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Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
nECEMRER-

A bill providing for trial by jury was pre-
sented in tho Spanish Chamber of Deputies.
The proprietors of eight hotels restaurants
in Hartford were arrested for using oleomarga-
rine on their tables without displaying the
placard required by the law of Connecticut
The South experienced unusually severe winter
weather during the first week Of December (;
snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in
North Carolina and Virginia; at Asheville, N.
c., the snow was twenty-seven inches deep on a
lovel. Under the decrees of the Plenary Coun-
Gil at Baltimore, the Catholic Arch
bishop OF Philadelphia prohibited balls
for charitable purposes. The Alabama
Senate passed local=option law.
On the waters of Niagara River, Alphonso
King walked one hundred yards In huge pair
of tin shoes Of his own invention, on a wager Of
$1,000. A railway collision In Dayton, Ohio,
sent a locomotive running wild through the
city at the rate of q mile a minute it passed
through the Union DEPOT at the highest known
rate of speed, and exhausted itself at point
ON the track ten miles in the country. A quarry
of fine malachite $50 feet in thickness, was dis
covered in Georgia. No more large steamboats,
with costly cabins will be built for the Lower
Mississippi trade.
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MARCH.

On the 1st inst, President Cleveland sent to
the Senate q special message declining to fur
nish unofficial documents relating to suspen-
sions from office, and claiming the right to de-
stroy them. Owing to a threatened boycott, q
St Louis street-car line advanced wages Of en-
ployes and reduced hours of labor. Owing to a
strike OF employees ON Gould's Southwest lines
of railroad, not u single car OF freight crossed
the St Louis bridge for a week. The Iowa Sem
ate passed n bill making drunkenness mis-
demeanor punishable with severe penalties.
Employees OF the Gould system OF railroads in
the Southwest engaged in a strike which re-
suited in bloodshed at East st. Louis, ILL.,, six
persons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who
were protecting railroad property; as usual,
innocent parties suffered, one of the slain be-
ing q woman returning from shopping expe-
dition. The King OF Corea abolished slavery in
his kingdom, where one-haf the people had
hitherto been held in bondage.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
MAY,

The rule that few office-holders die and mono
resign lhas its exceptions; Clay Noblock re-
signed the Lieutenant Governorship Of Louisi-
ana. On the Sd silver in London reached the
lowest quotation in the history of the metal
evening OF the 4th, a squad Of policemen on
deavored to disperse q meeting OF anarchists
and socialists when a bomb was thrown among
the officers of the law, whereupon they opened
FIRE upon the incendiaries, the result being four
teen deaths-eight Of them policemen, tho other
six being rioters or innocent spectators; about
seyenty.hvo were wounded. The Governor of
New York signed the bill permitting women to
practice law I'm the Empire State. President
Cleveland decided that officers of tine army
found incapacitated for active service by retiring
boards were not eligible for promotion.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
LIME.

The United Presbyterian General Assembly,
In session at Hamilton, Ohio, settled n long
standing fight by voting in favor OF instrumental
music in church worship. The Supreme Court
of Indiana decided that a man accused OF a
capital offense cannot waive trial by jury.
Frosts in Northern Dakota and Minnesota, on
the 7th, injured the wheat crop 2j per cent. The
Supreme Court OF Arkansas affirmed n decision
making the conducting Of -bucket-shops" mis-
demeanoF. Mr.. Gladstones home-rule bill de-
feated ON second reading in the British House Of
Physicians examined King Ludwig OF
Bavaria and reported him insane. Great
excitement prevailed in Belfast, Ireland, over
the d,feat OF Gladstone's home-rule bill aud
the lSyalists celebrated their victory by sack.
ing t. Q public houses, pouring liquors into the
guttets, and behaving in a notous manner gen.
erally; the constabulary, who sought TO pre-
serve order, were pelted with stones, and they
IN turn fred upon the rioters, the most daring
OF whom wefS factory girls scores Of lives
were lost The issue OF secession was voted
upon in Nova Scotia ana resulted in the choice
OF Bs members Of Parliament, % OF whom favor
ed annexation 20 the United States Tho New
York statute regarding imprisopmont for debt
was amended so NJ 20 release all debtor prison.
ers who have been ncarcerated over six months.
Providence X. l., celebrated on the 23d Inst. It's
250th anniversary.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
DECEMBER.

the STAGE of life durino Dacember were. CON
gressman VIM. IT, Price, Of the Eighth Wiscon-
sin District John f. Owens, the veteran COM
edian, at his home in Baltimore a native Of
England, aged g. Isaac Lea, distinguished
American naturalist; Philadelphia, aged 05.
Representative Abraham Dowdney, Of New
York, whose taking off swelled the death-list OF
the Forty-ninth Congress to twelve. Ex-Gov.
Chas. NJ Croswell, OF Michigan. Gen VIM. G..
Harding afamous turfman Of Tennessee, aged
7S. Hon. Marshall p. Wilder one or the fore
most pomologists OF the United Statos; Rox-
bury, Mass, aged s6. James ID. Warren, pro-
prietor OF the Buffalo Commercial AdUeJttser,
and a leader OF the Republican party OF the
State of New York Et-Gov. Pitkin, OF Colo
RADIO. In Indian Territory, Mrs. Susanna War
rem, born a slave mt st. Augustine in 1870. Alden
Goldsmith, famous trotting- horse breeder and
trainer: Bloomina Grova- N Y nQad CO. .
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
LINE.

Terrible cloudbursts and hailstorms were re-
ported from Thuringia, in Germany Famine
in Corea caused the death Of t0J persons in a
single city Corea had not had a good harvest In
seven years, il was said. Many lives were lost
by an earthquake, followed by q volcanic erup-
ton, Mt Tarawera, New Zealand. A hurricane,
accompanied by torrents OF rain, swept over
Galveston, Texas, ON the 18th, flooding the
lower section OF the city, and washing away
two miles OF the Gulf and Santa Fe Railroad; a
shift of the wind saved the city from being in
undated. Fire nearly destroy el Vancouver, b.
g. a dozen persons perished in the flames, and
the money losses reached 81 ,001,00. AT Prague,
Bohemia, a ferryboat capsized while crossing
the river, throwing fifty persons into the water,
over half of whom were drowned. Forty per
sons polished in mine explosion at Rochamp.
France. During June the fire losses in tho
United States and Canada aggregated 81, $50 600,
being so per cent. greater than the average loss
es for June in several years
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Simply Awful.

A number of ladies were sitting in
the parlors of q charitable institution,
discussing various topics. Presently
one of the party mentioned the name
of friend. "Why, do you know him ?"
quickly spoke a listener.
Indeed do" was the reply. "He
brought his fourth wife to see us q short
time ago"
"His fourthl" exclaimed the other.
al wouldn't have let him in the house.
My opinion is that n first wife is desir-
able, q second advisable, q third permis-
sible, but a fourth-that's simply aw-
full. "-Boston Courier.
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APRIL.

Donald Mcclellan whose grandfather was a
follower OF the famous Rob Roy, passed away at
Detroit in INDECENT circumstances, aged 106
Rt, Hon. w. T.. Forster, ex-Chief Secretary for
Ireland, aged 60. Hon. John Welch, Minister to
England under President Hayes administration
Elbridge Gerry, member OF Congress in 16iS and
Me-, aged 49, Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale
inventor, who was knighted by the Emperor of
Austria; at st. Johnsbury, VT, aged 90 John H.
Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, at his
home in Niagara Falls born in 1911, and was
cousin OF ex-President Hayes. Charles Mitchell,
father OF Maggie Mitchell, the actress, ut Troy,
n. Y, aged SO. Mrs. Ella Hart, pioneer OF
Sandusky, o. aged 103. Father Abrain j. Ryan,
the "poet-priest of the South, passed away at
Louisville native of Virginia, aged 40. The
widow OF Wendell Phillips, who had been an in.
ago, died in Boston. At Boston, II. ii. Richard
son, famous architect
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
AUGUST,

A. Eggleston, Mimi, elevator on the c.,
NJ, q st. p, Il II. was destroyed by FIRE the beat
warped the railroad tracks and Q passing freight
train was derailed and burned four unfortu-
nate tramps stealing ride were roasted alive In
one OF the cars. Ravagea Of cholera In Yoko-
hama and Toxic, japan, were reported appal-
ling deaths I'm the former city from the disease
experienced there In fifteen years. Fierce for
est firos ragged I'm Central Wisconsin bodies Of
horses, COWS, and other animals were found
along the roads over which the fire passed, and
thousands OF acres Of grain were devastated
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
AuGuST.

From the walks Of statesmanship Samuel j.
tho 4th. Other eminent persons who departed
during the month were: Ex-Governor Johr w.
Stevenson, OF Kentucky, who had been Senator
and Representative in Congress; Dolores Fosta,
widow of the famous Mexican General, Santa
Anna; Mrs Ann s. Stevens, well-known novel
ist; at Newport II. l., aged "a. Professor
q. T.. Stowe, formerly President Of Andover
Theological Seminary, and husband OF the
author Of uncle Toms Cabin !" at Hartford,
Conn. AGED 81. Mrs. Murphy, of Chicago, at the
advanced age Of 10S years Amos Adams Law
renee, prominent IN reliant and philanthropist
Of Boston. Rev. James c. Beecher, of Connecti.
cut, the youngest brother OF Henry Ward
Beecher, suicided at Elmira, N. Y, on account
Of falling health age, 80 years
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
JULY,

Terrible sufferlngs from famine by the fisher
men and natives OF Labrador and Newfound-
land were reported by dispatches from St. John
cold and hunger did their work so effectually I'm
some districts that half the population was
swept away. BY the burning of the theater at
Tonnevelly British India, 100 Hindoos lost their
lives. The July fire record in the United States
and Canada showed loss OF property valued at
$40 600 OO0-20 per cent. greater than the average
loss for twenty years.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
FEBRUARY.

Death played sad havoc in the ranks Of
American men of war during the brief month
OF February, no less than three Major Generals
answering the summons of the grim messenger
Winfield Scott Hancock, David Hunter and
William II. Rowley. Hancock served with dis
tinction in the Mexican war, was second in
command on the bloody field Of Gettysburg, and
in 1890 was the Democratic candidate for Pros-
dent; Hunter, also, was veteran of the Mexican
campaign, and presided over the military court
that tried Mrs. Surratt and Rowloy was the last
snFsjvipg officer OF Gen. Grants staff Other
deaths for the month were: George t. Banigan,
O versatile genius-jouTnalst poet, author and
translator; at Philadelphia, from heart disease.
George Lorillard owner and breeder OF Parole
and other famous horses. Mrs. Sarah LeaFy,
Oldest person IN Central Illinois ut Illiopolia,
aged log. John e.. Thompson. ox-Sergeant-at-
Arms u. &. House Of Representatives at Seattle,
aged 81. George @. Bates, an eloquent lawyer,
known IN the chain OF great cities from New
York 20 San Francisco. ut Denver, aged n. Ex-
Gov. HoratO Seymour, tho venerable Sage OF
Deerhcld ended his eventful life at Utica In
his 10th year. Sarah Taylor lcoloredl. Mt 81.
Catharines, Ont, aged 100 years ii months and
y days. In Philadelphia, from paralysis, John
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
FERRUARY.

ING Ico Oafffvof " 20 list ui 80 - .. -
with imposing ceremonies, there was process
sion of uniformed clubs, numbering 5000 per-
sons the city was thronged with visitors, and
much enthusiasm prevailed MIR, Gladstone
visited Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the 1st,
kissed her hand, and was commanded to form
a Cabinet. The great feat of telephoning a dis
tance Of z, ,465 miles-the terminal points being
Boulogne and st. Petersburg-was performed in
Europe Notices were posted in the cotton
mills at New Bedford Concord, Manchester,
and Lowell of a general advance OF 10 per cent,
in wages. The Iowa Legislature passed q bill
authorizing Mayors Of cities to solemnize mar
rfapa
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
APRIL.

The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago
on the 9TH, with clearance papers direct from
Mexico and the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
A number of the survivors of the steamer Sui
tana horror held q reunion at Toledo Ohio, on
the 9th, the twenty-hrst anniversary OF the
event; near Memphis, ON the morning of the
9th OF April, 1865, the boilers of the vessel
ploded, and 2, 141 persons perished the ill-fated
transport was loaded with released prisoners
on their way home from Rock Island. John
Dubois, Of Dubois, Pa, who, in consequence of
Illness retired from business, sold an estate
valued at Sl50O0,OOO to his nephew, John E.
Dubois. for 81.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
DECEMIlER

The ancient Church Of ST. Mary Magdalen, in
London, with four warehouses on the same
street, was destroyed by fire; loss, $500 OOO
Thirty men were killed in a coal-mine explosion
in Durham, England. During cyclone near
Algiers, the French steamer Chandernagore,
with 1,200 troops on board. foundered and ali
hands were lost. Forty-two lives were lost by a
collision between two steamers in Australian
waters. BY the loss OF q life-boat while endeav-
oring to relieve distressed vessel at Southport,
England, thirtsen men perished. Great loss of
life and property by floods was reported from
India. The Mississippi River steamboat j. NJ.
White, running between Vicksburg and New
Orleans, was destroyed by fire nc ar Bayou Sara,
La, and between nifty and sixty lives lost, prin-
cpally W, men and children The whaling bark
Atlantic was wrecked near San Francisco, and
tWenty-seven lives were lost
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
MAY,

Kansas City was struck by cyclone on the
11th, which caused tho loss OF twenty-five lives.
A hurricane which swept across the central
portion Of Spain killed seventy-three persons
in Ma1rid alone storm that was far-re ach
ing in extent ravaged portions OF Illinois, In
diana and Ohio ON the 1ith sixty Persons were
killed and two millions OF dollars worth Of
property destroyed in tho rich farming regions
Of Central Ohio. Up 10 May Il, over one hun
dred and seventy lives were lost by tornadoes
and cloud-bursts in the West. BY the wreck Of
tho steamer Lydeemon in Australian waters
during May in the United States and Canada
aggregated 81 900, ,000-sl 100000 below the May
average for years.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
AUGuST.

Snow fell in New York and New Hampshire
ON the Sd. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast,
Ireland, and In the pitched battles that ensued
between the Orangemen and the Catholics the
killed numbered scores and the wounded hum
of patient drew up and cut open his stomach,
took therefrom set of teeth which had lain
thore for year, and sewed up the aperture with
tve ,nin,,Tas .n9 Scott 6aharmon sonoSt
to achieve fame by swimming the whirlpool
rapids Of Niagara attired in a suit OF cork no
made moist, unpleasant corpse" OF himself
instead. On the Esd Mrs. Cleveland, stopping
at the Saranac Inn, among the Adirondacks,
touched the electric button that set the ma
chinery In motion at the Minneapolis Industrial
Exposition. A foot race at London, England,
distance one mile, resulted in n victory for
George over Cummings, in 4 l2A, the fastest
time on record. Gov Gray, of Indiana, offered
a reward Of 81 900 for the conviction Of any per-
son engaged in lynching in that State.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
FEBRUARY.
Cold weather killed large numbers of feh in
the Gulf Of Mexico
MARCH.

Thirty.hve persons were burned to death or
sia buried several villages; FIVE children were
frozen to death while going TO school. For the
seventh time the bobbin factory OF Ellington q
Co., PhiladelPhia was destroyed by fire. The
volcanic md earthquake commissions. The
weight of snow crushed the roof of a theater in
the Japanese town of Heromal, killing or seri-
ously inJuring $50 persons. A vessel was
wrecked at Baku, Russia, by an explosion of
petroleum, and the entire crew Of thirteen per-
sons perished.
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1886.

Derl,y Ave different times. committed suicide
In london while in deiirium caused by
typhoid fever. Other distinguished dead
chronicled during November were: Rev. Wal
ter Home, the father" OF the Church OF Scot
President Chester A. Arthur, Bright's disease
aged 56 Ex-Governor John s. Phelps okMis-
souri,, aged 20. Hon. Charles Francis Adams,
grandson OF the second President OF the United
statos and son of the sixth President at Bos-
ton, aged 20. Erastus Brooks, q veteran editor
OF New York, distinguished In journalism and
pOlitioa aQad 10
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NOVEMBER.

Lawrence n Donavan, a New York pressman,
leaped from the new suspension bridge at Mag
ara on the 7th he descended 100 feet in four
seconds, and escaped without injury save the
slight displacement OF a rib. A meeting in
Glasgow, Scotland, resolved to erect a monu-
ment to Burns Highland Mary" on Castle Hill,
at Dunoon. Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan's report
showed that the standing army of the country
consists of 2,l02 officers and % ,946 men. The
Vermont Legislature passed a law requir-
ing all hotels and restaurants using
oleomargarine for butt r to post up
large signs Of notification TO that effect
A special train on the Canada Southern track,
carrying the Vanderbilt party to Chicago, COW
cred l07 miles in SO minutes, The Austrian
Government issued an order prohibiting tho
playing of poker in its army. George Hazlett
and Sadie Allen, Is years old went through the
Niagara whirlpool and rapids in torpedo
shaped barrel; they were in the rapids and
whirlpool five minutes, and were taken cut Of
the eddy on the Canadian side none the worse
for their perilous trip. The president of the
Marquette, Ontonagan and Portage Road was
credited with saving the lives of twenty-four
men shipwrecked off Marquette in storm he
ordered the railway track cleared Of trains, and
to travel ITO miles with a special engine and
car mt the greatest speed possiblei the i'm
periled sailors were taken from the rocks in a
terrible gale. For the month of November tax
was paid on 4,430,174 pounds of oleomargarine
in the United States by thirty-four manu-
factories
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
SEPTEMBER.

Among the most notable contributions to the
neurology of 1886 for September were Gen. u.
+. Cheatham, OF Nashville, who played con-
Gen. Lloyd Aspinwall, of New York. George
Vandenhof, actor and reader Asher B. Du-
rand, an American painter OF note. Andrew
Lucas, born in slavery in Tennessee, whore he
was n servant OF Gen. jackson, died at Brant-
ford, Ont, at the supposed age Of l29 years.
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the cause OF temperance born In England In
1922. John Henry Payne, grandson Of one OF
the signers OF the Declaration OF Independence,
expired in New York, apparently in extreme
penury; he was believed to be worth between
1000. 900 and 81. 600 but only few hundred
dollars were found in the rags that covered
him. W. s. MeserveY, ut Salem, Mass, mem-
ber OF the first party to cross the plains to Cali
fornia, and Ex-Governor of New Mexico. Gen.
John s. Cayender, one Of the original Free-State
leaders in Missouri
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Captain John Plunkett, one Of the four survi-
vers OF the battle Of San Jacinto, died at Meta-
gorda, Texas, aged Sc years. Other oontribu-
tions to the neurology OF October wero: Hon.
Austin f. Pike, u 8. Senator from Now Hamp-
shire; ex-senator David Yulee, OF Florida
James A. Grinstead q famous Kentucky turf
man Rear Admiral Edward 4. Nichols, u. s. N
Never Karl Rothschild, heal OF the great Frank
fort firm OF bankers Mike McCoolo. the pugl-
ist Bacon Mont tsomery, once Brigadier Cen
eraI in tho Union army; Col. Charles Whittle-
sey, OF Cleveland, Ohio, goologist and scholar
Gen. J. A. Uhrich, commandant at strasburg ON
is cnpitulatiop; Gen. Sir H. T. Macpherson,
Burmali Baron Frederick Ferdinand Won Beust,
distinguished German statesman 4 Mrs. Cornella
stewart, widow Of the late Alexander 4, Stew
Mason w. Tnppan, Attorney General Of New
Hampshire, Hon. Walter 3. scates, ex-Chief
.Jnstice Illinois Supreme Court; the Earl Of
stratford-famly name, George Stevens BYng
NOVEMBER.
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OCTOBER.

Snow fell at Cheboygan, Mich, on the 1st; (;
nipping weather throughout tho North
west was reported. The steamer Almeda made
the run from Sydney to San Francisco in % days
hours 80 minutes-the best recorded time.
Gov. Pattson, of Pennsylvania, addressed a
letter to Attorney General Cassidy on the ac-
tion of the anthracite pool in advancing the
against it in court. Numerous letters received
during the month by tho photographic Office at
Washington from the officers Of steam and sail
ing vessels bore testimony to the efficacy of
pouring oil on the waters in storms,
the billows being speedily reduced TO long
and heavy but harmless swells. The mercury
rose to 80 0degrees in the shade in London on the
5th, Temperature unknown in October for
nearly half a century J. Juvenet, Of New Or
leans, sent bale OF ramie to the Cotton Ex-
change and a bale Of jute to the Produce Ex-
change, with letters stating that they were the
first bales OF these products ever grown in the
United States. constant rainfall from u
cloudless sky was reported from Dawson, Ga.
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70 cut nearly in two; tho ship was backed 60
| froe itself from the carcass. A resolution was
passed In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies pro-
Viding that the Government free as soon
possible the remaining 10000 slaves in Cuba.
A balloon fitted with patent steering and pro-
pellng apparatus, made journey from Cher
bourg France to London in seven hours
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
LILLY.

On Sunday the 11th, @. d. Graham, Penn
syivanian, successfully shot" the whirlpool
rapids at Niagara Falls, in wooden barrel OF
his own contrivance. James Julior, of London,
was placed in q lunatio asylum for writing an
offer OF marriage 10 Queen Victoria and calling
at Windsor Castle for an answer bootblock
into the East River, 100 feet, and was taken from
the water almost uninjured, 1be steamer
Waosland, when two days out from Antwerp,
struck q sleeping whale eighty feet long, which
Crawford avalanche., 1886-12-30
SEPTEMBER.

cas- cup took place over the New York Yacht
Clubs course between the Yankee sloop May
ing in decisive victory for the former. Prince
Alexander signed the deed OF abdication and
departed from Sofia, Bulgaria, on the Sth.
by the forces OF Gen. Miles were placed in Fort
Marion, mt St. Augustine, Fla. Excavators at
Pompeii discovered near the eastern gate new
street of tOmbs
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SEPTEMBER.

BY a collision of two trains at Silver Creek,
N. T., score of lives were lost. Japan advices
reported 6O,0OJ cholera cases In that country, OF
which $1,000 ended fatally. Hailstones six
inches in circumference fell at Madison, Wis ,
on the 23d, breaking 1000 panes OF glass and
denuding trees of leaves and twigs in some
instances iron roofs were riddlod Betwe sn
Sept. 16 and 25 there were $500 new cases Of
cholera reported in Japan, and g., 200 deaths oc.
CURED. Ftrty-five persons were killed and SIX
teen injured by an explosion OF fire-damp near
Schalke, Germany. Between Aug. 2S and Sept
reported in Japan the deaths numbering s,472 /;
over 60 per cent. Of those attacked died the
wells of Toxic were examined. and TAO out of
LIT were condemned as unfit for drinking pur-
poses. The September fire loss in the United
States and Canada was SO, 800, 900, a slight de-
crease from the average September loss OF pre-
vious year. In the last year twenty-seven Ves-
sells belonging to the Gloucester fishing fleet
were wrecked and 116 lives wero lost
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HAPPINESS never reaches us before
we are ready for il.