Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-31

I. Sporting: Requital won the Flight Stakes
At Ghespshead Bay.
Z Obituary: Col. George Bliss, we'll known
lawyer and veteran Of tho civil war, at
Narragansett Piar jagged O..
Z Tho meNSegs Of the jackson Harmswofth
expedition TexS5ned from Franz-Josef Land
after pendips winters there.
Z Explosion: people killed and q OF 90
wounded BY explosions Of natural gas In
Broad Ripple, Ind.
& Fire: warehouses burned at Philadcl-
phia; loss, &2i0,0o0
:. Explosion: men killed by the explosion
Of ,nitrcglycerin at Cygnct, o.
e. The treaty OF annexation ratified By tho
. Hawaiian senate. p
q Accident: Is persons killed and 10 injured
by railroad collision at Emporia. kan.
The Sons of Veterans began q national en-
campment at indianapolis
Business troubles: ]. n. willard 3 Co. Of
New York made an assignment; liabilities
reach 81, 100000.
10. Accident: 80 persons killed and ls5 injured
In railway collision near Newcastle, Colo.
Miscellaneous: From II to 30 miners killed
and 70 wounded by posse Of deputy sher-
ms 1t Lattimer, near Hazleton, Pa. 4rs
Antonio Terry, wife Of the noted Cuban
millionaire, died in Paris.
II. Obituary: Justice John Sedgwick, at Nor
folk, Conn; aged g.
Shipwrcck: q Of the crew Of the British
steamship Polyphcmas drowned in col.
ision in the Red sea.
Il. Accident: men killed and injured in q
railroad wreck at Hanson, L T.
Il Conventions: The International Associa-
tion Of Police and Telegraph Superintend-
ents met in annual session in Nashville.
The supreme lodge Of tho Knights and Ia =.
dies OF Honor, opened it's eleventh annual
meeting in Detroit.
Tornado: Sabine Pass, Tex, wrecked by .
tornado; 10 dead and many missing.
Is Fire: Big -four depot and several factory
buildings destroyed by fro at North Man.
chester, Ind. loss, $4,000.
Miscellaneous: members Of q gang of rob
bcrs were lynchcd in tho public square Of
Versailles, Ind. President Diaz Of Mexico
WINS assaulted, but escaped unframed.
10. Fire: John A. Logan's stock barn, 8 finc
horses and q number Of vehicles burned ut
Youngstown, o.; loss, $4,000.
II. Accident: 8 men killed in a collision Of
freight trains near Chippewa Falls. Wis.
Is Obituary: George ,waldron, one Of the sur.
vivors Of tho "noblc six hundred" in the
famous charge at Bolaklnvn, at Montreal;
nged - Henry ". Sagc, tho great bcnc.
factor Of Cornell university, ut Ithaca, n.
"; aged 20.
30 Fire: The lumber mills Of Hull Lumber
company, at Ottawa, destroyed; loss, $780,,
900. -
2. shipwrcck: Boat No. 2osunk of Cuxhavcn,
Hamburg; 8 Of her crew, including the
commander, Duke Frederick william Neck.
lcnburg- Schwcrin, drowned.
Fire: The works Of the Youngstown (O)
Bridge Co. destroyed; loss, 100000
Hurricane: 10 persons killed and 20 injured
IN Italy.
Obituary: Gen. Bourbaki, tho commander Of
the Imperial guard in 1870. ut Bayonne,
France.
The American Forestry association met in
Nashville.
q. Fires: Most Of tho business buildings in
Bainbridge. o., destroyed; loss $4,000
Tho John Gund Brewing Co. s plant at La
crosse, Wis, destroyed; loss, $9O0,O00. The
Star Coal Co. 3 No. mine ut Braidwood
Ills., destroyed; loss, $4,000.
Tho annual conference OF the German Pap.
lists Of the east begun in New York city.
Obituary: Judge G. b. Kilgore, an ndjuta.t
general in the Confederate army. at Ard
more, !. T.; aged q. He.elxiah D. Sharpe
an old time nbolitionist and ono Ct tho
founders Of the Church Of the Pilgrims,
Brooklyn, ut Brooklyn; aged 60.
"a Obituary: Jnmes Lane known rs "Cncle
Jimmy" Chicago's oldest resident, at Chi.
cago; aged lOl.
% Obituary: Acronaut James Allen, the fa-
nous balloonist of war times and father Of
four skilled and daring balloonists, in
South Providence; nged Is.
90 Obituary: Michael II. Cross, the t.istin.
guishcd musician. Mt Philadelphia; nged "a.
Tho new North German Lloyd steamer Viii
helm der Crosse, from Bremen and South.
ampton. broke the westward record from
southampton by 20 minutes.
q. Obituary: Capt. Quinton Campbell, IN old
time newspaper man Of Chicago and vet.
eran of the civil and Indian wars, in Chi
capo; aged GO. George NJ. Robson, Prcsi.
dent Grants secretary Of the navy, at
Trenton; aged CO.
20. Fire: At Irorton, o. i; less, s4O0,00O
The Spanish cabinet resigned.
%. Fire: Power house Of tho Capital Traction
Railway Co. burned in Washington; loss
over 100000.
OCTOBER.
I. Sporting: Star Pointer lowered the racing
record Mt Chicago by pacing q mile in :0Ol 4.
9. Obituary: Gen. Ncnl Dow, n Federal vet.
eran and tho father of the Prohibition
movement, at Portland, Ne. f.; aged CO. Jo-
scph Proctor, veteran actor, in Boston
aged 81.
q Fire: 100 buildings burned at Austin, Tex. /;
loss, $4,000.
Sporting: Stnrbuck defeated Michael in %
mile cycle race at Philadelphia.
4. Fire: Hotel Fayctte, a fine summer resort
at Minetonka Beach, Mimi, destroyed by
fire. az
Disaster: deaths in q railway crossing &C.
cidcnt ut Willow Springs, Mo.
& Obituary: Sister Gonxaza, the oldest sis.
ter Of charity In tho United States, in Phil.
adclphia; ngcd s5.
Disaster: schoolgirls and q teacher burned
to death at Plankinton, 8. d.
g Fires: The johnson block burned at Hen.
derson, KY; loss, $4,000; 10 business
buildings burned at Me1ora, Ills. loss,
100000
Obituary: william A. Stiles, editor Of Forest
md Stream. in New York city. Sir John
Gilbert, noted painter and illustrator, in
Oncidn Indians. at Seymour, Ills. aged 50.
Disaster: Over 5000 deaths In typhoon in
the Philippine islands.
Z. Fire: buildings, including IN opera house,
burned in Detroit; loss, $4,000.
9. Fires: An $4,000 fire ut Portland, Or. The
Second Presbyterian church burned ut La
fayette, Ind.
Obituary: Rear Admiral John Brady Clitz,
U. 8. n, retired, in Washington; aged 70.
.. General Pulger, noted Venezuelan warrior.
statesman and philantbropist, died at ca.
racas.
10. Obituary: Thomas whiffcn, actor. in Hort.
ford, England.
Ii. The Jury in the famous Mira Atkinson case
in West Virginia failed to agree Senorita
Evsngelina Cossio y Cisncroe. the Cuban
girl who escaped from prison in Hayaua.
arrived in New York.
IA. tobacco warehouses and 8dwcllings burn.
cd ut Durham, N. G.. loss, $4,000.
IL. Disasters: Tho dome Of Robinson's Opcra
House in Cincinnati fell during perform
ancc; persons killed, 20 injured.