The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
TIE pEATH-RoLL OF 1895.
rha List of Mobiles and Statesmen Is
Long and Illustrious.

sweep of thousands, so among the rich,
powerful and prominent there are APP
pparentlv seasons when the grim reaper
makes more than usual havoc. The
wear now closing appears to be an Annus
Mirabilis IN this respect, for q greater
number of those who filled a large place
in the eve of the world have passed
away than during a similar period for
many years. The progress of sociology
NAV at some time in the future enable
rs to explain why things have a habit of
happening all at once, but until such a
desirable point in this somewhat uncer-
tain science is reached, the fact must be
taken, and explanations of it, worthy
and worthless, may be made to his own
satisfaction by each who cares to specu-
late upon 1t.
The list of mobiles and statesmen is
long and illustrious. Alfonso, the young
King of Spain, who, in spite of his weak
ness and wickednesS, gave his country
the first peace enjoyed for years, died
November %, while the Madhi, who
emerged from the obscurity of a der
vish'S hut to become a power among the
nations, died July %. Prince Ferdi-
nand, of SAKE Coburg, the father of the
King of Portugal, died December Is,
and the Russian diplomat, Prince Orloff,
whose family gave a name to the Orloff
diamond, died March 90. President
Barrios died April 4, and Marshal Ser
rano, who witnessed eighty Spanish
revolutions and more changes in the
government of his own country than any
other statesman of the age, passed
awav November 26. Earl Cairnes died
April 2, Lord Avonmore February Is,
General Fernandez, the Revolutionary
President of Costa RIGA, on March Is,
Prince Frederick Charles on June Is.
Dr.. Ludwig Noel of Heidelberg, and
Mecklenburg Ministry, on December 10.
The year has been n of affliction to
he British nobility, it having lost from
is saunders Lord Earnest Vane Tempest,
who died August IA, Dudley Francis
North, and the Earl of Guilford, who
passed away December 20. Lord Hough-
ion, the head of an old English family,
lied on August II, Earl Anglesford on
January Is, Lord Avonmore on Februa-
Y 16, and the Duke of Abercorn on No
Tember l.
In this country a number of ex-Sena-
ors and politicians of national reputa-
Jon died during the year, among them
icing James Chestnut, formerly Senator
rom South Carolina; w. M. Gwin, of
California, September 3, and Robert
Toombs, the Georgia confederate, who
lied December Is. b. Gratz. Brown, of
Missouri, who ran on the Greeley ticket,
lied November IA; William Sharon, the
Noliforpio Sanotnp on1 ,oflh,1,,o. ra ~
November Is, and the once noted Edgar
Cowan Oh August 20. The country lost
IN ex-Vice President, Schuyler Colfax,
IN January Is, and a Vice-President,
Thomas A. Hendricks, on November %.
Two ex-Secretaries of the Interior died
e. ID. Clark, March %, and Jacob
Thompson on March "a, and one ex-
Secretary of State, +. T. Frelinghuysen,
On May 20. The famous Scott Lord
lied September 10, and /. S. Phelps,
Minister to Peru, on June "a. Among
The ex-Governors the mortality was
equally great, the list comprising the
names of Able Coburn, of Maine, jan
larry 3; G.. G. Walker, of Virginia, May
IL; Reuben E; Fenton, of New York,
August Is, and Thomas Talbot, of Mas
saehusetts, October 6. The year was
more fortunate for the lesser lights of
politics, but among the roll of these are
some well-known names, such as those
Of Isaiah Rynders, of New York, JAN
nary ID; ex-Mayor Gunther, of the same
sty, January %; Conrad Baker, of Kan
Ias, April 20, and Gordon w. Durham,
March I8.
The profession of arms lost some of
is most illustrious men during the year,
The list beginning with Gen. Gordon,
who persisted at Khartoum February 10.
During the same month Gen. Horace
Capron and Gen, Charles r. Wood died
also, the former on the 22d, the latter on
The 18th. In March the list was length
ened by the names of Gen. Thomas III.
NeiH, who died on the 18th, and Gen.
Arson Stager on the. 18th. while Ser
geant Thomas Plunkett, the armless hero
81 fredericksburg, died on the 10th.
zen. Irwin Mcdowell, who commanded
At the first battle of Bull Run, died May
); Gen. George B. Mcclellan, Com
nander of the Army of the Potomac,
lied on October 80, and Gen. Jas. Nc
Quade, on June Is. Mayor Aaron Stat
lord, the last survivor of the wan of
1872, died September s. BY far the
greatest loss to the profession, however,
was in the death of u. S. Grant, Gener-
hof the Army and ex-President, which
sook place on July 20. In Germany the
most serious loss of the year by death
was that of Gen. Manteuflel, Governor
OF Alsace-Lorraine, on June IL.
Tn French navy was deprived Of the
services Of Admiral Courbet, who died OF
shagrin on June IS, while the English
navy lost Rear Admiral Sir George Sarto-
rus on April Is. Rear Admiral George
4. Preble died March z and Rear Admiral
John Menston on the same day, while
The navy also lost three OF its best Off