The Mineral argus., 1884-01-10
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
lie Loss OF Human Lite by Earthquake
Fire, Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers and Nariety-A
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Events.

hast mamorr- or even the best newspaper, can
not nresent unimpeachably correct Only the
salient events of the 6 days can ever be
carried in the mind, and it is of these that the
impression of the year 1888 must be made.
There is a special value in studying even
the dryest presentation of the years
events as a matter Of pracd-
cal everyday history. Its convenience
appears in a thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or lesser events fix themselves in
the memory Of their relation to other occur
reuces. A review of the events OF 1883,
cleaned from a review of newspaper files, APP
nears below. 1t shows that the year was one
of the most remarkable in history in the great
number Of catastrophes by which many lives
we're lost The fatality of the world,
approx imstely estimated from the reported
deaths. cannot be far from 10O, 600. The list
Of deaths includes a larger than usual propor-
ton of great persona. A full catalogue OF The
bomicides and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States wonld sur
prise the public with the information that vice
il rapidly on the increase. In other respects
the events Of the wear are decidedly noteworthy.
DISASTERS.
Few wears have witnessed 80 many great ca
tastropbes. Jan. 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at 4 o'clock in the morning, aud
II guests and servants lost their lives, The
pecuniary loss was $780, 900. -Four days
later the Planters house, ST. Louis, burned,
causing four deaths, and the circus In
f3erditseheH. Russia. burned during q per-
Torrance, and 2GS persons persisted. In
January, also, Is %convicts were drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river, North Carolina; the
British ship Empire burned on the way to
Bombay, and 10 were lost: a Bethlehem, "a,
boiler explosion killed .; the CImbria sunk in
collision with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; a Southern Pacific
train went over an embankment at Tehachopa,
Gala, and 20 we're killed; q men were lost
from the schooner Garfield in a storm near
Halifax: ~ were drowned by the flooding of
a mine in Austria; 10 lives were lost by the
sinking Of the City OF Brussels; at Centerville,
ILL.,, a mine ex Dloded and ten men were Killed;
in February the frightful disaster at Braid
wood. Ill, occurred, by which O3 men
were buried in the Diamond mine, and their
bodies were not recovered for several months.
In a panic IN the Fourth Street school, New
York city, 16 children lost their lives. BY
yarious foods in Ohio, Missouri aud other
neigLboring States 81 lives were lost
The schooner Pilot Bride went down off Deco
lation island aud all the crew but fonr drowned.
The Ashuelot sank of Hong Kong, drowning
IL. In March tho steamer Navarro
went down with 50 men on board,
In April q boiler explosion at st Dezler, Paris,
killed sixty-fve. On the 10th OF tho same
month 1877 miners were killed in Eastern
France. In May the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
mn at san Francisco, killing eight, and lorna
does are estimAted to have killed over 100.
On June 16 occurred the frightfui panic III
Sunderland Exhibition hall, in which 2O2 chill
JTen were trampled TO death. Floods and
tornadoes caused fifty-eight deaths in this
month. June 20 twenty-five Cinnamon were
killed in 8 mine beyond the Mullan tunnel,
Montana July 2 seven lives were lost
in A railroad accident at Bradford, Pa
on the 4th tho Daphne, in being
launched at Glasgow, careened and drowned
80. A fire IN Hungary burned twenty.
july ~ Tivoli pier fell near Baltimore, drown
ing sevenTy-two. At Carlyon, N. T., seventeen
we're killed, among them Thomas Hoyne OF
Chicago. Capt Webb was killed the last OF
this month while trying to swim the Niagara
whirlpool Floods at London, Ont, drowned
seventeen. The month closed with the vol
canic eruption at Ischia, off the Bay Of Naples,
in which the loss of life was beyond
estimation. The Cologne GaZette nut II
at 5000, while others think not over
100 Lost their lives there. On the 23l OF
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, in
which the total loss of life was twenty-three.
The steamer Riverdale burst her boilers on the
Hudson river and a number of lives were lost.
Aug. 80 came the Java earthquake, a
catastrophe terrible beyond anything known in
the history of the world. Probably 70,
people we're killed by it. Tne ravaSes of the
cholera IN India and Egypt during the summer
caused g horrible loss of life, over u, 900
people dying in july, and 10000 being re-
ported in Egypt alone during August
Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the West
Indies. and the United States probably reach
the number of 5000. In September nine
soldiers Of Illinois militia were killed at Spring
field. On the 29th, q powdermill in San Fran
circo exploded and killed forty-one. mostly
Chinese. Nov. 8, tho new wing of the capitol
at Madison, Wis, fell, burving twenty men,
One was killed, ana others seriously hurt The
steamer Manistee went down on Lake Superior
about the 21st, with, it is estimated, fifty per-
sons on board. In the same storm probably
seYeDty-fye sailors persisted on the lakes. In
December three Gloucester schOoners wen
down with thirty-eight on board. The sinking
of the schooner Mary Ann Hurlburt in Lake
Superior on the 18th caused the death o.
fifteen men. On the 10th the Spaniel
steamer 81. Augustine burned in the Bay OF
Biscay, and upward o. thirty lives were lost
On the 18th a terrific storm occurred on the
Black sea, it which it is estimated that 300
persisted In the burning of tho German
I~sraelite school at ConstAutinople thirty were
burned TO death. A snowsiide in Colorado
killed eight men last week. The steamer
Plantyn, bound for Antwerp from New York,
was foundered and five sailors were killed
last week.
NEUROLOGY.
The year began with a notable death at
Nashington-Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
ister and dean OF the Diplomatic corps. while
making a New Years call at the White House.
On the same day Leon Gambetta died near
Paris in his forty-fourth year, from a pistol
wound. said TO have been inflicted by his mis-
tress, Madame Leon, but now believed to have
been by his own accident The same day alec
the carl Of Stamford died in England. aged
Afty-four. Other notable deaths in January
were thnsa of Barrett, the jockey
who rode Pa~ole; William A. Seayer, ass S jant
sditor of Harper's Magazine; Lot NJ. Morrli of
Maine; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryans-
loWn, Nd. after his RELEASE from the Dry Tor
.asas for participation in the assassination of