The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-01
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE YEARS RECORD ~ COMPLIED
ny a CHICAGO PAPER.
Mea Who Lost Their Lives by
Wosnds or Disease DuYfag the

CHICAGO, Dec. s1.-Aeeogc3Gnx 20 the xtz-
tissIes coszsssieg3 ~ Ire Tgibsaue, szss ICES OF
life from sAs.oos DISASTERS in this country
between January axe the morning 81 L~~
CersDsr 81. ~. aas $50. Tae czSaat-es
occurred follows.
FIRES $50. ar0wEsags. ais, expiossoSss
-. mines. 81. f&lssgs t,Ss4ieiE4gs. etc, -,
cyclones AID sfDrfssS 1sS lightning ZaS
Tns soss ~ FaiIEssza4 azses1<ssis % Saslcds
ksnGs ass 80 n lsss compared with
s.sts IL lsSl. The Dufnissr yf seriously IN
safed Was S.ti5 - compared wssa = rs n
notwithstanding tbs war between the
United States and Spain, the loss % life
upon s1e 3&tsisssesas Of i<s has been small
e tnan Tor several years past The total
r0uxnly estimated. has heen DsI assoas
ksssi. an compared wIta 1881 Ia 1885,.
The soss OF life by sssetsinsss ard famine
saeas = gratifying cessfease- Famine IN
away fosU victims. The plague In Indsa
has destroyed over $50 Ash Ia CHINA
About 1850 persona Exact statistics or
this kind are hard 10 procure. but the to
will zsz.se IL Iss7
The list Of marine disasters shows that
S.bp5 lives Here lost upon the ocean and
u on inland waters total or & 80 az
compared with 2.a2s tn 1887 The total
nHniUer OF persons who have committed
suicide III the United States during isss
~ reported by mali and telegraphic dis
patches 10 the Tribune La 500. COM
pared with t.G1 in iss1. OF this number
<.bss were males and 1854 females. Among
professional men physicians lead this list,
- hasins taken their own lives. as com
pared with IL in 1887. During the year
IL persons engaged In the banking bust
ness, clergymen. z journalists. attor-
neys, actors and art.sts have commit
ted suicide. The causes OF suicide were
a. follows: Dependency. 3.1ss. unknown.
Lac. insanity. AS; liquor, Iss. ili-health.
~. d0mastic infeiicify. 1871: disappointed
love. is. business losses 10.
In hes s.f ,txas4
took poison. 2Uyf shot themselves. 81
hanged themselves. az cut their throa,s.
"a drowned themselves. q jumped from
windows or housatops 30 threw them
selves In front Of railroad trains. -
burned themselves 10 death, q stabbed
thesnsetyes starved themselves and 3
bisw themselves up with dynamite.
Tie total number OF murders committed
IN isss shows II gratifying decrease, being
7.s4s. as compared with s.s2n In iss7. The
causes OF these murders may ce roughly
classified as faiiowH.
Qusrrels, a,ssf. unknown. ass. jealousy,
~. liquor. aI; by highwaymans 81. In
fantfeide. Is. resisting arrest, Ifs high
wayrnen killed. s., insanity, So: self-do-
Tense. 30. strikes. =. outrages. S. riots. Is.
Tae losses by fire In the unitssi States
Ga 1885 aggregate 3l53 IL, ss7 as compared
with 1i1z 737 In 1897. Sill. SCI ~ In lS.i.
Thoes where tbs loss IN each ease Was
3ED.lvJ and upwards amount 20 81 SIS 80.
and the losses by smaller fires 81 = -.
The criminal work OF mob murdtrers
throughout the country has decreased lsir-
ing tha year 1sas ~ compared with 1857. oe~
Ing smaller than In any year since ies5. ex-
ceps issu. when the number was the same.
Judge Lynch executed III persons during
the year. ~ males and females OF these
1ynchings lis occurred In the South ard
nine IN The North. OF the total number III.
were negroea. q whites and Indians
The record of afnbezzling, forgery de-
fanising and bank wrveking for isas shows
. material and gratifying decrease being
but G&d .2S. as compared with UI. az GA
In lx7, being also much the smallest total
since 1879.
The number Of legal executions in is9s
was 100. compared with i2s In IS9. There
were 70 hanged la the South and g. Irs the
North. OF whom 60 we're whites Il negroes
ana ono Chinese. Crimes for which they
were executed were murder 100 and rare B