Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29

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 21. Fire: Town of BagwelI, Tex. destroyed bs1 fire; loss elo0, GOO. Obituary: Gen Thomas c. Pitcher, U. s. k.s retired, ct Fort Rayard, N. M.; aged n. Ashael Clark Kendrick, D. D., u. D.. not ed Greek scholar. at Rochester; aged S6. Oliver Ames. ex-governor of Massachusetts, in North Easton: aged 64. %. Fire: 40 buildings destroyed in Madison. Wis. loss, s150000
 Obituary: Signor Bought, celebrated Italian nuthor, scholar and statesman, at Naples; aged CT.
 N. Obituary: Ex-U. s. Senator Charles H. Van Wyck of Nebraska, in Washington; aged 71. 26- Obituary: Charles Halle, noted pianist, in Manchester; aged 76. H. Lynching mob fired upon by militia ct Tiffin. O.; g killed. | 28. 10 inches of snow fell at Negaunee. Mich. | 30. Fire: Lagonda hotel burned at Springfield, O.: loss. s100.000. At Columbus, Ga. the girls high school and Il residences were burned
 NOVEMBER. { l. Criminal: Durant convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont at San Francisco. g. Criminal: Holmes convicted of the murder of Pitezel.
 8. Disaster: killed and 25 or 30 injured in o wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio near Wheeling.
 {. Fire: business blocks burned at Decatur, Ills. loss s250, 900 to S300,0 Obituary Eugene Field, the popular journal ist and verse writer, in Chicago: aged 45. 5. Fire: The Empire bank and Manhattan Savings bank burned in New York city; 20 firemen injured: loss, S750.00 Obituary: William Libby, former partner of A. T. Stewart in New York city: aged "A Rachel Cantor, the oldest living actress in. tho United States, at Worcester; aged 85. 6. Obituary: Mrs. D. P. Bowers, well known actress, at Washington; aged 65 Disaster: 40 killed and % wounded by an. explosion ip Detroit. The Evening JournaH office wrecked; loss, S60 900. Personal: Duke of Marlborough married to Consuelo vapderbilt in New York. The Erie railway sold under foreclosure for S20, 000, 600.
 2. Obituary: Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, U. 8. N., in Washington; aged 7S. Thirty third congress of the Society For the, Advancement of Women met in New Or Sporting: The single scull race for the worlds championship won by Gaudaur at- Austin, Tex.
 8. Obituary: Dr. Robert Battey, originator of the "Battey operation" in surgery, at Rome. Ga. aged 67. w. Rhode Hill, not ed citizen of Atlanta, in that city aged 63. l2. Obituary: Henry G. Ashton, inventor of the Ashton safety valve, at Somerville, Mass. aged 49.
 Personal: The eightieth birthday of Eliza beth Cady Stanton celebrated by large gathering in New York.
 Miscellaneous: The thirteenth Baptist con gress of the United States opened at Provi- dence.
 i5. A daughter born to the czar and czarina of Russia.
 I6. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, author. of America. " in Boston; aged ST. Disaster; An electric car fell into a draw at Cleveland; 19 deaths. r. Fires: A $500. 600 fire at Meridian, Miss. Bauner brewery burned at Cincinnati. IS. Fire: B2,000 barrels of naphthn burned at Whiting, Ind. 3 deaths. 19. Fire: Factory building burned at Dallas, Tex. loss, T5,000.
 Obituary: Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, at Rome; aged 67. %. Fire: The Parker block burned at Lowell, Mass. loss, S220,0 900. Obituary Rustem Pasha, Turkish embassa- dor to Great Britain, in London. 2l. Fire: l7 firms burned out in Chicago fire and many lives imperiled: loss. $500, 900. Obituary Sir Henry Ponsonby, private sec- retary to Queen Victoria, at Cowes Eng land: aged TO- r. Miscellaneous: Calvert Vsux, noted Ameri- can landscape architect, found drowned in New York bay. Verdict of not guilty in the sensational Hannigan murder trial in New York.
 22. Fire: deaths in fire in the Dry Goods and Woolen Exchange building in Chicago,- loss, s400.0OO.
 28. Obituary: M. Bartholcmy Saint Hilaire, prominent in French literature, in Paris: aged 90.
 Obituary: Maurice Frederick De Haas, noted marine artist, in New York city; aged 63. Edwin A. Meyers, a veteran newspaper man of Pittsburg, in that city: aged O. Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at New York score 20 to TO- Pennsylvania defeated Harvard at football by a score of F to IA. 25. Disaster: Fl deaths by an explosion of car tridges at Barcelona, Spain. Convention: The eighth annual session of the Transmississtpi congress began in Oma- ha; 24 states and territories represented. H Obituary: Alexandre Dumas, noted French writer and author of ''Camille, !" in Paris; aged Fl. Rev octavius Brooks Frothing ham, noted Unitarian, in Boston; aged 73. S Obituary: Gen. Thomas Jordan, promi- nent ex-Confederate and Mexican veteran, in New York city; aged 78. Sporting Pennsylvania defeated Cornell at football ip West Philadelphia scoro, 46 o2 20 Obituafys Count Won Taafe, Austrian statesman, in Bohemia: aged 62. Disaster: Explosion at the lilly Foster mines near Carmel N. Y.; killed and Il injured.
 DECEMBER. O. l. Obituary: James Harvey Partridge, cdu- cator and author. at Cranford. N. J.; aged ?. Congress opened.
 B. Obituary: Capt. Oscar Taylor, Union veteran who captured Mosby the guerrilla. in New York.
 Personal: Rufus ". Peckham appointed jus tice of United States court. Fire: z mercantile firms burned out i1 In- dianapolis; loss, $40O, 600; firemen killed. {. The Empire State express, Now York Gen. tral railway, broke the record between New York and Buffalo, making the schedule time e315 miles an hour. 6. Personal: w. E. H. Leclky the historian, elected to the house of commons for the Dublin university.
 Fire Fire broke out in the U. s. assay of- flee with s2,0o0, 600 in gold bars lying loose and s21, ,0e0, 900 in the vaults damage slight. 9. Fifteenth annual convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor opened in New York city.
 l9. Centennial of American commercial liberty, celebration.
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