The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-12-20
THE EVENTS OF A YEAR.
A Condensed Diary of the Past
Twelve Months.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1895.

Full List of Disasters by Land and Sea- So
cial, PhiIanthropic 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 been careiully
compiled for immediate or future refer
ence:
JANUARY.
r. Fires: 1925 900 damage at the residence OF
Hon. P. p Mast, Springfield, o. build
ings destroyed at Coffeyville, Kan. loss'
sos, 900.
Obituary: DR.. George Marx, famous ento'
mologist in Washington; aged 81.
4. Obituary: David 81. Craig the first general
manager of the Associated Press, at Asbury
Park. Il,
a. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and 9th
ers burned during a blizzard loss, over
s1OOOOOO several firemen killed.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. King, famous for aid
given to escaping slaves, in Gotham, Ont.
aged 80. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin-
guished Union veteran and congressman
from Illinois, in Washington aged 62
Political Uprising in Hawaii In the lnteres's
of the deposed queen.
O. Fires: Godey's flour mill and elevator
burned at Scottsville, N. y; loss, sl1o'oo'
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man, critic and dramatist, in Port Rich
mond N. Y; aged 49,
TO- Fires: The Osgoodby building and several
large business houses burned in Toronto;
loss. ST. 900. Factories Of the Wyeth
Hardware company burned at st. Joseph
Mo. loss, $15O,OOO
Obituary: Aaron l.. Denn1son the fatner Oh
American matchmaking, in Birmingham
W.
noted as leader of the Union ram fleet in
the Mississippi, at Ell Dorado, Kan.
H. Fire A 500, 900 blaze at GAINESVILLE, o.
Strike: Trolley motormen and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
L. Fire: StaGt theater, Milwaukee, da1nageo
to the amount of Sl2O,OO0.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. S. f. Chadwick OF Ore
gon, at Salon aged 70. Charles o. Leigh
active temperance leader, i'll Brooklyn;
aged 49,
Disaster: Explosion of several powder cars
at Butte, Mon; rs killed. 100 injured.
Political. President Casimir Perier of France
resigned
~ Obituary: Gen Israel N. Stiles, a Union
veteran prominent in public life in Chlca-
go: aged g. Col. John Kean, founder and
first president of the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey, in New York; aged 81.
Political: Francois Felix Faure elected presi-
dent of France.
Is. Criminal: Arrest and confession of Quig-
lev, the bond forger, in New York; amount
involved, $l44,OOO.
. 49, Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco
90 Obituary: Prof Augustus G. Merriam OF
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 81.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn.
e. Financial: The Merchants bank of Bling,
hamton and private bank of Erastus Ross
& Sons closed their doors.
o. Obituary: Charles Secretan, noted Swiss
philosopher at Lausanne; aged 81.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturers
association met at Cincinnati Mlhtia
fred on trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
ps. Obituary: DR.. Alfred l.. Loomis, noted
medical professor and practitioner, IN New
York city aged Ga Brig. Gen. Stephen V.
Benet, U. S. A, retired; aged 6S
a. Obituary: Lord Randolph Henry spencer
Churchill prominent English politician In
London; aged 40,
Criminal: Two masked men held up a train
on the Cotton road near Mcneil, Ark, and
plundered the express car of $4,000
25 Disaster: Five coal barges sunk in Long
Island sound; Il people drowned Inc
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck
ed on the Massachusetts, coast; 4 of the
crew drowned.
d. Obituary: NJ. de Giers, Russian minister OF
foreign affairs for many years at st. Pc
tersburg; aged Is. Gen. Francis Darr' a
prominent Union veteran, at Wayne Pa
aged 62.
fierce gale along the New England, Lons
Island and New Jersey coasts.
a. Obituary: Mrs Emma Il. Bostwick, 1.-THE
American Jenny Lind" at Morristown, n
j.; aged about 81,
g. Obituary: Canrobert, last marshal o.
France, in Paris; aged 30.
Storms Storm struck Galveston, capsizini
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
in Oklahoma.
%. Obituary. DR.. Jamin Strong widely known
authority on mental diseases, i'll Cleveland
aged 20,
30 Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with small steame
in the North sea and sunk with over ~
people.
b. Obituary: Judge Ebenezer lockwood Hoa
in Concord Mass: aged 70. Ward Meal
lister noted society leader, in New for
Convention: The twenty seventh annual con
yention of the American Womans Suffrag
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY.
8. Obituary: Theodore Dwight Welde, once
prominent antislavery agitator, at Hyd
Park, Mass. aged VI.
4. Fire: Phoenix Glass works burned at NC
naco, Pa. loss, $2OO,OOO
Obituary: Gen. MAILER ID. Manson, veteran c
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort
Ind; aged H. Gen. Rufus Barringer,
Confederate veteran, at Charlotte, N. o.
aged "a.
Disaster A trolley car plunged through a
open draw in Milwaukee; killed, 8 II
jured.
g. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehous
burned in Cincinnati; loss over 100000
500, 900 fire in the business district of LeiI
sic O.
Z. Fires: Denison hotel, Indianapolis, dan
aged by fire to the extent of sl65,OO;
death. A 500, OO0 blaze at Evansville, Ind
Personal: Gen. John NJ. Schofeld made lieu
tenant general.
g. Obituary: John l.. Stevens ex-minister {
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me-. aged "a. Rev
Dr. William Markoe Taylor, prominen
Presbyterian, in New York city, aged g.
Disaster: men run down by Pennsylvani
railroad express at Lucknow.
o. Fires: The union depot and hotel burne
at st. Joseph, Mo. 4; loss, $1,000. The Cor
gregational church burned at Wellington, I
Obituary: Prof. James r. Boise of the Oh
cago university, one of the most note
Greek scholars in the country, in Chicago
aged 80.
10. Fires: The Syndicate block burned IN Roci
ford Ills. SIS, 600 The state printing nous
burned at Harrisburg.
n Fire: A store and factory burned at Rocl
ford Ills loss, 500, 900.
Obituary: Judge Charles f. A. Gayarre oil
tinguished writer and historian IN Ne