Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-08
A RICH HARVEST.
Many Noted Men Cut Down by the Grim
Reaper During the Past Year.

Many Noted Men Cut Down by the Grim
Reaper During the Past Year.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.--The year that
has just passed has proved one contin-
uous harvest to the grim reaper. AL
most from its first day to it last there is
an unbroken record of the passing away
of men and women who have left their
impress on the histories of the world. It
has been very many years since so many
who gained name and fame have passed
in a short twelve months to the great
beyond. The mortuary record of this
country especially has been remarkably
large. From the field of national pol
itics there have gone William Window,
secretary of the treasury; ex-Attorney
General Charles Devens: Alonzo Taft,
ex-secretarv of war; ex-Vice President
Hannibal Fam'in in; United States Sena-
tors Wilson,, Halrst and Plumb; ex-Sen-
ators Mel, na1d and Pomeroy. Gov
ernor Hovey, OF Indiana, was the only
state executive to die in harness.
The stage, too, has lost many of it's
shining lights. Sweet voiced Emma
Abbott is no more. Lawrence Barrett
is numbered with the dead of the year.
Other names on the roll are those of the
great and only Phineas T. Barrum, j..
K. Emmett, w. j. Florence, Samuel K.
Murdoch, and Edmund S. Conner, the
two last being links between the past
and the present generations Of playgoers.
Dead Warriors.
The immortal Sherman heads the list
of those who made name and fame by
fighting the battles of their country.
Next on the scroll come the names of
Admiral David D. Porter, Rear Admiral
Alfred Taylor, Rear Admiral Carter,
Rear Admiral Cooper and Commodore
William R~ouckendorff. OF the promi-
nent ones who 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, historian;
DIR. Howard Crosby, humanitarian;
Bishop Gilmour, t~heologian; Charles
Pratt, ph~ilanthropist; DR.. Joseph M.
Saylor, the Oldest clergyman in the
United States; DR.. Fordyce Barker,
the eminent physician, and Mon
signor 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 a memory. Don
Piatt, James Redpath, Amos F. Learned,
Rev. DR.. Prime, DR.. B. J. Losing,
George Jones, Major J. M. Bundy,
James Parton, w. w. Clapp and Tom
S. Apologize. all authors or journalists
of national reputation, have passed to
the great beyond.
The Foreign List.
The record Of the great dead of other
lands is likewise a memorable one.
King kalakaua, Of Hawaii: King Carl,
Of W~urtemherg; Dom Pedro H., once
of Brazil, and Prince Baudouin. heir ap-
parent OF Belgium, have exchanged
their royal surroundings on earth for d
place beyond. France has been called
upon to mourn the loss of II of it's ex-
presidents, Jules p. Grevy, while cratic
Boulanger has been removed from it's
political field. Others who are no more
include w. H. Smith, leader of the con-
sentative party in the house of COM
mons: Charles Bradlaugh: Meissonier,
the famous painter; Ludwig, the Catho.
lie leader of Germany; Sir John Nc
Donald, prime minister of Canada;
Charles Stewart Parnell, Earl Lytton
and Count Won Moltke.