Telegram-herald., 1890-01-03
THE ROUNDUP.
A Rscord OF ths Most Prominent
Dsaras or 1855
fgE LOSS OF LIFE BY CiSIMIIES
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lSaes HAaF Has oaa< .3ess - So
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rus wukLDa 9EEAI DEAn.
It. tle uecro-ogy II isss sLe ~orld u
sc-ecce ei-l lelra rbs los q John
Ericsson t1e eminent inventor 4ud
t4ll1er efthe 1ttle Monitor ~hlcb rev
o.a.lon-zed the princl pies u naval IN
str-.tisl. Rev John q Wood. TIC En-
gisa naturalist NJ Michel E1geDe
Casvreaz tie centenarlan French
chemist Prot + A = Barnard:
Marie Mitchell The New Eng and -
trOaomer, Prof Elias Loomis professor
Of astronomy 81 Yale.
Music loses many eminent names,
among them Francis I4effer the En-
glish author and critic; Ilma al Murska
primz donna Joseph Gungl the com
poser Henri Tam berllk, the tenor.
sydney saith. whose WORKS are
on every piano, Rev SIR Fred
erich L. g.. Olsley, Professor
OF Music a. Oxford Carl Rosa,
impresarIo. Eugene Thayer. the Ameri-
can organist, CarlOtta Patti. the concert
singer. Antonio Bottesini the greatest
OF douLle-bass players; Adolf Henselt.
the pianist, and Karl Formes one Of the
greatest b4ssOs the world has ever
known.
Royalty has suffered the loss Of the
Austrian Archduke Rudolf. who cons
nitted suicide. King John. Of Abyssinia.
slain IN battle. the Ameer OF Afghan
istan; Louis l., King Of Por,u-
gal. Queen Marie. of Bavaria and
Theresa, ex-Emprcss % Brazil.
Literature has lost several eminent
representatives, among them J. r. H.
Phillips. the distinguished Shakes.
perean scholar; Francis Wharton, tho
international law-writer; :. c. Hall.
the English essayist; Allen
Thorndike Rice, the accomplished
editor OF the North American
Review; Theodore Dwight Wool
sev, ex-president of Yale; Samuel 5
Cox the genial litterateur; Wilkie
Collins, the novelist; Eliza Cook, the
poetess Samuel A. Allibone, the Amer
lean biographer; NJ 1schernischyeski
tho Russian novelist and father OF
Nihilism; Martin T. Upper. Of Pro
verbal Philosophy fame, and Robert
Browning. the poet.
prominent dead being VI. Alexandra
Cabanel and Jules du Pre-, both of the
French school; but one prominent actor
has passed away, the lamented John
Gilbert
The political world has lost some IA
nous names. among them Stanley Mat
thews, of the Supreme Court; Johs
Bright, Counts Schouvaleff. the Russian,
and Karoly, the Austrian diplomatists;
W III. Barnum, chairman OF the Ma
tional Democratic committee; Count
Dimitri Tolstoi. the Russian Minister Of
the Interior; Simon Cameron, the War
Minister in Lincoln's Cabinet, and JET
ferson Davis. So.
But in comparison with all these emf
nent names not one shines brighter
than the heroic leper priest, Of Hawaii,
Rev J. Damien de Veaster, better
known as Father Damien, who died at
his post OF duty last May. Another
name which has lbeen of interest to the
American people for many years is that
Of laura Bridgman. the blind and deaf
mute who developed SO remarkably
under the care Of DR. Howe.
TIF DISASTERS or 1850
So far as reported 2.5l6 lives have
been lost by ocean wrecks and 81 upon
the great lakes and the rivers Of the
country Ia total Of 1900, a. compared
with 4, 4,095 last year. 8, 793 in 1857. 2,749
in 1856. and 2.39, In 1851, ?, 43S by rail
roads, 7.7l9 by disasters in the New
World. o. $50 by disasters in the Old
World, and $3.50 by battle and pesti-
lence. making in all l67.013. as com
pared with 1861 in lsss, 1919, lG4 IN
1857. ~, 79l in 1850 and 3s,, 463 in lss5-
The great casualties Of the year 1889
were as follows: I'm January p lives
were lost by a mine disaster az Asturiss,
60 by a cyclone In Pennsylvania and p
hy mine disaster near Manchester,
Eng: in February % perished by
a railroad accident in Belgium. %
by a hotel fro az Hartford. Conn.
goo ~ an earthquake in Costa Rica and
13 by a cyclone II Georgia: in March
. 30 we're killed i'm q Russian railway sc-
cideut and 20 in q mine in Wexham.
Eng: In April 90 we're lost BY a hur-
ricane TN tho southern Pacific and 25 in
mine in New South Wales. May viii
aluavs be memorsb ble for rs fools In
Austria 90 livos were lost. in bohemia
40. and in this country. at Johns
town. Pa according 20 the most
reliable accounts. $500 In June
the Good disasters continued. 25C
lives being lost In Pennsylvania New
York. Maryland Virginia and Kansas
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