Connecticut western news., 1897-01-07
FOOTPRINTS OF TIME.
Review of the Leading
 Events of 1896.
FEBRUARY.

FEBRUARY. 8. Obituary: Stephen B. French. noted Re publican politician, in New York city aged C.. Hillory Butler. pioneer settler on Puget sound, at Seattle; aged 71. Shadrack Inman, a noted Georgian in At lanta; aged S5. {. Obituary: George Nicholson of the New Orleans Picayune, in that city. 5. Obituary: Prof. Loisette, teacher of men, tai culture. in San Francisco. 6. Disaster: Bridge over the Pequatuck river, near Hartford, washed away and 9 work men drowned.
 Obituary: Gen. John Gibbon, U. g. A., re- tired. in Baltimore: aged 6s. Harry How ard, chief of the old volunteer fire depart ment of New York, in that city; aged 7I. l. Obituary: William Heyden English, well known capitalist and politician. in InCi- annapolis; aged n. Charles Wachsmuth, the worlds greatest paleontologist in crinoids, at Burlington, Ia- aged 68.
 Bound Brook, N. J., swept by fire and flood. 8. Fire: West Virginia state normal school at West Liberty burned.
 9. Obituary Jean Auguste Barre, distinguish ed French sculptor, in Paris; aged S5.
 Reinhold Rost, IL. D., high authority in oriental literature. in London. To- Obituary: Sanford Hunt of the Methodist Book Concern, in Cincinnati; aged 70. 2. Miscellaneous: Etienne Chatelaine, aged 109 years, died at Ontario. Isaac Murphy. a negro, famous as jockey, died at Lex ington. Ky.
 Obituary: Allen Dodworth. noted New York band leader. at Pasadena, Cal: aged 7S. Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas, celebrat- ed musical composer. in Paris; aged S4. IS. Disaster: 70 people drowned by the sink ing of ferryboat at Brisbane Australia. Obituary: Rev. Theophilus Jones, the oldest Welsh Baptist minister in the United States, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. aged s6. l5 Fire: At Greensville. N. C.; loss, sl5O, 0OO. Obituary: Mrs. E. K. Nicholson (Pearl Riv- ers) of the New Orleans Picayune. in that city. F. Fires: Factory burned at Troy, N. r.: about 30 working girls killed. The Buckeye Glass works burned at Martins Ferry, O. IS. Disasters: Over co miners killed by an ex- plosion at Newcastle. Colo. 30 deaths in a fire at a masked ball at Santarem. Portu- gal.
 Personal: Mrs. Amelie Reeves Chanler, the American novelist, married to Prince Trou- betskoi of Russia.
 l9. Disaster: Hundreds of houses wrecked al Johannesburg, South Africa, by dynamite explosion; over loo deaths. %. Personal: Sir John Everett Millais elected
 president of the Royal academy. ?. Obituary: Edgar Wilson Nye, the popular American humorist, near Asheville. N. c. aged 4S. Ex-Gov. George D. Robinson oi Massachusetts, at Chicopee; aged 6. 8. Fire disaster: deaths at the burning oi mansion in Baltimore's fashionable dis trict.
 Obituary: Hon. George Davis, who was at torney general of the Southern Confeder acy, in Wilmington, N. O.; aged 16 24. Obituary: Henry c. Bowen of The Inde pendent, in Brooklyn; aged S3 25. Fires: A s200, 900 blaze at Binghamton, N Y. Grace Street Baptist church burned a' Richmond.
 Obituary Gen. David Morrison, a Fedora war veteran. in New York city; aged 63 Rear Admiral Joseph Fyffe, U. s. N, re tired. at Pierce, Neb. aged 64. a6. Obituary: Arsene Houssaye. celebrated French writer, in Paris: aged Sl. | 2T. Fire: 15 business places burned at Flor ence, s. O.. loss, sl00,0O0. Obituary: Gen. Madison Miller, veteran O. the Mexican and civil wars, in St. Louis aged 87.
 l. Fire: The village of Colcsville, Mono coun ty, Cal, wiped out by fire. Riotous demonstrations in Spain against tn United States. | 2 Obituary: Charles Carleton Coffin, war cor | respondent and author, at Brookline | Mass. aged g. Baron Talleyrand- -Perigord ex-senator of France and diplomat in Par is; aged 55. Judge John W. Armstrong. | pioneer lawyer on the coast, in San Fran | cisco; aged 62.
 | 8. Fire: l5 buildings burned at Danbury | Conn; loss, sl50,0O0. | Obituary: Dr. W. P. Palmer, antiquarial
 and writer, in Richmond.
 1. Obituary: Prof. John Krsus, pioneer il | kindergarten work In New York city
 aged sl. Peter Richard Kenrick, forme
 archbishop of St. Louis, in that city; age | 90. Dr. Hiram Corson, specialist an
 writer on medical treatment, at Plymout
 Meeting, Montgomery county, Pa.; aged Q. 5. Gov. Frederick T. Greenhalge of Massa
 chusetts, at Lowell, Mass. aged s4. | RuSiuess troublaS. Dan TalmaCa's Sons
 rice dealers, suspended in New York city Obituary: Philip J. A. Harper. retired Sen
 for member of the firm of Harper & Bros
 at Hampstead, N. Y.; aged 12-
 :. Obituary: James H. McYicker. vetera
 theatrical manager, in Chicago; aged [. 8. Rear Admiral Henry Wake, U. $. N., Tt
 tired, in Brooklyn; aged ss. l2 John s. Hoey, famous shot, died at Lon l Branch.
 IA Sporting: The American team won the ir
 ternational chess match by cable; score
 Az to 1s games.
 Obituary: Col. Thomas H. Nelson, ex-U.
 minister to Chile and to Mexico, at Terr | Haute, Ind. aged 76. | l8. Explosion: The Laf1in & Rand Powde
 works ct Ripton, N. F., wrecked by th
 explosion of 5000 pounds of powder; | employees killed
 | l9. Fire: The Masonic building burned
 Providence; loss, $5O0,0O0.
 %. George Richmond, portrait artist, died. 2l. Fire: Plant of the Pennsylvania Salt work
 at Natrona. Pa, burned: loss, s1, ,0o0. 900. ?. Obituary: Lady Isabel Burton, widow | Capt. Sir Richard Burton, in London
 Thomas Hughes, author of ..Tom Brown
 School Days" at Brighton, England; age
 T2.
 23 Fire: % houses burned at Colon, Colombi Jennie R. Kimball, manager of the kimbs
 Opera company, died at St. Paul. 24 Mine disaster: 14 miners killed by gas e | rlneion the Rprwind White mina
 Dubois, Pa.
 5. Gen. Thomas L. Casey, U. s. A., retire.
 in Washington; aged 65.
 26- Obituary: President Hippolyte of Hait
 aged 60. Fowler H. Wray, inventor,
 Nashua, N. H.; aged =.
 B. Fires: At Waterbury, Conn.,; loss, s2Oo, ,0t
 Pleasure Ridge distillery burned ne
 Louisville; loss, 1925, ,0Co. :. g. Fire: Weston, ". Va, suffered to the e
 tent of nearly s5O0,oOO.
 ! % Obituary: Ex-Goy. Thomas Seay of Al
 bama, at Greensboro. Rabbi Aaron Wis in New York city; aged 5.
 APRIL
 l. Fire: 10 deaths in a burning tenement
 Brooklyn.
 Explosion: killed and several wound |, by a boiler explosion at Greenyille, Miss Financial: The Chinese Anglo German lo
 of Gl6,0 900 closed in London.
 2 Fire: Docks and warehouses valued at $40 . GOO burned at Brunswick, Ga
 Obituary: Benjamin T. Tweed, educat
 and author, at Cambridge, Mass; aged Augustus H. Hoppin, well known illustl 5 tor and cartoonist, at Flushing, N. Y. g. Obituary: Michael Sullivan, one of the ol
 est and best known engineers in the Un
 ed States, in Chicago; aged 55- !, 6. Personal: Ex-President Benjamin Harris l., welded Mary Scott Lord Dimmick in N . York city.
 z. Fire: At Douglass, Ga. loss, s125,000. 8. Fire: At Savannah; loss, s175,000. 10. Obituary: Col. John A. Cockerill, the W = known American journalist, at Gail
 Egypt; aged 46. Gov. John E. Jones of
 vada, at San Francisco; aged 55
 Count von Kotze mortslly wounded Bar
 von Schradcr in pistol duel at Berlin. II. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Thomas N. Holt If North Carolina; aged 65. T. l3 Personal: Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, the not ? Confederate veteran and former govern sr of Virginia, nominated consul general