Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-31


preacher and theologian, January III; Mar
quis of Queensbury noted author of the
rules on pugilism, January 81; John Ruskin,
critic author and philosopher. February .:
Geo. w. Stevens, war correspondent with
British troops in Ladysmith, January .,
Duke Of Teck, January p; Commander J.
sentative Sidney Epes Of Virginia March 2:
Representative Alfred c. Harmer of Penn
sylvania, March 6; Bishop Hennessy Of Du-
buque, Iowa, March 4; Leslie E: Kelley,
February 81; ex-Representative w. s.
King. founder of the Minneapolis Tribune.
February "a: J. E. Phelps, ex-minister to
England. March O.; Cardinal Canossa, March
3; Rev. Charles Boynton, April Z: f. E.
Church. landscape painter, April Z; Commo-
dore William K. Mayo. U. S. N, April 8;
ex-senator Phietus Sawyer of Wisconsin.
March %; George H. scripps, newspaper
publisher. April 13; Ex-Governor Stone of
Mississippi, March 20; Rev. DR.. Peter Stryk-
er. March %; H. E. Taubeneck prominent
..vwer, U. S. A., March p; Rev. DR.. 1. NJ.
Wise, noted Jewish rabbi. March "a; Arch
ibald Forbes, noted war correspondent,
March 20: Gen. P. J. Joubert of the Boer
army, March 81; Osman Pasha. famous
Turkish general, April 4; Lady John Scott
Spottiswoode, composer of Annie Laurie,
March 10; Field Marshal Sir Donald Stewart,
of the British army, March 20; Major Gen
eral Woodgate of the British army, Janu-
airy "A; General Silas NJ. Bailey, May D;
Rev. Charles Beecher, April 81; Charles
Blauvelt, artist, April IA; ex-Representative
D B. Culberson of Texas, May {; Henry
Demas. noted negro politician, april 10;
William C. Endicott, Secretary of War in
the cabinet Of President Cleveland, May 6;
Rev, Dr. Henry Melville Jackson, Epis-
rocal bishop coadjutor Of Alabama, May s.;
Owen E. Leech, former director of the
mint, May 1; Benjamin Northrup, editor,
April 10; General Allan G. Rutherford civil
war veteran, April %; Richard Storrs Will
lis, poet, May Z; Duke of Argyll. April 80;
Mihaly Munkacsy, famous painter, May l.;
Rev. A. j F. Behrends, May %; F. B. Car
penter, portrait painter, August 6; stephen
Crane, war correspondent June ); Lucretia
Peabody Hale, authoress, June II; ex-Sena-
tor N. p. Hale of Colorado, May %; Colonel
Wickham Hoffman, civil war veteran, May
y; Rev. DR.. John c. Lowrie, May 81: Major
former commander-n-chief G. A. r.. May
Is; Stephen W. Romano, famous steeple
climber, June 5; DR.. E. o. Shakespeare,
NJ D., June /; William E. Sheldon. author
April Is; Rev. DIR. Richard Salter Storrs,
famous Congregational divine. June .;
Bishop r. H. Wilmer. Episcopal bishop of
Alabama, June IA; Mrs William E. Glad
stone, wife of the famous English states
son of the Iron Duke June 8; DR.. John
Ashurst, July 1; Henry Barnard, noted
educator. July ); Rear Admiral George
Chochran pay director, United States navy,
July 8; John Henry Gear. senator from
Iowa, July II: Colonel John Hamilton,
United States army. July 10: DR.. Charles
F. Macdonald United States consul at
miral John w. Philip, United States
navy. August %; Henry Walter Webb,
railroad man, June IS; David Dwight
Wells. author June 10; Prince de Joinville
of France June II; Count Michel Mura-
vaff, Russian minister of foreign affairs,
June 81; Gen. de Pulieux. famous in Drey-
fus trial, July 10; Lucius E. Chittenden,
register of the treasury under President
Lincoln, July %: William Clark. thread
manufacturers, August 6; ex-Gov. Jacob
D. Cox of Ohio, August 4: Representative
William d. DAILY of New Jersey, July 81;
Robert Dunlap. the halter, August 3; Jo-
seph Emerson. classical scholar. August A;
Col. w. NJ. Grosvenor, editor of Dun'S Review.
July 20; Rev Cyrus Hamin. D. D., August
s: Rev. j. A. Healy. Catholic bishop of
Maine, August Is: Coils p. Huntington,
railway magnate and capitalist. August ID;
Gen. P. II. Jones. civil war veteran. July
Is; Prof. James E. Keller, astronomer, Au-
gust ID; Col E. II. Liscum, L. S. A., killed
leading his regiment in an attack the
Chinese at Tien Tsin. July II; Luke Prior,
former United States senator from Ala
bana, August >: John Clark Ridpath. his
torian, July 81; r. X. Scott war governor
of South Carolina, August -: Ballard
Smith, journalist July 81: Prof Charles
nebable, educator, August Il; Rev. DR..
w. ID. Wilson. July 50; Gen. Zebulon York
con1eredate war veteran, August >: King
Humbert l of Italy. assassinated. July %;
eX-fresident Santiago Persz of the repub-
nc OF Colombia, August IL; Baron Russell
of killowen, lord chief justice of England.
august 10; Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Soma son OF Queen Victoria. July 80; DR..
j. NJ. Da Costa. physician, September II;
John ID. Flower, banker, August 10; Henry
Green, chief justice of Pennsylvania
T suar,1n court, court August IS; John ].
ihSalis, former United States senator
from Kansas. August 16; ex-Gnvernor
LleWeiiing of Kansas, September ;; VIII
lam Saunders, landscape gardener. Septem-
per II; Arthur Sewall. democratic candi-
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard. II. s N
September IA; Carl Rohl Smith. scul,.or
August %; Benjamin F. Tatum Buck 'rav,
lOrl, cowboy and rough rider, August IL;
gust 81: Major S. N. Clark, civil war VET
eran, October 8; DR.. j. C. Fairfax. Septem
Der y; DR. Hunter H. Mcclure. st ne
. van Jackson's surgeon in the civil war,
september ~; Gen John NJ. Palmer, can
dldate for President on the national (goid)
democratic ticket in 1896, September *:
Miss Elizabeth Van Lew. famous union
spy in civil war, September %; Maru11is cf
Butte, October 8; Gen. MARTINEZ Camnoc
marshal of Spanish army September ~:
marcus DAILY, turfman and copper mine
owner. November II; c. c. Everett of Har-
ward University, October II: Gen Rania.
min Flagler, October 3d. ex-Represontat;ve
John Little of Ohio, October Is; Lieufenant
Commander Stotteley Morgan, u. 3 n.
November 10: John Sherman. statesman,
October %; William Strong, ex-mayor of
New York, November 2; Henry Willard
noted financier. November II: Charles Dud-
ley Warner journalist, October DO William
l.. wilson, Postmaster General under Pres
ldent Cleveland, October II: Max Muller.
phiiologist. October %; Charles H. Howl
playwright. November 20; Rear Admiral
Roger N. Stemble, U. s. NJ November -:
Martin Irons, labor agitator, November ~:
Cmted States Senator Cushman K Davis
OF Minnesota, November p; former
United States Senator ]. L. M. Irby of
South Carolina. December 10; Representa-
tive Wise of Virginia, December q: ex-
Governor Wolcott Of Massachusetts, De-
cember %; John Addison Porter, formerly
secretary to the President, December Is.
DISASTERS.
Chinatown, in Honolulu was entirely de-
stroyed by fire January 90 The board of
health of the city in attempting to burn
certain plague infected blocks let the fire
get ahead of them. No lives were lost
Fourteen lives were lost in a tenement
house fire in Newark N. j., March u.
Five persons were killed and twenty in
jured in railroad wreck near Plainville,
Conn.,, March 1.
A fire which caused damage to the extent
Of 100000 occurred In PHILADELPHIA March