Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-01

Fremont, widow Of General Fremont. De-
| cember q.
The church lost Rev. DIT. Newman Hall.
London. a noted friend OF the United state.
during the civil war. January IS; Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage. April ~: Archbishop
Corrigan Of New York. May 5; Rev. George
Hepworth, New York. June s: Rev. 'Dr
Eugene A. Hoffman. dean OF the general
theological seminary OF the Protestant
Episcopal church, June II; Right Rev. F.
VI. Whipple, bishop Of the Episcopal do
cese Of Virginia. June Is; Archbishop p. A.
Feehan Of Chicago. July u; Cardinal Ledo-
chovski. project OF the congregation Of the
propaganda, Rome, July %, Bishop Hugh
Miller Thompson Of the Protestant Epls-
copal diocese Of Mississippi. November Is;
Dr.. Joseph Parker. minister OF the City
Temple. London, November Is: Rev. Fred.
erick Temple, archbishop Of Canterbury,
December %.
The legal profession lost Chief Justice
Daniel Agnew OF the supreme court OF
Pennsylvania. March 9; former Chief Jus
tice David A. Depue OF New Jersey. April
}; Horace Gray. retired Justice Of the
United States supreme court, September IS.
The world Of letters suffered the loss Of
five eminent authors-Bret Harte. May s.;
Paul LEICESTER Ford, May s; Frank r.
Stockton. April 20; Emil lola. French nov
elist, September 20; Mary Hartwell Gather
wood. December rs.
The profession Of arms added TO the
death roll the names OF General J. Willis
Hoffman. who opened the battle Of Gettys-
burg, March 5; General Wade Hampton.
famous confederate cavalry leader. April
II; General Sir William Olpherts, ". C.,
Of Lucknow fame, May /; Rear Admiral
william II Gannanp II G ~ No. &. &C.,
eral Charles H. T. Coils, soldier and law
yer, May IL; General Franz sigel Of civil
var fame, August 81; Colonel W. H.. Hub
bell, commander-in-chief OF the national
army OF Spanish war veterans. Brooklyn,
August rs; Major J. W. Powell, first man
to explore the Grand canyon Of the Colo
RADIO, September %: Rear Admiral Thomas
o. Selfridge. I. S. N, oldest naval officer
Of his rank in the world, October Is; Gen
eral Wagner Swsyne, veteran Of the civil
war. December Is.
Men OF eminence in other walks Of life
who Joined the majority were: Eugene
Dupont OF powder making fame, January
rs; Thomas Sydney Cooper. famous British
painter, February Z; Neil Bryant, old-time
minstrel, March 6; A.. A. Mcleod, former
president OF the Philadelphia G. Reading
railroad, April 1s; Major o.. L. Pruden. as
bNcldnL secretary 10 every PRESIDENT
for thirty-four years. April 10; Sol Smith
Russell, noted comedian. April IS; Potter
Palmer. Chicago's pioneer merchant, May
4; E.. Lawrence Godkin. former editor OF
the New York Evening Post, May 81; Prof.
Rudolf Virchow OF Berlin, inventor Of
cellular pathology, September 8; Will
liam S. Stratton, Colorado's million
aire miner, September IA; Lysander
P. Pratt, Philadelphia, pioneer in
professional baseball, November 10; Nate
Salisbury, noted showman and turfman,
December "a; George W. Thatcher. Utah
pioneer. December "a; John J. Dickey.
superintendent fifth district Western Union
Telegraph company. December 20.
Literature and the fine arts have lost
many eminent representatives. The liter
airy world will miss Frank r. Stockton. the
genial humorist; Bret Harte, the gentle
~satirist and ideal short story writer; Paul
Leicester Ford. whose young life closed in
fraterual tragedy; George Douglas Browne,
the English novelist, who died on the
threshold Of a promising career; Edward
Eggleston, the story writer; Philip j.
Bailey. whose one poem. "Festus," made
him famous; Emile lola. greatest OF con-
temporary French novelists; George Alfred
Henty. beloved of boys, and Mary Hart
we'll C~atherwood. the romance historian Of
the early days Of Canada and the west.
Music has lost Philippe Marchetti, the
Italian opera composer; Camilla Urso, the
violinist; Heinrich Carl Hoffman, an excel
lent German composer, and Benjamin
BiIse. the Berlin conductor. The art world
will mourn the loss of Albert Bierstadt.
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, Jean
Georges Vibert, James Joseph Jacques
Tissot, the painters. and Thomas Mast, the
famous pioneer in cartoon work. The dra-
matte stage has lost Sol Smith Russell, the
comedian.
The prominent scientists who have died
are: Prof. Leopold schenk. the Austrian
embryologist; Prof. Rudolph Virchow, the
Berlin surgeon and scientist, and Major j.
w. Powell, the director OF the bureau OF
ethnology in the Smithsonian institution.
Among the great divines who have ended
then labors are; Rev. Newman Hall, Rev.
Dewitt Talmage, Cardinal Ledochowsky,
Rev. Joseph Parker OF the London City
temple and Frederick Temple. archbishop
OF Canterbury. The list of the distin-
guished dead closes with the names OF
Frederick Alfred Krupp, the Essen steel
master and gunmaker. and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, champion Of the rights OF women.
Political Events.
Political events OF national importance,
excluding the results OF the election OF
November 4, embrace the passage OF the
Chinese exclusion act by congress. April
2s; Cuba's flag raised over MORO castle,
Havana, May II, and the government OF
the island transferred to President Palma.
May 20; bill authorizing the construction
Of the isthmian canal passed by congress,
June 26; special message by the president
on Cuban reciprocity sent to congress June
10; first session OF the Fifty-seventh con-
gress adjourned July /; second session Of
the Fifty-seventh congress. December l.
NEW YEARS DAY RECEPTION