Great Events Of 1893

Between Jan. 21 and Nov. 8, 1893, there were 29 serious railroad accidents in the United States, resultinj? in the death of 230 people and the injury of 627. There were several fatal cyclones on land and sea during the year, many marine disasters and au unusual number of destructive flres. Boaton was visited by two large flres, one of them in the old burned district. Chicago was also swept by a large flre. Many distinguished names appear on the.obituary list. The year has also been made notable by the World's fair and a great number of conventions and congresses. Following is a condensed diary of the most important events arranged by months and days: JANUABY. L Fires: Bingharnton, N. Y., Bayless' paper mili; loss, 860,000. Emporia, Kan., dry gooda store destroyed; loss, $85,000. 2. Fire: Denison, Tex., dry goods store; loss, 875,000. 5. Fire: Memphla; loss, 8175,000. Obituary: Mrs. Martha Joan Reade Nash Lamb, historian, in New York city; aged 54. üilbcrt Pillsbury, once a prominent abolltion leader. In North Abingdon, Mass.; aged 79. 6. Fires: Omaha, Üie Omaha Printing company burnud out; loss, 8100,000. Pittsburg, several flres; losses, f236,000. Denver, Halleek building destroyed; loss, $290,000. Liverpool, 20,000 bales of cotton burnod in warehouse. 6. Obituary: ilaj. J. P. Frost of the Boston Globe, an old New Encland journalist, in Boston. C. A. Cappa, bandmaster of the Seventh New York militla, in New York city; ased 58. Miscellaneous: Wlckham & Co., Wholesale fish dealers, of Hurón, O., assigned; liabilities, $350,000. 7. Fire: Fall River, Mass., tho Troy building burned; loss, $135,000. 9. Fire: New York city, a six story building destroyed; loss, $250,000. 10. Fire: Boston, several warehousea burned; losses, $1,650,000. Obituary; Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, at Washington; aged 75. Disasters: Several men killed by the bursting of a flywheel in a Pittsburg mili. 22 minera killed by gas explosión at Como, Coló. 11. Fires: Chicago, several; losses, $250,000. Chateaugay, N. Y., 15 stores burned; loss, $150,000. 13. Flres: Kansas City; losa $245,000. Duluth, St. Louis hotel destroyed; loss, $100,000. 14. Obituary: Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett, a Union veteran and ex-minister to Sweden, in Baltimore; aged 59. Miscellaneous: Revolution in Hawali; Queec LJUuokalani deposed. 15. Obituary: Gen. Ruius Ingalls, U. S. A. (retired), in New York city; aged 74. 16. Personal: James Smlth, Jr., elected United States senator from New Jersey. 17. Fires: Chicago, the Calumet clubhouse destroyed; Iobs, $300,000. Richmond, Allen & Gintner's cigarette factory; loss, $250,000. Obituary: Gén. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, ex-president of the United States, at Fremont. O.; aged 71. Personal: Edward Murphy, Jr., elected Unitod States senator froin New York. 18. Disaster: A train dashed into a sletgh load of people at Lonsdale, R. I., killing 8, mal mini: 7. 21. Fire: Rochester, the McKay building destroyed; loss, $250,000. Disaster: An oil tank exploded on a wrecked freight train near Alton, Hls.: 21 killed and nearly 100 injured. 22. Fires: St. Ijouis, the Carondelet grain elevator destroyed; loss, $1,500,000. Elmwood, Ind.; loss, $100,000. 23. Fires: Clinton, Mo.; loss, $100,000. Indianapolis, grain elevator destroyed; loss, $100,000. Obltuary: Rev. Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts, in Boston; aged 58. 24. Fire: Sioux Falls, the Beehive building burned; loss, 200,000. Disaster: Fire damp exploded In a coal mine at Dux, Bohemia, killing 132 minera. Obituary: Justice L. Q. C. Lamar of the United States supreme court, at Macon, Ga.; aged 68. 27. Obituary: Hon. James Gülespie Blaine, in Washington; aged 03. Gen. Abner Doubleday. U. S. A., retired, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, at Mendham, N. J.; aged 74. Personal: John H. Mitchell, elected United States senator from Wisconsin. 28. Obituary: Gen. S. S. Carroll, U. S. A., retired, in Washington; aged 70. 29. Fire: Portsmouth, O., wheelworks destroyed; loss, $100,000. 31. Earthquake: The island of Zante, Greece. FEBRUART. L Fire: Little Falls, N. Y.; losa, $200,000. Miscellaneous: United States protectorate established in Hawaii. & Miscellaneous: Algernon Sartoris, hosband of Nellie Grant, died at Capri, Italy. 4. Fire: Fairport, N. Y., chemical works burned; loss, $200,000. 6. Fire: Peoría, Ills., warehouse of the Grape Sugar company destroyed; loss, $100,000. Disaster: Norwegian bark Allee went ashore at Long Brauch; 5 sailors drowned. T. Personal: Judge W. B. Allen, Populist elected United States senator from Nebragka. 8. Shipwreck: 38 people drowned by the loss of the British steamship Trinacria off the coast of Spain. 9. Fires: Dover, N. H., lunatic asylum destroyed; 44 deaths. Clarksville. Tex. block of stores burned; loss, $150,000. II. Disasters: 6 minera killed by a landslide in a tunnel at Villa Grove, Colo. 10 men ernshed to death by falling rocks at a mar ble quarry in West Rutland, Vt. lï. Flre: Nashvilla; loss of $284,000 in three conflagrations. Obituary: Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, in Louisville; aged 75. 11 Diaaster: 23 porsons burned to death at a carnival, dance at Deutsch Perez, Hungary 35. Political: President Harrison sent to the senate nis message recommeuding the an nexation of Hawaii and the treaty. II, Obituary: Rcar Admiral Augustus Ludlow Case, 17. S. N., In Washington; aged 80. 19. Obituary: George E. Spencer, ex-Unite( State senator from Alabama, in Washing ton. 20. Obituary: Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, the Confedérate veteran, at New Orlcans; age 75. Personal: Wi 11 1. j.oi N. Roach, elected United Statea senator froca North Dakota. 81. Fire: Louisvilla tobáceo factory burned loss, $230,000. 23. Obituarv: Huus Hatch, a well known stoel broker, in Ne .' Vork city; aged 54. Miscellaneou-. 3et:pre, Keogh & Davis Wholesale grocers, assigned in St. Paul; ia biUtiM over S40ü,0U0. 24. Mtecellaneous: The California capitalist John V. Mackii .Mmtand seriously wound Bd by an inane man. 25. Fire: Felton, Ga., planing mili burned; loss $150,000. 28. Disaster: Seven persons killed by the fall ing walls of a burned out store in Chicago. SIAKCH. I 2. Obituary: R. M. Bishop, ex-governor a Ohio, at Jacksonville, Fla.; aged 81. I 3. Sporting: Ed Smith defeated Joe Goddard 18 rounds, at New Orleans. 1 4. Fire: Ogdensburg, N. Y., the state insan asylum partially burned; loss, $150,000. i. Firee: Covington, Ky.; loss, $400,000; Pueblo, Coló., Lannon's foundry burncd; losa, $100,000. Obituary: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, French historian and critic, in Paris; aged 75. Gen. Thomas Reynolds, a unión vetcran, in Chicago. 6. Fire: Barberton, O., Kirkham's tile and pottery works destroyed; loss, 8200,000. Disaster: A hurrlcane caused heavy loss of life and property at Famatoy, Madagascar; 10 vcssels foundered in the harbor. Political: President Cleveland's cabinet offlcers nominated and conflrmed by the senate; Walter Q. Gresham of Illinois, secretar}- of state; John G. Carlisle of Kentucky, secretary of the treasury; Daniel S. Lamont of New York, secretary of war: Richard Olney of Massachnsetts, attorney general; Wilson S. Bissell of New York, post master genoral; Ililary A. Herbertof Alabama, secretary of the navy; Iloke Smith of Georgia, secretary of the interior, and Julias Sterling Morton of Nebraska, secrotary o( agricultura. 8. Earthquake: Shock feit In New York city. Sporting: Bob Fitzsimmons defeatcd Jim Hall, 4 rounds. for the middleweight championship, at New Orleans. 0. Fire: Boston, a $2,500,000 flre In the old burned district; 3 people killed and 30 inJured. Obituary: Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody, professor emeritus in Harvard nniversity, at Cambridge, Mass.; aged 82. 1. Obituary: Col. Charles E. Taylor, the oldest telegrapher in the west, at Frankfort, Ky.; aged B9. 18. Fire: Denlson, Tex., the Denison compress destroyed; loss, $150,000. MIseellaneous: The Atkineon House Furnishing company in Boston assigned, with liabilities of $1,500,000. Obituary: Luko Schoolcraft, well known mlnstrel, at Cincinnati. Harry Kernell, Irish comedian, in New York city; aged 43. 4. Fire: Arkansas City, Ark., one-half the village destroyed; loss, $100,000. Miscellaneous: The Kansas Trust and Banking company of Kansas City suspended, with liabilities of $800,000. 7. Fire: Toledo, Wheeler Opera house and 6 stores burned; loss, $300,000. Obituary: Jules Ferry, the French statesman, in Paris; aged 61. 18. Flre: Milwaukee, the Friend block burned; loss, $500,000. 19. Fires: Boston, Tremont temple, the famous Baptist house of worship, partially destroyed; loss, $375,000. Sonth Easton, Miss., Morse's thread factory; loss about $200,000. Obituary: Captain Jacob Vanderbilt, brother of Commodoro Vanderbilt, at Stapleton, N. Y.; aged 80. JO. Obituary: Commodore Horatio Bridge, U. 6. N., retired; aged 87. ïl. Fire: Litchfleld, Hls., the Kehlor flouring mili; loss over $1,000,000; an employee killed arid many injured by an explosión of floui dust. 2. Obituary: Ex-Senator Eli Saulsbury of Delaware, at Dover, Del.; aged 76. Sporting: Oxford crew defeated Cambridge in 18 minutes 47 seconde, the best time on record; Thames course. 23. Fire: Cleveland, the Morgan House burned; 5 deaths. Cyolone: 18 deaths by a cyclone in Mississippi; damage to property, $8,000,000. Miscollaneons: Dobbina& Dazy, cotton brokers, assigned in Nashville; liabilities, $1,000,000. 24. Obituary: Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, editor of the New York Mail and Express, in New York city; aged 59. 26. Fire: Detroit, Snedicor & Hathaway's shoe factory burned; loss, $150,000. 27. Fires: Scranton, Pa., the Elm Park Methodist ehurch destroyed a second time; loss, $125,000. Montreal, The Daily Herald burned out for the fourth time; loas, $130,000. Masón City, Ia., Kirk Bros', stock barns destroyed; loss on horses over $100,000. 28. Obituary: General E. Kirby Smith, the Confedérate veteran, at Sewanee, Tenn.; aged 69. 80. Political: Hon. Thomas Francis Bayard of Delawaro appointed United States embassador to Great Britain, the first appointment under the title embassador. APRIL. 1. Fires: Buzzard's Bay, Mass., the summei residence of Joseph Jefferson, the actor, destroyed; loss, $250,000. Bradford, Pa„ hotel burned; 5 deaths. Disaster: Fire damp explosión in the Nelson Bhaft at Shamokin. Pa.; 10 deaths. 2. Fire: New York city, Duke & Sons' cigarette factory burned out; loss $400,000. 3. Fire: Montrose, Pa.; loss, $60,000. 4. Fire: AUeghany, Pa., paper warehonse malt house, planing mili and pickle workb destroyed; loss, $230,000. Anson, Tex., the business portion burned out; loss, $75,000. 6. Fire: Louisvillo distillery warehouse burned; loss, $230,000. Obituary: E. K. Bruce, formerly known in Chicago as the "Corn King," at Chicago; aged 68. 6. Fire: Near Cincinnati, the College HUI sanitarium destroyed; loss, $200,000. Disaster: 6 sailors drowned off Barnegat, N. J., by the capsizing of schooner Genesta. MisceUaneousi The great Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, begun over 40 years ago, dedlcated. T. Fire: Ironton, O., 34 dwelllngs and a lumber yard burned; loss, $750,000. Houston, Cleveland & Cos Wholesale grocery burned; loss, $166.000. Owensboro, Ky i distillery warehouses burned; loss, $350,000, Disaster: Nine men killed by the fall qf a cantilever at Romeo, Hls. Obituary: Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, in San Francisco; . aged 81. George I. Seney, financier and philanthropist, in New York city; aged 67. 8. Fire: Warsaw, Ind„ breeding Btables and 23 valuable horses burned; loss, $200,000. 9. Fire: Waterbury, Conn., the Lily block burned; loss, $150,000. 10. Miscellaneous: Manuel Gonzales, ex-president of the Mexican republic, died in the City of Mexico at the age of 73. 11. Flre: Si. Mary's, O., 7 business places burned; losseá, $200,000. Disaster: Over 50 deatLs ly gas explosión In a colliery at Pont-y-Pridd, Wales. Cyclone: Great havoc by cyclonic storm in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas; many people killed and injured. 12. Miscellaneous: The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered bank failed, with liabilities of L?,OOö,ÖOO. A barn near Gallatin, Tenn., struck by lightniug and 25 valuable mares killed: loss over $300,000. 18. Miscellaneous: The United States flag hauled down at Hawaii. 15. Personal: The Duke of Veragua, a lineal descendant of Columbus, arrived in New York l'rom Spain. 17. Ëarthauake: The island of Zante; the city of Zante ahd many villages destroyed. 18. Fire: Cassville, Mo., swept by llames; loss, " $200,000. Cyclone: Town of Boles, Ark., destroyed; 5 people killed, many injured. 19. Fire: Clinton, Mass., the Clinton wire works destroyed; loss, $250,000. Detroit, thf Kling Brewery company burned out; loss. $250,000. 20. Fire: Wardner, Ida., the business portiOB burned; loss nearly $700,000. Disaster: The intake end of the Milwauket tunnel, nnder Lako Michigan, wrecked by a gale; 11 workmen drowned. Obituary: Mrs. Almira Hancock, widow oi Gen. W. S. Hancock, in New York city. Crime: Frank W. Rohl and Thomas Pallister, condemned murderers, e6caped from the New York state prison at Sing Slng. Miscellaneous: Tho Australian Joint Stock bank failed for L13,O0i),CO9. 22. Fire: Colfax, Waah.; loss, $100,000. Obiluary: Uen. K. F. Beale, a Union veteran and cx-Uuiled States minister to Austria, in Washington; atred 71. Miscellaneous; The Bank of Milbank, S. D., assigned, with liabilities of $100,(XX). 25. Cyclone: Oklalmnia swept by two cyclonic blasts; over lD0di?:i1 lis. Miscellaneous: The Union Loan and Trust company of Sioux City, Ia.,closed itsd,. rs: liabilities, $7.50,000. 27. Obituary: Uen. John M. Corse, the herooi Allatoona, at Winchester, Mass.: aged 58. Miscel'.uieous: International naval parade in New Vurk city. 8 suttlors killed by Navajo inrtU.TM in Calorado. 18. Cyelone: The town of Cisco, Tex., wipcd out; 30 killed and 40 injured. Miscellaneous: International naval ship review in New York harbor and in the Hudson river. tfl. Fire: Woburn. Mass., Cnrrying factory burneil: loss, $175,000. B0. Miscellaneous: The National bank of Australasla failed for L7,500,000. MAY. I. Miscellaneous: World'sfairopened at Chicago. 8. Fire: Steam and Electric Power company burned out at Louisville; loss, $300,000. 4. Obituary: Ex-United States Senator J. W. Patterson of New Hampsbire, at Hanover, N.H. Personal: Dean William Lawrence chosen Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts to succecd Phillips Brooks, lately deceased. 6. Disaster: 10 killed and many injured in a wreek on the Bic Four road near Lafayette, Ind. 7. Disaster: 12 killed, 7 injured by a boiler explosión on the sieamer Ohio running on the Mississippi river. Obituary: Col. Ward H. Lammi, at one time Lincoln's private secretary, at Martinsburg, W. Va. The wife of Chauncey M. Depew, in New York city. 8. Fires: Frankford, Pa., Bromley & Barns' yarn dycing mili destroyed; loss, $240,000. Chicago, the Shepard Hardware company burned out; loss, $200,000. Miscellaneous: H. H. Warner, the patent medicine manufacturer of Rochester, asBigned; liabilities estimated $500,000. 8. Fire: Utica, N. Y., J. B. Wells' dry gooda store destroyed; loss over $250,000. Personal: James H. Blountappointed United States minister to Hawaii. Miscellaneous: The Bank of Victoria at Melbourne suspended, with L2,400,000 liabilities. 10. Obituary: Joscph Francia, the noted lifeboat inventor, at Otsego lake, New York. Dr. Charles Carroll Lee, president of the New York Medical society, In New York city; aaed 5i. II. Fires: Spring Lake, Mich.. half the villaee burned; loss, $80,000. Rochester, electrio road plant destroyed; loss, 60,000. Pittsburg; loss, 8180,000. Obituary: Gen. E. D. Townsend, adjutant general of the army, retired at Washington; aged 76. 12. Obituary: Gen. S. C. Annstrong, principal of Hampton Normal institute and Indian school, at Hampton, Va.; agod 54. Miscellaneous: The Sloux City Engino Works, Sioux City, Ia., suspended; liabilities, $300,000. The Cunard llner Campania reached Liverpool 5 days 17 hours 27 minutes from New York, breaking tho east bound record. 13. Miscellaneous: Steel company at Belleville, Hls., placed in hands of a receiver. Kendall & Smith, grain dealers of Lincoln, Neb., failed for over $250,000. Bank faünrca at Orleans and Rossville, Ind., at Freeport, O., and Rockford, Mich. 14. Obituary: Rev. W. H. A. BisselL bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Vermont, at Burlington; aged 80. Disaster: 10 miners killed by falling down a shaft at the Calumet and Hecla mine, Mich. The steamer City of Hamburg run down the ship Coantess Evelyn off the Cornish coast; 25 lives lost. 15. Sporting: Diablo won tho Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend, N. Y. Miscellaneous: Erastus Wiman, New York capitalist, made an assitrn inent. 17. Disasters: 25 lives lost in a storm on Lake Erie. 6 deaths by the explosión of a generator in a glucose factory at Geneva, Iils. 18. Personal: "Míe Infanta Eulalie of Spain arrived in New York city. 19. Obituary: James E. Murdock, actor and elocutionist, at Cincinnati; aged 83. 20. Fire: Saginaw, Mich., 200 houses burned; loss over $1,500,000. 22. Miscellaneous: The cruiser New York surpassed the cruiser record of the world, raaking a speed of 21 knots an hour. 23. Fires: Reading, Mich., lost $150,000 by ñames; 2 deaths. South Salem, Mass., tannery dostroyed; loss, $132,000. 26. Obituary: Dr. Lyman A. Abbott, a New ! England cáncer specialist, at Malden, Mass.; aged 86. Miscellanoous: Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster of Fostoria, O., assigned, with liabilities of nearly $1,000,000. 28. Fire: Baltimore, sugar reflnery destroyed; loss, $1,000,000. 29. Sporting: Jim Hall defeated Frank Slavin, 7 rounds, in London. 30. Disaster: Main's circus train wrecked at Tyrone, Pa.; 5 deaths. JUNE. 3. Fire: Omaha, Schinerick's furniture store set in ñames by lightning; loss, over $200,000; 6 people killed by a falling wall. Disaster: 5 deaths in a burning flat in New York city. Personal: Mrs. James G. Blalne, widow of Secretary Blaine, salled for England, where she will reside permanently. Sporting: Frank Ives defeated John Roberts at billiards in London. 5. Crime: 6 men raided the People's bank at Little Rock and secured $10,000. 6. Cyclone: The town of Woodlngton, O., nearly demolished by a storm of wind and rain; I death. T. Fires: Fargo, N. D., one-half the city destroyed and 3,000 people made homeless; loss over $3,500,000. Oshkosh, Wis., a $200,000 blaze on the inain street. San Francisco, a dozen ñne residences destroyed; loss, $200,000; 4 deaths. Minneapolis, the Bradstreet-Thurber company a store damaged to the extent of $140,000. Personal: James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, seriously injured by falling from a coach in Paris. Obituary: Edwin Booth, the eminent tragedian, in New York city; aged 60. Dr. J. E. Hendricks, a noted mathematiclan, at Des Moinos: aged 79. 8. Fire: Montreal, the Ville Marie convent destroyed; loes, $1,000,000. Obituary: Rev. Dr. O. R. Blue, prominent in the Methodist church south, at Greensboro, Ala.; aged 70. 9. Disasters: The floora of Ford's old opera house, Washington, where Lincoln was assassinated, feil, carrying down hundieds of government clerka at work in the building; 22 deaths, over 50 injured. Riot: 3 men killed and several injnrea In a melee with strikers at Romeo, Ills. 11. Miscellaneous: Gen. Joseph A. Hall, a civil war veteran of Maine, died on board a New York Central train near Syracuse. 13. Disaster: 6 deaths in the burning of a "sweat shop" in New York city. 17. Miseellaneons: The Viking ship from Norway arrlved in New York harbor. 20. Fire: Duluth, Minn,, frame block destroyed; loss, $40,000; 4 deaths. Disaster: 4 killed and 100 injured bythederailment of a train on the Long Island railroafl at Parkville, N. Y. Sporting: Lowlander won the Suburbao handicap at Sheepshead Bay. Miscellaneous: Lizzie Borden acquittcdof the murder of her father and inother at New Bedford, Maas. 21. Disaster: Lightning struck a circus tent at River Falls, Wis., and killod 7 people. Cyclone: Jcffer3on county, Kan., swept by a flerce tornado; 20 deaths. Obituary: Senator Leiand Stanford, the California eapitalist, at Palo Alto, Cal.; aged 69. 22. Disaster: 5 deaths from gas explosión in a coal min at Nanticoke, Pa. 23". pisastei: The British battleship Victori sunk In a collision with tho battlesljip Camperdowii in tl.e Mediterranean sea; over 400 livos lost, including Admiral Tryon. 24. Sporting: Bounáless won the American Derby at Chicago. . 26. Fire: Omaha, WakeSeld's lumber yards destroyed; loss, 8300,000. 26. Disaster: The Tremont hotel. Fort Scott, Kan., collapsed, with loes of life and serieus injury to inmates. Miscellaneous: Governor Altgeld of Illinois pardoned the anarchists Fielden, Neebo and Schwab, imprisoned at Joliet for complicity in the Haymarket riot. 27. Fire: Lake George, N. Y., the Sasamore hotel; lose, $200,008. Obituary: Hev. W. W. Kone, the oldest Baptist minister in the United States, at Dcnison, Tu:.; aged 90. 28. Sporting: E. W. Goff , amateur athlete, won the all round champíonship of America at New York. M. Sporting: Yale beat Harvard In the annual boat race. JÜL.T. 2. Misoellaneons: The New York state monument dodicated at Gettysburg. The Falcon, with Lleut. Peary's exploring party on board, started for the arctic regions. 4. Disasters: Mine explosión In the ThornhUl mine, England, caused the death of 138 minere. A passenger steamer on the Volga, near Romanow, Russia, exploded her boilers; 26 deaths; a Rnssian general was among the victima. Miscellaneous: Serióos rioting broke out among the student in Paris. 5. Fire: New Haven, opera house damaged by flames to the amount of $100,000. Obituary: Commodore Francis Lookwood, U. I S. N., retired, at Flushing, N. Y.; aged 90. 6. Fire: McDonald, Pa., 10 buildings, includlng a church, dostroyed; loss, $90,000. Cyclone: Pomeroy, Kan., destroyed by a tornado; 63 people killed, 50 fatally injured and 150 malmetí. Obituary: Guy de Maupassant, the French romanticist; aged 41. Miscellaneous: The Christian Endeavor International Convention opened in Montreal. The Duke of York (Prince George of Walee) and Princess Victoria Mary of Teek married In London. 7. Obituary: Justice Samuel Blatchf ord of the United States supreme court, at Newport, E. I.; aged 73. 9. Obituary: Ex-Governor A. K. Allison of Florida, in Jacksonvllle; aged 83. 10. Disaster: 18 persons killed and 19 Injured at the burnlng of a cold storage warehouso In the World's fair grounds. Obituary: Charles Brenneke, formerly well known as an architect and engineer, at Marshalltown. Ia.; aged 79. IL Fire: West Superior, Wis., the plant of a paint and bullders' supply company deBtroyed; loss, $100,000. 13. Disaster: 6 people killed and 20 injured In a collision on the West Shore road at Newburg, N. Y. Miscellaneous: The international convenüon of the Baptist Young Peoples' union of America opened at Indianapolis. Shots exchanged between Siamese forts and French gunboats at the mouth of Meinam river; 20 Siamese killed and H wounded. 16. Obituary: Gen. David W. Miles, a Pennsylvania veteran, at Lancaster, Pa.; aged 61. Gen. J. C. Kelton, U. S. A., retired, at Washington; aged 61. 16. Fire: Mount Washington, N. H., the Glenn House destroyed; loss, $100,000. Obituary: Gen. Edward Jardine, a union veteran, in New York city; aged 65. Rear Admiral Earl Ensli6h, U. S. N., retired at Washington; aged 65. 17. Fire: London, 80 buildings in the business district destroyed; loss, L1,600,000. Disaster: A locomotivo crashed into a crowded street car in Chicago, killing 4 passengers. Miscellaneous: The educational congress opened at Chicago. 18. Cyclone: A destructivo tornado swept over the towns of Voghera and Casteggio, Italy. Miscellaneous: Exclting bank panic in Denver. 20. Fire: Emen, Miss., the business portion entirely destroyed; loss, $250,000. Obituary: Gen. J. G. Walker, a veteran of the regular army and of the Confederacy, in Washington; aged 70. 21. Fire: Long Island City, N. Y., 31 buildings burned; loss, $400,000. Obituary: Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith, U. S. N., retired, at Green Bay, Wis.; aged 83. 23. Firea: Paulding. O., 30 of the principal business houses destroyed; loss, $200,000. Port Louis, the capital of the island of Mauritius, devastated by flames; the city was wrecked in 1892 by a hurricane. 24. Fire: Columbus, O., the Ohio Transfer and Storage company's buildings destroyed; loss, $300.000. 25. Miscellaneous: The Erie Railway company placed in hands of receivers; floating debt, $6,000,000. 26. Obituary: Gen. George W. Morgan, a Mexican and civil war veteran, at Fortres3 Monroe, Va.; aged 78. 28. Fire: Ludington, Mich., Carter's lumber and shingle mili destroyed; loss, $125,000. Miscellaneous: 350,000 English coal miners ■went out on a strike. 29. Fire: Lockport, N. Y., the United Industrial Fiber company burned out; loss, $80,000. 80. Fire: Plttsburg, the stores of the L.H. Harris Drug company and of A. C. Henderson, druggist, destroyed; loss, $140,000. 81. Disaster: 5 men killed and 4 badly injured bythe explosión of a farm engine boiler, near Newark, O. Obituary: John Stephenson, the noted street car builder, at New Rochelle, N. Y.; aged 84. AUGUST. L Miscellaneous: The national convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence union opened at Springfield, Mass. Panic in the provisión pit of the Chicago board of trade. 2. Fire: Rhinebeek, N. Y., the barn and other outbuildingsof ex-Vice President Morton's farm destroyed; loss, S200,000. Obituary: Gen. William P. Innes, a civil war veteren, at Grand Rapids. 3. Fire: Kansas City, branch house of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing company of Akron, O., burned out; loss, $125,000. Disasters: 9 seamen killed by the explosión of a grenade on the Germán armor ciad steamer Baden at Kiel, Germany. The pleasure yacht Rachel, on Lake George, sank and carried down 9 persons. Obituary: James L. Wright, one of tho 6even founders of the Knlghts of Labor, at Germautown. Pa.; aged 76. Miscellaneous: The French blockade of Siam raisod. 4. Miscellaneous: Receivers were appointed for the business of J. H. Walker company, dry goods dealers, who succeeded to the Chicago trade of A. T. Stewart & Co.; debts about $2,000,000. N. L. Corte & Co., the old tin plate importers, assigned in New York city; liabillties, $350,000. 6. Fire: Oakland, Cal., Pacific Nail works burned; loss, $250,000. Disaster: 32 pleasure excursionista drowned by the èwftmping of a rowboat in Swansea bay, Port Talbot , Wales. Obituary: Gen. George B. Bingham, a Union veteran, at Westboro, Mass. Miscellaneous: The reservoir of the Portland (Me.) Water company burst, letting free 20,000,000 Ballons of water; 2 houses crushed and 4 people killed. 7. Fire: Snow Hill, Md., the business section pearly destroyed; loss about $500,000. Political: Congress met in extraordinary sesslon. Obituary: Alfred Butler Starey, editor of Harper's Young People, in New York city. Sporting: George Dixon defeated Eddie Prlce for the world's championship, at Coney 13land. 9. Obituary: John B. Wright, manager of Ford's theater when President Lincoln was assassinated, at Allston, Mass.; aged 78. George Makepeace Towle, historian and journalist, at Brookllne, Mass.; aged 52. William T. W. Ball, an old journalist, In Boston; aged 63. Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, U. S. N., at Washington; Ved 81. Mik cellaneouii: K. H. Coleman, the "Iron Kig" of Lebanon, Pa., assigned. 10. oBituary: George Shiras. father of Justice Shlv as, and an old Pennsylvanian, at Pittsburgj: aged 89. 13. Fire: Milwaukee, several milis, lumber yards and over 200 houses destroyed; loss, $2,000,6W. 14. Fires: kUeubenville, O.; loss, $200,000. DenTer, flour mili and elevator burned; loss over $2511,000. Disaster: 6 people k illed and 14 injured at the buriting of the Sonate hotel, Chicago. 15. Fire: Búllalo, the Coalsworth elevator destroyevl; loss nearly $8O0,UO0. 16. Disasters: 7 passengers killed in a railroad accident at Milton, Pa. 17 excursionists drowned in the river Shannon, Ireland, by the capsizng of a boat. 17. Fire: St. lvil, Dyer Bros., musical instruments, burn.d out; loss, $100,000. Obituary: John W. Casllear, a noted American landscape pain ter, at SaratogaSprings, N. Y.; aged 83. 18. Obituary: John F, Ballyntine, a journalist who helped found the Chicago Herald, in Chicago. 20. Disaster: Mr. J. L. Bovee, his wifer daughter and 3 young Jadíes, while driving to church at Leroy, N. Y., were instan tly köisd by an expresa train at a railroad crosaing. e. Disaster: 4 people killed and 3 dangerously wounded in a battle between oitizens and the employees oí a traction oompany at Gllberton, Pa. B. Fire: South Chicago, 200 buildings burned and 5,000 people made homeless; loss over teoo.ooo. Disasters: The Reading company's collier Panther and barge Luykens Valley wrecked off Southampton, N. Y.; 17 sailors drowned. Fierce gale on the New England, New York and New Jersey coasts; vessels and summer hotels wrecked; many deaths. Obituary: Mrs. Anna Hyde died at Peekskill, N. Y., at the age of 104. tl. Disaster: 16 killed and 16 injured in a collision on the Long Island railroad at Newtown. Cyclone: A West India hurricane devastated the South Carolina and Georgia coasts; appalling death lista in Savannah, Port Royal, Beaufort and neighboring lslands. The steamer City of Savannah, from Boston, wrecked on the South Carolina shoals. Í9. Personal: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his 84th birthday. 80. Sporting: Domino won the $65,000 Futurity stakes at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. 81. Disaster: 20 killed and many injured by the collapse of a bridge on the Boston and Albany road near Chester, Mass. SEFIEMBÏB. L Fire: The Thornton worsted mili at Providenco destroyed; loss, $225,000. 8. Disaster: 6 people killed and 40 injured by a runaway electrio car in Cincinnatl. Obituary: Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon I, at Pride's Crossing, Mass.; aged 63. Miscellaneous: Dr. Thomas Thatcher Graves, the alleged whisky polsoner, died mysteriously in his cell at Denver. 5. Miscellanecus: The t wenty-seventh annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic opened at Indianapolis. 6. Obituary: Miss Emma M. Converse, a noted astronomical writer, at Whitefield, N. H.: aged 73. Disaster: The Haytlan warship Alexander foundered off Cape Tiburón, Hayti, carrying down 80 people; among the lost were several Hayti&n diplomats. 7. Disasters: The sohooner Windemere from Key West capstzed In a squall 180 miles off Mobile; the captain, hls wife, first mate, steward and one seaman drowned. 12 killed and 10 injured in a head end collision at Colehour, near Chicago. 5 people killed by a tornado at Lockport, La. Obituary. Ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish at Garrleon's, N. Y.; aged 85. 10. Fire: Spokane, Wash., the exhibition building burned; loss, $100,000. Mount Vernon, Ind., elevator deetroyed; loss, $100,000. 11. Crime: 20 masked men held up a Lake Shore train near Kendallville, Ind., and rifled an express safe of nearly 820,000. 12. Miscellaneous: De Lesseps, tho Panama canal projector, released from prison at Paris, 13. Obituary: Frederick Lathrop Ames, the wealthiest man in New England, on board the sound steamer Pilgrim; agcd 58. 14. Fire: Schell City, Mo., 29 buildings destroyed; loss, $80,000. Miscellaneous: Rebel warships bombarded the government forts at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 16. Miscellaneous: 6.000,000 acres in the Cherokee strip opened to settlers. 17. Fire: Patterson, O., the town partially destroyed; loss, $60,000. Crime: 3 negroes lynched at New Orleans for shielding the murderer of a judge. 18. Miscellaneous: The insurgent ships at Ric Janeiro turned thelr guns upon the city. The centennial anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the capítol celebrated at Washington. 19. Fire: Cantón, Ills., opera house burned; several missing; many injured in a panic. Disaster: 8 killed and 20 injured inarearend colusión Manteno, Hls. Obituary: Sir Alexander T. Galt, a prominent Canadian official, at Montreal; aged 76. 20. Miscellaneous: Citizens attempted to lynch a negro at Roanoke, Va., and were flred upon by müitla; 6 killed, many injured. 21. Disaster: 5 killed and 5 tnjured by an explosión in the Lance colliery at Plymouth, Pa. Miscellaneous: Robert Smith, the negro who caused the riot at Roanoke, Va., on the 20th, hanged by amob. The twenty-fourth annual reunión of the Army of the Cumberland opened at Cleveland. 22. Fire: Red Wing, Mimi., Jumber plant burned; loss, $130,000. Disaster: An express wrecked by an open switch on the Wabash at Kingsbury, Ind.; 12 killed, many injured. 23. Fire: Chicago, the Purcell company's malt houses burned; loss, $400,000. 24. Crime: Train robbers foiled at St. Joseph, Mo., by a train load of policemen; 2 robbers shot dead. 25. .Fire: St. Joseph, Mo.; loss nearly $1,000,000. 26. Miscellaneous: Thirtieth annual convention of the grand lodge of Good Templare opened in Hartford. Eighteenth annual convention of the Knights of St. John and Malta met in Philadelphia. 27. Obituary: Professor 5. F. Parish Steele of Illinois, a woll known writer on agriculture, in Mobile; aged 65. Louis Lange, a Germán journalist and publisher, in St. Louis; aged 64. 28. Disaster: 28 miners drowned in the Mansfield mine, Mich., by a break in the bed of the Michigamme river, which ran abovo the mine. 20. Miscellaneous: Cold wave in the northern States; snow in the New England and middle states. OCTOBEB. 1. Obituary: Judge Irving B. Randle, who was an intímate friend of Lincoln, at Alton, Hls.; aged 82. 2. Fire: Omaha, Farnham Street theater destroyed; loss, $250,000. Cyclone: Terrible storm on the gulf coast; over 2,000 lives Io6t, damages several million dollars. 7. Sporting: Tho American yacht Vigllant won tho flrst race in the contest for the America's cup over the English yacht Valkyrie by 5 minuten 48 seconds. 9. Sporting: The American yacht Vigilant won the second race from the English yaont Valkyrie by 10 minutes 35 seconds. Miscellaneous: Over 700,000 persons visited the World's fair ín honor of Chicago day. A carlpad of powder exploded near Alliance, Ó.; loss, $250,000; 2 deaths. 12. Fire: 30 buildings burned in the business district of fcioux City, Ia.; loss about $500,000. 13. Sporting: The American yacht Vigilant won the third race against the English yacht Valkyrie by 40 seconds, deciding the contest for the America's cup in favor of America. Disaster: Rear end collision of World's fair exoursion trains on the Michigan Central at Jackson: 12 killed, 40 injured. 14 Disaster: Slorm on the great lakes; the propeller Dean Riohmond lost at Van Buren Point, carryinif down 18 sailors, the captain, his wife and 3 ehildren. 15. Fires: King City, Mo., 30 buildings burned; loss, $150,000. Detroit; loss, $200,000. 17. Fire: New York city, 2 blocks, lncluding factories aud dwellings, destroyed; loss, $J,500,000. Obituary: Lucy Stono Blackwell, the womau suffragist, at Dorchester, Mass.: aged 75. MacMahon, Duc de Magenta, marshal of France and ex-president of the republic, in Paris; aged 85. Disaster: 5 killed and 5 injured by a dynamite explosión at Emington, Hls. 18. Sporting: Directum trotted 1 mile in 2:05)4 at Nashville; new world's record for trotters. 19. Fire: Springfteld, Mass.; loss, $140,000. Obituary: Gen. Denuis F. Burke, ono of the commanders of the Irish brigade, in New York city; aged 53. 20. Disaster: A head end collision on the Grand Trunk at Battle Creek, Mich., caused the death oL 28 peoiile. Obituary: Kev. Dr. Philip Schaft, celebrated Biblical exegete and church historian, iu New York city; aced 74. 22. Fire: East Douglass, Mass., a $200,000 blaze in the Ax and Tool company's works; 1,000 men throwu out of employment. 24. Disaster: Rear Aiimiral Walter W. Queen, U. S. N., retired, in Washington; aeed 69. 25. Fire: San Francisco, an entire block destroyed; loss, $150,000. 27. Fire: Pittsburg, the Chautauqua Lake Ice eompany and the Pittsburg Storage conk. pany burned out; loss, 8860,000. & Obituary: Hon. Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago, In Chicago; aged 68; Mayor Har rison was shot dead by a man nomed Prendergast. Miscellaneous: Battle between Spanish troopa and Rifflans at Melilla, in Murocco; Gen. Margallo, the Spanish commander, and 70 of hls men killed. 80. Obituary: Sir John Abbott, ex-premler of Canada, at Montreal; aged 72. Miscellaneons: The World's fair declared offlcially at an end. NOVEMBER. 1. Fire: Dixon, O., lnmber mlU; loss, $200,000. Disaster: Steamship City of Alejandría, off Cajimar, Cuba; 85 people drowned. 2. Fires: Zanesvllle, O., planing mili and lumber yard; loss, $100,000. Iron Mountain, Mich., Roman Catholie church destroyed; the pastor, Father Cavacchi, f atally burned. Disaster: Boiler exploded In a street car stable in New York city; 6 killed, 13 Injured. Sporting: Directum, ing of trotters, defeated Mascot, king of pacers, at Fleetwood park. 8. Disasten Cargo of dynamite exploded at the qnay In Santander, Spain; nearly 1,000 people killed and injured. 4. Disaster: 10 workmen drowned from an overloadèd sailboat in New York harbor. 6. Fire: Galena, Hls., smelting works; loss, $100,000. 6. Disasten 24castaway sailors drowned off Point aux Barquee by the swamping of a boat. 7. Fire: Danvers, lila., the business district nearly destroyed. I Crime: Anarchist threw bombs lnto tha opera house at Barcelona, Spain; 30 killed, 80 Injured. Sporting: John S. Johnson, bioyclist, wlth flylng start, rode a rolle In 1 minute 65 3-5 scconda; world's record. 8. Fire: Memphis, Lyceum theater burned; loss, $390,000. Disaster: Twelve killed by a rear end collision on the Rock Island and Paciflo in the Btreets of Chicago. Crime: Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the defaulting speculator, sentenced to 10 years hard labor. Obituary: Francis Parkman, eminent historian, at Jamaica Plains, Mass.; aged 70. 9. Obituary: Annie Pixley, the actress, in London. Professor Herman August Hagen of Harvard college, well known entomologist, at Cambridge, Mass.; aged 76. IL Obituary: Ex-Governor Charles H. Bell of New Hamp8hire at Exeter, N. H.; aged 70. ■ 12. Fire: Utica, Hls., flre brickfactory destroyed; loss, $300,000. Obituary: Mrs. J. Roosevelt Roosevelt, wife of the newly appointed secretary of the American embassy, at London. 13. Fire: Memphis, the Schmalzried block do8troyed; loss nearly $1,000,000; 4 people killed. 14. Obituary: William A. Beane. a prominent Democrat of Indiana, editor of the Goshen Domocrat, died suddenly in the streets of Goshen. . 15. Fire: Fergus Mille; Minn., the Page flour milis and other property destroyed; losa, $100,000. Crime: Robbers carried off a valise containing $20,000 from the office of the Indiana, Illinois aDd Iowa Railroad company'B office in Chicago. Obituary: Elizabeth Oaksmith, poet and lecturer, at Hollywood, N. C; aged 87. 18. Obituary: Samuel Augustus Cole, well known art collector and critic, in St. Louis; aged 58. 17. Earthquake: Town of Kuchan, province of Ehorassan, Persia, destroyed; over 12,000 persons killed. 18. Fire: Kansas City, the Western Warehouse and Storage eompany burned out; loss, $200,000. Obituary: Rev. Charles F. Deerns, pastor of the Church of the Strangers, in New York city; aged 73. Miscellaneous: The new cruiser Columbia made the fastest time on record ín the world, in a trial trip; average speod , 23 knots. 2,000 train operatives and telegraphers on the Lehieh Valley went out on a strike. 21. Fire: Starkville, Miss., the Masonic and Odd Fellows' building and Watts' Opera House destroyed; loss, $100,000. Disaster: 7 men killed and 7 badly Injured m the burning of the Merrill House at Beaver, Pa. Obituary: Hon. Jeremlah McLain Kusk, exgovernor of Wisconsin, and also secretary of agriculture under President Harrison, at Viroqua, Wis.; aged 63. 22. Fire: Springfleld, Mass., several blocks burned; loss, $450,000. Sporting: Directum defeated Alix, queen of raclng trotters, at Fleetwood park, in 3 straight heats; best mile trotted in 2:08. 23. Flre: Edson, Moore & Co. 's dry goods store burned in Detroit; loss. $800,000; 7 employees killed. 24. Fire: Columbus, O., the Henrietta theater, Chittenden hotel and Park theater and auditorium destroyed; loss, $1,000,000. Obituary: Ex-Governor John J. Jacob of West Virginia, at Wheeling; affed 64. 25. Fire: Hannibal, Mo„ the William Voorhis dry goods store, Kister hotel and other buildings destroyed: loss, $300,000. OUtuary: Congressman Charles O'Neill, the "father of the house," in Philadelphia; aged 72. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at f ootball; score. 6 to 0. 26. Obituary: William L. Banning, a political and business leader of Minnesota, ín St, Paul; aged 79. 27. Personal: General Master Workman T. V. Powderly, Knights of Labor, resigned. Miscellaneons: The proposed Democratie tariff bill given to the public press. Earthquake shocks in northern New York, New England and Canada. 28. Fire: A business block burned in 011 City; 4 deatns; loss on property, $90,000. 80. Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at football: score, 6 to 0. DECEMBER. L Fire: Philadelphia, the Thornton worsted milis destroyed; loss, $235,000. Obituary: William Lilly, a prominent publio man and capitalist of Pennsylvania, at Mauch Chunk, aged 73. Miscellaneous: Admiral Mello escapea from the bay of Rio Janeiro on the flagship Aquldaban after soine hard fighting with governroent forts and ships. A score or more of wrecks occurred on the Lehigh Valley road as a result of the strike. Abe Stein & Co., importers of goatskins, hides, etc, in New York, failed for over $1,000,000. J. R. Sovereign of Iowa installed general master workman, Knights of Labor. 2. Fire: Baltimore, 8400,000 worth of property destroyed in the business district. Obituary: Pauline Cushman, the noted Union scout, in San Francisco. Disaster: 3 men killed at a slate quarry at Welchtown, Pa., by the breaking of a cable. Crime: 3 highwaymen robbed several passengers and employees on the Chicago and Northwestern road at Luzerne, Ia. 4. Fire: Rome, N. Y., the New York locomotivo works, valued at 8500,000, almost totally destroyed. Corsicana, Tex.; loss, $100,000. Obituary: Professor John Tyndall, the celebrated British sciontist, at Haslemere, county Surrey, England; aged 73. Miscellaneous: Congress met in regular session. Green B. Raum, Jr., general merohant and Indian trader at Perry, O. T., failed for a large amount. The Citlzens' National bank of Grand Island, Neb., closed lts doors. 6. Miscellaneous: Annual congress of Baptists of the United States met in Augusta, Ga. Crime: Joseph II. Louis, bookkeeper f or N. J. Schloss & Co., clothiers in New York, arrested for defalcation, said to amount to 850,000. Personal: The president again nominated William B. Hornblower of New York for Justice of the supreme court. Miscellaneous: N. J. Schloss & Co., wholesale clothiers in New York, assigned. 6. Fire: Norfolk navy yard steani engineering department building destroyed; loss, $225,000. Disaster: British ship Jason wrecked oil Highland Light, Mass.; 25 seamen lost. Miscellaneous: Lehigh Vaüey strike ended by arbitration. T. Crime: Tho South Bend (Ind.) National bank robbed of L13,0ÜU cash in broad daylijht.