Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-02

2I Obituary Ex-Gov. Benjamin T. Prescott
OF New HAMPSHIRE At Epping, n. H., aged
c.
Convention The ninth annual convention Of
the Newspaper Publishers association met
in New York.
=. Fire: Several cottages and boarding houses
burned At Hot Springs.
q Personal. Gen. Matt ". Ransom. senator
from North Carolina, appointed minister
10 Mexico.
"a. Obituary: Gen. Joseph b. Carr, a promi-
nent Union veteran, in Troy, \. y; aged
Criminal: Capt. Howgate, accused Of en-
bezzlement and forgery. acquitted.
%. Conventions: The National Dairy asso-
citation met in annual session at Washing
ton. The third annual session Of butter
and cheese makers began at Rockford, Ills.
q. Obituary: Ex-Judge Richard O'Gorman,
once a prominent Fenian, in New York
city aged "a.
MARCH.
l. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb. !;
loss. S65,O0O.
Disaster: lis killed, 40 injured on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City Of Mexico;
train down an embankment.
2. Fires. The business portion OF the town Of
Noche, n. D.. burned: loss, S54, 900. China
company's works burned at Akron, o. !;
loss, $62, 900. A $4,000 fire az Bethalto,
Ills.
obituary Prof. John Stuart Blaczie Of the
University of Edinburgh, in that city; aged
s..
8. Fire: A s.. $50 600 fire in Toronto. the third
great conhagration in two months: a dozen
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed.
(. Fires Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, Ills; loss. Sl50,O0O. A $3.50, 000
loss by fire at Salina, Kan.
Obituary: Colonel W. q. Coup, the veteran
Snowman, at Jacksonville, Fla: aged g.
Rev. Daniel Vrooman, pioneer mission
AIRY of China, in San Francisco; aged IS.
Personal Anna Gould, youngest daughter of
the late Jay Gould, married Count de Cas-
tellane of France.
8. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey Clendennin,
a veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service. ut Galesburg, MS. aged 65.
Disaster: Block OF buildings destroyed by an
explosion of natural gas AT Anderson, Ind. (;
loss, S400, ,0OO.
Personal: William X Vanderbilt the noted
railway lnagnate and multimillionaire. iii
vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
New York city.
@. Obituary. Edwin Forbes, wei known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies, in New
York city aged So.
z. Obituary: Hyde Clark. famous linguist
and scientist. in London; aged 49,
s. Obituary Frederick T. Siclles, an engineer
and inventor in Kansas City.
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfellow struck channel span
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in 3 minutes: s lives lost
and about 50 people saved by tug.
IL. Obituary. cesare Canter Italian historian
and Liberal. at Milan; aged So John Il.
Temple, noted abolitionist, in Chicago;
aged 50. Worth the famous drcssmaker,
in Paris; aged 70.
sociation of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, n Y.
IL. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn
ed in Brooklyn: loss, $4,000.
Strikers riot at New Orleans; 5negrocs XIII
ed at their work.
13 Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss $3UO,OOO.
IS Fire: City Eall at Saco, Me, damaged $50,
600 by fire.
Obituary Rev. DIR. John ". Broadus, preii-
dent Of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville, in that city: aged II.
II. Fires: Rodgers ~ Co. : elevator and ware
house burned in ST. Louis; loss. $40 ,0yO. a
building occupied by newspaper and news
concerns burned at Cleveland: loss $50
600. men killed and Q injured at the
burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To-
ledo.
Obituary Capt. ID. /. Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver
Is. Fire: Business block burned at Perry, O.
T.; loss, $80.OO0.
10. Fire: II buildings burned in Burlington,
VT loss $250,O0O.
Obituary Gen. Adam Badeau. Grant S MILF
tary secretary, biographer etc, at Ridge
wood, N j.: aged Is.
%. Fire: A sl00, 000 fire at Peoria, Ills
Obituary: Gen. Philip ST. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
o.
Disaster: 60 miners killed by an explosion at
Evanston, Wy.
Personal: Gen Neal Dow, the apostle Of pro-
hibition, celebrated his ninety first birth
day.
el. Fires. $4,000 worth Of cotton burned in
the yards Of the International Cotton press,
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, Ia. /; loss 100000.
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, Ii. d., Of
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. aged
a.
o. Obituary: Richard Vaux. prominent Phil
adelphian; aged ~.
%. Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. James
hotel, Denver.
"a Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City
burned; loss, $I000,O00. 2 hotels. a church
and bank burned at Decatur Mich.
Political: Ii Hung Chang, China's peace en-
voy, shot by Japanese in Simonoseki.
"a. Fire; 20business houses and other property
burned in Milwaukee: loss. 81, ,OO0O00.
Obituary Prof. James +. Oliver, well known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
Ithaca, n. Y.
Is. Fires: IS buildings burned ut st. Angus
tine. Fla. 50 buildings burned at Canase-
raga. n. Y; loss, Sl35. 900.
%. Obituary Anson Q. Hessing, noted German
editor. in Chicago; aged y. Mrs. Paran
Stevens. noted leader of society, in New
York city.
APRIL.
?. Fire; The business portion Of the city Of
st. Charles destroyed by fire; loss. $4,000.
Obituary David NJ. Stone. formerly editor
of The Journal of Commerce, in New York
city, aged IS.
Disaster : worlxlnen killed and injured by
a boiler explosion at Noburn, Mass.
8. Henry Harmon. noted abolitionist. at
Danielsonville, Conn., aged 81. Rev. Bar
ton H. Cartwright, pioneer Methodist Of
the West, AT Oregon, MS; aged s.. Jack
Wallace. once the weaIthiest landholder in
Atlanta. died at sherman, Tex. Captain
Lauchlan Mckay, wei known navigator
of the port. in Roxbury, Mass: aged s..
I. Obituary Ex-Gov. William r. Marshall OF
Minnesota, at Pasadena. Cal. aged 20.
8. Obituary Thompson McDaniels, veteran
Of the Black Hawk war and pioneer Of
Kansas City aged 20.
6. Fire. The American Starch works burned
at Columbus. Ind loss. x.a00.OOo