The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-09

viOus YcRr-LynchtnEs,
and Suicides in This Country.
The following is a 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 Il. Stockton, novel
list, New York; Sol Smith Russell,
comedian, United States; f. Bret
Harte, novelist, London; Rear Adj
miral w. L. Sampson, U. S. n; Paul
Leicester Ford, novelist, New York;
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant,
painter, France; Cardinal L%edochow-
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,
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, e~x-speaker of the
United States house of representa-
tives; Rev. Frederick Temple, arch
bishop of Canterbury; Mary Hart
well Catherwood, novelist, Chicago.
Imports.
Customs figures for the calendar
year December estimated) show i'm
ports Of gold and silver Of $10,50s,-
357 against $40, 7,7S5 last year. Mer-
chandise imports aggregated $685.
621,495 as against $5%55,O2o,575 last
year.
Generous Gifts.
The donations and requests to edu-
%cational, charitable and religious in
stitutions in this country in 1902 foot
up ST., 1897, 167, against $123, 1885, 32 for
1901.
Dusin ess Failures.
During 1902 there were reported
9,971 commercial failures, with liabili-
ties of sos, Goa, 1928 and assets of $780,
S7O,sOO, a decrease in number of GA
per cent. and q falling off of liabilities
of IS per cent. from 1901.
Ernbczzle,nents, Forgeries, Etc.
The record of embezzling, forgery,
%defaulting and bank wrecking for
1902 shows a considerable increase,
being Sc, 9,125, against $4,0s5,56 in
1901.
Railroad Disasters.
The loss Of life by railroad acct
dents reported by mail and telegraph
for 1902 was 1866 as compared with
1860 in 1901 and 1,4O9 in 1900. The
number of seriously injured was
3,4s7 al compared with 1895 in 1901
and 3,S70 in 1900. In addition to the
loss of life on the steam roads, AIS
persons have been killed and 2,144
persons seriously injured in electric
car accidents
Epidemics.
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.
Although the Boer war and the
outbreak are already
things of the past, the war loss for
the year keeps well up to that of last
year, being, in round numbers, 25,-|
700 in 1902, as compared with $4,000
1901. The heaviest losses this year
have been in China, Africa, Venezuela
and the T~ransvaal.
AT Sea.
The total loss of life by marine
was 1900, as compared with
2,255 in 1901.
Fire Lcsscs.
The total fire losses of 1902 will be |
about $154. Goo, 1000, which is an i'm
provement in the situation as com
pared with 1901. The losses this wear
of 100000 and upwards reached a
total of SIG, $780, 1000.
Lynchings. $50
The lynchings reported in 1902 show
a gratifying decrease, being but 96 as
compared with 1875 in 1901. Of these
l~ynchings 81 occurred in the south and
nine in the north. OF the total number
Sc were negroes, Q whites and In
dian. One negro woman was lynched
i'll South Carolina.
Suicides.
Suicides steadily increase in the
United States, and faster than the in