River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-03
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss OF Human Life by Earthquake.
Fire. Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers aud Variety
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Eyeats.

salient events OF the 365 days can ever be
carried in the mind, add it is Of these that the
impression Of the year 1888 must be made.
There ia a special value in studying even
the dryest presentation of the years
events as matter OF praca-
cal everyday history. Its convenience
appears in thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or lesser events fix themselves IN
the memory Of their relation to other occur
renees. review of the events OF 1883,
cleaned from review Of newspaper files, APP
pears below. II shows that the year was one
OF the most remarkable IN history in the great
number OF caastrophes by which many lives
we're lost. The fatality Of the world,
anprox mately estimated from the reported
deaths. cannot be far from 100000. The list
Of deaths includes larger than usual prooor-
| ton Of great persons full catalogue Of the
homieides and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States wopld sur
prise the public with the Information that vice
| IS rapidly on the increase. In other respects
the events Of the year are decidedly noteworthy.
DISASTERS
| Few years have witnessed SO many great ca
| testroplos. Jan 10 the Newhall house burned
! in Wisconsin at o'clock in the morning, aud
rs guests and servants lost their lives The
pecuniary loss was $500,0Oo. Four days
| atar the Planters house, St Louis. burned
/ causing four d,aths, and the circus ID
| Berditschetf. Russia. burned curing . Per
| Torrance, and 20S persons persisted In
January, also, IL conyies were drowned
! crossing Tukaseegee river, North Carolina; the
British ship Empire burned on the way TO
| il. t,nbay AMI Is were lost: Bethlehem, Ia !,
| boi Or explosion killed s.; the Cimbria sunk in
| eol isiot1 with this sultan in the Gosmau ocean,
| drowning 434 persons; Southern racine
/ tain won't over su embankment at lehachoaa,
/ Gala and 20 were killed; = men were los
| from the schooner Garfield in st rnl near
Halifax; II were drowned by the ilooilng OF
| n mine ii Austria; 10 lives were l0st by the
: mixing of the CITY al Brussels; at Centeryille,
III a iai,le exploded aud ten men were klleu
| in february the ffightful disaster AZ brdla-
| woud HI, occurred, by which 10 men
| were buried in the Diamond mine, and their
| bo3ies were not recovered for several months
| In manic IN the Fourth Street schooi, new
| York citv is children lost their Ives 10y
| various foods in ONO, Missouri aaa ethei
| ne;ol horine States 56 lives were lost
| ma sclno1er Pilot Bride went down off D9so-
latson island aud all the crew but four drowned.
INC Ashuelot sank off Hong Kong drowning
III la March the steamer Navarro
| went down with 90 men on board
In April g boiler exp osoa a. 81 Dezier, fafl4,
/ kflled sixty. five Ou the 10th Of the same
month I27 miners were killed IN Eastern
| France In NAV tho Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat PIlot pew
up at san Francisco, Killing eight, ana toi
does are estimated to have killed over IOU.
on June I6 occurred the frightfu, panie II
Sunderland Exhibition hall, in which W. emil.
8rcn were tramplud to death. Floods and
tornadoes caused hfty-eight deaths IN TINS
month June % twenty-five Cinnamon Were
Killed in a mine beyond the Mulian tunnel
Montana July seven lives were los
En- railroad accident at Bradford. Pa
IN tho 9Th the Daphne, in beine
launched at Glasgow, careened and dfowhet
$50 A fro in Hungary burned twenty
Julv % Tiyoli pier fe near Baltimore, drown
ine, 'sevorty-two At Carlyon, N Y. seventeen
| were killed, among them Thomas Hoyne 0.
| Chicago Capt Webb was killed the last Of
| this month while trying to SWIM tue Niagara
| whirlpool Floods at London, Dat, drowned
| seyeuteen The month closed with the vol
| ca1ic eruption at Ischia, of the Bay OF Naples
in which the loss of life was beyont
| estimstion The Cologne Gazette nut J
at 5000, while others tbiok nor owe
| : 900 lost their lives there On the Zoi o
| Auprs, occurred the Rochester cyclone, j
, | Which tho ;oygl loss of life was twenty three
INC steamer Riverdaie burst her boilers on IN
, Hudson river and number of lives were ios'
Ang. 80 came the Java earthquake, !,
catastrophe terrible beyond anything known n !
the history of the world Probably fo,OO
peope were killed by it. Tue rayages or Ia
cholera In India and Egypt during the summ me
J caused q horrible loss OF lie, over 1%,ou
J people dying in july, aud 1U,Uoo oeing re
ported III Egypt alone during Angus
, deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the Yves
Indies. and The United States probably reac
the number of 5000 In septembef nm
soI Iisrs of Illinois militia were Killed at spring
field On the 29th, a powdermiit IN san iran
Greco exploded and kuied TORY o. n.y. ..e,t
| Mt Madison, Wis, fell, bnrYing twenty in S,
One was killed, and others seriously hurt ! Il
steamer Manistee went down on Lake superb
about the 2lst, with, II IS estimated, MY p ~,
sons on board. In the same storm PropaoII
seventy fye sailors persisted on the lakes
! December three Gloucester sehooners wen
down with thirty eight on board. The snkln
of the schooner Mary Ann Hurlburt IN Lac
| SuDerior on tho 14th caused the death :
H aamor 81 s'4A Augustine burned in the Bay o
Biscsy and upward OF thirty lives we're lost
On the 18th terrific storm occurred on tht
Black sea, it which ii is estimated that 3u'
persisted. In the burning OF the German
lsraelite school at ConstsuIinopie thirty were
burned TO death. A SHOWS ide ia Colorado
killed eight men last week The steamer
Plantyn bound for Antwerp from New York
was foundered and five sailors were kliiet
last week
NECEoLoGY
| The year began wi b & notable death q
| Washington-Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
lister and dean of the Diplomatic corps, whii'
making New Years call at the White House
1 On the same day Leon Gambetta died nea
Il
| wound, SAID to have been Inflicted by his mis-
tress Madame Leon, but now believed to hav
been by his own accident The same day ais
the carl of Stamford died in England. age
hfty-four. Other notable deaths in Januar!
we're those of Barrett the jockey
who rode Pa ole; Wilhsm A. Seaver sisian
| editor of Harper's Magaz ne; Lot H. Mtrrllt o
| Name: DIR. Samuel A. Mudd, near bryaus-
| / WI, Md, after his release from the DRY Tor
tugas for participation in the assassination OF
l prao I oy
Illinois; Bishop Crulkshank Of Indianapolis
| gs sixty-seven; Henry Kip, vice-presiden
United States Express company; Jerome r.
| Fargo, one of the expire g family, a. Bunalo
| Y l.; Prince Alexander, brother of Emperor
William: Wolfgaug Goethe, son OF the grea
. German poet; Gustave Dore, the artlst; L1rt
Creville Of England. In February, eX-Goy
lE D. Morgan of New York died
| Richard Wagner, the composer; Marsha
| Jewell, the ex.postmaster general and char
| man of the Republican rational COMM o
| * Gov Davis Of Texas; DIR. Paul Chado ohrnS
| II Massachusetts, ia New York city; ane
! Charles r. Tnorne, the actor, ut New 1orK
| The first noted death in March was that o
| Alexander H. Stephens OF Georgia, on the ttl
af The month. Q her noted deaths were Coi
DAIRY Gilmou~, the rebsl guerrilla, a. Bilu-
more: Prince Gortachakof, ex-chanceltor o.
tho Russian empire, at Bauen- bAden
7 o. Howe .. postmaster a,i,tS gss genera
1t Mentone: Karl Marx. aged sixty Ave. .
Argenteull; and John Brown, Queen victoria!
| .ody servant The first notable death 10 Apr
was that of Peter Cooper. the phiianthropis'
NJ IN New York city, in his ninety-thIrd year
| o her delths were Surgeon General Barnes
Fianz IL, grand duke OF Meckienburg
Schwarin; a Constantuople. SuLeman Pasha
| In NAV Pre- id snt Grants mother did a
Jersey City, in her eighty fourth year; israe
. Ea<hburn died in Philadelphia; h shop Pech
no Syracuse; william Chambers, tue publish
; er, 10 London; Elouard Lahouaye, ia Paris
aud Add. e -KadeF, in DamaScus In June
Charles FnitOn editor Of the Baltimore Amer
: lean. died. Prot Anton, the classical scholar
died in New York; and ex Congressman Gas
sarfv in California In August Writ Sykes. con
sui at Cardiff, died; also, judge Black, at YorB
: Pa ; Count de Chambord at FrOh4dorf Il
Septenber. Hugh Hastings, OF the New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser, died; and Juniu
Brntus Booth at Manchester, Mass In Octo
her Gen st edmau, the war hero, died g
Toledo In November. Matt Hea !, ex-goYern
, or of New Hampshire, and Admiral Creighton
died.
The Identification of President Arihur's al
/ lnlinislration with the reform Of tue civil ser
, | wee took shape ia February aud March. Sen
| atpr Pendleton's bill was passed Jan. 4
early ia March the president appointed Dor
man b. Eaton o. New York, John III GGegor.
Of Illinois, aud L u. Thoman OF Ohio, clvi
service commissioners. March y, Sena
| tor David Davis retired from the VIC
presidency, and Senator Edmurds elected I
succeed him, March 4 congress adjourned
. John W. Foster was sent as minister TO Spain
. Thomas W Palmer Of Detroit was elected &
The Senate A1rl 3 Walter q Gresham wa
appointed postmaster & neral to succeed I. O
Howe, deceased. May u Waiter Eyaa
: vas apuointed comm ssioner Of interLa