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

loss, $4,000.
IA. Fire: At Plattsburg, No., the courthouse
and all the buildings on one side OK the
public square destroyed by fire: loss about
100000. Pressed brick works burned at
Glen Carbon, Ills. /: loss nearly s250,00O
Obituary: James w. Scott, editor and pub
Usher Of the Chicago Times Herald in New
York city: aged As. Prof. James Dwight
Dana Of Yale, at New Haven; aged 81
Is. Obituary DR.. John p. Blackmar, promi-
nent Prohibitionist. at Springfield, Mass
Earthquake: Heavy shocks in Italy and Aus
tria.
10. Obituary: Hon. Leveritt Saltonstall, prom
inent Democratic leader, ut Brookline,
Mass.
49, Obituary: r. c. Wckliffe, ex-governor OF
louisiana at Shelbyville, Ky. Granville
Perkins, the artist, in New York city; aged
Is.
The fifth international convention Of the
Young woman's Christian association open
ed in Pittsburg.
10. Obituary: Charles X. Knox the well known
New York halter, in that city; aged II.
90 Sporting: Eddie Bald lowered tie cycling
record "a second in California by riding
mile in 2:OA
q. Fire: Fire in the school of arts at Chalons-
sur Marine, France, destroyed exhibition
models and machines valued at 1,OO0,oOJ
francs.
Obituary: Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the
novelist, in Albany aged 10.
22. 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
Vcrnont's most prominent citizens, at st.
.Joinsbury.
Personal. Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt appoint
ed major general by the president. Coils.
Zenos X. Bliss and John J. Coppnger were
tod 4r.1 hui, tiars 10
Miscellaneous; Nat Jones' veteran spec1l-
1ator of the ''Big Four, 2" died in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, first wife of the well
known New York Publisher, died at Sho-
kan, y. y.
Is Fire The Mcdonald tobacco factory burn
ed in Montreal; loss, 500, 600; several fatal
tiles: p persons injured
Obituary Henry H. Scott prominent citi-
zen and leading Democrat of San Francis.
60, in that city.
90 Obituary Levi B. Taft an eminent Michi-
gan j,lrist, at Pontiac; aged 20.
10. Obituary Gustav Freitag the popular Ger
man novelist, author of ''Soll und Haben''
and other notable books, at Wiesbaden aged
70
l. 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 5. B. Hayman, a
veteran Of the Mexican and civil wars in
Houstonia, No. aged 70.
Miscellaneous: Third annual congress Sons
Of the American Revolution began in Bos-
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 10 deaths.
s. Disaster: American Powder company's
mills near Concord, Mass, blown up; 5
killed. Sioux City, Ia, and other towns
swept by tornado; over go killed.
| s. Obituary: James Kelly, a Cook county pio-
neer and one of the founders of the Chica.
go Tribune, at winnetka, Ills.
| 6. Fires: New Carlisle. o., had $4,000 fire.
Strauss & Sons tannery and other proper
| ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss,
$4,000.
| Obituary: Ex-Gov. Robert S. Green of New
| Jersey, at Elizabeth, y. j. aged "a.
! Z. Obituary Field Marshal Gen. Won Pape,
| distinguished Prussian veteran and mill
tary governor of Berlin, in that city aged
S.
| 8 Obituary: Ex-Gov. James A. Weston, at
| Manchester, n. H; aged 6S.
| Convention; The thirty first international
| convention Y II. C. A. of North America
| met at Springfield. Mass.
| 0. Obituary: Gilbert Elliot, constructor of the
noted Confederate ram Albemarle, in New
York city aged -.
| 10. Obituary Gen. Joseph Cotton, who served
in the Confederate army, at New Haven
/ aged So. Gen. Charles Sutherland, ex-sur-
geon general. U. 5. A, in Washington:
aged 65.
| II. Obituary: Ex-Gov Ira J. Chase of Indiana,
| at Lubec Me-; aged 81.
/ l2. Fires: Fire at Port Huron, Mich, destroy
! ed grain elevator and -four mill: loss,
| s211G.9. At Pratt City, Ala. the city hall.
4 hotel and church and ~ dwellings were
| destroyed by fire.
| Obituary Julius II. Seelye, ex president OF
Amherst college, in Amherst; aged II.
/ Chief Whrlwind. noted Cheyenne warrior,
died at Fort Reno, o. T.
! IA. Convention: The sixteenth annual conven-
ton of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
sociarion 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.
Amy L. ;. N, retired, in Washington;
aged 81. Peter Il. Burnett, first governor
Of California, in San Francisco: aged 67.
10. Fire: 10 business places and 100 dwellings
destroyed in ST. Adams, VT: loss. $3.50, 900.
Obituary: David 5. S. Samis, the well
known Fire Island boniface, in Babylon,
n. y; aged Z. Hiram Barney, collector
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in
that city; aged 81.
p. Fire At Angelica n. Y, stores, opera
house and other property burned loss,
100000.
Obituary; Franz Suppe, the s'Austrian
Otfenbach," composer of tBoccacciun etc.
in Vienna; aged -. DIR. Mary Harris
Thompson, founder and head surgeon of
the Chicago Hospital For Women and Chill
dren, in Chicago; aged &c.
Disaster: Explosion at Pinole, Cal, of 5000
pounds of nitroglycerin and 2,oO0 pounds
Hercules powder IA men killed; loss $780,
oOo.
Miscellaneous; The income Tux declared I'M
constitutional by a 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 1860, at Washington;
aged 81.
Is. Obituary: John A. Morris, race horse own
err and capitalist, Kerrville. Tex.
q. Obituary: Henry Lindley Fry, noted wood
carver, near Cincinnati; aged IS.
%. Fire: 36 business houses and dwellings
burned at Pattonsburg, Mo-. loss, $l00 1000
Obituary: Walter Quinton Gresham, secre-
tary of state, at Washington aged 90.
Conventions: The SEVENTEEN anniversary
meeting of the American Unitarian asso-
citation held in Boston. The American
Baptist union began its eighty first ami
versary convention ut Saratoga.
Shipwrecks Pacific Mail steamer CoIima ran
upon reef off Manzanillo, Mex, during a
gale; 1856 persons drowned. French steamer
Dom Pedro wrecked off the Spanish coast ;.
100 lives lost
d. Obituary: Gen. G. NJ. Mitchell, Union vet.
eran at Charleston, Ills. ; aged 60.
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