The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-04-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL FIRE IN MANCHESTER. DEATH OF BARON LIEBIG. A fatal fire occurred in Manchester on Saturday The death of Baron Liebig is announced. The, languished chemists. Baron von Liebig was born evening, in the house of a dyer named John event deprives Europe of one of her most disWCabe. M'Cabe, who resides in one of the most crowded parts of Ancoats, on returning to his house at Darmstadt on May 12th, 1803, and had, thereat nine o'clock on Saturday evening, found his wife fore, nearly completed his 70th year. Perhaps the drunk, and, after putting her to sleep on a heap of work by which, of all others, Baron Liebig is best straw, which was the only substitute for a bed in known in this country is his " Familiar Letters on the house, laid her two children (aged respectively Chenaistry." He was also the sole author of nearly three years and eighteen months) beside her, and three hundred, and the joint author from thirty to went out to look after two elder children, who bad forty, separate memoirs on chemical subjects which strayed. About an hour later the neighbours were have been published from time to time in the lead. startled by cries of " Murder " from Mrs. M'Cabc, ing scientific journals at home and abroad. and on entering the house found the bedroom filled He co-operated with M. Poggendorf in the with smoke, and the straw on fire. Mrs. M'Cabe Dictionary the eldest child were rescued, and sent to the six volumes at Brunswick, in the years of Chemistry published by him in Infirmary, where the boy died yesterday from the 11837-1856, and in a " Supplement " to the same effects of his injuries. Afterwards the younger !work in 1851-52; as also with M. Geiger in his child was found by a fireman, lying insensible Manual of Pharmacy. His services in the cause of among the debris of the straw pallet. This child 'science did not go unrewarded or unrecognised. In also died yesterday. Mrs. bl‘Cabe, who had suffered i 1845 the Grand Duke of Hesse made him an herevery slightly, is unable to give any intelligible ditary baron. He was elected foreign fallow of account of the cause of tho fire. most of the scientific societies of Europe and America that recognise chemistry. In 1840 he was elected to the Royal Society of Great Britain, and in 1861 he was named Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences at Paris. He was repeatedly invited to fill the chair of chemistry in English and Continental Universities and. was persuaded in 1852 to accept the Professorship of Chemistry in Munich, with the position of President of the Chemical Laboratory. In the year 1854 the sum of £lOOO was raised by subscription in Europe for the purpose of presenting Liebig with a testimonial of the high esteem in which his labours were held. Of this sum £540 was devoted to the purchase of five pieces of plate, to be sevetally held by the five children of Liebig; the remainder was presented to Liebig in the form of a cheque. tie paid several visits to England, where his name was a household word, and took an active part in the discussion on the utilisation of sewage. His leath took place at Munich on Friday afternoon.