The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-01-03
LAST YEARS EVENTS.
Tie Loss of Human Life by Earthquake
Fire, Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Numbers ana Varitty-A
Years Sport in the United States
Dramatic Events.


Dramatic Events.
The history of year is something that the
best memory, or even the best newspaper, can
not present unimpeachably correct Olly the
salient events Of the 500 days can ever be
carried in the mind, and it is OF these that the
impress ion of the year 1888 must be made
There il special value in study ng even
the dryest presentation OF the years
events as matter OF practi-
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
rences. review of tho events OF 1888.
cleaned from review of newspaper files, ap
pears below. 1t shows that the year was one
of the most remarkable In history in the great
number of carastrophes by which many lives
were lost The fatality Of the world,
approx mately estimated from the reported
deaths, cannot be far from 1OO, 900. The list
of deaths includes q larger than usual proror-
ton of great persons. A full catalogue OF the
homicides end miscellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States wonld 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 wears have witnessed go many great ca
tastrophos Jan. 10 the Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at o'clock in the morning, and
70 guests and servants lost their lives. The
pecuniarv loss was 100000. -Four days
later the Planters house, st. Louis, burned,
causing four DEATHS, and the circus III
Berditscheff. Russia. burned during per-
Torrance, and 26S persons persisted In
January, also, Is convic's wera drowned
eros sing Tukaseegee river. North Carolina: the
British chip Empire burned on the way to
B1mbay. AMI 1G were Lost: a Bethlehem, Pa,
boiler explosion killed 8: the Clmbria sunk in
collision with the Sultan in the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; a Southern Pacific
T. ain went over an embankment at Iehachopa.
Gala, and 20 were killed; q men were lost
from the schooner Garfield in q ct rm near
Halifax; ~ were drowned by the foo ling of
mine in Aus trial. 10 lives were lost by the
hiking of the City o Brussels; at Centervllle.
H., mine ex oioded and ten men vera killed:
in February the frishlful disaster Mt Brld-
wood, Ill, occurred. by which TO men
bodies were not recovered for several months
In a panic IN the Fourth Street school, New
York CITY. lG children lost their Ives. BY
various Hoods in Ohio, Missouri and Other
neisl boring States ST lives were lost.
Tie schooner Pilot Bride went down OFF Desc
The Ashuelot sask off Hong Kong, drowning
Ill In March the steamer Navarro
went down with G5 men on board,
In April boiler explosion at St Dazier, Pari-,
killed sixty FIVE. On the 25th Of the same
month 127 miners were killed IN Eastern
France. In Nav the Brooklyn bridge panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
up at San Francisco killing eight, and lorna
does are estimated to have killed over 100.
On June IS occurred the frightfu. pa'ic II
Sunderland Exhibition hall, in which 2 - chill
dren were trampled to death. Flnod5 and
tornadoes caused fifty eight deaths in tits
month. June 20 TWEEN y-tve Cinnamon were
killed in a mine beyond the Mullan tunnel
Montana July . seven lives were los
| in a railroad accident at Bradford Pa.
On the 4th the Daphne. IN being
| launched at Glasgow. csreened am crowned
| July "a Tivoli pier fe near Baltimore, drown
| ing seventv-two At OarIyon, l., seventeen
were killed, among them Thomas Hoyue o1
Chicago Capt Webb was killed the last OF
| this month while trying to swim the Niagara
whirlpool Floods at London Dat. drowAed
seventeen. The mouth closed with the vol!
cauic eruption at Ischia, off the Bay OF Naples
| in which the loss OF life was beyont
estimation. The Cologne Gazette puf !
at 5000. while others think not ove1
! ). OGO lost their lives there. On the % o
| August occurred the Rochester cyclone. II
| which the 10 al loss Of life was twenty three
| The steamer Riverdale burst her boilers on th'
| Hudson river and number of lives were lost
| Aug 80 came the Java earthquake, /;
| catastrophe terrible beyond anything knnwa II
the history of the world. Probably 20, o0'
people were killed by it Tue ravages of The
| cholera IN Iudla and Egypt during ths summe
caused horrible loss of life, over !2,oOt
| people dying in July, and 10000 being re-
ported in Egypt alone during August
| Deaths by yellow fever in Mexico, the Nes
Indies, and the United States probably reaci
| the number of 5000 In seutemb-r nm
sl liers of Illinns militia were killed at Spring
| field On the 29;h, powdermll. in San Fran
eisco exploded and killed forty -one. mo>ti.
/ Chinese Nov. 3, the new wing of the caplto
at Madison, Wis, fell, burvlig twenty men
| One was killed, ana others seriously hurf In
/ steamer Manistee went down on Lake Super!o
about the 2lst, with, it is estimated, hf Y per
/ sons on board. In the same storm probab o.
| seveny-fiye sailors persisted on the lakes
| December three Gloucester schooners wen
| down with thirty eight on board The sinkln
| of the schooner Mary ABn Hu lburt III Lax
| Superior on the / 18th caused The death Q
| fifteen men, On tue 10th the Spani-
steamer St Augustine burned in the Bay o
Biscay, and upward of thirty lives were lost
| On the 18th terrific storm occurred on the
| Black sea, it which it is estimated that out
persisted. In the burning of the German
| lsraelite school at Constantinople thirty wer'
burned to death. SHOWS ide III in Colorado
killed eight men last week. The steamer
Plantyn. bound for Antwerp from New 1ora
was foundered and FIVE sailors were killed
last week.
| NEUROLOGY.
| The year began wi h q notable death q
Washington-Eiisha Allen, tho Hawaiian min
lister and dean of the diolomatic corps. while
making New Years call at ths White House
On the same day Leon Gambe.ta died nea
Paris in his forty-fourth year, from q pisto
wound, said to have bsen inflicted bv his mis-
tress, Madame LION, but now believed to hav
been bv his own accident The same day ais
the carl of Stamford died in England. age
hfty-four Other no'able deaths in Januar
we're those of Barrett the j'cke,
who rode Pa ole; William A. Seaver, ass AN
editor of Harper's Magaz ne; Lot NJ. Morrill, o
Name; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near organs
t.w,, Md. after his release from the Dry Tor
tugas for participation in the ASSASSINATION
President Lincoln; ex-Congres-man Fort o
Illinois: Bishop Crulkshank Of Indianapolis
age sxty-seven; Henry Kip, vice-presl den
United States Express company; Jerome I
Fargo, one of the EXPIRE - family, at Buffalo
N. Y: Prince Alexander. brother of Empero
William; Wolfgang Goethe, son of the grea
German poet; Gustave Dore, the artist; L,r
Greville of England. In February, ex-Goy
L. D. Morgan of New York died
Richard Wagner, tue composer; Marshal
Jewell, the ex- postmaster general and char
man of tho Republican national committee
ex-Gov. DAVIS of Texas; DIR. Paul Chadb ourn
of Massachusetts, in New York city: an
Charles L. Thorne. the actor, at New York
The first noted death in March was that c
Alexander III. Stephens Of Georgia, on the At
of the mouth. o her noted deaths were Co
Harry Gilmour, the Feb i guerrilla, at Balti
more; Prince Gortschakoff. ex- chancellor o
the RUSSIAN empire, at Baden Baden
+. Q. Howe, postmaster general
IL. r. Green, the Z ,glsh historian
at Mentone; Karl Marx. aged sixty five, 8
Argenteuil; and John Brown, Queen Victoria
body servant The first notable death in Apr
was that Of Peter Cooper, the philanthropis
in New York city. in his ninety-,hird veal
Other deaths were Surgeon General Barnes
Franz IL, grand duke OF Mecklenburg
Schwerin; in Constantinople, Sulieman Pashs
In May President Grants mother died q
| JerSnv City in her aiuhtv-fourtb year. Tsra,