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

o. conventions. The National Dairy asso-
cation met in annual session at Washing
ton. The third annual session of butter
and cheese makers began at Rockford Ills.
8 Obituary: Ex-Jndge Richard O'Gorman.
once "a prominent Fenian, in New York
city aged "A.
MARCH.
!. Fire: Reno hotel burned at Norfolk Neb
loss, $65, COO
Disaster: rs killed, 30 injured on the Inter-
oceanic railway near the City Of Mexico
train down an embankment
=. Fires The business portion Of the town Of
Noche, y. D., burned; loss, s54, 600 China
company's works burned at Akron O. :;
loss $4,000. A s20o,0oG fire at Bethalto,
Ills.
Obituary: Prof John Stuart Blackic of the
= University Of Edinburgh, in that city aged
S..
3; Fire: a 81 80 900 fire in Toronto. the third
great conGagration in two months: a dozen
large business houses, hotel and church de-
stroyed.
4. Fires Electric power house burned at
Edgewater, His; loss, $1,000. $3.50, 90
loss by fire at saIina. Kan.
Obituary Colonel ". c. Coup, the veteran
Snowman. at jacksonville, Fla; aged g.
Rev. Daniel vroolnan, Il pioneer mission
AIRY of China, m San Francisco; aged Is.
Personal: Anna Gould, youngest daughter Of
the late Jay Gould, married Count de Cas-
tellane of France
s. Obituary: Col. David Ramsey clendennin,
a veteran distinguished In the cavalry
service. at Galeshure Ills. aged ID.
Disaster: Block of buildings destroyed by an
explosion Of natural gas at Anderson, Ind !;
loss, 500 90.
Personal william K. Vanderbilt, the noted
railway nagnaie and northumberland, d.
yorced by his wife on statutory grounds in
New York city.
8. Obituary; Edwin Forbes, well known
American artist and veteran war CORE
spondent with the Union armies, IN New
York city; aged Is.
Z. Obituary: Hyde Clark, famous iinguis.
and scientist, in London; aged 70.
8. Obituary Frederick L. Sickles. an engineer
and inventor, in Kansas City.
Disaster: The Cincinnati and New Orleans
packet Lon2tellOw struck channel span
OF the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati
and went down in minutes: lives lost
and about 10 people saved by tug.
IL. Obituary Cesare Canter, Italian historian
and Liberal, at Milan; aged 81. John +.
Temple, noted abolitionist, in Chicago
aged ~. Worth, the famous dressinaker,
in Paris. aged 10.
Commercial Travellers Mutual Accident as
sociation Of America held its twelfth annual
session at Utica, n. Y.
4
ed in Brooklyn; loss, S225, 900.
Strikers riot atNew Orleans; 5 negroes kill
ed at their work.
l3. Fire: Large buildings burned in Kansas
City; loss. 500, 00v.
l6. Fire: City hall at Saco, Ne, damaged $780,
90 by fire.
Obituary Rev. Dr. John W. Broadus. presi-
dent Of the Baptist theological seminary ut
Louisville. in that city; aged II.
II. Fires Rodgers a. Co. $ elevator and ware
house burned III st. Louis; loss. $.o0,Oo0 A
building occupied by newspaper and news
concerns burned at Cleveland; loss, $780,
90. men KILLED and injured at the
burning of the Wabash roundhouse in To
ledo.
Obituary: Capt ID. l. Ezekiel, president Min
ing exchange, in Denver.
49, Fire: Business block burned at Perry, O.
r.; loss, ST. 009.
49, Fire: Il buildings burned in Burlington,
Vt; loss $3.50 600
Obituary Gen. Adam Badeau. Grants mill
tary secretary biographer, etc., at Ridge
wood, n. J.. aged Is.
60 Fire: A $4,000 fire at Peoria, Ills.
Obituary: Gen. Philip ST. George Cooke,
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged
Disaster: 60 miners killed by an explosion at
Evanston. Wy.
PERSONAL Gen. Neal Dow. the apostle of pro
hibition, celebrated his ninety first birth
day.
p. Fires: $500. 600 worth of cotton burned in
the yards of the International Cotton press,
New Orleans Warehouse and elevator
burned at Sioux City, In. : loss, 500, 900.
Obituary: Prof. Henry Coppee, IL. D., of
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa. aged
a.
o. Obituary: Richard Vaux, prominent Phil
adelphian; aged 30
49, Disaster: deaths at fire in the st. James
hotel, Denver.
"a. Fires: Reeds packing plant in Kansas City
burned; loss, Sl.00000O. 2 hotels, a church
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich.
Political: III Hung Chang, China's peace en-
voy, shot by a Japanese in Simonoseki.
q. Fire: 20 business houses and other property
burned i'll Milwaukee; loss, 81, 000,0p0
Obituary: Prof. James E. Oliver, well known
mathematician at Cornell university, in
Ithaca, N. Y.
IS. Fires: 45 buildings burned at st. Angus
tine, Fla. So buildings burned at Canase
raga, N. Y; loss $l35,0C0.
30 Obituary: Arson G. Hessing, noted German
editor, in Chicago aged n. Mrs Paran
Stevens, noted leader Of society. in New
York city.
q Fire: The business portion of the city Of
ST. Charles destroyed by fire; loss, sl0O, 900.
obituary. 4DaNlu 0tOnes lOTIueEly eultJE
of The journal of Commerce, in New York
city, aged Is.
Disaster workmen killed and injured by
boiler explosion at Woburn, Mass.
g. Henry Harmon, noted abolitionist, at
Danielsonville, Conn; aged 81. Rev Bar
ton h. Cartwright a pioneer Methodist of
the west, at Oregon, Ills. aged 85. Jack
Wallace. once the wealthiest landholder in
Atlanta. died at Sherman Tex. Captain
Lauchlan Mckay, well known navigator
of the port, in Roxbury, Mass. aged 80.
l. Obituary: Elk Gov William R. Marshall of
Minnesota, at Pasadena, Cal. : aged TO-
S. Obituary: Thompson McDaniels, veteran
Of the Black Hawk war and pioneer of
Kansas City; aged 20.
8. Fire: The American Starch works burned
at Columbus, Ind; loss, $500, 900
Obituary: Anthony M. Cannon, leading
citizen Of the northwest, in New York city.
g. Fire: A 500, COO fire in the railroad works
at Winslow, A. T.
Obituary: Gov. Joshua H. Marvil Of Della
ware. at Laurel; aged 20 Gen. James L.
Kemper, ex-governor Of Virginia and q
leader OF one OF Pickett's brigades at Get
tysburg, in Orange county, Va. aged ".
Disaster: q miners killed ~ Gns explosion
at Lake Whatcom, Wash.
o. Obituary: Y. Jennings Demorest, founder
of Demorest's Magazine and. q leader in
temperance movements, in New York city.
aged r. Gen. r. A. Harris, ConfedersAe
veteran, at Locust Lodge. near Louisyflia
Disaster 2 Ere story buildings fell in Wheel
ING, burying 10 men in the ruins: 6 deaths Y