Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18
CANAAN, CONN. THURSDAY. JANUARY


 by the derailment of a trolley car near Bridgeport. Conn. r killed and B injured in telescoping accident at Juyisy, France. 200 excursionists at Mount Deseret thrown into the water by the breaking of a gsngplank; 20 drowned.
 I. Miscellaneous: Capt Davis Dalton, known as the champion life of the world. the hero of PTS rescues, drowned at Far Rockaway, N. Y. The Dreytus court martial convened at Rennes.
 timated at 5000 to 1000 and the property loss at $20, ,0oo. 900.
 e. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's forces ad- vanced from San Fernando and drove the in surgents beyond Angeles
 Obituary: Col. W. E. Sinn the theatrical man sger. at Pittsheld, Mass; aged e5. lo Fire: The Guild building and other properties destroyed at Dallas; loss, S25o, 900. 1s Fire: Yokohama swept by the largest con- fagration in its history; a square mile of buildings destroyed and 16 lives lost Obituary: Gen Edmund Lafayette Hardcastle veteran of the old army and a hero of the Mexican war, at Towson, Md; aged 75 Lix- Eie Macnichol. well known opera singer, at Chocorua, N. H. IA Maitre Labori. chief counsel for Dreyfus seri- ously wounded by a pistol shot from 8 would be assassin. l6. Fire: 27 buildings burned at Jamestown, N. T.; loss, $500, ,0o0
 Obituary: Prof. Robert Wilhelm Everhard Bun sen, distinguished German chemist, at Heidel- berg; aged SS. IL Walter Wellman and the survivors of his polar expedition arrived at Tromso. Norway, from Franz-Josef Land. Is Obituary: Gen. Thomas Alfred Davies. vet eran of the civil war, at ogdensburg, N. Y.; aged 90. Sir Charles Lennox Peel, K. c. B., a noted Conservative, at London; aged 76 70. Obituary: Isaac Mcclellan, known as the sportsmen's poet, at Greenpoint, N. Y.; aged e3.
 a1. Fire: At Victor, Colo, the business portion of the town destroyed; loss, S2. oo0.0Oo %. Sculptor Caspar Buberl died suddenly while working the Dewey triumphal arch in New York. 24. Obituary: Judge Henry Hilton, heir to A. T. Stewards riches, at Saratoga; aged IS 27. Giovanni Turini, a sculptor engaged in model ing on the Dewey triumphal arch, died sud- denly in New York. 2S Accident: g workmen killed by the falling of arches at the Chicago Coliseum. 30 Fire: At Tupper Lake. N. r., l6e buildings destroyed, causing loss of s150,0 900 ST. Fire: At Holyoke, Mass, the stationery estab- lishment of Parsons Green & Co. burned. causing loss of S6o0,0o0
 SEPTEMBER. 2 Fire: In Kansas City; loss, sa50ooo. 4 Convention: The thirty-third national en- csmpment c. A. R. met in Philadelphia '. Personal: Col. Albert D. Shaw. department of New York, elected commander in chief of the c. A. R.
 Fire: At Garden City. N. Y, the late A. T. Stewards pet scheme, the Garden City hotel, burned.
 Convention: The national encampment Sons of Veterans met in Detroit. & Obituary: Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking, U. s. N., veteran of the civil war. at Charles ton; aged 59. Stephen Dugger. one of Lin- coln's surviving friends at New Salem. Ind. at Sullivan. Ind; aged ST. James B. Eustis, ambassador to France under Cleveland, at Newport; aged 65.
 g. Dreyfus convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 14. Obituary: Cornelius Vanderbilt, head of the family in the third generation, in New York city; aged 56. IS Storm: Destructive hurricane in Bermuda. l6. Fires: At Seattle, Wash; loss, sl65, 900. At Lincoln, Neb., Masonic temple, St. Pauls Methodist church and several blocks burned; loss. $500, 900. IT. Fire: At Promised Land. N. F., the American Fisheries Go. burned out; loss, S50o,ooo. Riot: nonunion miners killed at Carterville. Ills.
 IS Fire: Farnham. N. T.. the business section wiped out; loss over $250, 900. 1o. Fire: At Lowville, N. Y., S250,000 loss in lumber plant fire.
 Disaster: 80 lives lost in the burning of the passenger steamer Montoya on Magdalena riv- CT, Colombia.
 Obituary: Charles Patrick Daly. noted justice
  20 Fire: At Hegeswich, Ills; loss, si5oooo. Earthquake: 1000 people reported killed at Aidn. Asia Minor.
 Miscellaneous: Harry W. Benton. the first 'sound" telegrapher in America, died at Denver at the age of 63. Dreyfus released on pardon
 Obituary: NJ Scheurer- -Kestner. former French senator and strong champion of Dreyfus in Paris: aged e6. fl. Fire: At Norfolk; loss of s2oo.ooo by the burning of hospital; deaths. Shipwreck: Loss of the Dominion steamer Scots. man in the strait of Belle Isle; If passengers drowned.
 z2. Fire: At Salem, Or; loss s15o.0oo by the burning of blaming mill. %. Accident: killed and 10 injured in a head on collision on the Rio Grande road at Reno, Colo. Filipino War: A naval force led by the cruiser Charleston bombarded olangapo, on Subig bay, and captured insurgent works. a. Personal; Julia Dent Grant married to Prince Cantacuzene at Newport. Obituary: John Sleeper Clarke, noted English coniedian, at Surbiton-on- Thames. | 25 Fire: At Tpton, Ind; s10o.oo0 loss by the burning of tin plate mill. | Obituary: Jared B. Flagg, noted American DOT trait painter, in New York city; aged SO. ] 27. Obituary: Gen. Henry Heth, noted Confeder ate soldier, in Washington; aged 74. | Earthquake: Island of Ceram; 5000 people l killed. | 29. Naval ard marine parade in New York bay | and Hudson river in honor of Admiral Dewey. | So. Reception and loving cup presentation tC | Admiral Dewey by Mayor Van wyck. followed 1 by military land parade. Fire: At Little Rock the State Deaf and Dumt Mute institute burned; loss. s1eo.o0o.