The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-01-08

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and Suicides in This Country.
The following is list of the most
prominent persons who have died
during 1902: Jean de Bloch, coun-
cilor of state, Russia; Philippe Mar
chetti, opera composer, Italy; Camilla
Urso, violinist, New York; Rev. New
man Hall, Congregationalist, Eng
land; Albert Bierstadt, landscape
painter, New York; Cecil John
Rhodes, statesman and financier,
South Africa; Gen. Wade Hampton,
South Carolina; Rev. Dewitt Talmage,
New York; Frank R. Stockton, novel
list, New York; Sol Smith Russell,
comedian, United States; F. Bret
Harte, novelist, London; Rear Ad-
miral w. T. Sampson, U. S. n; Paul
Leicester Ford, novelist, New York;
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant,
painter, France; Cardinal Ledochow-
sky, Rome; Jean Georges Vibert,
painter, France; Heinrich Carl Hoff-
man, composer, Germany; Benjamin
Bilse, orchestra conductor, Berlin;
James Joseph jacques Tssot,
painter, Paris; Prof. leopold Schenk,
embryologist, Austria; Gen. Franz
Sigel, New York; George Douglas
Browne, novelist, England; Edward
Eggleston, novelist, Indiana; Prof.
Rudolph Virchow, scientist, Germany;
Philip j. Bailey, poet, England; ex-
Justice Horace Gray, supreme court
of the United States; Queen Marie
Henrietta, Belgium; Maj. j. w.
Powell, scientist, United States;
Emile lola, novelist, France; Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, woman's rights
leader; George Alfred Henty, novel
list, England; Friedrich Alfred Krupp,
steel master, Essen; Rev. Joseph
Parker, Congregationalist, England;
Thomas B. Reed, ex-speaker of the
United States house of representa-
tives; Rev. Frederick Temple, arch
bishop of Canterbury; Mary Hart
we'll Catherwood, novelist, Chicago.
Imports.
Customs figures for the calendar
year December estimated) show i'm
ports of gold and silver of $1o,50s,-
$50 against $19,367, 7s5 last year. Mer-
chandise imports aggregated $685.
621, 495 as against $555,02o,575 last
year.
Generous Gifts.
The donations and requests to edu-
cational, charitable and religious in
stitutions in this country in 1902 foot
up 1885,, 167, against $123,sSs,732 for
1901.
Business Failures.
During 1902 there were reported
e,971 commercial failures, with liabili-
ties of $1O5, 5000, 1923 and assets of $780,
s7O,SOO, a decrease in number of GA
per cent. and falling off of liabilities
of 10 per cent. from 1901.
Embezzlements, Forgeries, Etc.
The record of embezzling, forgery,
defaulting and bank wrecking for
1902 shows considerable increase,
being $6,769,125, against $4,0s5, 500 in
1901.
Railroad Dhasters.
The loss of life by railroad acct
dents reported by mail and telegraph
for 1902 was 3,165 as compared with
1860 in 1901 and 1,409 in 1900. The
number of seriously injured was
3,4s7 as compared with 3,265 in 1901
and 3,87O in 1900. In addition to the
loss of life on the steam roads, ATS
persons have been killed and 2,144
persons seriously injured in electric
car accidents.
Epidemlcs.
The loss of life by epidemic disease
was greatly increased as compared
with 1901. Last year the victims of
cholera and plague numbered about
$4,000, and this year about $4,000,
India, China, Japan, Egypt, and the
Philippine islands being the princi-
pal countries afflicted. No account is
made in this estimate of the famine
victims in Finland, Sweden, and Rus
STA, as no reports of the fatalities
have yet been made.
Wars.
Although the Boer war and the
Philippine outbreak are already
things of the past, the war loss for
the year keeps we'll up to that of last
year, being, in round numbers, 49,.
700 in 1902, as compared with $4,000
in. 1901. The heaviest losses this year
have been in China, Africa, Venezuela
and the Transvaal.
AT Sea.
The total loss of life by marine
disasters was 1900, as compared with
2,255 in 1901.
Fire Losses.
The total fire losses of 1902 will be
about 1854, 1000, 900, which is an inn
provement in the situation as COM
pared with 1901. The losses this year
of 100000 and upwards reached a
total of $76,650,00O.
Lynchings.
The lynchings reported in 1902 show
a gratifying decrease, being but 96 as