The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01


IL. Crims: A Wells Fargo express wagon rob
bed ef $4,000 ia Colorado; the messenger
fatally wounded
II. Fire: Warehouse burned at Benicia, Colo. !.
Il. Fire: At P1attsburg. No., the courthouse
and all the buildings on one side of the
public square destroyed by fire: loss about
$500, 600. Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon, his loss nearly $3.50. 900.
Obituary: James W. Scott, editor and pub
Usher of the Chicago Times Herald, in New
York city; aged %. Prof. James Dwight
Dana Of Yale, at New Haven aged 80.
Is. Obituary: DR.. John P. Blaclnar, proni-
nent Prohibitionist. at Springfield, Mass.
Earthquake: Heavy shocks in Italy and Aus
tria.
L. Obituary: Hon. Leveritt Saltonsta1. prom
inent Democratic leader, at Brookline,
Mass.
Is. Obituary: R. C. Wickliffe, ex-governor of
Louisiana. at Shelbyville, KY. Granville
Perkins, the artist, in New York city; aged
So.
Young Woman g Christian association open
ed in Pittsburg.
g. Obituary: Charles z. Knox, the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged n.
20. Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered TIE cycling
record second in California by riding
mile in 2:04.
q. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons-
sur Marine, France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at 1000 COO
francs.
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the
novelist in Albany; aged 20.
%. Obituary: Albert Young, "grand patriarch
of the Romany people of the continent,
died at Ross Park, opposite st. Louis; he
was 81 years old.
"a Obituary; Col. Franklin Fairbanks, one OF
Vermont's most prominent citizens, at st.
Johnsbury.
Personal: Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Coils.
Zenos R. Bliss and John J. Coppinger were
promoted TO be brigadier generals
Miscellaneous: Nat Jones, veteran specu-
lator of the sBig Four" died in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, first wife of the well
known New York publisher, died at Sho-
kan, N. 7.
rs. Fire: The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; loss, $500, 900; several fatal
tiles; 25 persons injured.
Obituary: Henry h. Scott, prominent citi-
and leading Democrat Of San Francis
co, in that city.
20. Obituary: Levi B. Taft, an eminent Mich1-
gan jurist, at Pontiac; aged 70.
30. Obituary; Gustav Freitag, the popular Ger
man novelist, author Of ''Sou und Haben''
and other notable books, at Wiesbaden: aged
70.
1. Obituary: Maj. Gen. John Newton, distin-
guished soldier of the Mexican and civil
wars and engineer Of He'll Gate, in New
York city; aged ~. Gen. 8. B. Hayman, 3
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in
Houstonia, Mo. aged rs.
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
of the American Revolution began in Bos-
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
8. Disaster: American Powder company's
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up;
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by tornado; over $50 killed.
8. Obituary: James Kelly, Cook county pio-
neer and one of the founders of the Chica-
go Tribune, at winnetka, Ills.
8. Fires: New Carlisle, o., had $75, 600 fire.
Strauss g Sons tannery and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
$780, 900.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Robert s. Green Of New
ct a1,afl
2. Obituary: Field Marshal Gen. Won Pape, a
distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor Of Berlin, in that city; aged
50.
8. Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
Manchester, N. H; aged S.
Convention: The thirty first international
convention Y. NJ. G. A. of North America
met at Springfield, Mass.
8. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor OF the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city; aged 81.
10. Obituary: Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
in the Confederate army, at New Haven;
aged 81. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur-
geon general, q. s. A, in Washington;
aged 65.
IL. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Ira ]. Chase of Indiana,
at Lubec, Me. aged 81.
IL. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
ed a grain elevator and flour mill; loss,
$500, 600. AT Pratt City, Ala, the city hall,
hotel and church and 80 dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
Obituary Julius H. Seelye, ex-president of
Amherst cO116Ee, IN AnA0rSIs aBeQ a.
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior,
died at Fort Reno, o. T.
IA. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven-
ton of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
ISOLATION began in New York. Biennial
convention of the Order Of Railway Con-
ductors began in Atlanta.
16. Obituary: Duke of Hamilton, twelfth of
his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John J.
Almy, U. S. N, retired, in Washington; ;
aged 81. Peter II. Burnett, first governor
of California, in San Francisco: aged 81.
10. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in ST. Adams, Vt; loss, $3.50, 900.
Obituary: David S. s. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
N. Y; aged n. Hiram Barney, collector
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city; aged "a.
q. Fire: AT Angelica, N. Y, stores, opera
house and other property burned; loss,
500, co.,
Obituary: Franz Won Suppe, the "Austrian
Ofenbach,' - composer of 'fBoccaccio,' - etc,
in Vienna; aged IS. DR.. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
dren, in Chicago; aged IS.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal, of s, 100
pounds of nitroglycerin and 1900 pounds
Hercules powder; IA men killed; loss, $780,,
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared un-
constitutional by a vote of to 4. The
fifth annual reunion of the United Confed-
crate veterans convened at Houston, Tex.
"a. Obituary Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of treasury 1855 to 1869, at Washington; ;
aged 81.
26 Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse own
er and capitalist, Kerrville, Tex.
q. Obituary: Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged IS.
%. Fire: SO business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo. loss, $780, 900.
Obituary: Walter QuintOn Gresham, secre-
tary of state, at Washington: aged So.
Conventions: The SEVENTEEN anniversary
meeting of the American Unitarian asso-
citation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty first ami
versary convention at Saratoga.
Shipwreclzs: Pacific Mail steamer Coli1na ran
upon reef off Manzanillo, Mex, during
gale; 1876 persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked off the Spanish coast;
100 lives lost