Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29
TIE EVENTS OF YEAR.
"A Condensed Diary of the Past
 Es.ls Twelve Months. :,
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1895.

Full List of Disasters by Land and Sea, So- cInl, Philanthropic and Religious Gath- erings, Political and Personal Events, the Obituary Roll and Index of Every thing Worth Noting.
 The following record of the leading events of the year 1895 has beon carefully compiled for immediate or future refer ence:
 JANUARY. B. Fires: s225 900 damage at the residence of Hon. P. P. Mast, Springfield, o. build ings destroyed at Coffeyville, Kan: loss, Sl05000.
 Obituary: Dr. George Marx, famous ento- mologist in Washington; aged 55. 5. Obituary: David H. Craig, the first general manager of the Associated Press, at Asbury Park
 3. Fires: Tho Toronto Globe building and oth CTS burned during blizzard; loss, over Sl,000,000; several firemen killed. Obituary; Rev. Dr. King, famous for aid given to escaping slaves, in Clotham, Ont. aged 62. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin- guished Union veteran and a congressman from Illinois, in Washington; aged 62. Political: Uprising in Hawaii in the interests of the deposod queen.
 0. Fires: Godey's four mill and elevator burned at scottsville. N. Y. loss, $l25. 900. Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper man, critic and dramatist in Port Rich mond, N. Y.; aged 40. 10. Fires: The Osgoodby building and several large business houses burned in Toronto; loss, $1.0o0.00O Factories of the Wycth Hardware company burned at St. Joseph, Mo. loss, $15O. 600.
 Obituary Aaron L. Dennison, the father of American matchmaking, in Birmingham, England; aged 83. Gen. Alfred w. Ellet, tod nf Inc mi in, the Mississippi, at Fl Dorado, Kan. IA Fire: A S100 GOO blaze at Gainesville, O. Strike: Trolley motormen and conductors struck in Brooklyn.
 15. Fire Stadt theater, Milwaukee, damaged to the amount of s120,000.
 Obituary: Ex-Gov. s. F. Chadwick of Ore gon, at Salem; aged 70. Charles C. Leigh, active temperance leader, in Brooklyn; aged 82.
 Disaster: Explosion of several powder cars at Butte, Mon; 70 killed. 100 injured. Political President Casimir- Perier of France resigned.
 i7 Obituary: Gen. Israel N. Stiles. Q Union veteran prominent in public life in Chica- go; aged 62 Col John Kean, founder and first president of tho Central Railroad of New Jersey, in New York; aged S1. Political Francois Felix Faure elected presi- dent of France.
 IS. Criminal: Arrest and confession of Quig- ley, the bond forger, in New York; amount
 
 lo Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco. 20 Obituary: Prof. Augustus c. Merriam of Columbia college, at Athens; aged 52 Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
 p1 Financial: The Merchants bank of Bing. hamton and private bank of Erastus Ross & Sons closed their doors 22 Obituary: Charles Secretan, noted Swiss philosopher, at Lausanne; aged 80. Miscellaneous; The National Manufacturers association met at Cincinnati. Militia fired on trolley strikers in Brooklyn. 23 Obituary: Dr. Alfred L. Loomis noted medical professor and practitioner, in New York city; aged e4. Brig. Gen. Stephen V. Benet, U. s. A., retired; aged 6S. N Obituary; Lord Randolph Henry Spencer London aged 49. Criminal: Two masked men held up train on the Cotton road near McNeil, Ark, and plundered the express car of $25000. s. Disaster: Five coal barges sunk in Long Island sound; 12 people drowned. The Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck ed on tho Massachusetts coast; of the crew drowned.
 H. Obituary; M. de Giers, Russian minister of foreign affair." for many years, at St. Pe- tersburg; aged 75. Gen. Francis Darr @ prominent Union veteran at Wayne, Pa. aged 62.
 A fierce gale along the New England, Long Island and New Jersey coasts. v. American Jenny Lind, " at Morristown, N J.. aged about 80.
 8. Obituary: Canrobert, last marshal of France, in Paris aged S5
 Storms: Storm struck Galveston, capsizing several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard in Oklahoma.
 p. Obituary: Dr. Jamin Strong, widely known authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland; aged 70.
 30. Disaster Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
 -A1z in the North and sunk with over 300 people. Bl. Obituary: Judge Ebenezer Redwood Hoar in Concord, Mass: aged 7o Ward McAl- lister. noted society leader, in New York city.
 Convention: The twenty seventh annual con vention of the American Woman's Suffrage association began at Atlanta.
 FEBRUARY. B. Obituary: Theodore Dwight Welde. once a prominent antislavery agitator, at Hyde Park. Mass. I; aged e1.
 {. Fire: Phoenix Glass works burnee at Mo naco, Pa. 1; loss $200, 900.
 Obituary Gen. Mahler D. Manson, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort, Ind; aged 73. Gen. Rufus Barringer. Confederate veteran, at Charlotte N. O.; aged "A.
 Disaster: A trolley car plunged through an open draw in Milwaukee, killed, in- jured.
 5. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehouse burned in Cincinnati; loss over $500,0O0 A $100, GOO fire in the business district of Leip- sic, o.
 2. Fires: Denison hotel, Indianapolis, dam aged by fire to the extent of $l65, 900; death. A s100.000 blaze at Evansville, Ind Personal Gen. John M. Schofeld made lieu tenant general
 8. Obituary: John L. Stevens, ex-minister to Hawaii, at Augusta, Me-; aged "A. Rev. Dr. William Martoe Taylor, prominent Presbyterian, in New York city; aged 68. Disaster: men run down by Pennsylvania railroad express at Lecknow. g. Fires: The union depot and hotel burned at St. Joseph, Mo. ; loss s275, 900. The Con gregational church burned at Wellington,O Obituary: Prof. James R. Boise of the Chi cago university, one of the most noted Greek scholars in the country, in Chicago; aged 50.
 10. Fires: The Syndicate block burned in Rock ford Ills. S75, 900. The state printing house burned at Harrisburg. Il. Fire: A store and factory burned at Rock ford Ills. loss, $l00, 900.
 Obituary: Judge Charles E. A. Gayarre, dis tinguished writer and historian in New Orleans; aged %. Judge Charles L. Walker. prominent writer and lawyer. at Detroit; aged 8l. Gen. Montgomery Corse, Confed- crate veteran at Alexandria, Va. aged 70. 0