Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-31
THE EVENTS OF AYEAR.
A condensed Diary of the Past
Twelve Months.

a Condensed Diary OF the Past
Twelve Months.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1895.
Hsll List Of Disasters By Land and See, So
eiaJ. PhiIanthropic and Rsligious Gath
ssfnga. Political and Personal Evsnts,
the Obituary Roll and Indsx Of Every
thing Worth Netiag.
The following record Of the leading
events Of the year 1895 has been carefully
compiled for immediate or future refer
ence:
JANUARY.
q Fires: s2.5. 900 damage at the residence 81
Hon. P. p. Mast, Springfield, o. build
inGs destroyed at Co6eyville. Kan: loss.
Obituary: DR.. George Marx, famous ento.
mologist in Washington: aged IS.
& Obituary: David b. Craig, the first general
manager Of the Associated Press. at Asbury
Park.
g. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and 9TH
ers burned during . blizzard: loes, over
$1,000. 900; several dremen killed.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. King. famous for aid
given to escaping slaves. in Gotham, Ont
aged e.. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin-
guished Union veteran and q congressman
from Illinois, in Washington: aged &c.
Political: Uprising in Hawaii in the interests
OF the deposed queen.
.. Fires: Godey's flour mill and elevator
burned at Scottsville, n. Y; loss, xl25, coo.
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. 100000. Factories Of the wyeth
Hardware company burned at st. Joseph,
Mo-. loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Aaron L. Dennison, the father of
American matchmaking, in Birmingham.
England; aged 50. Gen. Alfred ". Ellet.
noted As leader Of the Union ram fleet in
the Mississippi, at FL Dorado, Kan.
II. Fire: A 500, 600 blaze at GAINESVILLE, O.
Strike: Trolley mOtormen and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
Is. Fire: Stadt theatcr, Milwaukee, damaged
to the amount OF $40, 600.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. 8. f. Chadwick Of Orc
gon. at Salem: aged 20. Charles c. Leigh.
active temperance leader, in Brooklyn
aged g.
Disaster: Explosion Of several powder cars
at Butte. Mon. IS killed. 100 injured.
Political: President Casimir-Pcrier of France
resigned.
Il. Obituary: Gen. Israel N. Stiles, a Union
veteran prominent in public life in Chica-
go; aged 81. Col. John Kean, founder and
hrst president Of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey. in New York; aged 81.
Political: Francois Felix Faure elected presi-
dent Of France.
lS. Criminal: Arrest and confession Of OuiR-
ley, the bond forger, in New York; amount
involved, $l4i,OOO.
10. Fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco.
70. Obituary: Prof. Augustus C. Merriam of
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 52.
Labor Trouble: Riotsng by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn.
q. Financial: The Merchants bank Of Bina.
hamton and private bank Of Erastus Ross
Il Sons closed their doors.
2. Obituary: Charles Secretan. noted Swiss
philosopher. at Lausanne; aged 50.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturer
association met at Cincinnati. Militia
fired ON trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
q. Obituary: DIR. Alfred L. LOOMS, noted
medical professor and practitioner. in New
York city: aged 81. Brig. Gen. stephen v.
Benet. L. &. A., retired aged %.
n. Obituary: Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Churchill, prominent English politician. in
London; aged 70.
Criminal: Two masked men held up train
on tho Cotton road near Mcneil. Ark, and
plundcrcd the express car Of $4,000.
3. Disaster: Five coal barges sunk I'm Long
Island sound; ]: people drowned. The
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck.
ed on the Massachusetts, coast; Of the
crew drowned.
-. Obituary: N. de Gicrs, Russian minister Of
foreign AFFAIRS for many years, at 81. Pc
tersburg: aged IS. Gen. Francis Darr. .
prominent Union veteran. At Wayne. Pa. !;
aged g..
A fierce gale along the New England, Long
Island and New Jersey coasts.
q. Obituary: Mrs. Emma g. Bostwicl. "the
American Jenny Lind" at Morristown, N.
j.. aged about 70.
q. Obituary: Canrobert, last marshal Of
France, in Paris; aged s.
Storms: Storm struck Galveston, capsizinR
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
in Oklahoma.
.. Obituary: Dr.. Jamin Strong, widely known
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland;
aged 20.
30. Disaster: Steamship Elbe Of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with . small steamer
In the North see and sunk with over 500
people.
VI. Obituary: Judge Ebenezef lockwood Hosr
in Concord, Mass: aged 20. Ward Meal
lister, noted society leader, In New York
city.
Convention: The twenty seventh annual con.
vention OF the American Woman's Suffrage
association began ut Atlanta
FEBRUARY.
3. Obituary: Theodore Dwight welde, once a
prominent antislavery agitator, at HYDE
Park. Mass aged Of.
Fire: Phoenix Glass works burned at No
naco, Pa. loss, $4,000
Obituary: Gen. Mailer d. Manson vetersn of
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort,
Ind; aged %. Gen. Rufus Barringer.
Confederate veteran. ut Charlotte, N. c. !;
aged "a.
Disaster: A trolley car plunged through an
open draw in Milwaukee; killed, 6 in.