Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-09
GRIM REApER'S HARVEST
Notable People Who Have Passed
to the Other Shore.
1t Was Year Of Terrible Mortality Among
the Noted People of America and
Other Lands--Death Found n
Mark I'm All Lifes Caliings.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The year that
comes to and end tonight has proved
one continuous harvest to the grim
reaper Almost from its first day to
the last there is an unbroken record of
the passing away of men and women
who have left their impress on the his
tories, either of the world or of their
respective countries il has been very
many years since SO many who had
gained name and fame have passed in
short twelvemonths to the great be-
yond. The mortuary record of this
country especially has been remarka-
bly, large. From the field of national
politics there have gone William Win
dom. secretary of the treasury; ex-
Attorney General Charles Devens;
Alon2o Taft, eX-secretary of war; ex-
Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
United States Senators Wilson, Hearst
and Plumb; ex-Senators Mcdonald and
Pomeroy. Governor Hovey, of Indiana,
was the only state executive to die in
harness
The stage, too, has lost many of its
shining lights Sweet Emma Abbott
is no more. Lawrence Barrett is num-
bered with the dead of the year. Other
names on the roll are those of the great
and only Phineas Il. Barnum, j. X
Emmett, w. j. Florence, Samuel X
Murdoch and Edmund 5. Connor: the
two last being links between the past
and the present generation of play
goers.
The immortal Sherman heads the
list of those who made name and fame
by fighting the battles of their conn
try Next on the scroll comes that of
Admiral David G. Porter, Rear Admiral
Alfred Taylor, Rear Admiral Carter
Rear Admiral Cooper and Commodore
William Rouckendorf. OF the promi-
nent ones that were on the other side"
General Joseph Johnston is no more
But these are but few of the noted
dead. Farther down the roll are the
names of George Bancroft, his
torian; DR.. Howard Crosby, hu-
manitarian bishop; Gilmore, theo-
logian; Charles Pratt, philan-
thropist, DR. Joseph NJ. Saylor, the
Oldest clergyman in the United States
DR.. Fordyce Barker, the eminent ply
sician, and Monseiguor Preston, who,
had he lived, would have been the
next archbishop of New York.
The worlds of letters and journalism
have suffered heavily. James Russell
Lowell is but memory. Don Piatt,
James Redpath, Amos 4. Learned Rev.
DR.. Prime, DR.. b. j. LOSING, George
Jones, Major j. NJ. Bundy, James Par
ton, w. w. Clapp and Tom s. Apple
gate, all authors or journalists of ma
tional reputation. have passed to the
great beyond.
The record of the great dead OF other
lands is likewise a memorable one
King kalakaua. of Hawaii; King
Carl, of Wurtemburg: Dom Pedro III,
once of Brazil, and Prince Baudouin,
heir apparent of Belgium, have ex-
chaged their royal surroundings on
earth for place near the great white
throne. France has been called upon
TO mourn the loss of one of its expresi-
neuts, Jules p. Grevy, while the erratic
Boulanger has been removed from its
political field. Others who are no
more include w. II. Smith, leader of
the conservative party in the house of
commons; Charles Bradlaugh, Meis-
sonier, the famous painter; Ludwig,
the Catholic leader of Germany; Sir
John Mcdonald. prime minister of
Canada; Charles Stewart Parnell, Earl
~ 's''"- s.--a-
The lists of noted women that have
departed this life during the year is
not long one. Mrs. Allen &. Thur
man, Mrs. Cyrus w. Field and Madame
Blavatsky, the leader of the theoso- |
phists, were among the best known.