The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-06

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11ownings.. Lightning ~. I8e
Fires $500: ..l.sl7 Falling bldgs, ETC.. 7ss
cyclones. storms. .4.462 -
3pioslons.. 11J Total........ 80. ,o5d
A7nea ...... 6o6|
Railroad Disasters.
The loss of life by railroad disasters In 1898
was 4 Goa Gs compared with 4,4,8 in 1903, POI
Il 1891 and 8.42O in 1890 The number of seri.
>as,y injured was 1884. as compared with 3, 3Ss
= 1854, s.7o7 in 1891 and 274o in 1890
Summary Of Disasters.
So far as reported 6O5S lives have been lost
- the ocean and us on the lakes and rivers OF
this country "a total of 6,c7a, as compared with
Asa in 1922 S505 in 1891 and 5O15 in 1S3O), 1905
" railroads. "a, 775 by disaSters in the Old World
nd South America md o,6}8 by disasters in
tAis coantry, making In all s., 2Sa, as compared
With 7ie in 1se: 2o3 in 1891, 1l4543 in $780,
10Oi3 in 1859, a. 607 in 1885, l99 1874 in 1887
~ IN 1886 and $50, 463 in 1855.
Fires Cost Over olgB,OoO,OO0.
The total fire losses for the year where the
A0ss In each case was under the 500, OG1 amount
were 80 sCl. $40, which added the larger losses
makes grand total of Sl80, 3j6, 940 as compared
with $685. 535 in 1892 a16o 047 900 in 1891 SlOS
AZ 0o4 in 1890, s143 079 in 1885, $500 800 600 in
7s68 $780, 000 O00 in 1887 and S1l5 900 in 1885
The Hangings.
The number OF legal executions NJ 1893 was
and 1O2 in 1900 The record by states and
territories is as follows: Alabama, H. Arl1an-
Sas. B. California, s. Georgia, l6; illinois.
.; Kentucky, 4; Louisiana, 4; Maryland,
u; Massachusetts, g. Mississippi, !: Mis-
seuri, g. New York, 10: New Hampshire,
!: New Jersey, l: North Carolina, L. North Da-
kota, l; Ohio, L. Oregon, /; Pennsylvania, g.;
South Carolina, TO- South Dakota 1; Tonnes
see. 4; Texas, Is: Virginia, 4: District OF Co.
l1mbia, l.. OF the total number AZ were whites,
70 negroes 9 Indians, Chinaman and'l woman
There we're 80 executions in the north and 90 In
The south.
Lynched.
Judge Lynch has executed during the year
no victims, 1875 men and women. The total
1umber shows falling OF as compared With
last year. The lynchtngs in the various states
and territories were as follows: Aia:acoG
g. Arkansas. IL: Colorado, !; Florida, 8:
Georgia IL; Idaho l: Illinois,, 2; Indiana,
Il Iowa, 2: Kansas g. Kentucky, II: Louis.
ana, 20: Michi gan, /; Minnesota, 2: Mis-:
sissippi, II; Missouri, 4: Montana, l.: North
9arolina, 3: North Dakota, L. South Carolina,
70; Tennessee, II: Texas 8: Virginia. Is: Wash
hgton, l: New Mexico, g. Indian Territory S;
0klanoma, T. OF the total number there were
1t3 negroes, 81 whites, 5 Mexicans, { Indians
and women
The mania for committing suicide in this
country is increasing at startling rate The
number Of persons who have taken their lives
II 1873, as collected from telegraph and
mail reports. is 4,4s6 as compared with
4eSO in 1892, 1881 in 1891, 2640 In 1890
and. 2, 224 in 1889. the total indeed be-
ing much larger than that in any OF
the eleven preceding years. OF this number
457S were males and 1853 females. 1t is
remarkable In this connection that physicians
not only continue to head the list of profess
sional persons who have taken their own lives
Af1tf hot 1Eop IA fS,nr hr,
year. in 1891 there were p physicians and IL
s1ergymen; in 1892 81 physicians and II clergy
men: while in 1888 there were So physicians and
but clergymen. The causes of suicide were
rs follows:
Despondenoy .. Le13lL1quor ......... :. 2s7
Insanity 90. ~ 45OIll heal til 24 2
tic infelicity, s45 Business losses. go. 81
In these 4,436 cases of self murder 1889 shot
themselves, POS took poison 81 hanged them
throats, 86 threw themselves before locomo-
lives, g. threw themselves out of windows or
srom housetops 48 stabbed themselves, 10
burned themselves, 10 starved themselves and
Skilled themselves with dynamite.
Murders.
The total number of murders committed in
1893 as reported by mail and telegraph, shows
slight decrease, being 6,6l5, compared with
e7a1 in 1892 5,906 in 1891. 1920 in 1890 and 1867
IN 1884, During the last sixteen years the
record OF murder shows u steady increase, and
at times out OF proportion to the increase in
population The causes of the crimes may be
classified as follows:
Quarrels. ..........3 ls5 Highw' ym'n killed Us
Liquor. 7ls Insanity ........... lo2
by highwaymen.. a5ostrikes. 1865. 5
lnfantlcldo. mol Riots "
Resisting arrest. 214|
Record of Dishonesty.
During the. year embezzements, fraud and
forgeries aggregated $40 go, 693, as compared
With ssSs7,5i7 in 1892 s19 72o, 294,s in 1891. and
1862, 956 in 1885,. Among the defalcations for
each, for over ss0O0OO and less
: than 100000 for over 10000 and
less than s800,000, i for over 100000 and
less than 100000 for over 100000 and less
than s6c000 3 over 5000 and less than $780,
s00. :, over 100000 and less than t4O0 900, 4
ever &20O,OOo and less than &30O,0W and
II over 10000 but less than 100000
Network attributed IS 500. 176 to the total,
that being the maximum, and Rhode Island
t12, $50 the minimum Nodefalcations amount
ing to as much as 81, 900 each are reported to
have occurred in Florida, Idaho, Nevada, North
Dakota South Carolina, Oklahoma or the Dis
srict OF Columbia.
Record Of Benevolences.
In marked contrast TO the years record Of
dishonesty, that OF donations to public objects
far outstrtps that of past years, showing 2
total Of S32 49, 866 given to charity, education
and popular entertainment-nearly e, 600
more than last year. $ ~
The Worlds Fair.
The crovaing event Of the year was tho hold.
ing OF the worlds fair at Chicago, which
opened MAY and closed October So Az an
i has never seen its like AS an exhibition OF the
progress Of the world it was comprehensive