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


by James B. Gentry.
Z. Fires: Business places burned at Hamilton.
N. Y; loss, $500 Co.,
Obituary: Eliza D. Hamill, one of Chicago's
oldest residents; aged So.
Conventions: The annual convention Of SUI
perintendents' National association con-
vened in Cleveland The fourth congress
of the Daughters of the Revolution opened
in Washington.
30. Obituary. Frederick Douglass at Washing
tom aged rs.
q. Obituary Ex-Gov. benjamin F. Prescott
of New Hampshire at Epping, N. h. (; aged
Convention: The ninth annual convention Of
the Newspaper Publishers association met
in New York.
q. Fire: Several cottages and boarding houses
burned at Hot SPrings-
3. Personal: Gen. Matt ". Ransom, senator
from North Carolina, appointed minister
to Mexico.
o. Obituary: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, promi-
nent Union veteran, in Troy, N. z; 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.
1EARCH.
/. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk, Neb.;
loss. So, 600.
Disaster: 65 killed. 40 injured on the Inter
oceanic railway near the City of Mexico;
train down embankment.
9. Fires: The business portion of the town of
Noche, N. D., burned; loss, $54, 600. China
company's works burned at Akron, O.;
loss. So, 900. A $4,000 fire at Eethalto,
Ills.
Obituary: Prof. John Stuart Blackie of the
University of Edinburgh, in that city; aged
IS.
8. Fire: A 81, $50 600 fire in Toronto. the third
great conhagration in two months; dozen
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed.
4. Fires: Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, Ills; loss, $50, 900. A S150, 600
loss by fire at Salina, Kan.
Obituary: Colonel ". G. 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-
te1lane Of France.
8. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey Clendennin,
a veteran distinguished in the cavalry
service at Galesburg, Ills; aged Go.
Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind;
loss, S400 COO.
Personal: William K. Vanderbilt, the noted
railway magnate and multimilhonaire, di-
vorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
New York city.
6. Obituary: Edwin Forbes, a well known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies, in New
York city; aged Sc.
T. Obituary; Hyde Clark, famous nnguist
and scientist, in London; aged 20.
8. Obituary Frederick E. Sickles, an engineer
and inventor, in Kansas City.
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Longfellow struck a channel span
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in minutes; lives lost
and about 80 people saved by tug.
IL. Obituary: Cesare Canter, Italian historian
and Liberal. at Milan; aged go John F.
Temple, noted abolitionist, in Chicago;
aged 80. Worth, the famous dressnaker,
in Paris; aged 20.
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as
ISOLATION of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, N. Y.
II. Fire: Tivoli hall and other properties burn
ed in Brooklyn; loss, SIPS, 900.
Strikers riot at New Orleans; negroes kill
ed at their work.
rs. Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss, $500, coo.
10. Fire: City hall at Saco. Me-, damaged $780,,
600 by fire.
Obituary Rev. DR.. John W. Broadus, presi-
dent of the Baptist theological seminary at
Louisville in that city: aged II.
II. Fires: Rodgers s. Co. 's elevator and ware
house burned in st. Louis; loss, $500, 600. A
building occupied by newspaper and news
concerns burned at Cleveland: loss, $780,,
600. men killed and injured at the
burning OF the Wabash roundhouse in To-
ledo.
Obituary: Capt. D. I. Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver.
IL. Fire; Business block burned at Perry, o.
t.; loss, $50, CO.,
10. Fire: u buildings burned in Burlington,
VT. loss $3.50, 600.
Obituary: Gen. Adam Badeau. Grants mill
tary secretary, biographer. ETC., at Ridge
wood, n. j.; aged 65.
20. Fire: A Sl00,o fire at Peoria, Ills.
Obituary: Gen Philip st. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
Disaster: 90 miners killed by an explosion at
Evanston, Wy.
a. -
hibition, celebrated his ninety first birth
day.
81. Fires: $500. 900 worth of cotton burned in
the yards of She International Cotton press
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, Ia. loss, 100000
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, LII. D., of
Lehigh university, st Bethlehem, Pa. aged
%. Obituary: Richard FAUX, prominent Phil
adelphian; aged 70.
%. Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. James
hotel, Denver.
"a. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City
burned; loss, 81, 100000. hotels, church
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
Political: Ii Hung Chang, China's peace en-
voy, shot by Japanese in Simonoseki.
q. Fire. 20 business houses and other property
burned in milwaukee,; loss, 81, 0o0, 900.
Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver, we'll known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
ps. Fires: 45 buildings burned at st. Angus
tine, Fla IS buildings burned at Canase-
raga, N. Y; loss, $135, O00
DO. Obituary: Arson c. Hessing noted German
editor, in Chicago; aged r. Mrs. Paran
Stevens, noted leader of society, in New
York city.
APRIL.
2 Fire: The business portion of the city Of
st. Charles destroyed fire; loss, 500, coo.
Obituary: David NJ. Stone, formerly editor
of The Journal of Commerce, in New York
city, aged rs.
Disaster: 5 work1nen killed and injured by
a boiler explosion at Woburn Mass.
3. Henry Harmon, noted abolitionist, at
Danielsopville, Conn. aged 81. Rev. Bar
ton h. Cartwright, pioneer Methodist of
the west, at Oregon, Ills; aged IS. Jack
Wallace, once the wea1thiest landholder in