Connecticut western news., 1897-01-07
CANAAN, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY T. 1897.

Obituary: Judgc Arthur ]. Borrnan, tho first
 governor of West Virginia at Parkersburg. 20. Obituary: Baron Maurice de Hirsch, noted
 tinancier and philanthI-pist at Presburg,
 Hungary; aged 6S
 2i. Obituary: NJ. Jean Baptiste Leon Say, cele-
 brated French statesman, in Paris; aged
 10.
 a2 Obituary: Gen. Noah L. Jeffries, Federal
 veteran and a lawyer of distinction, in Washington; aged 6S.
 g. Obituary: George Munro, the publisher,
 at Pine Hill, N. Y.; aged Il. Ezra Beaman
 Newton, veteran Shaker, at Harvard,
 Mass. aged lOl
 2l. Obituary: Ex-Gov. David H. Jerome of
 Michigan, at Watkins Glen, N. Y.: aged el.
 Dr. Phineas q. c. Hunt, a well known
 American dentist, at Indianapolis; aged 6S. 25> Fire: At Cripple Creek, Colo: business
 blocks valued at S2, 00o,o0o burned.
 Tornado: Clay county, Kan, devastated;
 people killed and many seriously injured 27 leaders of the national reform commit
 tee, including the American, John Hays
 Hammond, sentenced to death for high
 treason at Pretoria.
 SO- Fire: At Quincy. Ills, the Metz block and
 other properties burned; loss, SOu0OO.
 Sh;pwreck: British steamer Onno sunk by
 collision with the Neuchang near Shang-
 hai: Europeans and 25o Chinese drowned.
 MAY.
 1. Shah of Persia assassinated.
 Q Fire: Residence of Senator Hale at Els
 worth, Me-, burned.
 Obituary W. H. Doble, noted on the Ameri-
 can turf, in Philadelphia; aged Sd. Gen. O.
 NJ. Poe, noted veteran engineer. in Detroit;
 aged st.
 4. Obituary: Andrew s. Fuller, noted horti.
 culturist and entomologist, near Ridge
 wood, N. l.
 5. Disaster: Many lives lost by the collapse
 of story lodging house in Cincinnati. z. Fire: At Somerset, Ky; loss, $5o0,0O0. g. Fire: At Laure. Mich, lumber and ore
 docks valued at $500,00o destroyed. Obituary: Capt. J. D. Johnston, noted na- val veteran, in Savannah; aged S. 10 Fire: At Ashland, Wis, a,0C0,OO0 feet of lumber destroyed; loss, nearly $5O0,00O. Il. Obituary: H. c. Burner, editor of Puck, at Nutley, N. J.; aged fl. l2 9th annual convention of military sur geons opened in Philadelphia. 13 Obituary: Nora Perry, author and poet, at Dudley, Mass. i; aged S5. l5 Cyclone: Sherman, Tex, devastated; over l. 100 deaths.
 Obituary Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, U. $. N, retired, at Rocksville, Ind; aged =.
 l6. Fire: At Painted Post, N. Y.; loss, sl5O,ooO l7. Fire: At Blue Island. Ills; 26 buildings burned; less, nearly $200,0O0. Is. Fire: In Washington; loss, $20O,0Oo; ? fire men killed. missing. Obituary: Mrs. John $. c. Abbott, widow of the historian, at FishlxiL, N. Y.; aged s6 Otto Camphausen, noted Prussisn fnan- cier, at Berlin; aged S4 | l9. Obituary: Kate Field, lecturer and jour nalist, at Honolulu; aged 56. Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, st Vienna. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers began its 2lst annual session at Detroit. 20. Death sentence of the Transyasl reform leaders commuted. ni. Obituary: Ebenezer Nelson, veteran Bos- ton journalist, at Cambridge Mass. aged s2. Mime. Clara wieck Schumunn. widow of the composer and noted pianist, at Frankfurt on the Main; aged q. Gen. Sill verio Martinez, celebrated soldier of Mex ico.
 Conventions: The l08th general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United | States opened ill Saratoga The Southern Presbyterian assembly opened it Memphis. | % Obituary: Gen. Lueius Fairchild, in Mad ison, Wis; aged s. | a4. Cyclone: Iowa, Michigan and Illinois visit | ed heavy loss of life. Steamer swamped by the gale at Cairo; l3 people drowned. Obituary: Gen. John Echols, Confederate 1 veteran, at Staunton Va. | n. Fire: At Dallas; loss, Sl0o,0o0 At Fort | Worth, Tex: loss, slOO,UOO. | Cyclone: Oakland county, Mich., devastated l; | many deaths. \ 8. Disasters: An electric car crashed through | a bridge at Victoria, B. C.; 60 people | drowned. At Cairo, Ills, Il people were drowned by the capsizing of ferryboat. | Miscellaneous: Nicholas II crowned czar at | MOSCOW. Inc slSJ anniversary OI tHe ! American Unitarian association opened in | Boston.
 r. Tornado: Southern Illinois and eastern { Missouri devastated. In St. Louis the dam | age amounted to sl0 23o. 60; 321 buildings | were totally destroyed, 7.3I2 partially and ! l,aOO slightly damaged; deaths in St. Louis,
 s2T.
 %. Obituary: Mark II. Pomeroy. the journal | ist, in Brooklyn.
 2l Disaster: In a crush at the fetes of the czar | coronation at Moscow 1.2l0 people were | killed.
 Obituary: Dr. H. II. V. Miller, U. S. sena- | tor from Georgia, at Atlanta; aged e2. | William Taylor, veteran of the WET oi
 1872, in Baltimore: aged lU5. Angeline, | daughter of Chief Seattle of Washington
 and a heroine of tine plains, in Seattle.