Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-03
The Record Of 1888.


another. It's record is completed,
it's scroll is rolled. There remains
now nothing but to index the vol
ume Of the circling year.
The earth has yielded abundant
haryosts. Food for the lands has
been plenteous. Rich and poor
alike have reason to be thankful for
the bounties of nature. There have
been blessings Of peace and plenty.
The country has been happy and
generally healthful. Excepting in
the south, where the yellow fever
scourge prevailed, there has been a
hopeful absence of dire diseases
And there the baneful visitation has
come to an end.
Early in the year severe storms
prevailed. In the month of January
there were heavy storms in the
north west--blizzards, by which it
was estimated not fewer than 200
lives were lost. Great suffering pre-
vailed for time. Storms came not
only on Jan. 10, when the great
blizzard swept over the northwest,
but also on Jan. 20 and on Jan. 30,
when a cold wave visited the entire
country. The awful disaster that
fell as a cyclone upon the little city
Of Mount Vernon, H., by which
nearly two score lost their lives on
Feb. 10 and hundreds were injured
and hundreds of houses were des-
troyed, is too fresh in mind to need
more reference here. Scarcely less
disastrous as TO life was the storm Of
snow that visited New York Oh
March y. And the May foods that
inundated the Mississippi river
states were not less ealamitous. Tho
violence of the earth's forces was
manifested in January in Canada
and South Carolina aud Georgia and
in February in Vermont in some
earthquake shocks. 1t remained,
however, for the island empire of
Japan to DO devastated in August
by An eruption that desolated vii.
lagos, killed uncountsd numbers,
and destroyed for tho time one of
the most fertile tracts of country in
that land.
The register would not be com
pets did il omit to mention the
large number of persons who were
either killed or injured. The record
seems to be made up for the most
part Of those disasters called rail
road accidents. From a random list
at hand, which does not undertake
to be especially complete, we find
that there we're some 100 persons
killed and $50 injured severely in
railroad accidents that occurred
during the year 1888.
One of the great strikes of the
year was that of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad engin-
ezra. There was also the street-car
mems strike in Chicago. Besides
those there were the miners in the
Pottsville fields, the glass-workerS
in Brooklyn, aud similar labor diff
ferences and difficulties.
Among the religious movements
may be mentioned the Papal jubilee,
the movement TO reunite the Pres
bytsrian churches, and the regular
departmental work of the various
denominations.
During the year Secretary Lamar
became an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
by appointment of President Cleve-
land. The fishery treaty was de
cided upon, rejected, and the sub.
ieets of Canadian retaliation and
annexation have been revived. The
Mills tariff bill passed the House
and there stopped Lieutenant Gen
eral Sheridan was made General of
the army he had spent his life in
and that he had loved, and whose
head he was when he died. Mr..
Melville w. Fuller, Of Chicago, was
apnuinted Chief Justice Of the