI
perintendents' National association con-
yened in Cleveland The fourth congress
of the Daughters of the Revolution opened
in Washington
90 Obituary: Frederick Douglass at washing
ton aged 70. .
81. Obituary: Elk Gov. Benjamin F. Prescott
of New Hampshire at Epping' N H.; aged
62.
Convention: The ninth annual convention OF
the Newspaper Publishers association met
in New York.
g. Fire: Several cottages and boarding houses
burned at Hot Springs.
%. Personal: Gen. Matt W. Ransom, senator
from North Carolina, appointed minister
to Mexico.
a. Obituary Gen. Joseph b. Carr, promi.
nent Union veteran, in Troy, N. Y; aged
81.
Criminal: Capt. Howgate, accused of en-
bezzlement and forgery, acquitted.
90. Conventions: The National Dairy asso-
citation met in annual session at Washing
ton. The third annual session OF butter
and cheese makers began at Rocktoro' LIS
%. Obituary: Ex-Judge Richard O.Gormans
once a prominent Fenian, in New YorA
city: aged "a.
MARCH.
F, Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb.;
loss, S65, 600.
Disaster: 65 killed, 40 injured on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City of Mexicoi
train down an embankment.
g. Fires: The business portion or tne toWn Oh
Noche N. D., burned; loss, S54,OOo Chlna
COMMANDS works burned at Akron, o.;
loss, $62 900. A 100000 fire at Bethalto,
Ills
Obituary: Prof John Stuart Blackie of the
University Of Edinburgh, in that city; aged
s..
8. Fire: A 81, $50 900 fire in Toronto. the third
great confagration in two months; a dozen
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed.
| L. Fires: Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, Ills. loss, $4,000. $15O, OOo
loss by fire at Salina, Kan.
Obituary: Colonel W. c. Coup, the veteran
| Snowman, at Jacksonville, Fla. aged g.
Rev. Daniel Vrooman, pioneer mission
| airy of China, in San Francisco; aged ~.
| Personal: Anna Gould, youngest daughter OF
| the late Jay Gould, married Count de Cas-
tellane of France.
8. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey Clendennin,
veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service, at Galesburg, Ills. aged %.
| Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind.
loss, $500, 900.
Personal: william K. Vanderbilt the noted
| railway magnate and multimillionaire, di-
vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
| New York city.
g. Obituary: Edwin Forbes, we'll known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies in New
| York city; aged 56.
z. Obituary Hyde Clark, famous linguist
and scientist in London; aged 10.
| g. Obituary Frederick E. Sickles, an engineer
and inventor, in Kansas City,
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfellow struck a channel span
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in minutes; lives lost
and about 90 people saved by tug.
| IL. Obituary: Cesare Canter, Italian historian
and Liberal, at Milan; aged co. John f.
Temple, noted abolitonist, in Chicago
aged &c. Worth, the famous dressmaker,
in Paris; aCed 70.
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as
ISOLATION of America held its twelfth annua
session at Utica, N. Y.
IL. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn
ed in Brooklyn; loss, $225, 900.
Strikers riot at New Orleans; negroes kill
ed at their work.
l8. Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss, $3OO.OOO
IS. Fire: City hall at Saco Me-, damaged soo'
900 by fire.
Obituary Rev. DIR. John W. Broadus presi
dent of the Baptist theological seminary a
Louisville, in that city; aged II.
II. Fires: Rodgers 81 Co.. S elevator and ware
house burned in st. Louis; loss $2OO,OOO.
building occupied by newspaper and new
concerns burned at Cleveland: loss, $3.50,
O1O 8 men killed and o injured at thu
burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To
ledo.
Obituary Capt d. I. Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver.
IS. Fire: Business block burned at Ferry, "
T.; loss, 5000
10. Fire: ~ buildings burned in Burlington
VT; loss $3.50, 600
Obituary: Gen. Adam Badeau. Grants mill
tary secretary, biographer, etc., at Ridge
wood, N. j.; aged 65
90 Fire: A 500, 900 fire at Peoria, Ills.
| Obituary: Gen. Philip St. George Cooke
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; age'
49,
Disaster: 60 miners killed by an explosion a
Evanston, Wy.
Personal: Gen Neal Dow. the apostle of pro
hibition, celebrated his ninety first birth
day
| 81. Fires: $500, 900 worth of cotton burned il
the yards of the International Cotton press
New Orleans Warehouse and elevate
burned at Sioux City, Ia. loss, $40O,UOO.
Obituary: Prof Henry Coppee. LII. d., G
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. age
"A.
e | ~. Obituary Richard Naux, a prominent fnll
adelphian aged 70
%. Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. Jane
hotel, Denver.
"a. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas Cit
9 burned; loss, 81, 600 600. hotels, a churc
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
Political: Ii Hung Chang, China's peace Ell
voy, shot by Japanese in Simonoseki.
i q. Fire: 20 business houses and other propert
> burned i'll Milwaukee; loss, 81, 000 600.
a Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver, well know
+; mathematician at Cornell university, i
Ithaca, N. Y.
n g. Fires: Is buildings burned at st. Angus
: tine, Fla SO buildings burned at Canass
raga, n. Y. loss, sl35, 600.
e 90 Obituary Arson G. Hessing, noted Germa
4 editor, in Chicago; aged ~. Mrs Para
= Stevens, noted leader of society, III Me-
York city.
. APRIL.
e. Fire: The business portion Of the city {
: st. Charles destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000
Obituarys David NJ. Stone, formerly edito
o of The Journal of Commerce, in New Yor
;. city, aged rs.
{ Disaster: 5 workmen killed and injured
boiler explosion at Woburn, Mass
a g. Henry Harmon, noted abolitionist,
Danielsonville, Conn. aged 81. Rev. Bal
a ton II. Cartwright, a pioneer Methodist {
i the west, at Oregon, Ills; aged IS. JAG
, he yyealthiegt landhOlder i