St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-12-27

don's home, the historic Sutherland burned.
%. Obituary: John Godfrey Moore, prominent
banker and exchange broker, in New York
city; aged 81. Henry B. Plant, founder OF
the Plant system, in New York city; aged so.
"a. Fire: At Laurel, Del. loss, 100000.
Obituary: Kapiolani, widow Of King Kalakaua,
at Honolulu; aged g.
2s. Shipwreck: Steamer Margaret olwill, founder.
ed off Lorain, Lake Erie; seamen lost
20. Obituary: Daniel +. Tieman, Oldest Of the
surviving ex.mayors Of New York city, at
Audubon Park; aged o.
Sporting: Harvard won three victories over
Yale at New London.
80. Obituary: Emma Dorothy Eliza Neyitte South
WORTH the novelist, in Washington; aged 80
Sporting: Charles Murphy, Brooklyn cyclist,
rode the fastest mile on record, paced by q
railway engine.
JULY.
/. Fires. In Brooklyn 10000 cotton bales burned
in storage. Bar Harbor the Kehoe Valley
clubhouse, golf and social resort, burned.
Obituary. Charles Victor Cherbuliez, French
academician novelist and critic, In Paris;
aged TO-
g. Fire: At Summit, N. j., property in the heart
OF the town valued at $l5O,OO0 destroyed.
Obituary: Gen. II. G. Wright U. s. A, retired,
in Washington; aged 70.
8. Dreyfus returned to France.
1. Fires: In Memphis the famous Gayoso hotel
and other property burned; loss, $45o0O0. At
Paris, Tenn, 20 buildings burned loss $780,
900.
s. Convention: Annual Christian Endeavor gath
ering at Detroit.
Obituary: Bishop John P. Newman, noted
Methodist divine and the friend OF Grant, at
Saratoga; aged 70.
Q. Fires: At Coulterville, CAL, the town de-
or
$4,000 loss by the burning Of a railroad ele-
vator.
Filipino War: 10 regiments OF U. s. volunteers
ordered to be raised for the army in the
Philippines.
Personal: Mary Wright sewall Of indianapolis
elected president OF the International Council
OF Women at London.
Obituary. Robert Bonner, founder and proprie-
tor Of the New York Ledger, in New York
city; aged rs.
| 7. Obituary: George W. Julian, noted western
statesman, at Irvington, Ind; aged 50.
TO- Obituary: The Grand Duke George, brother OF
the car and heir to the throne, at st. Peters
burg; aged 81. Judge Walbridge A. Field,
eminent Massachusetts, jurist and chief justice,
in Boston; aged OF.
| 16. Fire: Sl,000,0O0 worth OF uniforms and food
supplies destroyed at the Brooklyn navy yard.
II. Fires: Mount Vernon, Ind; 100000 loss.
North Bend, Ind, the Addystone foundry
burned; loss, 100000.
Is. Obituary: Col A. L. Hawkins, 10th Pennsyl
vania volunteers, on the way home from the
Philippines to San Francisco Horatio G.
Alger, famous author Of boys stories al
Natick, Mass aged 65.
10. Earthquake: Severe shock at Rome Mount
Etna in eruption.
Personal: Gen. Alger rendered his resignation
as secretary OF war.
Obituary: Elizabeth Thompson, noted philan
thropist, at Littleton, N. H.; aged rs.
20. Personal: President Mckinley accepted thu
resignation OF Secretary Alger, to take effec
Aug. l.
Obituary H.. X. Thurber, the retired New
York millionaire merchant, at HALEY, la.
aged TO-
81. Accident: o killed and injured by explosion
on British torpedo boat destroyer at Lon
don.
Obituary: Robert G. Ingersoll, at Dobbs Ferry
N. y; aged GO.
%. Personal: Elihu Root Of New York appointed
secretary OF war.
%. Fire: At Toledo; loss OF 100000 by tn
burning Of wheat elevator.
"a. Obituary: The Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Sawyer
noted Universalist writer and educator, II
Boston; aged 95.
rs. Obituary. Gideon ]. Tucker, an old time poll
tician and journalist, founder OF the Ne'
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~ ooituary' EuZilah pianeo' on'e p'e''ueA'
Venezuela, in Paris.
~. Accident: niied anu 20 ihIuieu III 'Aie
slide on the Erie at Lackawaxen, N. Y.
81. Storm The wheat section around Hamilton
N D. damaged to the amount Of $3.50, 900 b
hail.
Obituary: Kate Chase Sprague, daughter
Salmon T. Chase, noted washington Deile i
wartime, in Washington; aged 30. Daniel 1
Brinton noted ethnologist and physician,
Atlantic City; aged ".
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