Record of Flames and Disasters of 1895 Across Land and Sea
A chronicle listing numerous fires and disasters from January to September 1895, detailing towns, institutions, and losses. The compendium names cities like Springfield, Coffeyville, Toronto, Milwaukee, and Waco, with fatalities and financial damage figures, along with notable accidents and fires throughout the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sua
Hon
P. P. Mast
Springfield
Coffeyville
Kan
Toronto Globe
Godey
Scottsville
Osgoodby
Toronto
Barnesville
Stadttheater
Milwaukee
Texas Cotton Palace
Waco
Phoenix Glass Works
Monaco
Leipsic
O. Munson Bros
Utica
Denison
Indianapolis
Union Depot
Bt. Joseph
Syndicate
Rockford
Tis
State Printing House
Harrisburg
Asto
Tig
Lynn
Mass
Paterson
N. J
Hamilton
Hot Springs
Ark
Record of Deaths List of Notable Figures
A long memorial record notes deaths of statesmen scientists poets clergymen soldiers and others. Entries include Dr George Marx in Washington aged 65 Rev Dr King in Chatham Ontario aged 82 Gen Philip Sidney Post in Washington aged 62 Archibald Gordon in Port Richmond New York aged 46 and many more prominent figures from the United States Britain and Europe across diverse fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Marx
Washington
Dr. King
Chatham
Ont
Philip Sidney Post
Illinois
Archibald Gordon
Port Richmond
N. Y
Aaron L. Dennison
Birmingham
England
Alfred W. Eliot
Mississippi
BE Dorado
Kan
Chadwick
Oregon
Salem
Charles ©. Leigh
Brooklyn
Israel N. Stiles
Chicago
Augustus Co. Merriam
Columbia College
Athens
Stephen V. Benet
Alfred L. Loomis
New York City
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
London
M. de Giers
St. Petersburg
Francis Carr
Wayne
Emma G. Bostwick
Jenny Lind
Morristown
N. J
Canrobert
France
Paris
Jamin Strong
Cleveland
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
Concord
Mass
Ward McAllister
Theodore Dwight Welde
Hyde Park
Mahlon D. Manson
Frankfort
Ind
John L. Stevens
Hawaii
Augusta
James B. Boisa
Chicago University
Charles E. A. Gayarre
New Orleans
Montgomery Corse
Alexandria
Gov
Gray
U. S
Mexico
Richard F. Trevellick
Detroit
Eliza D. Hamill
Frederick Douglass
Benjamin F. Prescott
New Hampshire
Epping
N. H
Joseph B. Carr
Troy
Richard O’gorman
John Stuart Blackie
University of Edinburgh
That City
W. C. Coup
Jacksonville
Fla
David Ramsey Clendennin
Galesburg
Ills
Edwin Forbes
Frederick &. Sickles
Philip St. George Cooke
Henry Copper
Lehigh University
Bethlehem
Anson O. Hessing
Parana Stevens
David M. Stone
Journal of Commerce
Barton H. Cartwright
West
Ill
William R. Marshall
Minnesota
Pasadena
Cal
Thompson McDaniels
Kansas City
Joshua H. Marvis
Delaware
Laurel
James L. Kemper
Virginia
Pickett
Gettysburg
Orange County
W. Jennings Demorest
Demorest
T. A. Harris
Locust Lodge
Louisville
James W. Scott
Chicago Times-Herald
James Dwight Dana
Yale
New Haven
Leverett Saltonstall
Brookline
R. C. Wickliffe
Louisiana
Shelbyville
Granville Perkins
Charles K. Knox
New York
Paul Fenimore Cooper
Albany
Franklin Fairbanks
Vermont
St. Johnsbury
Levi B. Taft
Michigan
Pontiac
Gustav Freitag
Wiesbaden
John Newton
Hell Gate
James Kelly
Cook County
Chicago Tribune
Winnetka
Illi
Robert
Green
New Jersey
Elizabeth
James A. Weston
Manchester
Gilbert Elliot
Albemarle
Joseph Colton
Charles Sutherland
Ira J. Chase
Indiana
Lubec
Julius H. Seelge
Amherst College
Amherst
John J. Aling
Peter H. Burnett
California
San Francisco
Mary Harris Thompson
Chicago Hospital For Women and Children
Franz von Suppe
Offenbach
Vienna
George M. Gray
John A. Forepaugh
Philadelphia
William Steinhart
Daniel Kirkwood
Indiana State University
Riverside
Theophilus Adam Wylie
University of Indiana
Bloomington
Alonzo A. Miner
Second Universalist Church
Boston
Henry B. Houston
Pennsylvania
M. D. Boruck
Philip Phillips
Thomas H. Huxley
Eastbourne
President Peixoto
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Green Clay Smith
Marshal McDonald
Charles le Clercq
Alexander H. Ritchie
E. W. Buil
Louis Pollens
Dartmouth
Hanover
Orlando M. Poe
U. S. Engineers
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
William Wetmore Story
Vallambros
Italy
William Mahone
U.S
William J. Landrum
Lancaster
Clara Doty Bates
Erasmus D. Keyes
Nice
Franklin Davis
Waverly
Henry Augustus Loop
Lake George
Thomas G. Pitcher
Fort Bayard
N. M
Ashael Clark Kendrick
D. D
Rochester
Oliver Ames
Massachusetts
North Easton
Bignor Bonghi
Naples
Charles H. van Wyck
Nebraska
Eugene Field
William Libbey
A. T. Stewart
Rachel Cantor
United States
Worcester
D. P. Bowers
Robert Wilson Shufeldt
John Burrows Drake
E. D. Jordan
Samuel Smith
America
Cardinal Bonaparte
Lucien
Rome
Sir Henry Ponsonby
Queen Victoria
Cowes
Maurice Frederick de Hass
M. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire
M. Jean Marie Arthur Chailamet
George Augustus Salsa
Brighton
Englands
Notable Races and Games of Home and International Interest
Notable racing and sport notes include Eddie Bald lowering a cycling record in California with a mile in 2 minutes 4 seconds. Nornpipe won the Brooklyn Handicap while Ywarone captured the Suburban Handicap. An army cyclist rider Albert Mat completed 184 days on a New York to Chicago ride. Columbia won the triangular boat race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
Ind
Craig's Head
Que
Atlantic City
Thomas Hovenden
Norristown
Ocean City
Gumry Hotel
Denver
Coney Island
Osceola
Houghton
Mich
Great Northern
Melhe
Minn
Poughkeepsie
Cornell
Pennsylvania
Yale
Harvard
New London
Connally
Trinity Hall
Henley
Requital
Brooklyn
Defender
Valkyrie NT
Valkyrie DI
P. Lord Dunraven
Valkyrie I
Orr
Cambridge
Manhattan Field
Gaudaar
Austin
Tex
Princeton
New York
West Philadelphia
Eddie Bald
California
Ywarone
Soldier Bicycle Courier
Albert Matthey
Chicago
Columbia
Convictions and Robberies Reported in 1900s Cases
Summary of several cases including Durant convicted of Blanche Lamont murder in San Francisco, Holmes convicted of Pitezel murder, Quigley the bond forger in New York with $144000 involved, two masked men robbing a Cotton Belt train near McNeil Arkansas of $25000, Wells Fargo wagon robbery of $15000 in Delegado with messenger fatally wounded, plus July jailbreaks of burglars Killoran Allen and Russell from Ludlow Street jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mich
Appleton
Wis
Cloquet
Dewing & Sons
Kalamazoo
Leonard Silk
Florence
Mass
Cameron
W. Va
Wheeling
Bridgeport
Jacobs
Third Avenue
New York, Co
Street
Seattle
San Francisco
Scotia
Cal
Joss
Oswego
N. Y
Cibola
Lewiston
Cincinnati
Chicago
Je. Igonton
Lowe
Quigley
New York
Cotton Belt Road
McNeil
Ark
Madge Yorke
Margaret Drysdale
Philadelphia
James B. Gentry
Wells Fargo Express
Delegado
Killoran, Allen and Russell
Ludlow Street
Jail
Durant
Blanche Lamont
Holmes
Pitezel
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Annals OF the Year
Reno
Norfolk
Neb
Bethalto
Nache
N. D
Edgewater
Salina
Tivoli Hall
Rodgers & Co
St. Louis
Perry
O. T
Burlington
Peoria
International Cotton Press
Sioux City
Decatur
Reed
St. Augustine
Canaseraga
Columbus
Winslow
A. T
Benicia
Glen Carbon
Plattsburg
School of Arts
Chalons-sur- Marne
McDonald Tobacco Factory
Montreal
Strauss & Sons
East Buffalo
Port Huron
Pratt City
Ala
St. Albans
Angelica
Pattonsburg
Lima
B. Sprague
Lincoln County
Barlin
James Kilsman & Co
Newark
Lockport
Union Steamboat Dock
Rosendale
Phenix
Evansville
Ios
Bowler's Brewery
Amsterdam
Dodge
Oshkosh
Washington, D. C
Green Bay
Fon du Lac
Newburg
N. C
Woonsocket
R. J
Superior, Minn
Holand Radiator Works
Bremen
Campbells, N
Steuben County
Champaign
Empire Cordage
Blanchester
Creoe
Colo
Bagwell
Madison
Business
Empire Bank
Manhattan Savings Bank
Randolph Paper Box Company
Richmond
Sherman
Meridian
Whiting
Dallas
Lowell
Dry Goods and Woolen Exchange
T Mercantile
Allegan, Mich
U.S. Assay Office
Ridgefield
Conn
Butte
Mon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lecknow
City of
Brien
Toledo
Evanston, Wy
St. James
Woburn
Lake Whatcom
Wash
Parke
American Powder Company
Pinole
Fort Wayne
Pittsburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Evening Journal
Barcelona
Spain
Tilly Foster
Carmel
Hartford
National Manufacturers’ Association
American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Atlanta
the Daughters of the Revolution
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
National Daily Association
Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association of America
The
Young Woman’s Christian Association
Thirty-First International Convention
North America
Order of Railway Conductors
United Confederate Veterans
Houston
American Unitarian Association
American Baptist Union
Saratoga
Grand Lodge of Freemasons
the Nation] Educational Association
Convention of the United Societies of Christian Ezsdeavor
Fifth International Convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Baltimore
American Library Association
National Association of Newsdealers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Catholic Young Men’s National Union
National
Society For the Advancement of Women
Thirteenth Baptist Congress of the
Providence
Transmississippi Congress
Omaha
American Federation of Labor
William E. Vanderbilt
Gibraltar
Li Hung Chang
China
Simonoschi
Nat Jones
Frank Leslie
Shokan
Whirlwind
Fort Reno
John A. Morris
Kerrville
Harlem Ship Canal
North River
Long Island Sound
Emperor William
Kaiser Wilhelm (Kiel) Canal
Alexander Hester
Evanston
Stambuloff
Bulgaria
Sofia
P. F. Rotherme
Linfield
Patrick Govan Duffy
New York Police
Toms River
Ely S. Parker
Grant
Fairfield
Madagascar
James Stewart
Paul Webb
Spokane
Harry Wright
Henry Maurice Willkomm
Ada Cavendish
Albert E. Foote
Thomas Coates
Ameerica
Easton
Pope
Great Barrington
John W. Mackay, Jr
Tiffin
Jacek Dempsey
Portland, Or
Evie
Czar
Czarina
Russia
Rustem Pasha
Quent
Britain
Calvert Vaux
New York Bay
John Redfern
Royal Prescott Hubbard
Moritz Busch
Bismarck
Boswell
Bern
Switzerland
Congress
Oscar Taylor
Whosephureet Mosby
Empire State Express
New York Central
Buffalo
Pv &. Yacht Coronet
Eclipse
Japan
Fred Munroe
Casimir Perier
Francois Felix Faure
John M. Schofield
Matt W. Ransom
North Carolina
Anna Gould
Jay Gould
Count de Castellane
Neal Dow
Prohibition
Wesley Merritt
Zenos R. Bliss
John J. Coppinger
W. P. Craighill
T. L. Casey
Henry Irving
Lewis Morris
Walter Besant
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gen. Miles
Schofield
Duke of Marlborough
Consuelor Vanderbilt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rufus W. Peckham
U. S. Supreme Court
Ahlwardt
W. E. H. Lecky
House of Commons
Dublin University
Galveston
Oklahoma
Aussia
Kansas
Iowa
Lake Michigan
Fort Scott
Middle Belt
Negaunee
Elbe
North Sea
Longfellow
Chesapeake Bridge
Pacific Mail
Colima
Manzanillo
Dom Pedro
Gulf of Genoa
Catterthorn
Sydney
Hongkong
Sanchez Barcaiztegui
Havana
Grim Reaper
Hugh McCulleth
Treasury
Walter Quinton Gresham
G. M. Mitchell
Charleston
Uls
David A. Caboll
Daboll
Allen Pettibone
Milleritea
Miolan Carvalho
Marguerite
Diepps
Norton
Townshend
State University
Charles Emanuel Schenck
Benn
Alexander H. Rice
Melrose
James Bunn
Southampton
Edward Beecher
Seven Brothers
John Barbee Minor
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Richard M. Hunt
Newport
R. I
Joseph Thompson
Logan
Vata" Hubbs Foster
M. A. Stovall
George F. Root
Bailey's Island
Howell Edmunds Jackson
West Meade
Tenn
Frank M. Pixley
Texas
Eureka Springs
William Strong
Lake Minnewaska
Luzon B. Morris
Connecticut
H. O. Houghton
North Andover
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