Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-31

fostered has been OF such value Ia An.
church that lts abrogatlon As a bliter
blow TO Papal power NJ. Combeq fhe
French premier took the opportlulty
offered By a trlhing dispute concem.
Ing the blshoprics Of Dion and Laval
absolutely to dlsagsociate the Freprb
church and state and the prafant
parliament has Just upheld him by
vote OF 525 to 287
lio,ooo,ooO TO CHARITY.
Il is yet too carly 10 know how tho
benefactlpng Of 1904 are 10 COMPARE
Ia their total with the s6200000O and
more which last year was Given 10
'arlous charitable causes, but. count.
ng no gifts Of less than S250.0OO.
oial OF something more than $4,000.
DO has already been reached This
includes four gifts Of SJ000,O0O each
t'b000000 of which has boen given Inv
Andrew Carnegie In equal parts 10 ths
establishment OF fund f0r fhe reward
OF heroes IN private life:" towards
excavations 20 be made In Rome. ana
to that Pittsburg institute 10 which he
has already given 80 genrouHly Ths
fourth Of the 100000 glfs was
made by Marsholl Field, OF Chicago.
70 the museum there which is 10 bear
his name.
The Rothschilds have given $1,000.
600 for the establishment In Paris OF
model dwellings for laborers, and Mrs.
a. w, Reed, OF Pasadena has given a
like amount 10 educational institutions
on the Pacific coast.
Two notable gifts OF Si,50OO00 each
have been made by j. j. I'm toward
the new Roman Catholic cathedral al
st. Paul and by Mr. Carnegie 10
new engineering building IN New
York
IN THE WAKE OF FIRE AND ACCT.
DENT.
II 1904 has been a year Of war. none
the less has II been n year OF immense
loss OF property by IRE and OF ne by
acc, ent. The great fire which ON the
7th and Sth OF February, swept Bau-
more, laying bare liO acres that had
been covered by more than 1000
buildings has been surpassed IN great
conilagrations only by the historic fire
which DESTROYED Chicago IN 1871. The
business section Of Rochester suffered
In that same month from a fire which
represented a loss 0f S2500000 I'm
April a $4,000 600 fire visited Toronto.
and In July the flames cost ST. Peters,
burg S2,O50,00O.
The burning and sinking OF tho
General Socum" IN New Yorks East
River last June, with lis loss Of 1881
lives, was so appalling that Il threw
into the background even such a dis
aster as the sinking AZ sea few days
later, Of the steamer Norge" which
Z involved a loss OF Gao lives. In the
tornadoes and hurricanes which, dur.
Ing the year, have swept over the Re.
union Isles, Cochin China Central
Russia and the Philippines, 55i lives
have been reported lost
MURDER AND SUDDEN DEATH
Violent death has been busy during
the year In the far east the war
has been responsible to Russia and
Japan for the loss OF az least six CONE
manders OF reputation and high posi-
ton, while az home Russia has lost
the services OF her minister OF the In
terror Won Plehye, and her governor
OF Finland Gen Bobrlko0, both OF
whom met death By assassination
Four other violent deaths which have
come TO men Of note have been those
OF the great Russian artist, Verestoha-
gin, who went down with the "Petro-
paylovsk' IN April; Mayor McLane, OF
Baltimore, who died OF a pistol wound
received, By accident II IS believed. In
his private office; Kent LOOMS, whose
mysterious death on the steamer on
which he was going out 10 Abyssinia
has not yet been explained and John
Field known the country over in both
financial and political circles who IN
July committed suicide near his Phlla-
delphia home
Death has reaped a notable harvest
during the year IN the ranks Of those
who have been prominent I'm the In
dustrles and arts OF the world. France
has lost Waldeck-Rousseau' who mao
promised to become her next presl-
dent; England has lost sir william
Vernon Haroourt, the great parlla,
montarIan, while the death OF PAU
Kruger has taken from South Africa
figure which had made that corner OF
the Dark Continent o power IN MS
tory. I'm America political RANKS dlo
the poorer for the death OF senators
Hanna and Vest and tloar and POST
master General Payne, Literature mas
lost Sir Edwin Arnold, Samuel smiles
and Maurus JokaL Art has losl
Watts. Lenbach and Gerome' and tue
greatest OF modern musicians dled
with Dy0rak.
In 1904 Princess Mathilde Bona
parte has died, King George OF sax
ony, ex- Queen Isabella OF SPAN
Prince Herbert Bismarck and Field
Marshal the Duke OF Cambridge. Eng
land has also lost Admiral Keppey
Dean Hole, and John Hollingshead.
her veteran journalist, Germany mas
lost Count Won Wadersee and Theo-
dore Hersl. the phllanthropist Ihe
names Of the great dead whom
America may mourn Include STANLEY
Inc explorer, William C. whitney
Gems. Gordan and LOngstreet, Bishop
Huntington. Parke Goodwin Rear
Admiral Taylor, citizen" George
Frsncls Train Golden Rule Jones
mayor Of Toledo aud Mrs Gilbert me
venerable actress.
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