The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01
THE EVENTS OF AYEAR.
A Condensed Diary of the Past
Twelve Months.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF 1896.

Fun List of Disasters by Land and Sea, So
cial, PhiInnthrOpic and Religious Gath
erings, Political and Personal Events,
tho Obituary Roll and Index Of Every
thing Worth Noting.
The following record of the leading
events of the year 1895 has been carefully
compiled for immediate or future refer
ence:
JANUARY.
8. Fires: $225 600 damage at the residence Of
Hon. P. p Mast, Springfield, o. build
ings destroyed at Cofeyville. Kan; lass.
Sos geo.
Obituary: DR.. George Marx, famous ento-
mologist in Washington; aged So.
q Obituary: David 81. Craig, the first general
manager of the Associated Press, at Asbury
Park.
g. Fires: The Toronto Globe building and 9TH
ers burned during blizzard; loss. over
$780, 600; several dremen killed.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. King, famous for aid
given to escaping slaves, in Gotham, Ont;
aged 81. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, distin-
guished Union veteran and congressman
from Illinois, in Washington; aged 62.
Political: Uprising in Hawaii in the interests
of the deposed queen.
9. Fires: Godey's flour mill and elevator
burned at Seettsvi1le, N. Y; loss. SIZE, 600.
Obituary: Archibald Gordon, newspaper
man, critic and dramatist, in Port Rich
mond, N. Y; aged 10.
large business houses burned in Toronto;
s'1oss, 100000. Factories of the Wyeth
Hardware company burned at St. Joseph,
Mo. loss, $50, 900.
Obituary: Aaron L. Dennison, the father Of
American matchmaking, in Birmingham
England; aged 50. Gen. Alfred W. Ellet.
noted as leader of the Union ram feet in
the Mississippi at FL Dorado, Kan.
"a. Fire: Sl00, 900 blaze at GAINESVILLE. O.
Strike: Trolley motOrmen and conductors
struck in Brooklyn.
&E. Fire; Stadt theater, milwaukee,, damaged
TO the amount of $12o, O00
Obituary Ex-Gov. S. E. Chadwick of Ore
goD, at Salem; aged 20. Charles c. Leigh,
sctive temperance leader, in Brooklyn;
aged 50.
Disaster: Explosion Of several powder cars
at Butte, Mon. IS killed. 100 injured.
Political: President Casinair-Perier of France
resigned.
az. Obituary: Gen. Israel N. Stiles a Union
veteran prominent in public life In Chica
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-
ley, the bond forger, III New York; amount
involved, $144, eco.
~ fire: Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco
20. Obituary: Prof. Augustus g. Merriam Of
Columbia college, at Athens; aged SO.
Labor Trouble: Rioting by trolley strikers
in Brooklyn
en-. Financial The Merchants bank Of Bing-
namton and private bank of Erastus Ross
3 Sons closed their doors.
q. Obituary: Charles Secretan. noted Swiss
philosopher, at Lausanne; aged so.
Miscellaneous: The National Manufacturers,
association met at Cincinnati. Militia
Aired on trolley strikers in Brooklyn.
-. Obituary: DR.. Alfred L. LOOMS. noted
medical professor and practitioner, In New
York city; aged "a. Brig. Gen. Stephen v.
Benet. q. S. A, retired aged 69. &'s-S
Ga. Obituary: Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Churchill prominent English politician. TN
London: aged 49,
Criminal: Two masked men held mp aStrain
the Cotton road near MCNEIL Ark, and
plundered the express of SIS, O00-
5. Disaster: Five coal barges sunk in Long
Island sound; IL people drowned. The
Gloucester fishing schooner Leader wreck
ed on the Massachusetts, coast; 4 OF the
crew drowned.
Dc. Obituary NJ. de Giers. Russian minister OF
foreign affairs for many years, at St. Pc
tersburg; aged rs. Gen. Francis Darr,
prominent Union veteran, at Wayne, Pa;
aged e2.
A herce gale along the New England, Long
Island and New Jersey coasts.
a.. Obituary: Mrs Emma G. Bostwick. sfthe
American Jenny Lind at Morristown, N.
J.; aged about 80.
81. Obituary: Canrobert last marshal of
France, in Paris; aged IS.
Storms; Storm struck Galveston, capsizing
several sioops; many lives lost. Blizzard
I'm Oklahoma.
o. Obituary: Dr. Jamin Strong, widely known
authority mental diseases, in Cleveland;
aged 20.
.. Disaster: Steamship Elbe of the North Ger
man Lloyd collided with q small steamer
in the North and sunk with over 800
people.
"a Obituary: Judge Ebenezer lockwood Hoar
in Concord, Mass; aged 20. Ward Meal
lister, noted society leader, in New York
city.
Convention: The twenty-seventh annual con-
wention of the American Woman's Suffrage
association began at Atlanta.
FEBRUARY.
prominent antislavery agitator, at Hyde
Park, Mass. aged 81.
: Fire: Phoenix Glass works burned at Mo-
nseo. Pa. loss, S200, 900.
Obituary: Gen. Mailer D. Manson, veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort,
Ind; aged 70. Gen. Rufus Barringer.
Confederate veteran, at Charlotte, n. c.;
Disaster: a trolley car plunged through
open draw in Milwaukee; killed, in
jured.
s. Fires: The Boardman tobacco warehouse
burned in Cincinnati; loss over $4,000. A
$100, 600 IRE in the business district of Leip-
Sic o.
T. Fires: Denison hotel, indianapolis, dam
aged by fire to the extent of $165, 600: 1
death. A 500, 900 blaze at Evansville, Ind.
Personal: Gen. John NJ. Schofeld made lieu
tenant general.
8. Obituary: John L. Stevens, ex-minister to
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me-; aged "a Rev.
DIR. William Marlpoe Taylor, prominent
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged &C.
Disaster: men run down by Pennsylvania
railroad express at Lucknow.
.. Fires: The union depot and hotel burned
at st. Joseph, No. loss, S275, 900. The Con-
gregational church burned at yelling ton, o.
Obituary: Prof James E. Boise of the Chi
cago university, of the most noted
Greek scholars in the country, in Chicago;
aged so.
Co. Fires: The Syndicate block burned in Rock
ford. Ills. S75, coo. The state printing house
burned at Harrisburg.
q. fire: A store and factory burned at Rock
ford, Ills. loss, 500, 900.
Obituary: Judge Charles E. A. Gayarre, dis
tinguished writer and historian, in New
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