The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-01-08
The Record ola Year.
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UikDtTt. pdlutC IL ~ ttpt ia
London; aged 50. Chief Skenadore of tho
Oneida Indians, at Seymour, Ills. aged SO.
Disaster: Over 6,09O deaths in a typlioon in
the Philippine islands.
Z. Fire: Z buildings, including an opera house.
burned in Detroit; loss, 1900.
8. Fires: An $50, 900 fire at Portland, Or. The
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 Whifen, actor, in Hert-
ford, England.
Is. The jury in the famous Mrs. Atkinson case
in West Virginia failed to agree. Senorita
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the Cuban
girl who escaped from prison in Havana,
arrived in New York.
Ii. { tobacco warehouses and 8dwellings burn
ed at Dur-am, N. c.: loss, s2JO,O00
Is. Disasters: The dome of Robinson's Opera
House in Cincinnati fell during a perform
snce: 5 persons killed. 90 injured.
II. Fires: The town of Windsor, N. s., wiped
out and 1900 people homeless; loss, $780,
600. A $500 600 factory fire in New York
city.
Obituary: Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sun. at Glen Cove, N. Y: aged
IS.
shlpwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked of
lle IuUdU GOiSl lDUut ~ lives lOSt.
Obituary Admiral John l.. Worden, u. 8.
N, retire., the Monitor hero, Washing
ton: aged 70. John ". Hague, VIII known
actor, in Boston; aged So.
10. Obituary: George Mortimer Pullman, the
palace car magnate, in Chicago; aged 81.
o. P. Caylor, we'll known writer on base
ball, died at Winona, Mimi.
20. A s100, 900 IRE at Osceola, Ark.
81. Miscellaneous: The hundredth anniversary
of the launching of the war frigate Old Iron
sides celebrated in Boston.
@. Business troubles: W. G. Hitchcock G. Co..
importers, assigned in New York city liz
bilities, 100000. The Fowler Cycle Co.
of Chicago. assigned; liabilities, $500, 900.
Obituary: Justin Winsor, historian and libra
rian of Harvard university, In Cambridge;
aged 66.
Miscellaneous: Princeton university's me-
mortal day commernorated. Uncle Charlie
Decker, an Indiana pioneer and the Oldest
survivor of the civil war, died at Valparai-
SO; aged SO.
%. Disaster: A Hudson River railroad express
plunged into the river near Garrisons, y.
Y; 20 killed, many injured.
Convention: The biennial meeting Of the
worlds ". C. 7. T.. opened in Toronto.
~Shipwreck: Steam schooner Caspar wrecked
of Point Arena, Cal. Is sailors drowned.
~ Obituary: Prof. Francis Turner Palgrave
of Oxford university aged 70.
d Destructive storm on the Atlantic coast
from Long Island to Hatteras.
Obituary: John S~artain. artist and engraver
of repute, in Philadelphia: aged SO.
q. Fires: Offices of the Wabash railroad burn.
ed in st. Louis; loss. 5000, 600. The Woelfei
Co.'S immense tannery at Morris. Ills. de-
stroyed: loss, SIZE, 900.
Obituary: The Duchess of Teck, Princess
Mary Of Cambridge. at Richmond, Eng
land. Thomas G.. Alvord. noted New York
politician, in Syracuse; aged 81.
RoYrnion Tho tv-o> WV, 1900
of the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee begun in Milwaukee.
e. Fire: Sturgis grain elevator burned at Buff
falo; loss over SEQ eco
Conventions: The national convention Of the
W.. c. T. U. opened at Buffalo. Annual
meeting of the Association OF Collegiate
AluInne opened at Detroit.
%. Obituary: Henry George. social reformer,
in New York city: aged 50. Sir Hercules
Robinson. former chief commissioner Of
Cape Colony. in London; aged 73
90. Accident: 6 miners suffocated in the Dia-
moni shaft at Scranton, Pa.
NOVEMBER.
!. Union Pacific railroad sold at Omaha to re-
organization committee for $57, So, 90. rs.
Col. }. 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, $l5O, 600.
Accident: 4 killed and II injured in the
wreck of a vestibule express on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad near Charlottes-
vile, Va.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas L. Clingham, noted
Confederate veteran. at Morgantown, N.
C. DR.. 8. r. Sheffield, inventor of the
tooth crown, died in New London, Conn.
5. Attempt to assassinate DR.. Moraes, presi.
dent Of Brazil.
.. Fire: $1,000 o fire at Texarkana. Ark.
2. Obituary: Cornelius O'Connor, California
caDifqliaf in San Franoisco. oooI an
Fires: Hotel San Marco at st. Augustine.
Fla. burned: loss. s250, 600 A $50. 900 blaze
in Louisville.
Shipwreck: Transit steamer Idaho foundered
on Lake Erie: 10 sailors drowned.
& Obituary: Gen. James c. Duane. u. 8. A.
retired. in New York city. Rear Admiral
Alexander Calder Rhind. u. s. n, retired,
. noted war veteran. in New York city;
aged rs.
.. Conventions: The annual general assembly.
Knights of Labor. began at Louisville.
40. Fire: Large machine works burned at Mid.
dleboro. Ky; loss. 500. 900.
Criminal: Mrs. Augusta Mack, COMPANION
OF the accused murderer Martin Thorn.
appeared as a witness against Thorn at his
trial in Long Island City.
IL. Fire: The Lion" department store burned
in Milwaukee,; loss, 100000.
Obituary: John Bognald Burgess. distin.
guished painter. in London; aged GS.
1S. Sporting: The annual football game be-
tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge,
Mass, resulted in a tie; score, 0 to G.
Obituary: Henry G. Dorr, brother of Thomas
Wilson Dorr of "Dorr's rebellion memory,
in New York city; aged n. Homer A..
Hubbard, a wealthy pioneer of Chicago, in
that city aged 70. John M. Langston, ia
nous colored lawyer, congressman and
diplomat. first American negro elected to
Office, in Washington: aged 90.
IA. Obituary DR.. Thomas Wilson Evans, known
throughout the world as .the American
dentist in Paris. friend of Napoleon LII
and Empress Eugene, in Paris; aged "a.
Is. Obituary Nine Verdi, for 80 years the
consort of the famous COMPOSER. died at