The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-01-06

survivor Of the civil war. died At valpar.i.
SO; aged %.
q. Disaster: A Hudson River railroad express
plunged into the river near GArrisons, n.
Y; 20 killed, many injured.
Convention: The biennial meeting Of the
worlds ". c. T. U. opened in Toronto.
6hipwreck: Steam schooner Caspar wrecked
OF Point Arena, Cal. Is sailors drowned
n Obituary: Prof Francis Turner Palgrave
Of Oxford university; aged r.
3 Destructive storm on the Atlantic coast
from Long Island to Hatteras.
Obituary: John Sartain, artist and cngraver
OF repute. In Philadelphia; aged S.
q. Fires: Offices Of the Wabash railroad burn
ed in st. Louis: loss, $780, 900 The woelsel
Co.'S immense tannery at Morris, Ills, de-
stroyed; loss, se25 900.
Obituary: The Duchess Of Teck. Princess
Mary Of Cambridge, at Richmond, Eng
land. Thomas g. Alvord. noted New York
politician, in Sy racuse; aged 81.
Reunion: The twenty ninth annual meeting
Of the Society Of the Army Of the Ten
nessee begun in Milwaukee.
q Fire: Sturgis grain elevator burned at Buff
falo; loss over $D0, 900
Conventions: The national convention Of the
". c. T. U. opened at Buffalo. Annual
meeting Of the Association Of Collegiate
Alumne opened at Detroit.
q. Obituary: Henry George. social reformer.
In New York city; aged s. Sir Hercules
Robinson, former chief commissioner of
Cape Colony, In London; aged 7a
30 Accident: 8 miners suffocated in the Dia
mond shaft at Scranton, Pa.
NOVEMBER.
l. Union Pacific railroad sold at Omaha to re-
organization committee for S., ,564, ,9i276
Col J. R. NJ. Chard. V. c.. hero Of Rorke's
Drift, died at Taunton England
8. Fire: Central hotel and Cory block burned
at Marlboro, Mass. loss. &15O,OD.
Accident: killed and II injured in the
peake and Ohio railroad near Charlottes-
vile, Va
Obituary: Gen. Thomas L. ClinRham, noted
Confederate veteran. at Morgantown, N.
c. DIR. 8. r. Sheffield. inventor OF the
tooth crown, died in New London. Conn.
dent Of Brazil.
q. Fire: $l00, 900 fire at Texarkana. Ark.
Z. Obituary: Cornelius O'Connor, California
capitalist, in San Francisco; aged CO.
Fires: Hotel San Marco at St. Augustine,
Fla. burned; loss. O.0OO. A sl5O. 900 blaze
in Louisville.
Shipwreck: Transit steamer Idaho foundered
on Lake Erie; 10 sailors drowned.
8. Obituary: Gen. James c. Duane, U. s. A,
retired, in New York city. Rear Admiral
Alexander Calder Rhind, U. s. N. retired,
a noted war veteran, in New York city;
aged rs.
Q. Convention: The annual general assembly,
Knights Of Labor, began at Louisville.
10. Fire: Large machine works burned at Mid
dleboro. Ky; loss. 100000.
Criminal: Mrs Augusta Mack, companion
OF the accused murderer Martin Thorn,
appeared as Il witness against Thorn at his
trial in Long Island City.
II. Fire: The "Lion" department store burned
in Milwaukee; loss. $780, ,OOO
Obituary: John Bognald Burgess distin-
guished painter, in London; aged c.
l3 Sporting: The annual football game be-
tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge,
Mass, resulted in tie; score, 0 to 0.
Obituary: Henry C. Dorr, brother Of Thomas
Wilson Dorr of "Dorr' s rebellion" memory,
in New York city; nged a. Homer A.
Hubbard. a wealthy pioneer OF Chicago, in
that city; aged %. John NJ. I.angston. IA
NOUS colored lawyer. congressman and
diplomat. first American negro elected to
offlce, in Washington; aged g.
IL Obituary DR.. Thomas Wilson Evans, known
throughout the world US 1.-the American
dentist in Paris" friend of Napoleon LII
and Empress Eugenie, in Paris; aged ~
lh Obituary: Nine. Verdi, for 90 years the
consort Of the famous composer, died at
Rome.
le Business troubles: The Delta County bank
of Delta, Colo, suspended.
Obituary: Robert N. Steele. capitalist and
railroad promoter. ut St. Johns, Mich. :
aged IS.
II. Obituary: Rev. George Hendricks Hough-
ton, rector of the Church Of tho Transfigu
ner"), in New York city; aged a.
Miscellaneous: Terrific gales and shipwrecks
in the Mediterranean. German warships
landed troops and guns in China with hos
tile intent.
10. Fire: Steamer Bluff City Of St. Louis
burned at Chester. Ills. loss. sl0O, 600.
| 10. Fire: In the business portion Of London !;
loss, s25, ,0OO, 900.
20. Obituary: Prof. Henry Calderwood Of Edin
burgh university in Edinburgh; aged 81.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at football
in New York score 6 to O.
| q. Obituary: Prof. william Seymour Tyler.
formerly Of Amherst college. at Amherst
Mass. aged 81. Gen. Albert Ordway, u not
ed Federal veteran, in New York: uged S.
Is. Fire: 30 buildings burned at Pensacola Fla. !;
loss, $4,000.
Sporting Michael defeated Starbuck in u Is
mile cycle race at Madison Square Garden,
New York; time, bOm 20 lbs.
Obituary: DIR. Miner Raymond. the oldest
theological instructor in the United States,
at Evanston Ills.; aged 10.
%. Political riot in Vienna.
DECEMBER.
| l. Personal: Justice Stephen Field retired
from the bench of the United States su-
preme court after A years service.
Accident: 81 coal miners killed in an explo-
sion at Homburg, Bavaria.
| 2. Obituary: Judge d. D. Belden, one Of Colo
radios pioneers, at Denver; nged 70.
| 3. Fire: The Brick" Pomeroy block and an
opera house burned at Lacrosse. Wis. /: loss.
500 CO.,
Sporting: S]osson won the final game in the
billiard tournament in New York city over
Schaefer. Ives, Daily and Sutton.
I. Obituary: Ado1ph Neuendorf, well known
German musical composer and director. in
New York city aged 81.
Accident: killed AMI injured in trolley
collision at Birmingham, Mich
| 6. Obituary: Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins,
well known writer. near New York city /;
aged 60
Q. Obituary: Louis Mayer. a noted musical
artist and composer. in st. Louis; aged So
.. NJ. De Fourtou. French statesman. died in
Paris
8. Dr. Campbell Morfitt. distinguished Ameri-
can chemist in London, died in that city.
Q. Obituary: william Blakely. English comic
actor. known in America. in London. Rear
Admiral Joseph F. Green, u. y. n, retired,
in Brooklne, Mass; aged 50.
| 10. Obituary: Hon. Charles Fleishman, noted
Ohio politician, capitalist and turf patron.
in Cincinnati aged G3.
IL. Orion Clemens, brother Of Mark Twain who
was "forty miner" and q picturesque lit
erary character, died at Keokuk. In.
! II. Obituary: Gardiner q. Hubbard, noted in
Washington public life, in that city; aged
Is. Nancy Allison Mckinley, mother Of the
president, at Canton, o. aged s.
| Sporting Charles ". Miller Of Chicago won
the six day cycle race in New York, beating
Hnle's worlds record by scoring 2. .0s3 miles
| 4laps; Rice came in second. Schinneer third
and Hale fourth.
| Fire: firms burned out On Chestnut street,
Philadelphia loss, $4,000
| T. Obituary: Charles Butler, president Of the
U-ion Theological seminary and a noted
lawyer, hnancier and philanthropist, in
Eew York city aged 9s.
| Gen Justus McKinstry. a noted public man
| Of St. Louis, in that city aged g.
| "a Shipwreck: Schooner Susan 2. Thuriow.
wrecked On Gushing island, OF the Maine
coast 6 sailors drowned
| ID Fire: At Marshalsown, la. loss. 3l3o. Zoo.
Accident: killed in a head collision at
| Fort Smith, Ark.
Obituary: Alphonse Daudet, the French au-
thor, in Paris: aged S.
| II. Fire: Hotel Dakota and other properties
burned At Grand Forks y. d. loss, $50. :
Coo.
| Sporting: "Kid' Mccoy defeated DAN Cree
don, the Australian. for the middleweight