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

electrical engineer, Killed by a SnOCR III nlS
cellar at Great harrington, Mass.
Disaster: 3 killed and IL injured by runa-
way trolley at Pittsburg
II. Obituary: Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes, prom
inent Union general in 1862 at Nice,
France: aged s.. Clara Doty Bates, the
authoress, in Chicago. Andrew J. Mould
err pioneer educator of San Francisco, In
that city; aged CD.
L. Obituary Franklin Davis, well known
and most successful nurseryman, at Wav-
erly, Md aged GO.
10. Personal: Gen. John Gibbon elected com
mander in chief Military Order of the 10y.
al legion
II. Fire: At Champaign, Ills, Empire Cordags
mill destroyed by fire: loss, 100000.
49, Fires: At Manchester, O., 60 stores, 20
dwellings, churches, 2 banks and Masonic
hall burned; loss, $l50,0OO. A 900 fire
in New Orleans. Fire swept blocks in
Creole, Colo, and destroyed property valu
The national ". c. T. U. convened in Balti-
more.
10. Fire: Atlanta suffered loss of 500, 900 by
fire.
Obituary: John W. Mackay, Jr., killed while
racing in France.
20. Fire: 9 squares burned in New Orleans;
1000 people homeless; loss nearly $50OOO0.
Obituary: Henry Augustus Loop, well known
artist, at Lake George; aged GA. Rachael
Elan, the first woman settler in Chicago.
died in that city.
81. Fire. Town of Bagwell. Tex, destroyed by
fire. loss s10O, 0OO
Obituary: Gen. Thomas g. Pitcher, U. S. A.,
retired, at Fort Bayard N. M; aged II.
Ashael Clark Kendrick, D. D., LII. D., not
ed Greek scholar, at Rochester; aged 80.
Oliver Ames. ex-governor OF Massachusetts,
in North Easton; aged GA.
22. Fire: 40 buildings destroyed in Madison.
Wis. loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Signor Bought, celebrated Italiaa
author, scholar and statesman, at Naplea;
aged g.
"a. Obituary: Ex-U s. Senator Charles 81. Van
Wick Of Nebraska, in Washington; aged H.
25. Obituary: Charles Halle, noted pianist, in
Manchester; aged 70.
n. Lynching mob fired upon by militia al
Tiffin, o.; killed
g. 10 inches of snow fell at Negaunee, Mich.
80. Fire: Lagonda hotel burned at Springfield.
O.; loss, 100000. At Columbus, Ga. tbs
girls high school and II residences were
burned.
1. Criminal: Durant convicted Of the murder
of Blanche Lamont at San Francisco.
| 2. Criminal: Holmes convicted Of the murdec
| of Pitezel.
8. Disaster: killed and 25 or 80 injured in
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio near
| Wheeling.
| L. Fire: business blocks burned at Decatur,
Ills. /; loss, $3.50, 900 to 100000.
Obituary: Eugene Field, the popular journal
ist and verse writer, in Chicago; aged 45.
g. Fire The Empire bank and Manhattan
Savings bank burned in New York city u
fremen injured: loss, $75O,OOO.
Obituary: William Libby, former partner OF
A. T. Stewart in New York city; aged "a.
Rachel Cantor, the Oldest living actress in
the United States at Worcester; aged 3d.
6. Obituary: Mrs D. p. Bowers, well known
actress, at Washington; aged 10.
| Disaster: 40 killed and 20 wounded by an
explosion in Detroit. The Evening Journal
office wrecked; loss 100000.
Personal: Duke of Marlborough married to
Consuelo Vanderbilt in New York.
The Erie railway sold under foreclosure fer
$50 100000.
T. Obituary: Rear Admiral Robert wilson
| Shufeldt U. S. N, in Washington; aged 49,
| Thirty third congress of the Society For the
Advancement of Women met in New Or
leans.
Sporting The single scull race for the
world S championship won by Gaudaur az
Austin, Tex. -~------.
8. Obituary: DR. Robert Battey, originator Of
the "Battey operatcn" i'll surgery, at
Rome, Ga aged 81 u. Rhode Hill, a not
| ed citizen of ATTAIN, that city; aged %.
IL. Obituary: Henry u. Ashton, inventor OF
the Ashton safety valve, at Somervllle,
Mass. aged 49,
Personal: The eightieth birthday of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton celebrated by a larga
gathering in New York.
Miscellaneous The thirteenth Baptist con
gress of the United States opened at Provi
dence.
10. A daughter born to the car and czarina Of
Russia.
l6. Obituary: Rev. DR.. Samuel Smith, author
of America, " in Boston; aged 81.
Disaster: An electric car fell into draw al
Cleveland; 10 deaths.
II, Fires: A 900 fire at Meridian, Miss
Banner brewery burned at Cincinnati.
49, Fire. 80, 900 barrels of naphtha burned a
Whiting, Ind. 3 deaths.
49, Fire Factory building burned at Dallas
Tex; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson o.
Lucien, at Rome; aged 81.
90 Fire: The Parker block burned at Lowell
Mass loss, $22O000
Obituary: liustem Pasha, Turkish embassa
dor to Great Britain, in London
81. Fire. II firms burned out in Chicago fr'
and many lives imperiled: loss $5OO,OOO
Obituary Sir Henry Ponsonby privat &c
rotary to Queen Victoria, at Cowes, -
land; aged 20.
Miscellaneous: Calvert Vaux, noted Ameri
can landscape architect, found drowned il
New York bay Verdict of not guilty il
the sensational Hannigan murder trial il
New York.
o. Fire. deaths in a fire in the Dry Good
and Wooden Exchange building in Chicago
loss, $4OOOOU.
g. Obituary ID. Bartholemy Saint Hilaire
prominent in French literature, in Paris
aged 80.
Obituary: Maurice Frederick De Haas, noteC
marine artist, in New York city; aged 60
Edwin A. Meyers, veteran newspaper
man of Pittsburg, in that city; aged 62.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at New
: York; score 20 to 10. Pennsylvania defeated
Harvard at football by a score Of II to IA.
70. Disaster: II deaths by an explosion of car
tridges at Barcelona, Spain.
Convention: The eighth annual session Of
the Transmissssipi congress began in Oma
ha; "a states and territories represented.
a. Obituary: Alexandra Dumas, noted French
writer and author of Camille, " in Paris
aged II. Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothing
ham, noted Unitarian, in Boston; aged 70.
} g. Obituary: Gen. Thomas Jordan, promi
, nent ex-Confederate and Mexican veteran
in New York city; aged 76.
Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornell al
football in West Philadelphia; score, 40 to
%. Obituary: Count Won Taafe, Austrian
statesman, in Bohemia; aged 81.
Disaster: Explosion at the lilly Foster mines
near Carmel, N. Y: 9 killed and II injured
, DECEMBER.
l. Obituary: James Harvey Partridge, edu
I Gator and author, at Crawford, N. j.; aged
IS.
2 Congress opened.