Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-01

Obituary: Dr. George Marx, famous ento
mologst in Washington; aged So.
6. Obituary David II. Craig, the first general
manager Of the Associated Press, at Asbury
Park
6. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and 9th
ers burned during blizzard; loss, over
81 100000; several Aremen killed.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. King famous for all
given TO escaping slaves, in Gotham, Ont. /;
aged 81. Gen. Philip Sidney Post. n distin
guished Union veteran and Congressman
from Illinois, in Washington: aged 81 -'.
Political: Uprising III Hawaii i'll the Interests
of the deposed queen.
Q. Fires: Godey's -four min and elevator
burned at Scottsville, NY: loss, Sl25, 900,
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man. critic and dramatist,t in Port Rich
mond, N. Y; aged 40.
TO- Fires; The Osgoodby building and several
large business houses burned in Toronto;
loss. si,ooo,0oo. Factories. Of the wyeth
Hardware company burned at st. Joseph.
No loss, $4,000
Obituary: Aaro1I.- Dennison, the father Of
American Matchmaking, in Birmingham,
England; aged 81 Cen Alfred W. Ellet,
noted as leader OF the Union ram feet in
the Mississippi, at FL Dorado Kan.
H. Fire A $40, 90 blaze at GAINESVILLE, o.
Strike: Trolley motormen and conductors
struck In Brooklyn.
to the amount of $4,000.
Obituary: Ex-tioy. S. r. Chadwick of Ore
gon, at Salem; aged 10. Charles c. Leigh.
active Temperance leader, in Brooklyn;
aged s..
Disaster: Explosion Of several powder cars
atButte, Mon: 70 killed. 100 injured.
Political; Presidente'asimr-Pe rer OF France
resigned.
L.; obituary Gen. Israel N. Stiles, Union
veteran prominent ia public life in Chiea-
g6f aged g. Col. John Kean, founder and
firsEpEesident of the Central Railroad of
Newsf fsey. in New York; aged 81.
F'olitiahicrF francois Felix Faure elected presi-
dent Of France.
Is Crimipsh: Arrest and confession of Quig
ley, the bond forser, in New York: amount
involved, sIsi000.
H. Fire; Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco
2us Obituary; Prof. Augustus G. Merriam Of
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 81.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn.
81 Financial: The Merchants bank of Bing
hamton and private bank of Erastus Ross
& Sons closed their doors
20. Obituary Charles Secretan, noted Swiss
philosopher, at Lausanne: aged 81.
MiscellaHspus; Ihe National Manufacturers
assoc ~ IAft ~ Cincinnati. Militia
3D. obitusry Dn Alfred l.. Loonis noted
medical professor and practitioner. in New
York City; aeea Of, Brig Gen. Stephen V.
& Benet, & S. AZ 1T ;ed aged q.
sEaObituary Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
s txlhurclill. prominent English politician, in
= lhdon aged 49,
Nr1Eisal: Tspmaskcd men held up train
3$fa the Cotton road near Mcneil. Ark, and
hiiliered theuxpress ear of $500
p. DIsas.er; Five coal parges sunk in Long
Island sound: gpeaple drowned. The
ed on the Massachus Fss coast; of the
crew drowned.
&c. Obituary; 4. de Giers, Russian minister OF
foreign affairs for many years, at St Pc
tersburg; aged 10 Gen. Francis Darr, q
promiren. Union veteran, at Wayne, Pa. !;
q aged g.
IA fierce gale along the New England, Long
y Island and View Jersey coasts.
q. Obituary Mrs. Emma G.. Bostwiek, "the
American Jenny Lind, at Morristown, n.
j.. aged about 80.
%. Obituary; Canrobert, last marshal Of
France, in Paris; aged IS.
Storms Storm strucl, Galveston, capsizing
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard
III Oklahoma
%. Obituary; DR.. Jamn Strong, widely known
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland;
aged 20.
80. Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with small steamer
in the North sea and sunk with over 800
people.
81. Obituary: Judge Ebenezcr lockwood Hoar
in Concord Mass. aged 70. Ward Neal
lister, noted society leader, in New York
city.
Convention The twenty seventh annual CON
:. .yention of the American Woman S Suffrage
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY.
g. Obituary; Theodore Dwight Welde once a
prominent artislavery agitator, at Hyde
Park. Mass. aged 81.
I. Fire sPhRnix Glass works burned at Mo
naeo, Pa. loss, $4,000.
Obituary GEM Mailer d. Manson, veteran OF
the Mexh.rT and civil wars, at Frankfort.
liil..s aged 70. Gen. Rufus Barringer. a
"a, Confederate. veteran, at Charlotte n. c.;
'sSaued 81. ~
, .DisaA ,A4lrolley car plunged through an
- Spen draw in Milwaukee,; 8 killed, in
r 1ured
,-6. Fires: The Boardrnan tobacco warehouse
= burned in Cincinnati; loss over $500, 600 A
=, $lO0 go ire in the business district of Leip-
Is sic.s0.
z. Fires: Denison hotel, Indianapolis dam
aged by fire to the extent of Sl65 600;
DEATH A slO0 600 blaze at Evansville, Ind.
Personal: Gen. John NJ. Schofeld nfade lieu
tenant general.
s. Obituary: John L. Stevens, ex-minister to
~ Hawaii, az AubuStd, ME- dKeQ AeS.
Or. William Markoe Taylor, a prominent
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged g..
nster; men run down by Pennsylvania
filroad express at Leclznow.
Tres: The union depot and hotel burned
ASt Joseph, NO.; loss, $275.00O The Con-
tIRational church burned at Wellington,O
,tiry: Prof. James r. Boise of the Chi
E2sNA university, one of the most noted
,+erScholars in the country, in Chicago;
raflp.s Syndicate block burned in Rock
ia re hioS5s000. The state printing house
Sto sc. harrisburg
p. Cot xv> d and factory burned at Rock.
ees, Ohge Charles E. A. Gayarre, dis
Cut P writer and historian, in New
TOT, I'D SO. Judge Charles r. Walker.
ralpSA writer and lawyer. at Detroit;
q &kn. Montgomery Corse, Confed-
H Ms 4 I'm, ut Alexandria, Va; aged ri.
\ pJhe.., 4 fire at Lynn. Mass. 5 firemen
| Teip 49, blurred. A $l00, 900 fire in Salt
s .os lnill burned 4 Paterson, N. J.; ),
| -covs Gray. & u s. minister TO
| har,, 1.-THE Cit6sef Mexico.
u rs a.. bjRichard,h Trevelliek psolni-
| cbecs.." 81 organizes. IN 1effoit; aged &c.
Ter. al spencer STAFFORD, founder Of
80, hon p Ink company, ii New York;
Brooklyn trolley strike endSd
u except ones