New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-01-07
'|H RECORD YEAR..
Brief Review Of Important Events
in the United States and
the Old World.


in the United States and
the Old World.
L LIST OF THE MOST NOTABLE EAIAs.
Record Of the Loss OF Life by Nar
and Epid emfcs RaiIroad Acct
dents Less Fatal Than in the Pres
vious Observation-Disclosures, Hanging
ana Suicides In This Country.
The following is q 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 fnancier,
South Africa; Gen. Wade Hampton,
South Carolina; Rev. Dewitt Talmage,
1 New York; Frank r. Stockton, novel
| ist, New York; Sol Smith Russell,
| comedian, United States; r. Bret
Harte, novelist, London; Rear Ad-
miral w. I. Sampson, 7. S. n. Paul
Leicester Ford, novelist, New = o rk;;
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 Tissot,
painter, Paris; Prof. leopold Schenk,
embryo1ogist, 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
I. Thomas B.. Reed, ex-speaker Of the
United States house of representa-
j tives; Rev. Frederick Temple, arch
bishop of Canterbury; Mary Hart.
well Catherwood, novelist, Chicago.
i * Imports.
Customs figures for the calendar
year December estimated) show i'm i'm
ports of gold and silver of $40, $685.
357 against SIS, 1867, 1855 last year. Mer :
chandise imports aggregated $685.
621, 495 as against $555,02o,575 last
year.
! Generous Gifts.
The donations and requests to edu.
i cational, charitable and religious in
i stitutions in this country in 1902 foot
up SIT, 397, 167, against S125, 88S,732 for
i 1901. "
l Business Failures.
i During 1902 there were reported
9.971 commercial failures, with liabili-
ties of $1O5, ,623 and assets of $780,.
4 $40, 800. a decrease in number of Ga
per cent. and afalling off of liabilities
/ Of IS per cent. from 1901 IIsas r
Embezzlemen ts, Forgeries, Etc.
II The record Of embezzling, forgery
/ defaulting and bank wrecking for
i 1902 shows a considerable increase
being $6,769,125, against s$4,0S5, $50 in
I 1901.
/ Railroad D1sast ers.
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 / 400 in 1900. The
number of seriously injured was
3,4S7 as compared with 3,265 in 1901
and 1870 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
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 $50, 000
India, China, Japan, Egypt, and the
i Philippine islands being the princi-
pal countries afflicted. No account is
4 made in this estimate of the famine
victims in Finland, Sweden, and Rus
sia, as no reports Of the fatalities
have yet been made e III
4 Wars. S. az
i Although the Boer war and the
i Philippine outbreak are already
things of the past, the war loss fol
the year keeps well up to that Of last
. year, being, in round numbers, u.s..
700 in 1902, as compared with q, GOO
i in 1901. The heaviest losses this year
Il have been in China, Africa, Venezuela
! and the Transvaal.
4 AT Sea. 5ss4ss
The total loss of life by marine
b disasters was 200, as compared with
1885 in 1901. 81 5ss
Fire Losu es.
8 The total fire losses Of 1902 will be
about $154,6Oo, 900, which is an inn
provement in the situa ton as com.
pared with 1901 The losses this veal