Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-01

fire; loss, $l00, coo.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas G. Pitcher, U. S. A.,
retired, at Fort Bayard, n. M. aged Il.
Ashael Clark Kendrick, D. D., LII. D., not.
ed Greek scholar, at Rochester; aged 81.
Oliver Ames, ex governor of Massachusetts,
in North Easton; aged "a.
%. Fire: 40 buildings destroyed in Madison.
Wis. ; loss, Sl50OO0
Obituary: Signor Bought. celebrated Italian
author, scholar and statesman, at Naples;
aged 81.
"a Obituary: Elk L. S. Senator Charles II. Van
Wycl of Nebraska, in Washington; aged II.
25. Obituary: Charles Halle, noted pianist i'll
Manchester; aged 76
q. Lynching mob fired upon by militia al
Ti&fin. o.; killed.
Is. 10 inches of snow fell at Negaunee, Mich.
80. Fire: Lagonda hotel burned at Springfield,
O.; loss, $4,000. AT Columbus, Ga, the
girls high school and II residences were
burned.
NOVEMBER.
/. Criminal: Durant convicted of the murder
of Blanche Lamont at San Francisco.
2. Criminal: Holmes convicted of the murdet
offitezel
8. Disaster: killed and 25 or q. injured in a
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio neai
Wheeling.
4. Fire: business blocks burned at Decatur,
HIS; loss soo 2 to $4,000 CO.,
list and verse writer, in Chicago; aged As
8. Fire: The Empire bank and Manhattan
Savings bank burned in New York city x
fremen injured: loss, $50, 600.
Obituary: William Libby, former partner Of
A. T. Stewart in New York city: aged "a.
Rachel Cantor the oldest living actress in
the United States, at Worcester; aged s..
6. Obituary: Mrs. D. p. Bowers. well known
actress, at Washington; aged g..
Disaster: 40 killed and 20 wounded by an
explosion in Detroit, The Evening Journal
office wrecked; loss, 500, 900.
Personal: Duke of Marlborough married &c
Csnsuelo Vanderbilt in New York.
The Erie railway sold under q foreclosure for
$50, 600 eco.
z. Obituary: Rear Admiral Robert Wilson
Shufeldt, U. S. N, in Washington aged rs.
Thirty third congress of the Society For the
Advancement OF Women met in New Or
leans. .
Sporting: The single scull race sor. the
world s championship won by Gaudaur at
Austin, Tex.
8. Obituary: DR.. Robert Battey, originator Of
the ''Battey operation in surgery at
sEome, Ga. aged 81. W. Rhode Hiii, not
cd citizen Of Atlanta, in that city; aged 63.
10. Obituary; Henry G. Ashton inventor OF
the ashton safety valve at somerviile,
Nfas{; aged 49,
Perslhal: The eightieth birthday Of Eliza.
beth Cady Stanton celebrated by large
gathering in New York.
Miscellaneous: The thirteenth Baptist con.
gress Of the United States opened at Proyi-
dence =.
IL. A daughter born to the car and czarina Of
Russia. q
16. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, autho2
Of "A1nerica, in Boston: aged s7.E'
A1n vii N ~
Cleveland: 10 deaths.
II. Fires: A 5000 fire at Meridian, Misc
Banner brewery burned at Cincinnati. =,
Is. Fire: $1,000 barrels Of naphths, burned at
: Whiting, Ind. 3 deaths. - -;
10. Fire: Factory building burned at Dallas,
Tex. loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson. OF
Lucien, at Rome; aged 67.
20. Fire: The Parker block burned at Lowell,
= Mass. loss, 5000
JQ&tuary: Rustem Pasha, Turkish embassa-
Ittdor to Great Britain, in London.
Il. Fire: II firms burned out in Chicago fire
and many lives imperiled; loss, $500 co.,
Obituary: Sir Henry Ponsonby, private sec
retary to Queen Vict96la. at Cowes, Eng
%icellaneous: Calvert vaux, noted Ameri-
IAN landscape architect, fousd drowned in
New York bay. Verdict of not guilty in
the sensational Hannigan murder trial in
%. F Nss 5s deaths Gre in ~ Goods
, and W slSo EN- Esnsess buildis cAicagO;
%. Obituary: NJ. Barsholemy 8 int Hilaire,
prominent in French literature, in Paris:
aged 90. =
Obituary: Maurice Frederick De Haas, noted
marine artist, in New York city; aged &c.
Edwin A. Meyers, veteran newspaper
man of Pittsburg. in that city; aged 62.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at New
York; score 20 to TO- Pennsylvania defeated
!, Harvard at football by a score of II to IA.
.. Disaster: II deaths by an explosion of car
tridges at Barcelona, Spain.
Convention: The eighth annual session of
the Transmississipi congress began in Orna
ha; "a states and territories represented.
z. Obituary: Alexandra Dumas noted French
writer and author Of Camille, - in Paris;
aged II. Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothing
ham, noted Unitarian, in Boston; aged 70. !
8. Obituary: Gen. Thomas Jordan, a promi-
nent ex-Confederate and Mexican veteran,
in New York city; aged 70.
Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornell at
football in West Philadelphia: score, 46 to 2.
o. Obituary: Count~Von Taafe, Austrian
statesman, in Bohemia aged 81.
Disaster Explosion at the Tites Foster mines
near Carmel, N. T.; 20 killed and II injured.
DECEMBER.
I. Obituary: James Harvey Partridge. edu-
Gator and author, at Crawford, N. j.; aged
s..
2. Congress opened.
3. Obituary: Capt. Oscar Taylor, Union
veteran who captured Mosby the guerrilla,
y in New York.
rsonal: Rufus ". Peckham appointed jus
ce of United States court.
Re: Z mercantile firms burned out in In
Indianapolis; loss, 500. 900; 2 firemen killed.
l'TThe Empire State express, New York Gem
trial railway, broke the record between
New York and Buffalo, making the schedule
time 581s miles an hour.
9. Personal W. E. q. Lecky, the historian,
elected to the house Of commons for the
Dublin university.
Fire: Fire broke osftiA IA q -. assay Of
fee with $1,000, coo In gold Clarifying loose
and $2l. 900 900 in the vatits; dai ke slight.
,. Fifteenth annual convention k'tha A1neri-
can Federation of Labor opened ii New
York city,
2 Centennial Of American commercial liberty
celebration.
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