1895

Years:	1892 1893 1894 – 1895 – 1896 1897 1898

Significant events from 1895.

April

The Bloomington Automated Ice Plant begins operations.

June

• 11th - Daniel Kirkwood dies
• 16th - Theophilus A. Wylie dies

August

• 9th - John W. Whitaker passes away at the age of 33. A resident of Victor, he was a partner with Mr. Vanmeter in the general store and the sawmill there, and had been the Victor postmaster.

• 10th - The Fulwider lumber and planing mill on south Madison Street is heavily damaged by fire, to the tune of $700 in building damages and $200 in lumber. The mill was owned by William Fulwider and his son Oscar. The fire company was forced to set up their engine two blocks from the fire as there was not a closer water source.

• 15th - Two dwelling houses, a storeroom belonging to Samuel Houston, a grocery store and house occupied by William Neal, and the post office of Hindostan are destroyed in a fire.

• Henry Feltus and son begin publishing the Bloomington Weekly Star from the rear of the Monroe Bank.

• Two new buildings are being erected in Bloomington, one on the east side of The Square, just north of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church; the other a sorority house for Kappa Kappa Gamma, located on north Washington Street, just to the south of the Sanford F. Teter residence.

The new building on the square was to be a two-story stone building with the first floor to be used for a storeroom and the second story as a hall. It replaced an older building then occupied by the Hinkle Meat Market, and that building was to be moved to the Berryman property on west 6th Street near the railroad. Marion Hinkle shut down his market until the new building was complete.

The Kappa building, built by James D. Showers, was to be of frame, two stories, and consist of 10 rooms. There was a large reception room, running water, electric lights and a furnace.

October

• C. M. Norman purchases the grocery stock of Alexander & Smith on South Walnut Street. The business room is owned by John T. Alexander and the firm had been conducting a grocery at that point for the past two years. (Norman is a carpenter and clerk at the Corner Clothing Store).

• On Halloween, a powerful earthquake strikes the central U.S. Based in Charleston, Missouri, it rattles windows and dishes in Bloomington for about 20 seconds at 5:07 AM

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November

• 1st - Joseph Hill is struck and killed by a train.

• 4th - A new fire bell was suspended in a new tower. Arriving on the train earlier in the week, the bell weighed 1800 pounds, and was struck by an electric mechanism. The bell may be seen today in 3rd Street Park.

• 5th - The Hinkle Meat Market reopens.

• 9th - Smith and Waldron take over management of the opera house fromW. J. Leas. Leas had taken a new job in Elwood.

• 11th John Sears moves his machine shop from West 7th Street to North Morton Street.

• Leonard Baker opens a blacksmith shop on Worley's addition in Stanford.

• Mayor Lawrence Van Buskirk announces his resignation. He planned to move to Jeffersonville to manage his North End Furniture Company.

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• The Knights of Pythias moved into the third floor of what is now known as Fountain Square Mall, the third floor was known as Castle Hall