Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-01
Obituary: William Steinhart, pioneer NOR.
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II. obituary: Prof. Daniel Kirkwood. L. D.,
late of tina Insiana State university. - XIV
erside, Cal. aged 81.
H. Obituary Theopilus Adam Wylie, emeritus
professor Of ancient languages in the Uni
versity Of Indiana, at Bloomington IND.
aged s..
MjsceIlaneous. Christian Endeayor annual
convention opened in Boston. Destructive
storms and tornadoes in Minnesota and
Oklahoma.
Is, Obituary: Henry Prouse Cooper, formerly
a well known New York tailor, in New
York: aged 30. Senior Gorilla. noted Span
ish republican leader, at Madrid: aged 81.
H. Obituary: Rev. AleNzo A. Miner, d. d..
pastor emeritus of the Second Universalist
church and a prominent prOhibitionist In
Boston; aged II.
Disaster: 80 horsepower engine exploded ~
Fall River Mass, wrecking 3 story build
ing; people killed and injured.
Personal: Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her eighty fourth birthday at Hartford.
Is. Fire: At Bridgeport, o., ire destroyed
wholesale drug store, hotel. banks and
several retail establishments; loss, Sl0O.OOO
16. Fires: An incendiary fire destroyed .
church. newspaper offices and several
stores; loss, s2225, 900. Jacobs Third Avenue
theater burned in New York.
The Worlds Wornan's Christian conference
opened in London.
II. Miscellaneous: The Harlem ship canal con.
Meeting North river with Long Island sound
opened with ceremonies.
10. Obituary: W. II. Shieffelin, head Of the
great drug firm, in New York city; aged
20. Fire: Power house and cars Of the street
railway in Seattle, Wash, burned loss,
5000
81 Obituary: Henry B. Houston, Gather Of
transportation interests in Pennsylvania"
in Philadelphia; aged rs.
Emperor William laid the keystone Of the
Kaiser Wilhelm tEiel) canal.
%. The soldier bicycle courier Matthey ended
his 49,. days ride from New York to Chi
cago.
"a. Miscellaneous: Lord Rosebery and his
ministry resigned. Columbia won the tri-
angular boat race at Poughkeepsie over
Cornell and Pennsylvania.
Obituary: Thomas Henry Huxley, the scient-
ist. at Eastborne, England: aged 20 years.
25. Obituary: N. d. Boruck, pioneer editor
of California, in San Francisco; aged 81.
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, in Della
ware, o.; aged 81.
q. Fire: San Francisco swept by the largest
fire known there in over 80 years.
Is. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard by sA
lengths at New London, Conn
%. Obituary: Prof Thomas h. Huxley, the
scientist, at Eastbourne, England; aged 20.
Elk President Peixoto of Brazil, near Rio
Janeiro; aged Sc. Daniel Cady Eaton. pro-
fessor of botany at Yale, in New Haven;
aged 81. Gen. Green Clay Smith, Union
veteran, at Washington; aged g.
JULY.
4. Disaster: At Elkhart, Ind, bridge fell
under crowd witnessing a boat race; 50
injured.
Miscellaneous: 43 deaths in the region west
of and adjoining the Mississippi by cloud.
bursts and lightning. postofdce burglars
-Kiloran, Allen and Russell-broke out Of
Ludlow Street Jail, New York Mob At
tackled an A. p. A. parade in Boston.
8. Obituary: Alexander Hester, America's
greatest daguerreotypist, died at Evanston.
Ills.
Q. Fires: Lumber plant burned at Scotia,
CAL: loss, s250,000 At Duluth, MIMI,
100000 loss in q warehouse fire. bust.
ness places burned in Oswego, N. Y: loss,
$4,000.
Z. Terrific storm at Chicago and on Lake
Michigan; many deaths reported.
9. Obituary: David A. Daboll, publisher Of
Daboll's Almanac, at New London, Conn.,;
aged 81.
Disaster: IS killed and 50 injured in . rear
end collision on the Grand Trunk at Crais's
Head, Quebec.
10. Fire: Fatal fire at Detroit: deaths.
Obituary: Allen Pettibone, father Of the
Millerites, at Hartford; aged IS.
Disaster: Over 100 people injured at Allan.
tic City by the collapse Of the old casino.
Sporting; Cornell beaten by Trinity hall -
Henley for Grand Challenge cup.
II. Obituary Miolan Carvalho, famous French
prima donna and the original Marguerite,
at Dieppe.
Convention: Convention Of the United Soci.
cites of Christian Endeavor opened in Bos-
ton.
a. Obituary: DR.. Norton S. Townshend.
emeritus professor of agriculture in the
state university. at Columbus, o. /; aged e.
10. Fire: Steamer Cibola burned ut Lewiston,
n. Y; loss, about $3.50, Co.,
l6. Fire; Business portion of Alta Vista wiped
out by fire; loss $4,000.
Obituary: Stambuloff, ex-premier Of Bull
garia, by assassination, at Sofia; aged 10.
II. Fire: fireman killed and IL injured at
fire in Cincinnati; property loss. $3.50. 900.
IS. Obituary: Charles Emanuel Schenck ex.
president of Switzerland, at Bern; aged 70.
Convention: Fifth international convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union Of
America opened in Baltimore.
PERSONAL Henry Irving. Walter Besant and
Lewis Morris knighted by the queen.
p. Fire; $4,000 loss by burning of an oil mill
in Chicago.
Disaster: $50 lives lost by steamboat collision
III the gulf of Genoa.
q. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Alexander n. Rice Of
Massachusetts, died at Melrose. Prof Ru-
dolf Gneist, eminent German scholar and
professor, instructor Of the reigning KAT
ser, at Berlin; aged 60.
"a. Fires: Y. NJ. c. A. building in Washington
burned; loss, $1,000. Ironton tO.) water
works destroyed by fire; loss, 500, 00C.
Obituary: James Bum. chief of the Shinne-
cock Indians, at Southampton, n. Y; aged
about s.. Rev. Edward Beecher, one of the
famous seven brothers. in Brooklyn; aged
92.
%. Obituary: DR.. Anthony Wilson Thorald,
bishop Of Winchester, at Surrey, England:
aged 20
Is. Obituary: Col Alfred NJ. Wood, mayor Of