Connecticut western news., 1898-02-03
CLOSING EVENTS OF '97
NOVEMBER.

Col. J. k. M Chard, " C.s hero or Rorket Drift. died at Taunton, England. & Fire: Central hotel and Corry block hurnet at Marlboro, Mass. : loss, SlJouJU. Accident: 1 killed and F injured in tn, wreck of vestibue express on the Chesn peake and Ohio railroad near Charlottes vile. Va.
 Obituary: Gen Thomas l.. Clingham. notet Confederate veteran, at Murgnntown, c. Dr. S R Sheffield. inventor of the tooth crown. died in New London, Conn. s Attempt to assassinate Dr Moraes, presi dent of B tZil.
 6 Fire. slUO.UOO fire at Texarkana, Ark. 2. Obituary Cornelius O'Connor, Californii capitalist, Tn San Francisco. aged a. Fires Hotel San Marco at St. Augustine Fla. burned; loss. s250.ooo A sl5O.Uo blsz, fin Louisville
 Shipwreck: Transit steamer Idaho founderet on Lake Ere: lg sailors drowned. s. Obituary: Gen James C. Duane. q. S A. retired. in New York city. Rear Admira Alexander Calder Rhind. U. S. N, retired noted war veteran. in New York city aged 70.
 @. Convention: The annual general assembly Knights of Labor. began at Louisville. 10. Fire: Large machine works burned at Mid dleboro, Ky; loss, sao0oto. Criminal: Mrs Augusta Mack companioI of the accused murderer Martin Thorn appeared a witness against Thorn at hi' trial m Long Island City.
 
 in Milwaukee,. loss, s2uOOOo. Obituary John BognAld Burgess, distin guished painter, in London; aged 6s. l9 Sporting: The annual football game be tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge Mass, resulted in a tie; score, o to 0. Obituary: Henry c. Dorr. brother of Thoma, Wilson Dorr of Doris rebellion" memory in New York city: aged v. Homer A Hubbard. wealthy pioneer of Chicago. 1T that city: aged "a John M. Langston, ia nous colored lawyer, congressman ant diplomat, first American negro elected [, office, in Washington; aged 6S- N. Obituary Dr. Thomas Wilson Evans, knowI throughout the world as "the American dentist in Paris" friend of Napoleon II and Empress Eugenie, in Paris; aged 74. la Obituary: Mme. Verdi, for 50 years tho consort of the famous composer. died n' Rome.
 l6. Business troubles: The Delta County banl of Delta, Colo, suspended Obituary; Robert M. Steele. capitalist Ant railroad promoter, at St. Johns. Mich. aged 65.
 l7. Obituary: Rev George Hendricks Hough ton, rector of the Church of the Trsnsfgu ration lthe Little Church Around the Cor ner'D, in New York city aged n. Miscellaneous: Terrific gales and shipwreck, in the Mediterranean. German warship, landed troops and guns in China with hos tile intent.
 I2 Fire: Steamer Bluf City of St. Lour burned at Chester, Ills loss, slcl0o0. l9 Fire: In the business portion of London loss, f25,o00,0O0.
 20. Obituary Prof Henry Calderwood of Edln buTgh university in Edinburgh, aged C.. Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at footbal in New York; score. 6 too q. Obituary Prof. William Seymour Tyler. formerly of Amherst college, at Amherst Mass. aged s7. Gen. Albert Ordway, not ed Federal veteran, in New Ycrk; aged 55 lui burnpd af loss, sl50.uy0
 Sporting: Michael defeated starbuck in a g mile cycle race at Madison Square Garden New York; time, Som. 29 It's. Obituary: Dr. Miner Raymond. the oldes' theological instructor in the United States at Evanston, Ills. aged Sd 28 Political riot in Vienna.
 DECEMBER. l. Personal: Justice stephen Field retired from the bench oi the United States su preme court after A years service. Accident: S7 coal miners killed in an erplo sion at Homburg. Bavaria. 2 Obituary Judge D. b. Belden, one of Colo rado's pioneers, al Denver: aged 78 8. Fire: The Brick" Pomeroj block and ar opera house burned at Lacrosse, Wis. loss s2OO.Uo
 Sporting: slosson won the final game in tn, billiard tournament in New York city over Schaefer, Ives, Daly and Sutton. A Obituary Adolph Neuendorf, well knowI German musical composer and director. ir New York city aged 5s.
 Accident; killed and ( injured in trolley collision at Birmingham, Mich. 6 Obituary Mrs Alice Wellington Rollins well known writer, near New York city aged 50
 6 obituary Louis Mayer, noted musical artist and composer. in St. Louis. aged b9 z. M. De Fourton, French statesman. died ir Paris.
 a r- ,,u.u...Auu Nsz~a., ssa..........hua 1. A...-. chemist in London. died in that city. Q. Obituary: William Blakeiy, English comic actor, known m America, in London. ReaI Admiral Joseph F. Green, U. 5. N, retired. in BrOokline, Mass; aged Sd 10. Obituary Hon. Charles Freshman, noted Ohio politician. capitalist and turf patron. in Cincinnati: aged 6S. II. Orion Clemens brother of Mark Twain W he was "forty miner" and picturesque ht erary character, died at Keoluk, la. l2. Obituary: Gardiner G. Hubbard noted ir Washington public life, in that city aged 65. Nancy Allison Mckinley. mother of thx president, at Canton. O. aged sS. Sporting: Charles W. Miller of Chicago won the six day cycle race in New York. beating Hale's worlds record by scoring 2,Ua9 miles tlaps; Rice came in second, Schinnesr third and Hale fourth.
 Fire: firms burned out on Chestnut street, Philadelphia: lyss. s750,0Oo l3. Obituary Charles Butler, president of the Union Theological seminary and n noted lawyer, fnancier and philsnthropist, in New York city aged e6.
 Gen. Justus McKinstry, a noted public man of St. Louis, in that city aged S2. l& Shipwreck: Schooner Susan F. ThurloN, wrecked on Cushing island, of the Maia,t coast; 6 sailors drowned. l6. Fire: At Marshaltown, In. loss, Sl3o0oo. Accident: killed in a head on collision a, Fort Smith, Ark.
 Obituary Alphonse Daudet, the French Ru. thor, fin Paris; aged 57. I7. Fire: Hotel Dakota and other properties burned at Grand Forks, N. D. !; loss, $50, ooQ
 Sporting: Kid" Mccoy defeated Dnn Cree don, the Australian, for the Iniddleweight championship in Long Island tirv