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


at Sheepshead Bay.
2 Obituary: Col. George Bliss, well known
lawyer and veteran Of the civil war, at
Narragansett Pier; aged g..
: The members of the jackson -Harmsworth
expedition returned from Franz Josef Land
after spending winters there.
Explosion: people killed and 25 or 30
wounded by explosions Of natural gas in
Broad Ripple, Ind.
& Fire: 4 warehouses burned at Philadel-
phia: loss, $25O,OO
Z. Explosion: men killed by the explosion
Of nitroglycerin at Cygnet, o.
8. The treaty Of annexation ratified by the
Hawaiian senate.
q Accident: 13 persons killed and l6 injured
by railroad collision at Emporia, Kan.
The Sons Of Veterans began a national en-
campment at Indianapolis.
Business troubles: J. r. Willard b Co. of
New York made an assignment; liabilities
reach 81 10000
0 Accident: 30 persons killed and lS5 injured
in a railway collision near Newcastle, Colo.
Miscellaneous: From IA to % miners killed
and 40 wounded by a 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 SedSwick, at Nor
folk, Conn. !; aged IS.
Shipwreck: q Of the crew of the British
steamship Polyphemas drowned in a col
lision in the Red sea.
L. Accident: men killed and injured in q
railroad wreck at Hanson. l. T.
IL Conventions: The International Associa-
tion of Police and Telegraph Superintend
ents met in 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; 10 dead and many missing.
L. Fire: Big -four depot and several factory
buildings destroyed by fire at North Man
chester, Ind. loss. $4,000.
Miscellaneous: members of gang Of rob-
bers were lynched in the public square Of
Versailles, Ind. President Diaz Of Mexico
was assaulted, but escaped unframed.
16. Fire: John A. Logan's stock barn, 8 fine
horses and a number Of vehicles burned at
Youngstown, O.; loss, $4,000.
II. Accident: men killed in collision OF
freight trains near Chippewa Falls, Wis.
l8. Obituary: George Waldron one OF the
vivors of the "noble six hundred in the
famous charge at Balaklava, at Montreal
aged 73. Henry W. Sage, the great bene-
factor Of Cornell university, at Ithaca, N.
Y; aged So.
20. Fire: The lumber mills of Hull Lumber
company. at Ottawa, destroyed; loss, sl0O,
600.
q. Shipwreck: Boat No 26 sunk off Cuxhaven,
Hamburg; Of her crew, including the
commander, Duke Frederick william Meek
lenburg- -Schwerin, drowned.
Fire: The works of the Youngstown 20. }
Bridge Co. destroyed; loss, 100000.
Hurricane: 40 persons killed and 20 injured
in Italy.
Obituary: Gen. Bourbaki the commander OF
the Imperial guard in 1870, at Bayonnc,
France.
The American Forestry association met in
Nashville.
%. Fires: Most Of the business buildings in
cambridge, O., destroyed; loss $4,000.
The John Gund Brewing Co. g plant at La
crosse, Wis, destroyed; loss, $4,000 The
Star Coal Co. No. l mine at Braidwood,
Ills, destroyed; loss, $4,000.
The annual conference Of the German Bap-
lists Of the east begun in New York city.
Obituary: Judge C. B. Kilgore, an adjutant
general in the Confederate army, at Ard
more, l. T.; aged 62. Hczekiah D. Sharpe,
an old time abolitionist and one Of the
founders of the Church Of the Pilgrims,
Brooklyn. at Brooklyn; aged Sc.
"a. Obituary: James Lane, known as "Uncle
Jimmy" Chicago's Oldest resident, at Chi
cago; aged 10l.
25. Obituary: Aeronaut James Allen, the ia.
nous balloonist Of war times and father OF
four skilled and daring balloonists in
South Providence; aged 75.
g. Obituary: Michael b. Cross, the distin-
guished musician, at Philadelphia; aged "a.
The new North German Lloyd steamer Will
helm der Crosse, from Bremen and South
ampton, broke the westward record from
southampton by 20 minutes.
q. Obituary: Capt. Quinton Campbell, an old
time newspaper man of Chicago and vet
eran of the civil and Indian wars, in Chi
cago; aged Sc. George NJ. Robson, Presi
dent Grants secretary of the navy. at
Trenton; aged CO.
%. Fire: At 1ronton, o. loss, $40O, COO.
The Spanish cabinet resigned.
30 Fife: Power house Of the Capital Traction
Railway Co. burned in Washington; loss
over 81, 100000.
OCTOBER.
/. Sporting: Star Pointer lowered the racing
record at Chicago by pacing mile in O01
2. Obituary: Gen. Neal Dow, a Federal vet
eran and the father Of the Prohibition
movement, at Portland, Me. aged So. Jo
seph Proctor, veteran actor, in Boston
aged 81.
9. Fire: lCO buildings burned ut Austin, Tex.
loss, $aOO,0O0.
Sporting: Starbuck defeated Michael in a 2;
mile cycle race at Philadelphia.
4. Fire: Hotel Fayette, fine summer resort
at Minetonka Beach, Mimi, destroyed by
fire.
Disaster: deaths in railway crossing &C
cident at Willow Springs, Mo.
s. Obituary: Sister Gonzaza, the oldest sis
ter of charity in the United States, Ill Phil
adelphia; aged e5.
Disaster: schoolgirls and teacher burned
to death mt Plankinton, S. D.
9. Fires: The johnson block burned at Hen
derson, Ky; loss, s75D.000; 13 business
buildings burned at Mcdora, Ills. loss
100000.
Obituary: William A. Stiles, editor Of Fores,
and Stream, in New York city. Sir John
Gilbert, noted painter and illustrator, in
London; aged 50. Chief Skenadore Of the
Oneida Indians, at Seymour Ills. aged So
Disaster: Over 6,000 deaths in a typhoon in
the Philippine islands.
Z. Fire: buildings, including an opera house
burned in Detroit; loss, 500. 900.
8. Fires: An $4,000 fire at Portland, Or. The
Second Presby yterian church burned at La
fayette, Ind.
Obituary: Rear Admiral John Brady Clitz
L. s. N, retired, in Washington aged 20.
o. General Pulger, noted Venezuelan warrior
statesman and ph:lanthropist, died at Ca
racas
10. Obituary: Thomas Whiffen. actor. in Hert
ford, England.
l3. The jury in the famous Mrs. Atkinson cass
in West Virginia failed to agree. Senorit1
Evangelina Cossio Cisneros. the Cubar
girl who escaped from prison in Havana
arrived in New York.
a. tobacco warehouses and Sdwellings burn
ed at Durham, n. G.; loss, s250, 900.
Is. Disasters: The dome of Robinson s Opers
House in Cincinnati fell during perform
ance; persons killed, 90 injured.
IL. Fires: The town OF Windsor, n. s., wiped
out and 3, 900 people homeless loss, 50, 90,
OO0 $4,000 factory fire in New Yorl
city.
Obituary: Charles A. Dana, editor Of tht
New York Sun. at Glen Cove. n. Y. age.
70.
Shipwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked OF
the Cuban coast about lJ0 lives lost.
Obituary: Admiral John l.. Worden L. s.
N, retired, the Monitor hero. Washing
ton; aged 49, John ". Hague. " IL known
actor, in Boston; aged s.
10. Obituary: George Mortimer Pullman, tbs
palace car magna;e, in Chicago; aged Cd
o. P. Caylor, well known writer On base
ball. died at WinoHa. Mimi.
%. A 500, 600 fire at Osceola, Ark.
2l. Miscellaneous: The hundredth anniversary
Of the launching OF the " ar frigate Old Iron
sides celebrated in Boston
q Business troubles: ". G. Hitchcock e. Co.,
importers. assigned in New York city liza
bilities, 81. 600 The Fowler Cycle Co
Of Chicago. assigned; liabilities. $500, 0u
Obituary: Justin Winsor. historian and libra
rian Of Harvard university. in Cambridge
aged &c.