Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1891, Page 6

A YEAR'S RECORD. What the World Has Done in the Past Twelve Months. MANY IMPORTANT EVENTS. Political Changes at Home and Abroad— ‘ars and Kamors of Wars—Great Disasters and Famine on One Side and Happiness and Prosperity on the Other. Another year bas passed with ail its changes. deaths, disasiess away and among m many who leave behind at it all the them undying Throngh world has moved abcad. part is worthy of respect and » fina! ie ashes will not be out of place. Take one more glance at the evonts which day y have been laid before you in Tux Sr. ‘The chief happen 1. A most bount 2 The insurgent 3% The death of 4 The Mata incident in New Orleans. & The Bering sea agreement. 6 Completion of reciprocity treatics. ‘weThe removal of prohibitions againet Amer- tan cattle. & The disastrous earthqnase in Japan. | & The Presideat’s trip trough the sou! wes: 1 The Chinese anti-European riots. ting of the Ecumenical Metho- and 12. The famme in Ti 1K The baccarat s M4. The massacre paraiso. 15 Significant state elections. MATTERS POLITICAL. In our own country the poiitical eauldron during the never ceased to bubble, although at tines the fuel hasbeen light The Year witnessed the closing days of one Con- gress and the beginning of a new one widely different in its pohtice trom its predecessor. THE ELECTION BILL Most important of the measures cons: in the last months of the Fifty-first Co: was the famous election or force bill, which had passed the House during the previous year and was considered by The fight in the and bitter advantage © ory entar. Eariy in Jannary, by the aid of several repablican Yotes, tie election bili was dis al in England. n sailors ia Val- ene, Imtent to tiie were circulate seident pro tem. Fast hours passing the the Induetrio! ington and = arrange tion of the organic grand confercace oF tx ‘Cincinnati and a o ized. and © plattorm another farmers cUnvent dianapolis ‘Tie eLrcr Ss ‘Daring the year there | «\« ber of impor%ai state ©. themselves en? doubly importont ia the coming presidential campaign. In elee Browu wus elected je majority. were close ant « MeK‘nley was 20 while Gov. ¢ for a re 2 on bow twees the condidates be elected br Gov. Buvsell of Lassen’ Pennsyivan’s. Kansas, 1 went repubii * also been of an active charac . rs have been elected Ix was cor fusion over the govern Leland Stanford » from New Hanrpabire. 0: i ort thiwe: Gov Squire. Washington; Vilas, Wis L the Beni and — idabo law. In rot Ohio was eeaiving S« ‘was withdrawn. ut Minnesota « passing « Lill fom the 154th ballot John iM. Berato: from Illinois. Ia wag elected Senator from one mont sppeinted Seere- Pacant seuatorship, leavi ig whith has recen:ly & Stephen president of the e- | Cutle and it ts sigmilicact that a large portion ihe the ereden- @ & B. Davidson Suewden wis 4 joys Men have passed | month Dilion and O'brien enrrendered to} Denmark land. In March a Parnellite committee elected at Sligo, took place at Carlow, defeated. In June were married, and in Octobe shocked by the death of Parnell. ‘The Parnell- ite McCarthy and tho’ fight was carried on with | cecsors, has not been without its bloodshed. even greater Litterness. John nations recogaized the new republic of Brazil. January SS ps THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.0... THURSDAY;.DECEMBER. 31, 1891. CONGRESS AGAIS. main rendezrous was on, the northern ide of Congress e | the line an ‘being illegal the revolutionist Te epee ee ee wane ot tha | Sores tacee thie Cann Gann LAS antbnek oP Present month was ushered if troops of the United States. Ina night attack most interesting and closely contested epeak-| on one of Garza’s bande—made by sfew men ership contesta seen in years. After twenty-| under Capt. John G. Bourke--Corp. nine ineffectual balluts in the caucus Crisp was | of the third U. 8. cavalry was killed. finally nominated on the thirtieth baliot and nactetiosach whatten: afte lected Speaker of the House. Tie uew House camo together with an over- |, The clauso which was added to the McKinley whelming democratic ‘majority. So far | tariff bill providing for reciprocity has brought nothing © further than the organi- | forth rich fruit during the past year. In Janu- zation has béen ceomplished. —_ Kerr | ary Spain agreed to proposals for the negotia- of Pennsylvania was elected clerk, | tion of a treaty of reciprocity with Cuba. In June Yoder of Obio.sergeant-at-arms; Turner of New | Venezucia responded to the reciprocity act, while York. doorkeeper, and Dalton of fuciana, post- | in August a treaty was mado with San Domingo master, and Springer was made chairman of | and the preliminary steps taken for a treaty wars and means and Holman of appropriations. | with Mexico. Py December reciprocity treat- ‘The Presidcnt # message was received early im | ies had been concluded with ‘Trinidad, Barba- the session. docs, Demerara, Jamaica, British West Indios IRISH POLITIC. and British Guiana and Brazil. In foreign politics Ireland has been @ cen- THE AMERICAN 00. ter of interest. The fierce factional fight in c the Irish party, begun last year after the Par- | year has won a large-sized victory in having el scandal, has continued throughout the | the stigmaon American eattle and hoga re- | year, boing hardly interrupted by the death of | moved. In March the Hamburg embargo on the first cause, Parnell himself. In January | American cattle was removed. Germany re- Yarneli and O° ten ineld a conference at/ moved the prohibition of American pork in unsuccessful effort was made | April, while France followed suit in July, plac. ditficulty. In the following | ing a duty of 25 france per 100 kilos, and the prohibition was withdrawn in Sep- he police and wero taken to Ire-| tember and that of Italy in October. 28. to this country in search off 9) hese yt vy en eae ‘They were only successful in a small voral new foreign ministe Proven’ people preferring to withhold donations | their credentials to this country during the itil the factional trouble should be ended. In] year. Gvzo Tuleno came from Japan; Dr. the meantime there was much excitement all | Salvador de Mendonca, from Brazil; Senor del over Ircland, and expecially at Sligo, where a | Sains, from Peru, Senor Don Patres, from election to occur Many assaults and | Guatemala; Manual L. Morales, frum Saivador: sts occurred ~The McCarthy tandidate was} Dr. Von Holleben comes from Germany ond d the same scenes of riot | M. Paternotre, from Fran here Parnell was ag: During the year the international monetary ‘arnell aud Mrs. O'Shea | conference met in Washington. the world was pA ean The yenr 1891, like its long lino of prede- y. however, reiterated its opposition to n XE. Redmond | The main fighting of the year has taken place was mide leader of the Parmellite faction aud | in Ciise, where the government wasoverthrown at the Cork lection for a successor | anda new one set up. Balmaceda, the presi- the fights were numer-| jent of Chile, from being the idol of the entire the Parnell party was) pation had early in the year arrayed against this election, and though | himself a strong and formidabie party, most of hop ly im the minority the cam-| the leadera being members of the congress paign at Waterford was no whit behind the | When, therefore, in January Balmaceda’ dis- others in fierceness. The result of this elec-| solved congress and set up a practical dictator- Hon, in which sedmond aud Davitt were the | nip a revolt wae immediate. Almost the on opposing candidates, is still in doubt. é tire navy went over to the insurgents, while the in the English by-elections, several of! army romained loyal. The insurgents took which occurred during the year, the Gladstou- | possession of the upper provincer, rich in the jan candidates were usually successful, nitrate mines, and began blockading the 18 OTHER LANDS. ports of the country. In January Corouel was Early in the year uearly all the foreign | bombarded. Balmaceda’s trouble in the carly iy 3 portion of the year wasan inability to get at the insurgent ve rt trained b; February Marqais di Rudini formed a new | 11° wnuantnrpoteme crete saree cabinet m Italy, and in the same month the | surgents, however, steadily grew in ian parliament was dissolved for a gen-| and advanced their lines’ closer a: . al election. which resulted in a victory for | Before January was over they had occupied La the conservatives. In February, also, Gen. da | Serena, Iquique and other towns ‘Ihe gore ernment recaptured Iquique, but the ins in February retook it, and 200. womeu and children perisbed in the ruins of the build- A delega- | ings which were wrecked by the soliiers. In red at the same month s number ‘of the government wtliament and pleaded | troops shot their officers and went over to the m the colony appe f the house of The Newfoundland coercs . urgentforce. ‘The Balmaceda troops were 3 passed. din a bivody battle at Pozo Aimonte m Vriuce Bismarck stood e| Mareb and ag It teok, however, two electis yuid secure a ¢ 1,300 men h the insurgents oc la was for sisevetion ut Active prepa- i, but Da Ee presidenc Tisou at Oporto ¥ 1.000 of Osnian Dign aude with the Egyp ai in the Pus but were subdued after Oar own little war In Janzary a cordon of troops and fast from Maly. se tHows arotnd the hostile, which wae could rrutuaily tightened, dfiving tho’ braves into ney. Lieut. Casey of the tweuty-secoud sh listment of Work on the world’s fairim Chicago to be held in 1892 has progressed during the year. The grading of the grounds was begun e tual work haw tures of nearly all : the Chilean t: th still fw ade ontside efforts have purpose. In Apnil France, duras ace] ised funds for the is rope nd acoused widitional interest in et. During the veer m igious t bodies have petitioued against Snaday open- ce nie ing of the fair. Jn Jane many members of the her a United S splomatic corps visited the © groa Chi- alaken tha cago were lavishly entertsined. ‘The could not be overtooked and | present Congress is to be leston started promptly appropriation tor tie fair. inGoner Robert THE NEW Navy. ly d the arms, but treusfer to the Ttata 'y worthy of the name. the New sere 5 and Fn consress Was urrested lity laws. The Charie: t and reached Aca the Itata. ‘eouvius were tested. w oh udered to} sults. ites vessels there, Five thousand | tr and on her and she was vent back | terwards libeled, but | wet red that there had been c ity laws. x . Excelient resuits were t for 100 high-power guns was giv chem iron In the same mi tr: This ineident served to make a bad feeling ype tween this country and the insurgents Nickel-plate armor was suc: ami after the overthrow of Balmaceda 4 to Lalmaceda aud his party still LANGE TROUBLES. farther inten-itied the feeling im that country. | the year bas been far from free from labor in October « number of sailors from the United States steamer Uaitimore, for no seeming cause | foubles, either at home or abroad. Strikes but the uniform they wore. were attacked by a | have been frequent and often accompamed by mob im the streets of Valparaiso aud two were | violence Probably the two most important conntry were the great illo created considerable feeling ia thiscoun- | region of Pennsylvania and the trouble in Ten- killed and six wourded. it is claimed that the | labor troubles in thi this assault. News of this | strike of coke workers in the Conue!l eftlly considered by thocabinet. | nessee over the convict lease system demand for an explanation was made on ‘THE CONNELLSVILLE STRIKE. Chilean government, which demand was answered sharply and curtly. “Since that been making the “occurrence | jarge amount of proj with what pat it can co:nmand. | Morewood works ty. They stack solution cf the didi- | crnor calie: at's iatenttou of obtaining justice from | May the troops were withdrawn CONVICTS SET FUER. of te new navy is being concentrated 1m South bp merican waters The treubie in Tennesace grew out of the convict lease system, by which the state leases THE WEKING SEA MATTER, Bering smn cout oreaainiiiRnamianede thousand miners marched to Briceville, Tena. flank 1a0ve by bringmg the matter before the United States Supreme Court: the wchooner Sayward as a test. ta" the lat- ter puct oi January Attorney |General | sease system. «in August, th Miller made reply before the Supreme | ture came Court In June the decision between the | decided that two governments to arbitrate the question bore | convict frais in several preliminaries ‘Tue President issued a proclamation allowing ouly 7.500 to be taken this year, while (reat Britain law for a close sealing ‘The t ter inaugurated a lockout affecting 20.000 work- men; Indianapolis had a strike of 1,500 ci tersand milliag employes and 800 wenvers in Providence struck. In April 1,000 journeymen painters struck in New York; the Marion, Ind., streot cars were tied up anda general strike of the building trades unions in New Orleans oc- cursed. Trafic in Detroit in the same month Tho Agricultural Department during the |."** topped by a car strike. through the north and east. A’ big strike of carpenters paralyzed operations in New York. Rapids struck and became riotous and 800 ‘longshoremen in 4,000 men were thrown out of work by labor troubles in Steelton, Pa. The freight con- ductors and brakemen on the Lake Erie and Western road struck in August and at the same | time 1,000 cabinet makers in Chicago went out. A wharf Iaborers' strike in Savannah threw 2,500 owt of work in Beptember and a general strike of coal miners at Pittsburg marked the same month. November saw 800 employes of the iron mills at Pittsburg strike and 4,000 miners in Indiana do likew well. In Scotland strikers became:iotous, tried to wreck a train and were subdgedt with difficult, makers to disperse 10,000 riotous weavers England. In'tho same month 30,000-miners in | Belgium went out, arid in May the Paris stage drivers wou a strike. In London in June the omnibus drivers tied up traffic, while the bakers of Paris struck in the same month. “In August 19,000 Welsh miners went out and in November a general strike of the miners in the north of France, numbering 33,000, oc- curred. crimes during the past year. Murders and robberies havo been frequent. The year has been strikingly prolific in breaches of trust by men in high positior of thia character bas been startling. Treamurer Woodruff of Arkansas was found to short in his accounts. George M. Bartholomey, |) president of the Charter Oak Lifgedpsurfipce Company of Hartford, Conn., co an embezzlement and was sent to jail forOhO eer. Leonard Perrin, « wealthy New Londen Vanker, was convicted of bank robbery. John C. Hall’of San Francisco confessed to an em- bezzlement of £150,009, James Faulkner, charged with breal Dansville Bank pleaded guilt; Sherman Bros. & Co., at Buffalo, N. Y., re- tion with a grain trausaction. H. L. Brenham, a bank president at Litentield, himself because he could not meet his credi- | } tors. r in Brazil. | Marsh and Charies Lawren president and a reward was offered for his xrrest jab revolted | y ey. which came over from last year, | iand of St. Lonis was sent up for two Abraham or. din New York tor Knight tions have been | faulter for $190,000 ‘The officials of the Mav- erick Bank were charged with torgery J. P| Bair nker at Fre was found | 100,000 short. failure by Field, Li i 8 & Co. in New York, and Edward Field was held for $2,000,000 de- faleation. ked for a 75,000,000 ve been taken to build p & Sons were uwarded the eon- t for cruiser No. 12 in Jaly and in August a edo boat went through + wrecked off Astatengue eas the sume month. In December of the insurgents charges that cruiser New York, the 2,000-ton cruiser nt omiciala in Chile had lent their | Montgomery and gun boat No. 5 were launched. The Connelisvilic coke strike began in Feb- time the United states has awaited the inves. | Tdary and 10,000 miners went ont n Match | fgets nm whieh the Chilean government | the strikers became riotous and destroyed a sd the and were fired upon by deputy News of petty or Mirected agaiust the | sheriffs. eleven of the strikers being killed and Cited States le; Chic and condoned | many wounded More trouble followed and ‘ he authorities give little | several of the rioters were killed The gov- out state troops, aud in the dif- ty The Provident in bis message to Con- | fienitics which lasted until May, a consider- ress spoke in xo balung terms or the govern- | able number of the strikers were killed In Dering the past year the muchdisoussed | it convicts for work inthe minos. In July one and compelled the. militia there to withdraw ingly Leen pat in thir way of settlement Oy. | wish the convicts sent to. work the minos, snd ‘vitretion. ee ee Kee mag» Gov. Buchanan beta ten companics bel 2 te case was submitt Jann- dd and commenced vigorous proceedings 4a@ BR Pacheco | cy, and in the same month Cai ‘executed « | £0 eater Quay resigned mation repabiican Many other labor troubles occurred, concern- | ™&ny localities. ing thousands of workmen. In January 500 | 4,°bicsg° Hungarians in Pittsburg struck, sixteen blast farnaces in Ohio were shut down and 10,000 men thrown out, and 7,000 men struck in the mines of Pennsylvania. In February 1,500 cloakmakers in "Ke men on the Pittsburg and Western road struck. jew York went out and 300 In March clothing manufacturers of Roches- pen- On May 1 eight-hour strikes were general In June the street car omployes in Grand Chicago went out. In July FOREIGN LABOR. Other countries had thejr Inbor,frogbles as In February 10,000 Vicbia shoe- ruck. and in April it requged ‘oops a LOTA OF DEFAULTERS. There have been the usual long array of and the array of crimes 1e $116,000 In the United States district court at Albany 1 the nd was sen- | rs. Stephen PF. Sherman of need to five wed five yeurs for grand larceny in connec- ian., killed + Spaniding of Ayer, Mass., cisap- with the and North | National E order of the shier, were arrested, L with making false reports. Marsh afterward rau a of the Keystone Bank were investigated a legis » commutes widespread mis of frand were found to extat, impiicat- y als. John tre é utenced to fifteen y anda fine equal to his steal ¢ up in the hundred thousand: fi. Kean of Chicago was indic frand in connection with his hi Thos. Schwartz and C. B. Brocken- of Louisvilic who futled, sr embezzlement. Arthur man, a defaniter for #223.000, committed mater firm in nia were arrested for fraud in con- ne preside cid for defrauding. Ex-Treasurer No- | 000,060, was arrested for grand jarcen: cunts. . O'Brien, supreme treasurer of the Catholi president of the First Cleartield, Pennsylvania, was with embezzlement. John Hoey, president of Adams’ Express wen carried | Company, was temoved trom office for mal- feasance. He afterward returned $500,000 to rles B. Throckmorton, com- chuvler, was arrested for ¥ vouchers. F Garcia the Louisiane National Bauk proved a de- OTUEE CRIMES, Another woman was murdered in Wh pel. Two thieves robbed a Lofdon bank of £12,000. The coroner's jury in the tunnel disaster in New York held oflicials of New York and New Haven road respons and the ofiicers, among whom was Chaun- Depew, were held in €25,000 bail each. Baird, ex-mayor of Wheeling, . Garrison, a promin citizen. Kineaid was tried in Wash- ington for the killing of Ex-Representative ‘Twulbeo end acquitted. Mr. Baltchell, the | | Bulgarian minister of finance, was xssassinated ‘ofia. An attempt was made to asenssingte the czarewitch in Japan and Henry La Nopergss of Boston demanded $1,250,000 of Tassel Sage in New York, and not receiving it bloy up office with a dynamite bomb, killing bigsstif’|, and one clerk and injuring Sage and others. DISASTERS OF ALL SORT Millions of dollars of property have gone up in smoke during the year in this country, and many lives have been lost by accidents of vi rious kinds, In January 110 miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in the coke works near Mount Pleasant, Pa. In August the country wus shocked by the killing of 63 per- sons through the collapse on account of de- fective construction of four buildings on Park lace, New York. ‘These two accidents resulted fa the largest lose of life duriug the year in this country, although others were diastrou In January the Fifth Avenue Theater and Herrmann’s Theater in New York were burned. The Avenue Hotel in Corsicana, ‘Texas, was burned and four lives lost, ‘Twelve men were killed in the Irtica mine, California, Fire among .the grain clevators in’ New York burned up 3,000.000 worth of property. Floods and storms did $300,000 dumago in Gonnec' cut. One million tive hundred thousand dol- Jars was lost by the burning of carpet mills in Philadelphia, und the Kankana p«pet mills at ppleton, Wis., were burned, with $175,00 loss. ‘The building of the Western Art Assoviation at Omabe collapsed and many valuable woiks of art were destroyed. % ss In February eighteen miners wore drowned in w mine near Hazleton, Pa. A 200,000 tire eccurredat the Pullman’ car works in ‘Illinois. A fire in New Westminster caused $500,000 loss and the death of two firemen. Four men were kalled by an explosion in 4 mine st Scottdale, Pa. The steamer Sherlock, with 100 on board, struck a pierat Cineiuuati and sank, u number of persous being drowned. ‘Thousands of families were driven from their homes by the overilowing of the Ohio river. An Italian bark sank in the harbor of New ‘teen lives lost. 000,000 fire. A wreck on the Lake Shore road killed six postal and two engineers. Half million of was burned at Little Rock. A $180, curred in Chattanooga. - In May fire in Pittsburg destroyed uildings, with #750,000 loss. Several were swept away by floods on the Rio F. H. Leggett's New York ware honses were damaged $450,000 by fire. A dyna- mite explosion on a construction train near Tarrytown, N. Y., killed twenty men and in- y more. A $500,000 fire took lace in Jacksonville, Fla. Three urned todeath in a tenement In July nineteen persons were killed and ijured by arailway collision at Ra- ‘Thirteen were killed and fort; injured ina railroad wreck atCharleston, blew down many walls were blown A. Brickhardt's houses and the penite inand ten inmates pe building at Chicago was burned. with $950,000 loss At Aspen junction, Col., twenty-five per- by a railroad collision. tile mills in Philadelphia were burned, with 000 fire took place at 0 had a $750,000 fire, Thir- illed in a wreck near Syra- cuse. $225,000 was lost by fire in Norfolk. Twenty persons were killed ani cident on the Western North Carolina rail- fons were kille $750,000 logs, A In August Chic teen persons were many injured in ana In September the Dolaware iron works at were burnod and 800 hands were thrown out of work. A fire in Minneapolis destroyed £200,000 of property and several fire- men were seriously injured. Eleven persons Were killed by an explosion of a mortar at Newark. A $400,000 fire took place at Savan- nah. A conflagration west of the Missouri river swept over a country 3 ing crops and buildings. Seven men were entombed in a mine at Gien Carbon, In October St. Louis had a $200,000 fire. Forest fires raged in California. near Crete, IIL, three newspaper men were cup fo beat Yale in the big boat race. At foot ball Yale defeated Harvard 10 to 0 and Princeton by 200 miles, destroy- | 18 to 0. In November seventeen lives were lost in the ‘A $200,000 tire occurred in A million dollars’ worth of prop- erty was burned in St. Louis. Anaconde mine. A tornado did A train on a South railroad was wrecked by wreckers and four lives lost. In December ten men were killed by the fall- ing of awall in St. Paul. theli ives in a fire at Louisville. FOREIGN DIsasTEns. In foreign lands several disasters of great magnitude occurred during the yeur. wary*twenty girle were burned in a fire at Sixty men were killed in acoal pit in Twenty-four lives were lost in One hundred and flood on the ve persons Were ‘Yen persons lost et cession. Polish Ostran. a wreck off the Sicilia persons were killed by stor island of Massowah, y killed in an avalanche in Greece. year thousands of people in Siberia died from In February (00 miners wore killed by an in Nova Scotia, twenty: two lives were lost Ly an avalanche in’ switzer- ned by the burning explosion at a collier 1d 200 Chinese’ pe er at Wwanhu, China In March 300 perso: were marsecred in and in the sume moath thestcamer Utopia eank in Gibraltar bay and 567 lives were the Cath Nation Ground w: April saw thirteen pereons killed by an ex- ploxion in: the sultan’s palace at / 'y persons dro: ris off tie Caroline Isi In June sixty way accident ii ng month forty: injared by a rail: i by the wreck of steamex ere killed in ar: land and in the foilow- ed nud many tinique sank ships did tremendous damage. ives were lost aud $10,000,000 of prope In the same montis Jane, 17.1 ves were lost by the sink- | 5, oa and m the sime month monuments to confed- In September at Kio Janeiro by floods m Spi nd 1,200 persous were drowned ear 11,000 pil- dof the cholera, the famine in Kussia caused ud the month was Japan, by which During Octobec great loss of lif & tremendous e from 7,009 to 10,000 persons lost their lives. In November 137 persons were killed by a dun tsiand, and in Decem! seventy-three miners were ‘kilied by fire damp Swngerfest in N ana coal mine'in Poland THE DEATH ROLL. Death has been busy during the year among the prominent peopie both in this country and m lands. The twelve months saw many taken irom the list of living. list from our dead is long. January died Walter A. Abell, son of the Lexington hott, Associate Justice Charies Devens of Massa- , mayor of Chattanooga; nd statesman; ex- leigh of New Hamp- R. Curtis of Massachuset Hon. William Windom, Secreta: ury. who died at a banquet in New York. n February passed away J. first vice president of the Pi an Waldo Hutchins of New York, ex-Chief Justice Morton of Massachusetts, ex Sceretary of the Interior 4 Virginia, Admiral David D. T Sherinan, Dr. médical director U.S. nay absconded with $75,000. James 5. | der, treasurer of the Ulster Bank at | N. Y.. was arrested for stealing | of the Treas- the year $118,548,959 was disb i nsylvania road, | sions. The gieoeaa tree H. H. Stuart of Porter, Gen. Win J. 5. Messersmith, retired ; Gen. H. HL. Sibley, Caieb 5, Green of New Jersey, enator E. K. Wilson of Maryland and Senator rge Hearst of C man Jonathan $ Jerome, ex-s 1 Thomias Hudeman of M. lcott of Colorado, iriswold, the hu of the New York don, former law partner of Lincolx n; ©x-Gov. Lucius Rob: orist; Judge John Rt. Brady reme court, Win. H. Hern- son of New York. Dr. James P. Wickersiam, ex-minister to Den- Reed, editor Pitts ev. Dr. Howard Crosby and ex-governor of Louisiana. In April the list was added to by ex-C Grinnell of lowa, Geut. Albert Pi great showman; Congress ylvania, D, G. mark; Nelson Col. John Me! Pp. T. Barnum, th Russell "Errett of Penn governor of North Carolina; ex-Con- jorge A. Bicknell of Indian inola of New Yor ey Waterman, Rear Admiral Alfred the trial was warzied to,an American gi Prince of Waies vas mixed up in the case and appeared of scandalous dor €x-governor of California; impli in Mier Congressman M.'H. Ford of ML ea Armisted L, Long, who was ‘Lee's chief of staff, May took to their last rest Chas. Pratt, vice esident Standard U2 Company; Judge Al- phonso Taft, Henry 8. Stantord, ex-minister to Belgium; Congressman L. C. Houk of 'Tennes- seo, ex-Gov. David Luticr of Nebraska, Rev. Dr. J. Heury Van Dyke of New York, Col. Wm. H. Peyton of Virginia and Dr. Beason J. Lose- ing, the historian, in June the William Allen, j: preme court; ¥! Luddington, ex-governor of Wisconsin ator Joseph E. McDonald of Indiana; ’ Prof. G. y, inventor of nitro-g) Alexander Clark, minister to Liberia, In July died ex-Vice President Hannibal Ham- mous yacht designer; ex- ‘hos. Brown of Indiana; David B, Walker, ex-governur of Florida, and Her- mana Kaster, editor of Chicago Staats Zeitung. August saw pass away Thos. W. Bocock of Virginia, ex-congressman and ex-spoaker of the confederate congress; James Russell Lowell; George Jones, proprietor of the New York Times; Congreesman Johu B. Sambie of South x-Senator 8. C. Pomeroy of Kansas. In Septembur were carried to their last rest Mayor Jonas L. Bundy, editor Now York Mail | @ud Express; ex-Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore, ex-Congressman Lorenzo Brentano, ex-Con- . L. Scott of Pen in, C. Whitthorue of Teunessee, ex-Gov. Albert P. Morehouse of Missouri, Rev. Dr. 8. D, Burchard, ¢x-Congressman Har- vey N. Watterson, Prof. C. W. ton and Mayor William McKee Dunn. passed away E. H, Schermerhorn of New York, worth 2,000, great majority was joined by if the Massachusetts su- mett, theactor; Harrison lycerine, and lin, Burgess, the Congressman Congressman Texas State Lunetic Asylum at Austin, was shot Hodge of Prince- < and soveral lives were lost. Six persons xeée tilted and. others injured by a" failrond collision in New York city. sons Were Brooki ‘The ship Elizabeth spinal ia lyn. | iP was wi in San pubis harbor and cightecn lives lost. mau Jacob ‘Turner of Pennsylvania, ex-Goy. W. HL era 1 yneetioes, ngrese- man W. HEE. Leo of funn Waltor L- Stcele of Iniass and Hewerd igroasman’ Gooch John M. Glover of » the civil engi- Tae | the author. “i wep of Massachusetts, ex-Gov. Vermont, ex-Ci ine lit in lungary, y "Tho. grip swelled the death Hiosin | the ‘funous, Eresch paint, Jemeeioa’ path, M. du Boisgobey, the French novel- ist; Prof. Franz von Michlosich of Vi- enna, Dr. Windthorst, leader of the clerical ty in the reichsteg; Prince Jerome apoleon, Princess Marianne” Napoleon, Earl Granville, Count von Moltke, Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, Col. Miguel Lopez, who betrayed Maximillian to Juarez; ex-King Tamasese of Samoa, Archbishop o} ame Blavateky, M. Dublan, Mexican minister to France; Cardinal Alimonda, Archbishop of Turin; Sir Jobu A. Macdonald, the Can: «Ang ‘ork, Mad- remier; Earl ot Clonmel], ‘William lenry Gladstone. Gen. Iatina Caclho, Portuguese republican leader and 4 the prince consort of Hawaii, Francois P. a paint of France; Gen. Bou- langer, Earl of P ernment leader in house of commons: King of Wartemberg,Charles Stewart Parnell, Sir John Pope Hennessy, Count Von Arco Valley. Prince Louise Lucien Napoicon, Earl of Lytion and Dom Pedro, ex-emperor of Brazil. Portsmouth, W. H. Smith, gov- SPORTING EVENTA. The world of sports has kept itsend fally up during the year. In base ball the teams from Boston won both the American and League championships, Lately an arrangement bas been reached by which the long base ball war has been ended and a cbmpromise twelve-club league arranged for next year In January Senator Stanford's Palo Alto horses were sold. Later inthe year Oxford de- feated Cambridge in the boat race. Kingman won the Kentucky Derby and Senator Heurat horaes were sold, twenty-six head bringing $128,000. In May’ Kingman won the Latonia derby and Common the English derby. In college athletics Harvard won the Berkley intercollegiate field sports and also Loantaka won the suburban handicap and Strathmeath the Chicago derby. In June team from the Manhattan Athletic Club went to Europe and won many prizes. Hanlon and Mines won the world’s a. dou- scull race from Gaudaur and McKay, while the regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen was held on the Potomac at Washington. The tennis champianship was held by O. 8. Campbell. In shooting the New York team won the interstate match and the Hil- ton trophy at Croedmoor. Sunol trotted a mile in 2.0844, breaking the record. ALL SORTS OF EVEXTS. The year saw Judge Brown sworn in as asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court, saw the Methodists celebrate the centennary of the death of John Wesley and Rev. Howard Mac- queary convicted of heresy. ‘Tho white rib- Loners met in Washington and a patent cen- tennial was held at the same city. The Grand Army of the Republic met at De- it and 40,000 veterans marched in the pro- THE PRESIDENTS TRIP. The President made an extended trip through the south and west and was received enthusiastic: ho visited C} Memphie, Littie Rock, Houston, Galveston, San Antonio Ei Paso, Tucson, Los Ang Diego, San Franc $ Senttle, Lome Cits. Salt Lake Cit De Harrisburg. lly everywhere. During the trip tanooga, Atlanta, Birmingham, . San Yortiand, Leadville, sfield, Indianapolis and co, Monterey , Omaha, Sri EVENTR. leMahor gave £500,000 to holic University at Washington and the 1 Academy of Sciences met in that cits nally broken forthe Grant mo a New York. Dr. Phillips Brocks was iscopal bishop of Mascachusett. In the following month 1,600,000 acres of land of the Fort Berth Lota was thre i reservation in North Da- 2 open. tof the year was tho or- American Cmiversity 2 An important of the imunigrants ad we 1 at Fredericksburg, xperiments am rain by the govern- B were made in Te ment An inland lake appeared in the lower part of the q bure ado desert. The weather 1 Was tracsicrred to the Agricultural De- mentand the Pike's Peak railway was com- In July 50,000 people visited the Northeastera Newark and four murderers executed by cleetricity in New York Em- ints continued to pour inte the country ‘SA havin arrived duting the fiserl vear Stonewall Jackson was unveiled at, Nearly all of the ew York papers were in- dicted for publishing details of the executions by electricicy ture of Bessemer steel was begun at Sparrow Point, Md. During the year the manufac- An important erent was the startof the m tothe far northern regions. cr three monuments at Gettysburg ed to Ulinois regiments. ‘The seventy-second encampment of Odd Fellows was hcld at St. Low. Lhe pension list con- tin 676,160 pensioners were on ‘the rolls, being ed to grow duzing the yearand in June 6 in excess of the previous year. During The Lelnd Stanford — University ‘alifornia was opened with 473 pupils. ‘The ecumenical Hethodist council met at Washington and ar equestrian statue of Grant was wny. ment at A held at Denver and in Deceanber Martin Loppy Was executed by electric During we year 1300.00 public schools 1m the country. lied at Cheago and the Grady monu- ta. A big mining congress was in New York. ils attended the ACRISS THE SEAS. All sorts of misecllaneous events occurred i in foreign lands. Three hundred pirates were beheaded in Ching the first conversation by telephone between London and Paris was held; several munities iz English regiments shocked the British pyblic. ENGLISH MORALS, ‘The crNEsE BroTs. In Chinas nuaber of anti-European riots occurred, belicvel to nave their foundation in u strong secret weiety working to overthrow the dynasty, and many missionaries suffered at | and Georgia railroad, four miles west of Bristol, the hands of mots and Europear. nations made | Tenn., yesterday wrecked the west-boand pas- senger train andditched two coaches Benja- ‘eil of Baltimore, Mrs. Rev. E. M. Farra, Midway, Tenn.; Miss Sadie Parra, Midway, ‘Tenn. ; Miss Nellie St. Jobn. Chilhowie, Va. ; ex- an R. R. Butler, Mountein A. L. Kite, Rome, 'Ga., B. also paid a visit to N ieee bod: at scene 5 uch of. He a Visit: jorway. | jured. Nol iy vn The French eqaadron was received with high honors in Rusia and England. The Grand Duke Alexis mae a trip to Paris, as did the King of Gree@, and the King of Denmark visited German‘. - trong protestatims, several ficets even gather- ing in Chinese vaters. The rioters even took up arms agaiust the goverzment, but were de- feated in several ngugements. ‘The internatima: postal congress met at Vienna. Duringthe year there was much vis- iting smang testes poate __ Riaperer ‘lla m of Germany visited England and was Princess Lovise of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Albert of Anbalt were married. A flow of lava from Vesuvius occurred. A ‘agnerian”) festival Was held at Bayreuth. Both the Austra and French a had extensive practicé maneuvers. Prince of Wales celebrated his fifticth day. Dom Pedro was buried at Lisbou, Revolu- on Memcan border have caused Dr, W W. Reeves, superintendent of the’ ee immediately afterward liberated 200 more con- | wrecked on the North Carolina coast and nine- | King of Hawaiian Islands; Prince iets, A large number of the convicts were Official Investigation of Baking Powders ‘ShowsRoyal BakingPowder Superior to all Others CHILE NOT INCLINED TO BE HOSTILE. President Montt's New Cabinet—Speedy Set- tlement of the Dispute. The New York Herali’s Valparaiso dispatch says: It was decreed yesterday by congress that Senor Walio Silva, one of the famons triumvirate of the junta, should receive as « reward for his services in the congressionalists’ cause the sum of 9,000 pesos a year for life. also the honors of a vice admiral, free rail- road transportation and free postage. The same honors are bestowed on Senor Barros Luco, another of the triumvirate, and he is likewise to be presented a library to cost FOR THE mi Ground Broken for the Stracture That 190. Connect New York With New Jersey. The work on the New York « river bridge was begun Green, who broke end last Tharsday ion of the bri of tho river will be begun at 9 67th street, which property tie company. o'clock Andrew H. Green tock « and turned a shov “In the presence of this ass mbt nesses i now begin the work ud New Jersey bri lg President Montt yesterday completed his cab- inet by the selection of Juan Castilhon as his The complexion of the cabinet as now formed is: Two liberals, one Montt-Varista, one radical and two conserva tives or clericals It is said that the first act of the new cabinet Will be to consider the relations with the United States, as President Montt and bis new cabinet have ‘no wis to appear hostile toward the American republic. The correspondent adds that he feels sure be a speedy settlement of the minister of justice. tracks and bring py center of the city OF put imo st n, The review by the procurator official of Judge of Crimes Foster's report on the Balti- more outrage will be completed today. ONE OF THE GLENDALE RORBERS. center span will Capture of Adelbert Denton Sly by a Pinker- that trains can mainte even equal to that attained by Adelbert Denton Sly, an ex-convict of the Missouri penitentiary, has been arrested in 8 charged with being the of the gang that robbed the Adams car on the San Francisco railroad of &7 Glendale, Mo., on the night of November 30. ‘The capture was made at Los Angeles, Cal., by Robert A. Pinkerton the prisoner's possession was found | $2,000 and a lot of personal property. his person was found the gold watch taken | from the person of Messenger Mulrenaan of the Adams Express Company after he bad been injured by the explosion of dynamite at the | robbery. Sly tried to throw but it was recovered by Mr Pinkerton. Siy's as kept very quiet w a View of getting some of the bi ig Sly refused to e fever, knowing full weil ibat being a ex- atiary hie next | be Ne ® g~3 kA. WRECK, allt of Manslaugheer in the Second Degre. The inquest into the New Yor4Contral rail- road calamity at Hastings coroner's jury holds Braken THE NEW Yor for the deaths 0: Thomas P. the accident on ngs, N. ¥., on the iso holds August the New York Central mulroad { utterly iucomp:tont men yesterday with convict in the M imprioumen: y native of Wisconsin, nd raised in Osukosh. as robbery i Was sent to the pen: moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where StTe thay be more secure. St_ Joseph, for stiary in 1584, hie furtly tv stor 4M ntacy | Why Jobn 2. Maney ts Koled Biles Wh Josepk, once tor Lighway rebbe ,and be ixat the present time a fugi- | tive from justice from St. Jose; The prisoner is thirty-five ‘half inches high, weighs 140 | of « dark complexion, brown eyes amd | the hair, and generally wears a dark = mus- He'hasa scar above the two false upper « and his utter disre and teum, his most notable chars his singularly abstemious havi | delphia, Mons: poul of bleod, -opsald potitied Haney 6f 259 Perisu darge of murdeping the git ed the girind afd) nave been Liag Smpth in the rer ne *ground @or Aside irom hw MADE A LONG JOURNEY, A Pennsylvania Lawyer Turns Up in New, °! © South Wales. ice of R. Jones Monaghan! he nud from bis home in West Chester, Pa, was un- nounced toward the close of September, was last seen by persons who knew him on the |*¥#t Le struck her on evening ot the 24th of that month at the Gilsey |‘ it House iu New York city, but the news of his | on vi disappearance was not made} public until five ct t 8 . has sent Sey United" tates that | THE §GU wee Monaghan is in that city. James Monash | bad been making frequent » su port the eluiid, turcate ty Kall ber. The supposition as that ymet Sunday might, th The disappea © broom sactory afd threw atin upm IN PERL, @ brother of it. Jones | Moss of Life and P the following telegram to tary of State Wharton: ney give Monaghan $500. See that he sails tor San Francisco on the 28th. | Wire if he sails.” y by Tidal Up- reas give startling vda, im the Pacitc, Williams, now at ust before the Parque visited the prevailed, duriag vdal upheavals, tre orine disturbances, someot the islands at lows of life and puses At one island oftive London Mis» no tess than cighty k of the tidal waves julbert group tn “Have consul of news from, the Gilbert I | by ‘he mission barque Jo tevere wenth which there were several result, doubtless, of sult Tidal waves broke high © The Pennsylvay The Pennsylvania bui fair will be in part a reproduc’ pendence Hail, and it is thought the old liberty bell will be taken to Chicago and hung iu the ing at the world’s compl iely demoiiebun gh ove wR Rev. J. W. Hal Society writes th natives pert-bed. The t nwa, butas the red so severely it ia Influenza Classed as Contagious. ., The loca! authorities of Dover, County Kent, England, in their attempt to stamp out infla- enza have classed that disease as contagious, nd as itisan offense for persons suffering from a contasious disease to visit public piaccs a number of persons suffering from the mal- ady referred to have been arrestedand charged jolating the health tows. all convicted and each person arrested was English morality among the higher classes | {ned £5. has not shown up #ell during the year. Capt. Verney was expeled from the house of com- mons for extreme immorality. The baccarat | 7 case was a further stain. Sir Gordon Cum- | Which has been conducting s war against the ming, & distinguisaed oiticer, wus adjudged by | Hunza and Naga tribesmen in the districts close the courts to have cheated at cards. Ile was | to Cashmere, bus ocoupied the town of Hanzr dismissed from th army.but :mmediately after | without opposition from the tribesmen, ho British will now be able to complete thetr work asa witaess at the trial. A number | Of constructing » road from Gilgit to the Pa- arce suits were tried in Lon- | ™irs, which the tribesmen sought _ In Canada members of the cabinct were | #04 this road upon completion will fe ruther shady srausactions. | €a*Y means of access for the British to the Pa- mirs, the country now in dispute between in, Russia and China. a ‘Train Wrecked by a Broken Rail. A broken rail on the East Tennessee, Virginia od devastation, © sousiy looked for. saganuil group con Group nor erceed 2 fast Woaring ama: «For years po } shark time, be bos ! products bm» ioand it turtncr intoriaation is 2 ort Ieands or| How, the highest ina inf profitable trade am mer aud the Gamal Lind » good share of th cls frow Ban visiting there. <o Be ee The British Advance From Gilgit. The advance column of the Brits army, Dusiness, trading ¥ 0 Mabing wpracuce ¢ qAssociation Hall, Brookiya gathering of colic ge wftica ® meeting which was a of meetings for young am 0 of the students of Val wiambin and other © Young Men's Chr in the year abc put Seth Low of ¢ hud uu ier the . Aubert, Wesleyan, ia the rooms of tf tian Arsociation in to end, and. ex the same, lines Pre Great Britai: tler was seriously hurt about the back aud hips. The wounded were brought to Bristol and are being well At the meeting Naturalists in PI for the ensuing year were clected as follows: President, H. F. Osborn, D. 8. Os Colenbia College, New York: vice presidents, Prof. L. F. Clark, Dr. George Baur and Prof. William H. Mawr College.