Connecticut western news., 1898-01-27
CLOSING EVENTS OF '97
sEPTEM BIER.

Obituary: Col George Bliss, well known lawyer and veteran of the civil war, at Narragansett Pier; aged o7. & The members of the Jackson. .Harmsworth expedition returned from Franz-Josef Land after spending winters there Explosion: people killed and 25 or 90 wounded by explosions of natural gas in Broad Ripple, Ind
 d Fire { warehouses burned at Philadel phia. loss. S25O,oO0.
 '. Explosion: 6 men killed by the explosion of nitroglycerin at Cygnet, O. 8. The treaty of annexation ratified by the Hawaiian senate.
 Q Accident; IS persons killed and 10 injured by railroad collision at Emporia, Kan. The Sons of Veterans began a national en campment at Indianapolis.
 Business troubles: J. R. Willard & Co. oi New York made an assignment; liabilities reach Sl,0O0OO0.
 10 Accident 3O persons killed and is5 injured in a railway collision near Newcastle, Colo Miscellaneous. From l4 to 2O miners killed and 4O wounded by posse of deputy sher ifs at Lattimer, near Hazleton, Pa. Mrs Antonio Terry, wife of the noted Cuban millionaire, died in Paris Il. Obituary Justice John sedgwick. at Nor folk. Conn; aged 8S
 Shipwrcck 2 Of the crew of the British steamship Polyphemns drowned in col hsion in the Red sea. i2. Accident men killed and injured in railroad wreck at Hanson, l. n A Conventions The International Associa ton of Police and Telegraph Superintend ents met Tn annual session in Nashville The supreme lodge of the Knights and La dies of Honor. opened its eleventh annual meeting in Detroit.
 Tornado Sabine Pass Tex, wrecked by Q tornado. lO dead and many missing. lh Fire. Big -four depot and several factory buildings destroyed by fire at North Man chester. Ind. loss, s70,00
 Miscellaneous: members of a gang of rob bers were lynched in the public square oi Versailles, Ind President Diaz of Mexico was assaulted. but escaped unharmed. l6 Fire John Logan's stock barn, fine horses and a number of vehicles burned al Ioungstown O.. loss, t75,Ooo l7. Accident 5 men killed in a collision oi freight trains near Chippewa Falls, Wis- IS Obituary George Waldron, one of the sur vivors of the "noble six hundred" fin the famous charge at Balaklavn, at Montreal aged 7s. Henry W Sage, the great bene factor of Cornell university, at Ithaca, Y.; aged S9 90 Fire: The lumber mills of Hull Lumber company, at Ottawa, destroyed; loss, sOO. Ooo
 9 Shipwreck. Boat No. 20 sunk of Cuxhaven, Hamburg: of her crew. including the commander, Duke Frederick William Meek lenburg- -Schwerin, drowned. Fire: The works of the Youngstown to.D Bridge Co destroyed; loss, $l0O.co0 Hurricane: 70 persons killed and 70 injured in Italy.
 Obituary: Gen. Bourbaki, the commander of the Imperial guard in lsf0, at Bayonne, France.
 The American Forestry association met ir Nashville.
 ga Fires: Most of the business buildings fir Bainbridge, O., destroyed; loss s5o,oOo The John Gund Brewing Co. 's plant at La crosse, Wis, destroyed; loss, s300.0oo. The Star Coal Co. s No. mine at Braidwood. Ills. destroyed: loss s75,ooo . The annual conference of the German Bap lists of the east begun in New York city. Obituary: Judge c. B. Kilgore, m adjutani general in the Confederate army, at Ard more, l. T.: aged O. Hezekieh D. Sharpe an old time aboliiionist and one Of tue founders of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, at Brooklyn; aged So. A Obituary James Lane, known as "Unclt Jimmy" Chicago's oldest resident, at Chi cago: aged l0l. 26 Obituary: Aeronaut James Allen, tho fa nous balloonist of war times and father oi four skilled and daring balloonists, ip South Providence; aged 75 26 Obituary: Michael H. Cross, the distin guished musician, at Philadelphia: aged G4 The new North German Lloyd steamer VII helm der Crosse, from Bremen and South ampton. broke the westward record from Southampton by 26 minutes. H. Obituary: Capt. Quinton Campbell, an old time newspaper man of Chicago and vet eran of the civil and Indian wars, in Chi cago; aged 6d George M. Robeson, Presi dent Grants secretary of the navy, al Trenton; aged 06. 29. Fire: At Ironton, O.; loss, t40o0oo. The Spanish cabinet resigned. 30. Fire; Power house of the Capital Traction Railway Co. burned in Washington; lost over xl.0O00oo.
 OCTOBER. l. Sporting: Star Pointer lowered the racing record at Chicago by pacing mile fin 2 :0O51. ?. Obituary: Gen. Neal Dow, Federal vet eran and the father of the Prohibition movement, at Portland, Me. aged g0. JU seph Proctor, veteran actor. In Boston, aged Sl.
 B Fire: loo buildings burned at Austin. Tex. loss, S200,O00
 Sporting: starbuck defeated Michael in a g mile cycle race at Philadelphia. ( Fire: Hotel Fayette, a fine summer resort at Minetonka Beach, Minn., destroyed by fire
 Disaster: deaths in a railway crossing ac cident at Willow Springs, Mo. 6 Obituary: Sister Gonzaza, the oldest sis ter of charity in the United States, in Phil adeiphia; aged so Disaster: schoolgirls and teacher burned to death at Plankinton, s. D. o Fires 4le IOlnSOO DiOCk uuTnC1 tiON derson, Ky; loss, S5J,000; l4 business buildings burned at Medorn, Ills; loss. sl0O,OO0
 Obituary. William A. Stiles. editor of Forest and Stream. in New York city. Sir John Gilbert, noted painter and Illustrator, ir London, aged 30 Chief Skenadore of the Oneida Indians, at Seymour, Ills. aged S9, Disaster: Over 5000 deaths in a typhoon ir the Philippine islands. 7 Fire: buildings. including an opera house. burned in Detroit; loss, S610,0oo. & Fires An xSU,OOO fire at Portland, Or. Tit Second Presbyterian church burned at La fayette, Ind. Obituary: Rear Admiral John Brady Clitz U. s. N, retired, in Washington; aged 70 Q. General Pulger, noted Venezuelan warrior. statesman and philanthropist. died at Ca racas.
 10. Obituary; Thomas whiffcn, actor. in Hert ford. England.
 l3 The jury in inc famous Mrs. Atkinson cas, in West virginin failed 10 agree. Senoritt Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the Cuban girl Who escaped from prison in Havana, arrived in New York. IA tobacco warehouses and sdwellings burn ed al Durham, N. C.; loss, S25O,0o0. IS Disasters The dome of Robinson's Opera House in Cincinnati fell during perform ance. s persons killed, GO injured. F. Fires The town of Windsor, N. B., wiped out and S,UO0 people homeless; lose s3,00o,' uOo. A eo0otpSJ iaSAofg iu -NSN hoIh city
 Obituary; Charles A. Dana, editor of tho New York Sun, at Glen Cove, N. Y.; age, fs
 Shipwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked o1 the Cuban coast; about l50 lives lost. Obituary: Admiral John L Worden, D. B. N, retired, the Monitor hero. Washing ton: aged s9. John w. Hague. V n known actor, in Boston; aged 5S. l9 Obituary; George Mortimer Pullman, the palace car magnate, in Chicago; aged 6d o. P. Caylor. we'll known writer on base ball, died at Winnnn, Minn. %. A SIOO. .uoO lire at osceola, Ark. 2i. Miscellaneous: The hundredth anniversary of the launching of the war frigate old Iron sides celebrated in Boston. 22 Business troubles: W. c. Hitchcock & Co.,. importers, assigned in New York city ha bilitios. xl,OoJ,UO0. The Fowler Cycle Go. of Chicago, assigned; liabilities, s500.0oo Obituary: Justin Winsor, historian and Flora rian of Harvard university, in Cambridge; aged bd.
 Miscellaneous: Princeton university's me morial day commemorated. Uncle Charlie Decker, an Indiana pioneer and tho oldest survivor of the civil war, died at Nalparsi so; aged 70.