Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-31
EVENTS OF 1896.
Varied Annals of the
Old Year.
A PAGE OF HISTORY.

Storm-Commercial Failures-Per.
sonal, Political and Miscellaneous
Happenings-AC Classified Summary
FIRE LOSSES.
JANUARY.
2. s250, 900 fire nt West Palm Beach, Fla.
3. Franklin County Children's home, at Co
lumbus, O.; loss, S125000.
Is buildings burned at Creston. Ia. loss,
$4,000.
5. Central hotel and Street block burned at
Altoona, Pa.
II. A $3.50, oO0 fire in st. Louis.
Is. Crescent City Rice mills burned In New Or
leans; loss, 100000.
Is. e large apartment houses burned In Chica-
go; lcss. $4,000.
FEBRUARY.
8. West Virginia State Normal school at West
Liberty burned.
Is. Fire at Greenville. N. c.; loss, $4,000.
IL. Buckeye Glass works burned at Martins
Ferry, o.
Is. a sso.ooO blaze at Binghamton, Ny.
%. 10 business places burned at Florence. 8.
c.; loss. 100000.
MARCH.
I. The village Of ColeviIle, Mono county. Cal.
wiped out by fire.
B. is buildings burned at Danbury, Conn, /:
loss, $500
IL. In Providence the Masonic building Was
burned; loss 5000
n Plant of the Pennsylvania Salt works Mt
Natrona, Pa, burned; loss, sl.OOoOO.
% 70 houses burned ut Colon, Colombia
y. Pleasure Ridge distillery near Louisville
burned; loss, s325, 600.
A SD, 900 fire in Waterbury, Conn.
y. Weston. ". Va, suffered BY fire to tho ex.
tent of nearly $4,000.
APRIL
q Fire cd sio..t-s
valued at 100000 at Brunswick, ca.
2. sl2o,OOO fire 1t Douglass Ca
8. 600 fire at Savannah, Ga.
10. Dauntless Bicycle %. burnedout st Tolsdo.
loss, siS5,0
Is. Fire destroyed business blocks v.lued .f
s2,Oo0.0Oo at Cripple Creek, Cello.
3D. Metz block and other properties burned st
Quincy. Ills. loss, S30OyOOO.
MAY.
z Residence OF Senator Hale, at Ellsworth.
Ne, burned; loss. $1,000.
:. A $4,000 fire ut Somerset, Ky.
y. Fire destroyed lumber and ore docks ut
Laurie, Mich, causing n loss.of 100000
10. At Ashland. Wis, fire DESTROYED "a. 0o oo
feet OF lumber, valued at nearly S50o.OOO
10. A $4,000 fire at Painted Post, N. Y.
IL. 70 buildings burned at Blue Island MS :.
loss, nearly sao0,OOO.
Is. firemen killed and missing ut a fro in
Washington; money loss S5o0O00.
. A slO,co0 fire ut Dallas.
100000 fire at Fort Worth.
JUNE.
H. Fire in the New York Horse Exchange: 100
horses burned; loss, $4,000.
July.
D. San Luis Obispo, Cal, suffered to the az
tent Of $50 900 by fire.
II. Business block burned In Nsshyflle: loss.
$4,000.
IS Car barns Of the Chicago City railway burn.
70. Park theater and Barrett House burned nj
Henderson, KY; loss, $780, 900.
Il. Nayior $ Opera House and other buildincs
burned at Terre Haute, Ind. loss, $4,000.
q. Fire in a shipyard at Belfast caused . loss
of 81, 80, coo.
20. The Montreal exhibition building nearly
destroyed by fire; loss, slJO,MO
81. Grass Valley. CAL. partially DESTROYED bv
an incendiary fire; loss. $4,000
AUGUST.
Q. Explosion and fire at Swift & Co. a Machine
plant Kansas City; loss. slO0. 100; several
persons injured.
Il. The Manhasset House, Shelter island n.
Y, destroyed by fire; loss, s9O0m.
10. Chemical laboratory building Of the Uni
versity of Illinois. at Champaign, burned: :
loss, $4,000.
2. The Exposition building, Buffalo DRIVING
park, burned; loss, s2OO, 900.
% the town OF Ontonagon. Mich, destroyed
the plant OF the Diamond Match comuanv.
valued at $l,0O0.000. among the properties
burned.
%. Iowa State Institution For theFeeble MIND.
ca SO struck d by lightning andsburned; iosa
]. Masonic hall burned attTinston. N r :.
loss. $4,000. ~
Q. Yore's Opera House burned at Benton
Harbor. Mich. II firemen killed.
Thx.h .v,,
A'' ne Deiaware On works burned at Chester.
Pa; loss, s15O,0U.
%. Mount Holyoke college destroyed By IRE .s
South Hadley, Mass
The wooden elephant" ct Coney Island
OCTOBER.
z. blocks burned at Jeanerette. L. L..
sl5O,OU.
B. Fire in knit goods factory at Camden. N.
j.; loss, $4,000.
b A $4,000 fire in Detroit.
Q. grain elevator and blocks a busineea
houses burned at Corning. Ia. loss, Sls0,-
To- furniture M;rn factory burned at Holland.
~. stonewa-e works burned in East Akron.
o.; loss. $aO,0O
u A $4,000 fire in . cotton warehouse in Gal
weston.
% business houses burned In Ladonia. Ter.
Lumber yard and farm dwellings burned st
Aiiwaukse, Mich; loss, Sl75,OO
q. grain elevators burned in Chic,eo: le,.
$l,aD,000.
$4,000 factory fire in Brooklyn.
NOVEMBER.
b Globe theater burned in st. Louis
:. The Boston Bridge company Ut Cambride~
port, Mass, burned out; loss, $4,000
u. Several business houses burned st Ether.
ton, Ga. loss, 500 Co.,
n The courthouse ut Eastiand, Tex destroy.
ed by fire; loss, S65,COo.
%. The steamer City Of Kalamazoo burned a
South Haven, Mich deaths
DECEMBER.
L A 500. 600 fire In Mason City, L.
& st. Monica's church burned ct Atlantic
City; 9 fremen killed.
9. Fire at Bay City, Mich loss, so6.0W
9. Fire At Winston, N. c.: loss. $4,000.
u Fire at Altoona, Pa; loss, $4,000.
WRECKS AND EXPLOSIONS.
Record q Disnstes ON the 1ail. In Nlnss
and In Crowded Cisise
JANUARY.
. IS deaths in coal mime diaAsese near Caf-