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

factory, Win ADJOINING Du11O1nSS, Destroy
ed Nv Ere at Kalamazoo, Mich. !: loss. s2Oe,-
600. The Leonard silk mill at Florence,
Mass, destroyed by fire; loss nearly $780,
coo.
70. Fire: Cameron, W. Va, almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire: relief train from Wheel
ing wrecked and men killed.
Obituary: William Steinhart, 3 pioneer mef-
chant of California in San Francisco; aged
IL. Obituary: Prof. Daniel KirzwOod. Ii. D..
late of the Indiana State university, at Riv-
erside, Cal; aged 81.
r. Obituary: Theopilus Adam Wylie, emeritus
professor of ancient languages in the Uni
, versity of Indiana, at Bloomington. Ind !;
aged IS.
Miscellaneous Christian Endeavo- annual
convention opened in Boston. Destructive
storms and tornadoes in Minnesota and
Oklahoma
ID. Obituary: Henry Prouse Cooper, formerly
well known New York tailor, in New
York; aged So Senior Gorilla, noted Span
ish republican leader, at Madrid; aged 81.
IA. Obituary: Rev. Alonzo A. Miner, D. D.,
pastor emeritus of the Second Universalist
church and prominent prohibitionist in
Boston; aged 81.
Disaster: A so horsepower engine exploded at
Fall River, Mass, wrecking a story build
ing; people killed and injured.
Personal: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her eighty-fourth birthday at Hartford.
15. Fire: at Bridgeport, o.. fire destroyed
wholesale drug store. hotel. 2 banks and
several retail establishments; loss. $l0o, 600.
10. Fires: An incendiary fire destroyed
stores; loss, S225 900. jacobs Third Avenue
theater burned in New York.
The Worlds Wo1nan's Christian conference
opened in London.
II. Miscellaneous: The Harlem ship canal con-
Meeting North river with Long Island sound
opened with ceremonies.
10. Obituary: W. h. Shieffelin, head of the
great drug firm, in New York city; aged
SO.
20. Fire: Power house and cars of the street
railway in Seattle, WASH. burned; loss,
$500, 900.
q. Obituary: Henry B. Houston, @father of
transportation interests in Pennsylvania, -
in Philadelphia aged rs.
Emperor William laid the keystone of the
Kaiser Wilhelm (Kiel) canal.
q. The soldier bicycle courier Matthey ended
his 131z days ride from New York to Chi
cago.
"a Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri-
angular boat at Poughkeepsie over
Cornell and Pennsylvania.
Obituary: Thomas Henry Huxley, the scient-
list, at Eastborne, England: aged 70 years.
25. Obituary: M. D. Boruck, pioneer editor
of California, in San Francisco; aged 81.
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, in Della
ware, O.. aged 81.
q. Fire: San Francisco swept by the largest
fire known there in over 80 years.
%. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by 81
lengths at New London, Conn.
20. Obituary: Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, the
scientist. at Eastbourne, England; aged TO-
Ex-President Peixoto of Brazil, near Rio
Janeiro; aged S. Daniel Cady Eaton pro-
fessor Of botany at Yale in New Haven;
aged 81. Gen. Green Clay Smith, Union
veteran, at Washington; aged So.
JULY.
l. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind, bridge fell
under crowd witnessing boat race; 50
injured.
Miscellaneous: IS deaths in the region west
of and adjoining the Mississippi by cloud
bursts and lightning. postofhce burglars
-Killoran, Allen and Russell-broke out Of
Ludlow street Jail, New York. Mob at
tackled A. P A parade in Boston.
5. Obituary: Alexander Hester, Americas
greatest daguerreotypist, died at Evanston,
Ills.
6. Fires: Lumber plant burned at Scotia,
CAL; loss, S250000 At Duluth, Mimi,
100000 loss in a warehouse fire. bust
ness places burned in Oswego, N. Y; loss,
$50, coo.
z. Terrific storm at chicago and on Lake
Michigan; many deaths reported.
9. Obituary: David A. Daboll, publisher Of
Daboll's Almanac, at New London, Conn. :
aged so.
Disaster: ID killed and 50 injured in a rear
Head Quebec.
! 10. Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit; 6 deaths.
I Obituary: Allen Pettibone, father Of the
Millerites, at Hartford; aged IS.
Disaster: Over 100 people injured at Attain
tic City by the collapse of the old casino.
Sporting: Cornell beaten by Trinity hall at
Henley for Grand Challenge cup
| IL. Obituary: Miolan Carva1ho, famous French
prima donna and the original Marguerite.
at Dieppe.
Convention: Convention of the United Soci-
cites of Christian Endeavor opened in Bos-
| IA. Obituary: DIR. Norton s. Townshend.
emeritus professor of agriculture in the
state university, at Columbus, o. aged 70.
| Is. Fire: Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston,
N. Y: loss, about $3.50, 600.
| 16. Fire: Business portion of Alta V.sta wiped
out by fire; loss, SIS, 600.
! Obituary: Stambuloff, ex-premier Of Bull
| garia, by assassination, at Sofia; aged 40.
| II. Fire 2 fireman killed and IL injured at q
fire in Cincinnati; property loss. $3.50 600.
| 49, Obituary: Charles Emanuel Schencl, ex-
president of Switzerland, at Bern; aged 20.
Convention: Fifth international convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of
| America opened in Baltimore.
Personal: Henry Irving, Walter Besant and
! Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
q. Fire: $780, 900 loss by burning Of an oil mill
in Chicago.
| Disaster: $50 lives lost by steamboat collision
in the gu-f of Genoa.
%. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Alexander h. Rice of
| Massachusetts died at Melrose. Prof. Ru-
! dolf Gneist, eminent German scholar and
! professor, instructor. of the reigning kai-
ser, at Berlin aged 90.
| "a. Fires: Y. NJ. G. A. building in Washin gton
burned; loss, 30, 900. Ironton CO., water
works destroyed by fire: loss, 500, COG.
| Obituary: James Bum, chief os the Shine
| cock Indians, at Southampton, N. Y. aged
| about IS. Rev. Edward Beecher, of the
famous seven brothers. in Brooklyn; aged
90.
rs. Obituary: DR.. Anthony Wilson Thorald,
bishop of Winchesters at Surrey, England
| aged 20.
! %. Obituary: Col. Alfred NJ. Wood, mayor of
! Brooklyn during the wsr, in that city
aged go.
| %. Obituary: John Barbee Minor, LII. D., pro-
| fessor of common and statute law in the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville
aged 50.
| 30. Fort Scott, Tex. flooded by sudden pre-
! cipitation of rain.
! 81. Obituary: Richard N. Hunt, noted archi-
tect, at Newport, r, l.; aged s..
AUkzUsT.
| I. Obituary: Prof. Heinrich Won Svbel, Ger