Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-01
Commercial Troubles, Deaths, Important Con
ventions Noted IN Review Of 1894.
.JANUARy.


in Detroit; loss, $3.50, 900.
T. Obituary: Harry Kennedy, song writer and
ventriloquist, in Brooklyn. Elizabeth Pea
body, pioneer in education and reform, in
Boston; aged 80.
s. Fire: A granite block in Worcester, Mass.
burned; loss, $4,000.
Collision between troops and rioters in Sici
ly; 40 rioters killed
Obituary: Benton j. Hall, well known Iowa
lawyer, at Burlington, Ia. ;aged 50.
g. Fires: The cyclorama of Gettysburg burned
at Niagara Falls. The Albany theater
burned at Albany; loss. $l25, coo.
Obituary: DIR. Clinton Cavendish, English
4 traveller and scientist, at San Antonio, Tex;
aged So.
g. Fire: Chicago Worlds fair buildings; loss
about 81, 100000. sNssse
o. Obituary: Rev. Father Patrick a. lean,a
prominent Romanist. at Hobcgens n. u;
aged 50.
TO- Fire: Factory Of the Starr Manufacturing
company, at Richmond Ind. totally de-
stroyed by fire; loss, $250,0OO. q
j Obituary: Rear Admiral Donald Mc1yeil
Fairfax, U. s. N, retired, at Hagerstown.
Nd; aged 70. Frank Bolles, well known
81 as an author and secretary Of Harvard
university, in Boston.
II. Obituary: Mrs. William M. Thackeray.
widow Of the novelist, at Leigh, England;
!. aged rs.
10. Fires: Tinkham's wooden mills at Harri-
sonville, r. l., burned: loss, 900. Three
blocks burned at Ipswich, Mass. loss,
100000
British troops defeated 1900 Sofas in Sierra
Leone; $50 Sofas killed.
IA. Fire: The Syndicate block, )" Minneapolis.
damaged $4,000 by fire.
disaster: sailors Of the Dutch steamer
Amsterdam drowned while attempting to
rescue the crew of sinking schooner in
the Atlantic.
Is. Disaster: In teescoping collision on the
D., L. and W. at Hackensack meadows, N.
j., II persons were killed, 30 injured.
II. Obituary: Gen. William H. Forney, Con
federate veteran, superintendent of Gettys
burg battlefield, at Admission, Ala. aged a.
49, Obituary: George Bartlett Prescott, author
and electrician, in New. York; aged Ga.
TO- Obituary: John Haley Spears, an associate
OF Lincoln, at Jacksonville; aged 90. Elk
Governor William Castor of Massachusetts,
III Boston; agedA.
20. Obituary Helen A. Shafer president Of
Wellesley college, at Wellesley, Mass. aged
81 Eugene Nus French dramatistS in
Paris; aged rs. Ex-Governor William Gil
pin of Colorado, at Denver; aged 81. Gen
Emile Mellinet, French veteran Of the
wars of the first and second empires, at
Nantes; aged %.
g2 Obituary: Constance Fenimore Woolson
Fenimore Cooper's grandniece. at Nice
Italy; aged 46.
%. Fire: Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind.
almost destroyed Dy uTcs lOSS, PlOo,VVV.
Obituary: Laura Schirmer Mapleson, the
singer, in New York; aged 49,
Twenty-fo annual convention of the ma
tional board of trade in Washington.
"a. Fire: The Sherman oil and cotton mill at
Sherman, Tex, burned; loss, 100000.
Obituary: d. W. Irwin prominent business
man Of Chicago, in that city; aged "a.
25. Fire: Res idence of Senator Palmer at
Springfield, Ills. destroyed.
Miscellaneous: sTimbuktu entered by French
troops Corbett, defeated Mitchell for the
worlds championship at Jacksonville
q. Obituary: Rosna VOkes. actress, IN Tor
= quay, England; aged 40.
Fire: $50O,0C0 fire at Bath Me-, which de-
\stroyed hotel, 3 banks and several stores.
ntuary Cavelier, celebrated French sculp-
in Paris; aged 50.
FEBRUARY.
famous war corvet Kearsarg9 wreck
Roncador reef
In Omaha stores. a CatholicSchurch
schoolhouse destroyed; loss, ss'5O0o0.
lgton, Del, the Brandywlne hili
a; loss $150,000.
Ky: Ann Hathaway, the actress, Nm in
lapolis; aged &c. George W. ClAllds,
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledgef' IN
iladelphia; aged 65. \
bituary: Morton S. Wilkinson, ex UniVed
tates senator from Minnesota, IN WetiS'
Finn; aged IS.
Obituary: l.. Schofeld, pioneer manufac-
turer of iron rails in the south at Chpltta-
nooga; aged 90. Harry Watkins, actor ana
playwright, in New York city.
6. Fire: AT Dublin, Tex. cotton compress
burned; loss, $3.50, 600.
Obituary: Gen. Jacob Ammen, pr3bminent
Union veteran, at Yorkland, O.; tged o.
Dr. Theodore Billroth distinguished Ger
man surgeon. near Vienna; aged e.
2. Fires II stores and Offices burned at Mont
gomery, Mo- loss, $130, 900. AT Pirfe Ridge
agency, S. D., the Ogalalla India1a scnooi
binding destroyed; loss, $4,000.
8, Obituary: r. NJ Ballantyne, Engltsh writ,
er of stories of adventure, at Rome; aged
50. j. G. Weaver, popular landlo1d OF New
port and New York, in New York city. Ut.
Gustave Leipnitz, a well knowFl character
on the coast in San Francisfo; aged @:
Col. John R. Baylor, a Texan pioneer anu
noted Indian fighter. near a'n AnSonlo'
aged r.
.. Fire: 2tobscco factories burTied at Hender'
= son, KY; loss, 100000.
4 y ituAfs. Maxine du Cagap, noteo FRENCH
10. Obituary: A.rlAham k4ottlieb, wen known
architectural and bridge engineer, in Chi
cago; aged S. Vicar General Thomas A.
Casey. wealthy and charitable priest, at
Erie, Pr
II. Fires: wapa- Koneta, o. w., 100000 worth
of business property. Colts firearms fac
tory near Hartford damaHed to the extent
of S250, Co.,. At Duluth eNboard OF trade
building was burned; loss so, 600.
Destructive storm in Mississippi and Louisi'
ana.
+ Obituary: Gen. L. B. Northrup, prominent
ex-Confederate, at Baltimore; aged g.
Il. A blizzaf&1f rain and snow prevailed from
New England to Nebraska.
H. Fires: The Bath Iron works. at Bath, Me-,
damaged to the extent Of $l50,00a. hotels
III burned ard the new co1rthousp damaged
at San Antonio, Tex. loss, 100000.
s. Disaster: A cavein at the Gaylord mine,
Plymouth, Pa, imprisoned 10 miners in .
a gangway.
Obituary Homer Ramsdell, ex-presfdent q
4 the New York and Erie railroad, r. New
AN burg, N. X. :nged So. Hans Won BID low, ne =.
1 celebrated pianist, at Cairo, EgypH age e -.
il Obituary. Gen. Edward Hincks, civl 1s Mar
Y Ayeteran, 1t cambridge, Mass Is. ~ ~. e
n Bradwell, editor Of The Legal - G a..t.
~ first woman lawyer in Him = =
III VI: aged 3d. &1 ira at Fort
yn1erature 40 degrees b>loYs =
- Hes aOneonta, N. r, the sase r1 no ronds
sdsoI fom, about $4,000 Ahnrned n
stA and several tenements
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