Connecticut western news., 1896-12-31
JANUARY.


 l. Obituary: Alfred Ely Beach, editor Scien-
 tific American, in New York city; aged 7o-
 John B. Blair, once 8 famous painter and
 inventor; aged eo. ?. Fire: At West Palm Beach, Fla. loss, s25O-
 0OO.
 8 Fires: Franklin County Children's home at
 Columbus, O., burned; loss, Sl25,0oo. l5
 buildings burned at Creston, Ia. loss, s150- 5, Fire: Central hotel and Streit block burn
 ed at Altoona, Pa-
 $. Obituary: Gen. M. D. Leggett, noted Fed
 eral veteran, in Cleveland; aged Il. Col
 Thomas W. Knox, author, in New York
 city: aged 6l.
 & Obituary: Ex-Gov. ". R. Marshal of Min
 nesota, at Pasadena, Cal: aged Fl. At
 Paris, Paul Verlaine, French poet; aged 5l- H. Fire: In St. Louis; loss, s25o,ooo-
 Obituary: George G. Wright, ex U- s. sena-
 tor and ex-chief justice of Iowa, at Des
 Moines; aged 16. Gen. Francis Channing
 Barlow, noted war veteran and lawyer, in
 New York city aged 12. IS. Obituary: Hugh Dimond. pioneer capital
 ist of California, at Oakland; aged e5. I4- Obituary: Martin Brimmer, noted mer-
 chant prince, philanthropist and art pa
 tron, in Boston aged 1l. Gen. Charles A.
 Hickman, noted Federal veteran, in Ger
 mantown, Pa; aged "A. Is. Obituary: Matthew & Brady, one of the
 pioneer photographers of the United States,
 in New York city: aged 13. Is. Obituary: Gen. E. R. Fowler, noted veter-
 an of the Federal army, in Brooklyn; aged
 9.
 ls Fire: Crescent City Rice mills burned in
 New Orleans; loss, s1,0o0,0o0
 Obituary: Charles Thomas Floquet, former
 premier of France.
 @. Fire: . large apartment houses burned in
 Chicago: loss, 500 0u0.
 Obituary: Bernard Gillian, noted cartoonist,
 at Canajoharie, N. Y.; aged &. D. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Thomas Armitaee, a noted Baptist preacher, at Yonkers, N. I.
 aged =. Prince Henry of Battenberg died at sea; aged s. T. Obituary: Gen. Thomas Ewing, in New York city: aged @. ?. Obituary: Ex-Judge Charles B. Elliott, famous sporting man and builder of racing shells, in Brooklyn; aged 67. 5. Obituary: Lord Leighton, noted British artist. in London; aged 66. Alexander Mac milan of Macmillan & Co.,, British pub fishers, in London; aged sl. 6. Shipwreck. Filibustering steamer J. ". Hawkins wrecked on her voyage from New York to Bermuda with men and material for Cuba 10 drowned. '. Obituary: John Tyler, son of the late Pre>s ident Tyler. in Washington. Gen. Theo dore Runyon, a war veteran and U. s. em b,ssador to Germany. in Berlin; aged T4 Gen Joseph H. Porter, New York wal veteran. in New York city. | S Disaster: 55 deaths in & coal mine disaster | near Cardiff.
 Obituary: Elijah Shaw, founder of Shaw | university, North Carolina, at Wales | Mass aged 76. George Cochran Lambdin | a noted Philadelphia artist in that city aged 65. Dr. L. A. Harris, a noted publS, | citizen of Atlanta, in that city; aged t2 Gen. Alfred Baker Smith. at Poughkeep | sic. N. Y.; aged Il. Sir Joseph Barnaby well known composer, in London. % Obituary: Senator Fioreli, the archeolo gist, at Rome.
 | 90. Obituary George F. Magun, founder sn' | ex-president of the Iowa college, at Grin nell, in Des Moines. Rev. Dr. William H | FurneSs, noted Unitarian, in Philadelphia | aged 14.