The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-03
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
The Loss Of Human Life by Earthquake.
Fire. Flood and Accident
/ ~ = Last Year.
Crimes Increase In Numbers and Variety
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Events.

the dryest presentation Of the years
events as. a matter OF pracu-
cal > everyday history. Its convenience
appears in thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or-.Aesser events fix themselves IN
the memoIy Of their relation to other occur
rences. A review Of the events OF 1883,
cleaned from review Of newspaper files, ap-
pears below. It shows that the year was one
of the most remarkable in history in the grea;
number Of ca,astrophes by which many lives
we're lost The fatality Of the world,
approx matcly estimated from the reported
deaths, cannot be far from 100, OOO The list
of deaths includes larger than usual propor-
ton of great persons. A full catalogue OF the
honicides and miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States would sur
prise the public with the information that vice
is rapidly on the increase. III other respects
the events of the year are decidedly noteworthy.
DISASTERS
Few wears have witnessed SO many great ca
tastrophos. 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 S5OO,O00. Four days
iater the Planters house, St. Luis, burned,
causing four d aths, aud the circus III
Berditscheff. Russia. burned during per-
Torrance, and 268 persons psrishcd In
January. also, IL cDnv.cs were drowned
crossing Tukaseegee river. North Carolina; the
riish ship Empire burned on the way to
y mbay. anil Ii were lot: Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed 5: the Clmbria sunk in
col .isiou with the Sultan i'll tho German ocean,
drowning 1874 persous; Southern Pacific
train went over an embaukment at Iehachopa.
Gala, and 20 were killed; 6 men were los
from tho schooner Garfield in st 'rm near
Halifax; 72 were d Owned by tho hooains OF
a mine in Au, tria; 10 lives were lost by the
hiking Of the City o! Brussels; at Centerville.
M. mine exploded and ten men were killed;
in February the frigh.ful disaster at Braid
woud, Ill, occurred. by which IS men
we're buried in the Diamond mine. and their
bodies we're not recover 80 Tor several montus.
In panic IN the Fourth Street school, New
York city, l6 children Lost their yes. BY
various floods in OHIO, Missouri aud oth'r
neig boring States St lives we're lost.
TIE schooner Pilot Bride went down off Desc
lat on island and all the crew but four crowned
Tho Ashuelot sa * off Hong Kong, drowning
II. In March the The steamer steal - Navarro assr1
In April boiler explosion at St Dszier, Paris,
killed sixty five On the 25th If the same
month 1877 miners were killed IN Eastern
France In May the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
up at San Francisco, killing eight, and lorna
On June Is occurred the frightfu. paic in
Sunderland Exhibition hall, in which 2.I2 chill
dren were trampIed to death. Fl ,ods and
tornadoes caused fifty eight deaths IN thls
month. June 25 twen'y -hve Cinnamon were
killed in mine beyond the Muilau tunnel.
Montana. July 2 seven lives were lost
in railroad accident at Bradford, Pa.
On the 4th the Daphne, in being
launched at Glasgow, careeued and drowned
100 A fire in Hungary burned twenty.
July "a Tivol! pier fe near Baltimore, drown
ing seventy-two. At Car]yop, N T., seventeen
Chicago. Capt Webb was killed the last OF
this month while trying to swim the Niagara
whirlpool. Floods at London, Ont, dro"uee
seventeen. Tho month closed with the vol
canic eruption at Iscbia, off the Bay OF Sapies
in which the loss of life was be pew
at 5000, while others think not r., ove
5000 lost their lives there. Ga the 23l o
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, II
which the 10 al loss Of life was twenty three
| The steamer Riverdale burst her boilers on IN
Hudson river and number Of Ives were los'
| catastrophe terrible beyond anything known i
the history of the world. Probably 20, Oo
people were killed by it. Tne ravages OF IN
cholera IN India and Egypt during 1hs summ me
caused horrible loss Of life, over !2,ou'
people dying in July, and 10, 600 being re-
Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the Yves
Indies. and the United States probably reac
Ihe number of 5000 In September min
ST. !iers of Illinois militia were killed at Spring
| field On the 29tb, powdermil' IN San Fran
ci~co exploded and killed forty one: mostl
Chinese. Nov: 8, the new wing OF the capi1o
ut Madison, Wis. fell, bulyirg twenty men
| One was killed, and others seriously hurt. In
steamer Manistee went down Oh Lake Superio
| about the 21s I-xiih. it ia estimated. tit = per
| sons on board. In the Same storm prooaDl
! reven'y-fve sailors persisted on the lakes.
December three Gloucester schooners wen
! down with thirty eight Oh board. The s'nk'n
of the schooner Mary Ann Hu'lburt in LAX
| Superior ON the 18th caused the death c
ss e. o. tho aSh in the he Ksy
6iscay, and upward Of thirty lives were lost
! On the 18th terrific storm occurred on thu
| Black sea. it which it is estimated that 3Ot
persisted In the burning Of the German
| lsraelite school at Constsntinople thirty wer
burned to death. A SHOWS ide in Colorado
Plsntyn. bouud for Antwerp from New York
was fonndored and I've sailors were kllIet
last week.
! The year began wi b notable death q
Washington-Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
lister and dean of the Diplomatic corps, whi,'
making Now Years call ut the White House
4
Paris in his forty-fourth year. from . pisto
| wound, SAID to have been inflicted by his mis-
| tress, Madame L on, but now believed to hav'
| been by his own accident The same day aist
the earl of Stamford died in England. age
| ifty-four. Other no able deaths in Januar,
we're those Of Barrett the jnck.y
who rode Pa ole; William A. seaver, ass All
editor of Harper's Magaz ne; Lot NJ Morrill, OF
Name; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryans-
| ! ", Md, after his release from the Dry Tor.
tuga. for participation in the assassination OF
president Lincoln; ex-Congressman Fort Of
illinois; Bishop Cru,kshank of Indianapolis,
.se sixty-seven: Henry Kip, ce-presldent
United States Express company; Jerome F.
fargo, one Of the EXPIRE g family. at Buffalo,
y: Y: Prince Alexander, brother of Emperor
William; Wolfeang Goethe, son Of the great
German poet; Gustave Dore, the artist; L 'rd
e. D. Morgan Of New York died;
Richard Wagner, the composer; Marshall
Jewell, the ex- postmaster general and chair.
man of the Republican national committee
ex-Gov. Davis Of Texas: pr Paul Chalo ourne
Of Massachusetts. in New York city; and
The frs, noted death in March was that OF
Alexander 81. Stephens Of Georgia, on the 4th
Of The mouth. o her noted deaths were Col.
Harry Gihnou-, the rebsl guerrilla. a. Balh-
more; Prince Gortschakoff.. ex-ehanoeilor OF
J. R. Green, the s 'glish historian
at Mentone: Karl Marx, aged sixty five. a
Argenteul; and John Brown, Queen Viotorla's
body servant The first notable death in April
was that Of Peter Cooper, the phiIanthropist,
III New York city, in his ninety third year.
Oher deaths were Surgeon General Barnes,
Franz H., grand duke Of Mecklenburg-
Schweriu: in Oonstsntiuople. Sulleman Pasha
In May Pre-, idsnt Grants mother died q
Jersey City, in her eighty fourth year; Isras
Wa-hburn died in Philadelphia; B shop Peck
at Syracuse; William Chambers, the publish
er, in London; Edouard Latoulaye, i'll PARIS
aud ABIDE -Kader, in Dana In June
Charles G. Fulton, editor Of the Baltimore Amer
lean, died. Prof Anton, the classical scholar
died in New York; and ex- Congressman Cas-.
scrly in California. In August Writ Sykes. con
sui at Cardiff, died; also, judge Black, at York
Pa. Count de Chambord, at Frohshorf. In
September, Hugh Hastings, OF the New York
Commercial Advertiser. died; and Junius
Brutus Booth, at Manchester, Mass. In Octo.
Der, Gen.. stsedmsn, tho war hero, died al
Toledo. In November, Matt Hea |, ex-govern-
or Of New Hampshire, and Admiral Creighton,
s a''u'l - = POLITICAL.
The Identification OF President Arthur's ad-
ministrstion with the reform of the civil ser.
wee took shape Ia February aud March. Sen
atpr Pendleton's bill was passed Jan. 4:
early in March the president appointed Dor.
man 3. Eaton o. New York, John NJ Gregory
Of Illinois, and Il D. Thoman of Ohio, civil
service commissioners March 3, Seua.
tor David Daviss retired from the VICE
presidency, and Senator Edmunds elected to
succeed him. March congress adjourned