Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-29

city. at the age Of SIS.
=. Fire: Hardware and dry goods store
bilraed at Denison. Tex; loss. $500, 900.
Obituary: Moses P. Handy, wen known
journalist. at Berlin. Md; aged 81.
z. Tornado: 81 lives lost at Fort Smith.
Obituary: Mary Cowden Clarke, author
of Shakespeare Concordance. in Genoa;
aged 49,
A. Obituary: Rev. c. l.. Dodgson Lewis
CarrolD. author of Alice In Wonder
lanl, in London; aged S.
6. Obituary: Rt. Hon. G. P. Villiers, Pa
tller of the House of Commons, who
sat continuously from 1885, in London
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, U. S..
commissioner of patents. at Thomas
vile. Ga; aged 76. Gen. C. C. Augur,
veteran Of the Mexican and civil wars,
in Washington; aged n.
8. Obituary: Ella Bassett Washington,
great t-grandniece of George Washing
ton. in New York city.
3. Fire: 30 buildings burned at Ransburg,
CAL; loss $10O. 600
Obituary: Very Rev. Henry George Lid
dell. noted English clergyman and
Greek photographer. in London; aged
87
2. Foreign: Chamber of deputies in Paris
dispersed by a riot growing out of the
Dreyfus case
u. L
noted ex-Confederate, called the
brains of Morgan's cavalry corps, =
died at Frankfort, Ky. Cuban filibus-
tering schooner Tillie foundered off
Barnegat; men lost.
A. BattleShip Maine ordered to Havana.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. Michael j. Cramer
brother-in-law of Gen. Grant. at Car
Isle, Pa; aged 63.
S. Fires: Union elevator. filed with grain
hiIr f1aR in Il ock + q
000. 5 lives sacrificed and property
loss of $225.000 at the burning of the
Great Eastern block. Spokane Wash.
Conventions: National Stock Growers
convention began at Denver. Sd an
nual convention of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers of the United
States began in New York city
John Laird, the English shipbuilder
who turned out the Confederate cruis-
er Alabama, died in London.
Il. Gen. Aranguren, the Cuban leader
killed by the Spaniards..
70. Admiral Daniel Lawrence Braine, u
s. NJ, retired, died in Brooklyn; aged
69
FEBRUARY.
|. Fires: e. S. Rubber Co., at Nauga-
tuck, Conn. burned out; loss, 500, 600
In the burning of the Alvord House.
Gloversville, N. Y. 6 persons perished
Shipwreck: Channel Queen mail steam
ship. wrecked off the Isle of Wight; q
lives lost.
Storms: Blizzards in New England, the
west and Canada.
2. The Mcintyre block burned at Winni-
peg; loss, $500, 900.
g. Y NJ c. A. building burned at Scran-
ton, Pa; loss, S16o,0OO
5. 6 firemen killed by the collapse of a
burning building in Boston.
M. III
Aiken, S. c.; loss, $l40.0O0 Loss of
s35OO00 by flames in Savannah; the Ro-
man Catholic cathedral burned.
Z. The famous De LONE letter made pub
lic
g. Miscellaneous: George Lord the old
est Mason in the world, died at San
Bernardino, Cal, at the age of 81.
President Barrios of the republic of
Guatemala assassinated.
Convention; South and west CONNER
cial congress met at Tampa, Fla.
g. Fire: At Fort Worth, Tex: loss, $780,
900.
Accident: 20 people killed in a panic in
a synagogue at Idziencioi, Russia.
Convention: Annual assembly L. A. w.
held at st. Louis.
10. Fire: II deaths and property loss of
$1.50O 900 by the burning of storage
warehouse and other buildings in
PittSburg.
Obituary; Rev. DR.. William A. Hitch
cock, well known Episcopal divine. In
New York city: aged 64
Il. Fire: Polo Club building and Atalanta
casino. burned in New York city.
H. Spanish Troubles: Senior Polo Y Ber-
nabe appointed Spanish minister to the
United States to succeed De LONE.
Convention: 18th annual convention of
the National American Woman Suf-
frage association opened in Washing
ton.
l5 The U. S. battleship Maine wrecked
by explosion in Havana harbor; 266 OF
the officers and crew lost their lives.
L6 Ship Disasters: In the burning of the
British steamer Legislator at sea 6
sailors lost. French steamer Flacahat
wrecked off Canary islands: 81 lives
lost
I8 Obituary: Frances E. Willard, the well
known temperance advocate. in New
York city; aged SO.
Convention: Woman's national press
congress met in Washington.
T. Shipwreck: IS sailors drowned at the
wrecking of the British ship Asia off
Nantucket.
22 Convention: Continental congress
Daughters of American Revolution
met in Washington.
g. Conviction in Paris of Zola on charge
of libel in Dreyfus case; sentence.
years Imprisonment and a fine of 5000
francs.
IS. Fire: American Tobacco Co. of Louis
vile burned out; loss. $3.50, 600.
26 Fire: In a night fire at Charleston, s
c., 9 lives were lost.
Accident: An omnibus in Chicago col
lided with a Grand Trunk train;
passengers Killed.
a. Obituary: Gen. w. B. Taliaferro. ar
ex-Confederate and Mexican war vet
eran, in Gloucester county, Va: aged
76 William M. Singerly. the Philadel-
phia capitalist and editor. in that city.
aged &C.
g. Explosion: At the Kalamazoo Chem
ical works; 10 lives lost.
Obituary: John Thomas Scharf. histor.
ieal writer. who served in the Confed.
crate army, in New York city; aged So
MARCH.
/. Obituary: Prof. William A. Rodgers
of Colby university noted astronomer
aged 66.
g. Shipwreck: drowned by the capsizine
of the schooner Speedwell near Key
West.
S. Col Henry wounded by Col. Picquart
in a duel growing out of the Zola tria.
in Paris.
Foreign: China agreed to lease Pori
Arthur and Talien Wan to Russia for
SO years.
g. Obituary: Hugh j. Jewett, railway
financisr and manager, in Augusta
Ca: aged 81.
CaysIlette, popular Italian poet, killec
by tine editor of the Gazetta di Vene-
zia in a sword duel.
L Obituary: Gen. Nelson B. Sweitzer, q.
s. Al. retired, IN Washington; aged 65.
g. Fire: At Providence: loss, $150.000.
9. Spanish Troubles Bill appropriating
$50 OO0. 900 for the nsssional defense be-
came law.
TO- Obituary: George Muller. English phi
lanthropist. in London; aged 81 Sen.
e. L. Thomas an ex-Confederate Of
note, in Oklahoma.
H. Obituary: Gen. William Starke Rose
Grams. noted soldier Of the western
army at Los Angeles: aged 70.
l3. Fire: Disaster In Bowery lodging
house in New York city; II deaths.
a. Obituary: Henry Bessemer, the in
ventor of the Bessemer steel process;
aged S5
l6 Miscellaneous: Senator Proctor OF
Vermont told the senate of the Cubar
situation
IL. Obituary: Blanche K. Bruce, one of
the ablest colored men Of the nation,
in Washington; aged 81.
I8 Obituary: Matilda Joslyn Gage. noted
woman suffragist: aged H.
Mining Disaster: Explosion in the Santa
Isabel mine at Belmez. Spain; go killed.
20 Shipwreck: Bark Alma capsized out
side the Golden Gate. Cal, drowning
1S sailors and 27 TlondIke gold seekers.
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