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


IL Crime: A Wells Fargo express wagon rob
bed Of $1,000 in Colorado; the messenger
fatally wounded.
s2. Fire: Warehouse burned at Benicia, Colo:
loss. Sl50.000
Il Fire. At Plaftsburg No, the courthouse
and all the buildings on one side OF the
public square destroyed by fire: loss about
10000 Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon, Ills. loss nearly $zoo.OOO.
Obituary: James W. Scott. editor and pub
fisher Of the Chicago Times Herald, in New
York city: aged Is. Prof. James Dwight
Dana of Yale. at New Haven; aged 81.
L. Obituary DR.. John +. Blackmar, promi-
nent Prehibitionist at Springfield, Mass.
Earthquake Heavy shocks in Italy and Aus
trin.
l6. Obituary Hon I.everitt Saltonstall, prom
inent Democratic leader. at Brookline,
Mass.
IS. Obituary: r. c. Wicklife ex-governor Of
Louisiana, at shelbyville. KY. Granville
Perkins the artist. in New York city; aged
65.
The fifth international convention of the
Young Woman 5 Christian association open
ed in Pittsburg.
10. Obituary: Charles K. Knox, the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged Y.
20 Sporting Eddie Bald lowered TIE cycling
record a second in California by riding
mile in 2:04.
q. Fire: Fire in the school Of arts at Chalons-
models and machines valued At l,OO0Oo
francs
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son OF the
novelist, in Albany; aged 20.
20. Obituary Albert Young, grand patriarch
Of the Romany people of the continent,
died at Ross Park, opposite st. Louis; he
was Ga years old.
a. Obituary Col Franklin Fairbanks, one OF
VermOnt's most prominent citizens, at 81.
Johnsbury.-
Personal: Brig Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Coils.
Zenos II. Bliss and John ]. Coppinger were
promoted to be brigadier generals.
Miscellaneous Nat Jones, veteran specu-
lator Of the "Big Four. died in Chicago.
Mrs Frank Leslie. first wife OF the well
known New York publisher, died at Sho-
kan, n. y
25. Fire: The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; loss, S500,OO0; several fatal
tiles - persons injured.
Obituary. Henry II. Scott, prominent citi-
zen and leading Democrat of San Francis
co, in that city.
%. Obituary Levi b Taft, an eminent Michi-
gan iurist, at Pontiac aged 73
30. Obituary: Gustav freitag, the popular Ger.
man novelist, author of "Soll und Haben"
and other notable booksa Wiesbaden: aged
20.
1. Obituary: Maj Gen. John Newton, distin-
guished soldier Of the Mexican and civil
wars and engineer of He'll Gate, in New
York city aged ~ Gen. s. B. Hayman, a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in
Houstonia, Mo. aged 20.
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
Of the American Revolution began in Bos-
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
g. Disaster: american Powder companys
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up; 5
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by a tornado; over $50 killed.
5. Obituary James Kelly, Cook county pio-
neer and one of the founders OF the Chica-
go Tribune, at Winnetka, Ills.
O. Fires New Carlisle, o., had $4,000 fre.
Strauss s. Sons tannery and other proper
ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
$3.50, 600.
Obituary: Ex-Gov. Robert s. Green Of New
Jersey, at Elizabeth, N. j.; aged "a.
T. Obituary Field Marshal Gen. Won Pape,
distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor Of Berlin, in that city; aged
81.
s Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
Manchester, n. II aged 6S.
Convention. The thirty -frst international
convention Y. NJ. G. A. of North America
met at Springfield, Mass
g. Obituary Gilbert Elliot, constructor OF the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city aged 81.
TO- Obituary: Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
aged s.! Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur-
geon general, Y. $. A, in Washington;
aged G5
IL. Obituary: Ex-Gov Ira ]. Chase of Indiana,
at Lubec, Me. aged 81.
12 Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
ed a grain elevator and -four mill: loss,
$4,000. AT Pratt City, Ala, the city hall,
hotel and church and 80 dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
Obituary: julius H. Seelye, ex-president Of
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged IL.
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior,
died at Fort Reno, o. T.
IA. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven-
tion Of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
sociation began in New York. Biennial
convention of the Order OF Railway Con-
ductors began in Atlanta
l6 Obituary: Duke Of Hamilton, twelfth OF
his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John J.
Almy, U. S. N, retired, in Washington;
aged 81. Peter II. Burnett, first governor
OF California, in San Francisco: aged 81.
10. Fire: 40 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in ST. Adams, VT; loss, $3.50, 600.
Obituary: David S. S. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
n. Y; aged q. Hiram Barney, collector
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city: aged "a.
81 Fire: AT Angelica, N Y, stores, opera
house and other property burned; loss,
$4,000.
Obituary Franz von Suppe, the Austrian
Offenbach, = composer of s'Boccaccio, " etc,
in Vienna: aged rs. DR.. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon Of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
dren, in Chicago; aged 66.
Disaster. Explosion at Pinole, Cal, OF $500
pounds of nitroglyeerin and 1000 pounds
Hercules powder; IA men killed; loss. $780,
600.
Miscellaneous: The income tax declared nm
constitutional by vote Of to 4. The
fifth annual reunion of the United Confed-
crate veterans convened at Houston, Tex.
"a Obituary: Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of treasury 1865 to 1863, at Washington;
aged 81.
90 Obituary John A. Morris, race horse own
er and capitalist, Kerrville, Tex.
81 Obituary Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged IS.
q. Fire: SO business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo-: loss, 500. OO0
Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, secre-
tary of state, at Washington; aged 63.
Conventions: The seventieth anniversary
meeting of the American Unitarian asso-
citation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty first anni-
verszry convention at Saratoga.
Shipwrecks: Pacific Mail steamer Colima ran
upon a reef off Manzanillo, Mex, during
gale: lS6 persons drowned French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked of the Spanish coast;
100 lives lost.
b. Obituary Gen. g. NJ. Mitchell Union vet
eran at Charleston, Ills. aged 90.
JUNE.
l. Obituary: George NJ. Gray, a Chicago pio
neer, in that city; aged Y.
2. Obituary. Hon. Vincent d. Markham. a
very distinguished jurist Of Colorado, at
Denver: agtd IS.
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