The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss OF Human Life by Earthquake,
Fire. Flood ard Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers and Variety
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Events.

The history Of n year is something that the
hast memory, or even the best newspaper, can
nm, present automatically correct Only the
salient events of the 800 days can ever be
carried in the mind, AMI 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 q matter OF practi-
cal everyday history. It's 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
RANGES, A review Of the events OF 1883,
cleaned from a review of newspaper files. ap-
oears below. 1t shows that the year was one
of the most remarkable in history in tho grear
number Of catastrophes by which many lives
were lost The fatality OF the world,
approx mately estimated from the reported
deaths, cannot be far from 100, 600. the list
OF deaths includes a larger than usual prouor.
ton of great persons. A full catalogue of the
homicides and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States would sur
prise the public with the information that vice
Ia rapidly ON the increase. In other respects
the events of the year are decidedly noteworthy.
DISASTERS.
Few wears have witnessed 80 many great ca
tastrophes. Jan. 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at 4 o'clock in the morning, and
rs guests aud servants lost their lives. The
pccuniary loss was $500, 900. Four days
later the PIan'ers' house, ST. Louis, burned,
causing fOur d aths, aud the circus in
Berdltscheff, Russia. burned during a per-
Torrance, and 2GS persons persisted In
January. also, Is oOnvlc's were drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river, North Carolina; the
British ship Expire bnrned on the way to
Bombty, AMI 10 were lot: a Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed 3; the CImbria sunk in
col isiou with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 3 persons; a Southern Pacific
train went Over an embaukment at Iehachopa.
Gala, and 20 were killed; q men were lost
from tho schooner Garfield in q st rm near
halifax; ~ were drowned by the foo hing of
q mine III An. tria; 10 lives were lost by the
sinking of the CITY OF BRUSSELS; at Centeryille,
ILL.,. a mine exploded and ten men were killed;
in February the frighlful disaster at Braid
wood, III. occurred. by which SO men
were buried in the Diamond mine, aud their
bodies were not recovered for several mOntns.
In a panic IN the Fourth Street school, New
York city. rs children lost their Ives. BY
various foods in OHIO, Missouri and other
neigI boring States 81 lives we're lost.
The schooner Pilot Bride went down off Dsso.
latOn island aud all the crew bur four crowned
The Asbuelot sa k off Hong Kong, drowning
IL. In March the steamer Navarro
went down with 90 men on board,
III ADTll u " CAphbSibb O. ~ DNSiOA a NbA
killed sixty. FIVE On the Both Of tao Same
month 1877 miners were Iii led in Eastern
France. In MAY the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the Pilot blew
up at San Francisco, killing eight, aud lorna
does are est mated to have killed over 100.
On June 10 occurred the frightfni pa2ic in
Sunderland Exnibi ion hall, in which 2l2 chill
dren were trampled to death. Floods and
tornadoes caused fifty eight deaths in this
month. June 20 TWEEN Live Cinnamon were
a.. $3.50 L--w1 flNn nln tnHnAI
Montana. July 2 seven lives were lost
in a railroad accident at Bradford, Pa.
On the 4th the Daphne, in being
launched at Glasgow, careened and drowned
$50. A fire IN Hungary burned twenty.
July "a Tivoli pier to | near Baltimore, drown
ing seventy-two. A t Uariyop, N T., seventeen
were Killed, among them Thomas Hoyne OF
Chicago. Capt Webb was xii ell the last of
this month white trying To swim the Niagara
whirlpool. Floods at London, Ont, drowled
seventeen. The mo tn closed Win tne Vos-
cauic eruption at I>cnia, off the Bay Of Naples,
in which the loss OF life was beyond
estimation. The Cologne Gazette put IL
at 5000, while others tllnk MOI over
5000 lost tlreir lives there, On the 20 OF
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, IN
which the 0 ii loss Of life was twenty tDroe'
TIE steam r Ray-riale bursther boilers on the
Hudson river and q number of ! yes were lost
Aug. so came the Java earillquAk', a
catastrophe terri beyond anything knnwa IN
the history Of the world Probably Io,oOO
peop e were Killed bv il Tue rayages or the
cholera In Itda and Egypt during lhs summer
caused a horribl9 loss Of life, over lz,uoo
people diving in July, aud 10000 being re-
ported III Egypt alone DUNG August,
Deaths by yeiIaw fever In Mexico, me Nest
Indies, and the Unifed States pfoonDly reacn.
the number of 5000 In BEL temDer nine
sci lisrs Of IL is militia were X He'd at SprlaS-
field. Ga the 20 b, n powdermil III San Fran
cisco exploded aud killed for'y-one. mostly
Chinese. NV. 8, the new wing OF the c4pltot
at Madison, Wis fell, bulY.tg twenty MN
One was killed, and Others serious Y hurh Ihe
steamer Manistte went down ON Lake superior
about the 2Ist, with, tits cstimttsd, al y psr-
sons on board. liz tbs same storm pfooabIy
seven y-ive sailor perished on the AXES. an
December three GiGaeester sehonnefs Wenl
down with thirtv-eight nn buard. Ihe SINKING
of the chooner Ma Y Ann Hu lburt IN Like
Superior oa tile l1th caused me death o.
fifteen men, On tue 10TH TIE Gpa.lsn
Steamer St Augustine burned in tho BAY o.
Biscay, aud upward OF thirty lives were lost
On the I7th aterr4nc storm occurred on the
Black sea, it wbici it il estimated tht o'O
persisted. In the burning OF the German
tsrielite school at CoBstaniinople thir were
burned to dest'. A SHOWS ide IN 90 s. a3so
killed eight men last week Tae steamer
Plantyn, bouna for Antwerp from New Yrs,
was fonndered aud Eve sailors were killed
last week.
NEUROLOGY.
The year began wi b a notable death al
Washington-Eisha Allen, tho Hawaiian min
ister and dean of tho diolomatic corpt. Wsie
making a New Years call at thu WiiIte House
On the sans day Lam Gambetta died near
Paris in his for y~-fourth year, from q pistol
wound. sud 10 iaye b5ol / ffticied bv his mis-
tress, Madame L On, but low believed to have
been by his own accident The same day also
the carl Of Stamford died in England. agei
ffty-four. Other no able deaths IN January
were thoss af Barreth, the Jpckey
who rode Pa ole; William A. Seayer, ass VI
editor Of Barp RS AIagaz no; Lot N. Morrill, OF
Name; DR. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryans-
knwI MI 90 ar ria rataoaa from tho Dry Tor