The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

kind are hard to procure, but the total Is
probably less than $4,000, as compared with
222,9O2 in 1897, 22676 in 1896. 79.461 In 1895.
and 1880 in 1894.
Summary of Disasters.
AS closely as can be estimated 3.655 lives
have been lost upon the ocean, " upon IN
land waters, $3.50 by railroad accidents, 3d.
273 by disasters abroad, 1887 by minor dis
asters In this country, $4,000 by epidemics
and famine, and $1,000 by wars, making a
total of 1880, as compared with SSs0l7 In
1897. 246. SAG in 1896, and 1851 in 1895.
Suicides.
The total number of persons who have
committed suicide in the United States dur
ing the year 1898 is 1920, as compared with
$500 in 1897. $3.50 in 1896, $3.50 in 1895. 49l2 in
1884. 4,438 in 1893, 1850 In 1892, 1851 in 1891
and 2.O40 in 1890, the figures showing de-
crease In the crime of self-murder In the
last nine years. OF this number 1885 were
males and 1884 females, this proportion
being steadily kept up year by year.
Among professional men physicians still
lead. A having taken their own lives, as
compared with II in 1897, AZ In 1886, SO IN
1895. and As in 1894. During the year also
10 persons engaged in the banking business,
8 clergymen Journalists, attorneys, 2
actors and 2 artists committed suicide.
The causes of suicide were as follows: De-
spondency, 3,o2S; unknown, 1900; insanity.
1888; liquor, 1853: ill-health 2SS; domestic
infelicty, 1877; disappointed love. 1856; bust
ness losses, ITO.
The total number of murders committed
iii 1898 shows another gratifying decrease
phenomenon often witnessed in a war
year-being 1910, as compared with $3.50 in
1897. 1862 In 1896, 10000 in 1885. $500 in 1894
S,615 in 1885, 6,742 in 1892, 5.106 In 1891. and
1890 in $780,
The number of legal executions in the
United States In 1898 was 100. as COM
pared with 1928 in 1897, 1872 in 1896, 1872 in 1895,
1872 in 1894. 1926 in 1893, and 107 in 1892 There
were 70 hanged in the south and 81 in the
north, of whom 60 were whites, 48 blacks
and Chinese. The crimes for which they
were executed were murder 100 and rape g..
LynchinEs.
The criminal work of mob murderers
throughout the country has decreased dur
ing 1895, as compared with 1897, being small
er than In any year since 1885, except 1890,
when the number was the same. Judge
Lynch has executed 127 persons during the
year, 122 males and females. OF these
lynchings 11S occurred in the south and
In the north. OF the total number 1902
were negroes, % whites and Indians.
Entertainments.
The record of embezzling, forgery, de-
faulting and bank wreckage for 1898 shows
material and gratifying decrease, being
but IS, 851 1858, as compared with $11, 248, 094
in 1897, being also much the smallest total
since 1883.
Fire Losses.
The losses by fire in the United States in
1898 aggregate $133.139.467, as compared
with S129 0O1 1877 in 1897 Sill 1856 067 in 1885, and
S131,57S,200 in 1895. Those where the loss in
each case was $4,000 and upwards amount
to s64,s15, 400. and the losses by smaller fires
to S6S.224.067.
Charities.
The record for charity for 1898 keeps we'll
up to the records of former years, the gen.
erous sums contributed by bequest or per-
sonal gift to churches. colleges. charities,
museums, art galleries and libraries
amounting to $685. 300. as compared with
$35, .s14 in 1897. In preparing these statis-
tics no record has been kept of small do
nations. OF the total amount stated above
there has been given to colleges the large
sum of $1Sos6,150; to charities, 1890. 300:
to churches. 32.029.850: to museums and
art galleries. st. .000 to libraries. 81. 1884,
600