Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1888, Page 12

SUNDAY DECEMBER 30, ~-THE STORY OF EICHTY-EIGHT, The Curtain of Time Rolled Back, Revealing Indelible Foot Prints. DISASTERS WITH TRIMMINGS, ik Among the Great Struggles -Rem Tragedies, and Po- litical Events, Death's W bor's Great ble rike Yea up csume of the £ 1558 is made 1t does not, The rec perhaps, materiaily differ from its sors, but pressions group of disasters to life mary following by floods and f and ocean wre it is but a fragment of the woe. Death moved peacefull high and iow, cal and the wholc life. predeces the im t the when one glances back at e mind is appalled revealed. The sum carthquakes, railroad te., yot shows th ries, fires, ¢ ks, explosions, world's lustory of nong the ewed, current smiting rich and | eneral events ave briefly re forming a true re of Disast The most appalling disaster of new wear, in its effect upon the pec of the Mis: souri valley, was the famons blizzard of Jan uary 12, Starting in north Dakota and Minnesota it swept southward in « course 1o the Kansas state line, and then r turned to the lakes, The e sbed over a vas a of conntry in less than twenty-four hours, In Nebraska its deadly force was fe for a dista 100 miles west of the Mi souri river, its path being marked with vie tims m every @irection It wasa frightful convulsion of the elements, A warm calm and a light snow-fall preceeded it for half the day uor signal of its approach ‘was visi The thermometer registered about #0= in this vicinity. At daylight next morning it was hugging the bottom of the bulb, 20= 10 5= below zero. The change was 50 sudden, furious and bl ne that at was almost impossibl for people in the towns to make their to their homes, while in the country the roads were i a fow hours buried under trackless waves of snow. As night approached the storm roared with increased fury, the wind blowing a wale, the snow moving in clouds that made it inpossi ble for exposed people 1o face it, and dark pess soon drew its mantle ovi the wildest waste of riotous furies ever turned loose in this _regio TrafMc was blocked in all direction. Scarcely a wheel was turned f thirty-six hours, Mountainous arifts w re 1on the high wauys of commerce, and against which ti snow-plows plunged and_groancd, and w wrecked. In - some fons one and tw weeks were required to open roads, but the main lines w runing order in abou forty-eight hours, experiences of indi viduals in the bl of those who w lost in the t kless billows, who shelter in the drifts, and of others who w dered aimlessly about until benumbed and weary they were wrapped in a winding shect of snow, while the elements sang the lullaby of deathi—would fill volumes. It filled pages of the newspapers of the land. and touched sywmpathetic ds at_every fireside. While the appalling loss of life ‘sent a shudder to every heart, they were likewise thrilled with accounts of heroic deeds of men and women None ean forget the story of Louie Koy the Plainview (Neb.) teacher, who faced the raging storm with three children, and at the risk of her own life attempted to shelter and keep them warm with her body during that terrible night in a snowdrift. Death snatched them from her arms aud left her a cripple for life. The heroism of Minnie Freemau was made the theme of song and story, and will be cherished in the hearts of all parents as long as Nebraska exists. She it was who led her brood of thirteen children from her school house in Myra Valley through decps for half a mile to o farmers’ house. ktta Shattuck s another of Nebraska's heroines who crouched into a haystack and laid there for forty-eight hours, too cold to move and too wealk to speak. The chills of death possessed her when found, and although sne- lingered for a few weeks with every possibie care, b strength was not sufficient to withstand the shock of amputated limbs. Perbaps the most touching instance of self sacrifice was that of the Westphalen children in Dodge county. They were aged eight and ten years and left school together for home at the opening of the storm. T'wo days later their bodies were found in a snow drift. The elder child naa almost stripped herself of her clothing and wrapped the garments around tho little one, hoping that she might sur e the storm and live to comfort a widowed mother. The graves of these two angels are now marked by a marble monument, a tribute of affection from parents and children. The list of brave deeds and sacrifices could be extended in- definitely. The instances énumerated are most conspicuous, and called forth from a generous people_contributions of money and valuables which relieved their immeodiate necessities and left them a liberal com- petency. The fund raised by Tk BEE was the largest, amounting to $14,075.25, divided as follows: Royce, £,834.43; Miss Shattuck, $5,044.00; Miss Woehbeke, $1,050.15; West- phislen mionument, $110.40. The fatalities in ebraska were 56, in Dakota 42, in Towa 6, in Minnesota 18, and in Montana 3. in the latter days of December, 187 Yeliow river flood” in China drowned 1 people, ed an immense amount’ of property and rendered destitute over 1,000,000 people. This frightful disaster was supple mented with an_carthquake in another sec tion of the empire, which built a grave for 15,000 human beings. On January 6, six ni hilists wno conspired against the life of the czar wet with death and disaster on a gal- lows in castern Russia. On the 4th of the same wonth 26 persons were killed in a colli- sion of trains in London, and a crew of 25 found a watery grave off the coast of Irc land. On the Uth a collision of trains on the Union Pacific at Kdison, Wyo., caused the death of # persons and the injury of 11. Ten passengers were killed and 52 wounded by the wreek of a train at Haverhill, Mass., on the 10th. A portion of the train jumped rom a bridge over the Merrimac river, The mistake of an operator brought two trains together at Ottumwa, la, on the Wabash road, Killing three ' men i wounding 7. A party of Hungari- at Mt. Carmel, Pa, congrogatod ata christening on_the 17th, The festivities bo- came 8o warm that 7 frame houses wern consumed by fire, and 5 of the party ere- mated. On the sawe day a jolly party of coasters in Kansas City collided with an- other sled, fatally injuring 3 persons and wounding' 17, An American ship was burned near Syiney, N. 5. W., aud 25 lives were lost. A collision of ships 'off the Irish coust caused the death of 13 men, and a skating party of 7 was drowned by breaking through the ‘ice on a lake near Knnis, Tex. On the 19th an army of 4,000 Chinamen en: aged in building & breakwater to stem the oang Ho flood were engulfed by a sudden rush of waters. Very fow escaped death At Tower, Minn., two days later, with the mercury 40= below, a fire destroyed three poarding houses and cremated 5 inmates. The most disastrous fire of the year was that on Arch street, Philadelphia, on the 28d. Nearly $1,500,000 worth of property was destroyed and 14 business houses gut- ted. A tremendous explosion occurred in the collicries at Wellington, B. C., on the 24th, instantly killing about 90 miuers, a majority of them Chinamen. A cable car on one of the hills of St. Paul lost its grip, on the 27th, and dashed down the incline at a frightiul speed, killing and injuring 13 of the passengers. ‘The samo day Now York and adjoining states were enveloped in the blinding folds of a blizzard that block- aded trafiic in all directions and caused a nuwmber of deaths. Jt was the worst storm in twenty-five ycars, and had the offect of hushing the claim that Dakota was the abid- ing place of the genuine article. The Bur- lington flyer was wreckod uext day near Cambridge, Neb., by colliding with ‘a car- Loadiof hogs. Six passengers were injured and every hog killed, Eight loaded store build- " in Now York wero burned to the ground ou the 80th, $1,400,000. The first disaster recorded in February oc- curred on the 5th at Meadville, Pa. Au ex- e train on the Now York, Pennsylvania Ohio was wrecked by a broken frog, uu-ln’ the death of 4 persons and injuring 4, A few ounces of dynawite demolished a ical works & Marquetle, Mich., on the and scattered the bodies of 8 men among clouds. A sumilar accident in the Du- pont powder mills uear Wilkesbarre, Pa., ©u the 10th, tore 4 men inw fragments in wn rigzag cntailing a property loss of instant and smashed glass and chimneys for 20 miles about Four men dug up nam near Belle and tapped one of th never found. A appeared in th building 300 yards away ruins, A terribl non, 111, on th stantly ki fatally in ini res. A vast property was destroyed. On t wific near Colton, N er and wounding fourtecn | rs the cars exc the slecper wero de ives were the exp ng of the steamer Julia, at South jo, Cal th th. There were ( sons on board, and those wh were more or less injured March opened with a at Springfield, Mass., ith, The oftice of the Evening Union was destroyed by fire and six of the employes, to tion, jumiped from the fifth story ot death on th 18 below vere injured, A colossal a passenger and freight on the rond oceurred near Huntin 12th. 1 trains we Six persons were killed and three in The second installment. of the zard was turned loose in New Y sunding country on the th, and raged for twenty-four hours, sending the murcury down beyond zero., Traflic in towns and country was plocked during that t and many deaths fron freezing occurred During this storm_Hon., Roscoe Conkling Ho ered among th darifts of City Hall park and contracted a cold which resuited in death six weeks | A section of the Geor gin fast mail tran was wrecked on a trestle near Savannah on the 17th, instantly killing 19 and wounding 35, An explosion of gas in the Banquet theaterin Oporto, Spain, the 20th, caused a frightful holocaust ty persons of all ages and sexes woere cremated. A fire - upper Burmah, India, destroyod a vast amount of property and made 15,000 persons homeless, A snow plow dashed into a freight train at Gravenhurst, Ont., on the 22d, instantly killing 7 persons and woundin During the last half of the month appalling floods devastated Germany. The Kb, Nozat, Visty and Oder rivers fowed 100 square miles of country, ping away 40 vil nd hamiots and of railw: tr he damage was beyond ealeulation. Over 30,000 persons were rendered honieless by the overtlow of the Vistula alone, Twenty-nine lives w lost and 10,000 head of cattle perished. An explosion of zas in a coal mine at Rich Hill, Mo.,, on the 20th caused the death of SO miners, most of them colored The ing of the Gth of April witnessed frightful wreek onthe Mitwaukee roud. A large cake of ice became lodwed on the bridge over the middle Wapsie river in [owa The train struck the obstruction and engine and two cars were | od into the roaring river. S n lives were lost and I number wounded. Central City, Dak., a_city of 1,000 mhabitants, wus destroyed by fire on the 26th. ( one bus iness house and three residences sthod above the ruins grim sentincls. The fire re resented a money lossof 100,000, One of the tdestructive wrecks of thie year on the Burlington occurred at Orleans, Neb , on the 2ith. The Denver express' plunged through a dilapidated bridge over Kope creck, instantly lalling a mun and wife and iujuring six. our of the latter died of their injuries some time later. The famous Mul lan, tunnel on the Northern Pacilic near Helena cotlapsed on the 25th. Hundreds of tons of rock crashed through the timber supports and blocked that avenue of com meree for months, The loss amounted to £1,500,000, The last day of the month fur- nished a striking example of the resources of this country in the weather line. A furious euow storm raged in Minnesota and Dakots Nebroskaand Kausas reveted in delicious ‘spring weather; destructive floods filled Michigan and consin with alarm, ruins and_freshets prevaled in Texas and Ver- mont, while New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware sweltered under a tropical sun, the mercury ranging from 302 to 40>, May's record ot disasters would fill many abloody page. The firstand principal one occurréd at Lotust Gap, Pa., at miduight on the sth. A car load’ of dy ploded, — kilimg sven people wounding 20 others. The force of the explo- sion was tremendous. Forty cars of the train were wrecked and the fragments scat- tered over the hillsides. Four blocks of buildings in the town were levelled to the ground, eight destroyed by fire and 100 others ' partially wrecked. The spring freshet in the Mississippi river began the second weels of the month at St. Paul. From that point to St. Louis a vast amount of dumage was_inflicted by the flood. The government locks at Rock Island were swept away, entailing a 1oss of £100,000. The flood broke through the Sny levee below Hanni- bal, covering 5,000 acres of cultivated land, submerging in resistless torrents the live stock, granaries and homes of thousands of farmers. The Thunderbolt train on the Santa Fe road strucka freight train at Fountain, Col., on the morning of the 14th. A car of powder exploded, killing six people, wounding 15, and destroving $10,000 worth of property in a second. On the same day the coroner of Sioux City, In., viewed and looked wise over the remains of four victims of drownmg, a boy kicked to death by a horse and a woman suffocated by coal gus. A gasometer in Montreal clevated the gas: worlks on the 20th, killing seven persons and wounding 15. A’ narrow guage hailstorm struck a couple of townships mear Des Moines, covering the country to a depth of two feet, glass and gardens wer ruined, During a storm in Gage county Neb., on the 25th, Mrs, J. H. Bicketts and two children were drowned by the sudden overflow of a neighboring creck. The same stormed howled through IKansas, turning rivtilets into mighty rivers, doing great dam- age to farms, Two families were swept away and three livtle children drowned, June was comparatively mild in the de- structive line, ~ A fire in Dubois, Pa.,on the 15th, destroyed £1,000,000 worth of property and rendercd +,000 people homelecs, Fright ful floods devastated Mexico about, the mid- dle of the month. Fifteen hundred lives were lost and thousands of people rendered homeless. One hundred miles of the Mexi- can Central track was swept away and over 300 houses wrecked. A battery of boilers in a Pittsburg tannery want up and aut, July 6, injuring 60 men and wrecking four bwildings. The engineer sailed through the roof und landed w a neigiiboring vard without serious injury, A train on tho Virginia Midland dropped through a trestle, near Orauge court house, on the 12th, Killmg nine and injuring twen- ty-five persons. On the same day a terrifi storm lashed the New England coast, strow- ini the shores with wrecks and destroyin property and crops inland, Pive hundred miners perished in o burning mine in Kimberly, South Africa, while an eruption ' of a voleano' in Japan killed 400 people and injured 10,000, Destructive storms and floods swept West Virginia on the 20th, drowning 13 persons and destroying $300,000 worth of property. On the same day an explosion of a tugboat at Louisville lifted 7 men into eternity, A wreck on the Omaha & Republican Valley road ut Yutun suffocated 6 tramps in a car of corn A paralyzing electric storm struck Ste loud at Center City, Minn,, August 9, de stroying #100,000 worth of property, Over 50 houses were struck by lightning, but no lives were lost. The next day a tonement cofin_in New York was consumed by fire and 15 persous cremated and 10 injured. A broken rail tumbled a passenger traiu on the St. Louis & Chieago road down a 50-foot em- baukment, near Morzantowu, Ind., on the Sth, Seventeen persons were injured, sev- eral of them fatally. A five in Chattanoo; Tenu,, on the 10th, caused the death of 10 persons, wounding of 4, and tho destruction of $100,000 worth of property. The bursting of & reservoir at Valparaiso, Chili, on tho 11th, swept 1,000 persons to a grave. Three persons were killed, 9 injured, and 9 famous raco horses bolonging to Freddic Gebhardt were cremated in a wreck on the Lric road at Shobola, N. Y., on the Lith, On the same day & flood in Chiua swept 10,000 persous to death. The first important disaster on the Atlantic ocean was the sinking of the steamship Geisor by the Thingyalla on the 4th. The loss of life was 105. “On the 22d tie steamers Oceanic and City of Chester callided at_Golden Gate dur- inga for. The City of Chester was sunk aud 22 lives lost. An explosion of boilers n a paper mill at Neenah, Wis, on tho 22d, slaughtered eighteen mon in an instant and destroyed $100,000 worth of property. A re- markable wreck oceurred on the Union Pacific at Kimball, Neb., on the 20th. A broken rail completely wrecked four Pull- man coaches, but none of the passengers were killed and few injured. The September simoon of death aud ruin uring 6, ASLIOUS €O trains oc Va escaped death sickening _calamit on the scape cr only to mo Six pavemn persons betwod Pennsylvan ton, Pa th pletel ired vinter b the Wi and | fire at Bal! JrOparty v e 3 with lost and Th same da r, Wis ened on Six lives £00.00 destroyed At 7 persons and W ment in Cronstadt persons. Octo storm of to the botton pre ata ring rty inland. The A runaway. A team ¢ horses dased into th we nd children 1 wonnded. On the fr and panic ocerred ufing, Pa. During the laying c ¢ stone of the Polisit Catholie church the floor gave way, precipi tating 2,000 men, women and children into the bascmeat. Seventy SrsOnS Were in jured, ma them fatally, On the 10th railroad aceident oceurred,” rivaling Chatts worth and Ashtabula. One section of an excursion train was run into by a succeeding one on the Lehigh Vailey road at Mud Run, Pa. The ears took fire, and 100 picnicers were erushed and burned to death. It an_appalling calam caused by the r of a brakeman to flig the apy train, On the day crowded amphitheatre at a tion " in Quiney, 1L, collapsed, injuring 300 persons. A party of ( marines who deserted at Zanzibar, wandered into the interior and > served up as a fresh roast by the hungry natives. Ar 1 of fireworks ata festivalin Madras causec funerals. On the 220 a landslide engulfed a passenger train at Laterza, Italy, burying 40), one-half of whom were killed and the remainder in jured A wicked youn Roman ¢ Pa., ont un tran t her anageablo pling men. throng, natel and seores yelone struck Laporte, La, November 2, dsmolishing 12 store build: ings and a number of residences, killin person and injuring a lavge number. On sume day a steam thr machine ne Pa., exploded, killing 6 and wound Two days later an explosion n a mine at Lockhaven, Pa., instantly killed 21 mners and injured £ A Tiodel Kentucky duel oc- curred at Livingston on the Sth. It was a free-for-all faction fight, and in fif teen minutes 5 porsons e kiled. On «the Oth the Rochester N. Y.) lantern works were destroyed by an explosion foilowed by fire. Fourteen men jumped from the building and were erushed 1o death, and 7 were burned to death in building. An explosion in the conl mines Pittsbure, Kan., on the 10th entombed and burned to'death' 100 workmen. A destructive winter blizzard spread over the New England stat st woek in the o L The was extremely violent, accompanied by snow and picreing cold. Shippiug along the coast iffered severely and many lives were lost, December was comparatively mitd and modest A eraveyard- assistant, On the Lith the dust in au oatmeal mill exploded, demolishing the stracture and burying 3 men in the ruins, ‘Phe shock was felt for a mile avound the strneture, and tons of glass shattered. Another explosion in a coal mine m Canyon City, Col., fatally injured 12 men and wounded S, the > s th ale Mortu Death is indiscriminate in choo sing vie- tims. During the year all ages, conditions and sexes were alike visited. Royalty and plebian. ruler and vassal, rien and poor suc- cumbed to his irresisti power. Nations and families wept, and professions mourned the loss of honored members. The most dis- tinguished vietims of the grim reaper in the United States were Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of Now York, on April 15; General Pnillip H. Sheridan, 'at Nonquitt, Aucust 5: Thomas Pottor, the distinguished general managoer of the Union Pacitic, at Washington, March nd Chief Justice V Waslington, 3. This famous quartette, repre- ®our leading professions, were in the flife and_uscfulness, all under 60 years of age. Litorary cirelos lost a_promi- nent member in the déath of Louisa M. Al cott. at Boston, March 6, and Mathew Ar- nold, the famous Engiish poet and critic, who dicd April 16, Loster Wallack, one of the leaders of the American_ stage, jomed the majority in- August, and Stephen Heller, anoted composer, died 'in Paris, January 14, W. W. Corcoran, of Washing the notett philanthropist and banker died in Washing- ton, Pebruary 24, at the remarkable age of 90, leaving scores of monuments of lav ish generosity. Seth Green, the unoted pisciculturist” of Rochester, N. Y., passed away August 19, after a Life of 65 years, de- voted to the artificial propagation” of fish. Allen B. Wilson, the perfecter and part in- ventor of the sewing machine bearing his name, died at Waterbury, Cona., April 20th, aged b5, Science lost two distinguished vo- taries in the death of Prof. Richard A, Proc- tor in New Yorlk, Scpt. 12, and Prof, Forest Shepard, a noted mineralogist, in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 9, at the age of 88. Dr. Agnew, an enfinent member of the medical profes. sion, died in New York in May. Three prom- inent journalists joined the countless throng Alex K. MacMillan,editor of the New Yo Commercial, died Dee. % aged 63, Stephe noted_Irish-American printer d writer, died in New York, in Februar, e (35 Cyrus T. Oberly, a leading journal- ist of Texas, died at Houston, Ieb. 1, aged 10, and D.R. Locke, the “Petroleum V. Nisby" of the Toledo Blade, who dicd at Toledo, Web, 15, aged The venerable mother of the lite nt Garfield, died at Cleveland, at the age of 36. Mrs. W. T. Sheriaan, wifo'of General She man, a woman distinguished for charituble eds in public and private life, died in New York, in November, aged 64, Six prominent military men respo 0 the long roll. General . B. Alexander, a veteran of the Mexican war, died in Washington, Jan. 3, aged 86, Colonel Alex Chambers of the 1 infantry, a graduate of West Point, died at San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 3, Major Wiliis Drummond, who served with distinction in the war, and was conspicuous asan editor and politician in Jowa, a gencration ago, died it California, Jan. 15, General John L. Thompson, a voteran of the rebellion and a prominent lawyer of Chicago, died in that city Jan. 31, Brigadiergeo.Sumuel Minnes, who by extraordin vices ros from tho ranks of private during the_vebellion, dica n New York, Dée. 1 Pather Louis Noyron, a venerable warrior of the old world, 'died in South Bend, [nd., Jan. 3, &t the remarkable age of U8, Ho wils a sur geon w the armies of the first Napoleon and followed Lis fortunes in the Russian car paign, ana again against the allied armics ending with the disaster at Waterloo. At the time of his death he was a membor of th faculty of tre Dame university. ‘‘Loug John Wentworth, one of the pioncera of Chi cago, and a great_politician, died in that city, Oct. 16, age George Walker, late consui general of the United States in Paris, died in Washington, Jan. 15, aged 4. Larri lard Spencer,a Eranco-American clubman and aristocratic sport, who distingushed himseif by leaving a fortune of 1,500,000, died in Paris, February 1, aged sixty-four. Bunice Cottrell, great-grandehild of King Phillip, and the oldest descendant of the Pequot In- dians in Connecticut, died at North Storing. ton, January 7, at the great age of 115 years. Jacob Sharp, the distinguished boodler of New York, escaped a term in Sig Sing by expiring April 5. Another distiuzuished crook nud red-handed out-throat, Chief Colo row, of the Colorado Utes, died at Ouray, December 13. He was the boss butcher in Meeker massacre, ten years ago. Germany was called 1o mourn twice at the bier of kings, ‘The venerable Bmperor Wil- liani, bowed with a weight of years and the homage of a united fatherland, entered into oternal rest, March 9. Emperor Frederick, with the hand of death at Lis throat,took the iwperial oath on the 13th, His brief carcer closed with death at Pottsdam, June 15, and was promptly succeeded by his son, Emperor William. President W. ', Herleus! federal councii, died at Geneva, 1 the ay I sixty-three. Commandant Brasseur, one of the heroes of tho Franco-Russian’ war, died after eighteen years' suffering in Paris, January 22 Another noted Frenchman, Murshal Bazaine, whose countrymen branded him as a traitor for surrendering Metz to the Ger- mans, died in exil in Madrid, September 23, aged 17, Omaha's death roll contaius the names of many who had stawped . their individuality 1, of the Swiss Mach, at business life of the city them wore Mrs, Josiah S. McCor Mrs. O. H. ;Rofhacker, Georg Lorid Ml Alfvred A ont o the on the so Among mick Frost, Color al and morency ton road ar Mrs g hion, Mrs. O 1B, Smith and WS nusical, citkles John and Mrs, ppomeer M b 129 enial and ) ond day of t a Events, £0 01 rocord as the year repub yral n for Political A 1838 \tion_and rogeneration ins and def and e nocrats, the lon gt death w bourbonism was wed when Congr Mills threw his famons tariff bill into the March 1, It passed that body by a majority of 13, The opening gun of fired in tie District of Columbia convention which sclected delegates to the national con vention January he gathering was wide Shorman and Blaine poace and harm ws of slaughter b ation. Ben Harrison Nebraska in the carly days of March, and those who met him in Omaha_and Lincoln avitl cherish the date, id remind him of the acquaintance in the sweet by and by, lowa republicans pro sunced unanimously for Allison, March 21 Nebraska democrats gathered 433 strong i Omaha, May 3, and selected a delegation to the St. Louis convention, The republican convention followed on the 15th, and perpe- trated auastounding hull by endorsin President Cloveland. — The national democ racy gathered at St Lows on the 6th of 1 on the third day unanimously and Thurman. The ost session of rant of campaign was 10 wilgrin Clovelend national convention assombied June 19, with John M temporary ' chairman. The ik was consumed in fraitiess effort to pull toth ront. Sunday’s calm brought out of chuos, and Monday brousht Harrison to tho presidency, with Warner Miller for second plece. The “campaign of education’ beg: e and was continoed with unexampled v r 1o the close, with the scasational Murchison lotter and the bou » of Minister We nding a halo of desperation 1o the finish. The decision of Noves ris vividly stamped on the minds of ull. Melville W, Pulier. of Chicago, was confirmed chief Justice of the supreme court July 20. The rejection of the fisheries treat by the senate in August was followed by the pr ut’s retaliut aze and the pas. suge by the honse of a bill giving the presi dent power o prevent the passaze of Cana dian goods in bond through the United States, The bill shelved in the Oue of the rtant measures passed by +last duys of the s wis bill prohibiting Chinamen in the United States, hts of woman roc bl f two instances in Washington te ,-extendol the right of suffraze to w and the town of ( nas., ed a counc com. posed of women and Mes, Mary D, Low to the ofiice of mayor. They were formers. Political changos in effect on the map of the of Bmperor Wiilin Predor used gre liberal circles, ney His death in June brow petuous William to the throne, and placed the military party in the ascendancy. He sumalized his assumption of powoer by plac- ing s mother undere guard in a castle, crushing out the koglish spirit and confis. cating memoranda of reforms contemplated by his father. In France the Lirard minis- try cotlapsed in March and v led by Floquet as promicr. Boulanzc ort 10 secure a revision of the constitution was voted down in the chamber of deputics Juie 15. The debate resulted in o duel July 13 between Boulanger and Floguet, in which slightly wounded. The ir s the conspicuous feature of 1rif ish politics. All effortaof the tories, with of 82, to shelve it v ing the year the liberals from the tories, but the latter retaliated by imprisoning, for various terais and 1 lous pretexts, twelve Parnellitcs county government bill was reject commons, April 25, by a vole of The papal reseript condemning the “plan of campaign” and_boycottmg created a tre meudous sensation in Ireland and among Irishmen the world over. It was is sued April 20, The document was vig orously and viciously denounced at home and abroad, and the cry wentout from i quarters, *'We will take religion but no poli ties from Rome.” The rescript did not ac- complish all that was expected. The priests and bishops g ually withdrew from the vadical, home rule 1 did ot cen- sure the laity or leaders who pushed the war against iordism by overy possible means. A sccond edict was issucd by the pope in November, commanding the themselves against “illegal combinations.” Its cffect was not satisfactory, for the pope, a few weeks later, declared*'thatthe people of Irstand preferred the gosvel of Dillon and O'Brien to the o pel of Jesus'Christ.” The Parnell commis sion appointed by the government to investi- zate the cMarge of the London Times that Parnell was in leagie with murderers and dynamiters, begun sittings in London Octo- ber 22, Judging from the progress made in two months, it will take a year Lo finish the undertaking. nated lican in Heas Th we Biaine senat 108 con gross in t 3101 Innding « (VI ognition nan 1 il re the old world had no atry. The death nd the accession of joicings in German of brief du rati e the young and im fivo seats denominated Important Decisions. The courts passed up many important questions of local and general interest. The United States supreme court, Mareh 19, de cided in favor of the Bell teliphone patents, as against the priority claims of Ieis & Drowbaugh, On November 12 the court. de cided that the United States nad a right to sue the American Beil ‘Pelophone company and remanded the case for trial same court affirmed the constitutionality of the Towa and Kansas prohibition laws. Tha Chi nese exclusion act passed by congress in Sep- tember was decided constitional by Judge Sawyer, of the United States cireuit court, October 15, The court held that return eer: tificates were null and void, thus excludiug 50,000 Chinamen who possessed _documoents The United States circuit court, of Chicago, ebruary 23, denied the.claim of the [inois Central railroad to_a large portion of the lake front of that city, vaiubd at 3100,000,000, holding that the riporian rights remain in the city with the consent of the state, not only as to the natural sharve, but where the filling had been_ done on ' n lurge scale by the railrond, The same court, Judges Blodgett and Gresham, May 2, that the Puliman Nupany piatents on vestibule trains were valid and cnjoined the Wagner company from furthor use of these trains, The district court, of Carroll, Ia August 87, deeided that.the sale of liguor original packages could not be interfered with by the state. The Mistrict court of Lancaster county, in the consoliduted cases of the wholesalc) ticoln against the Union Pacific, decided, June 1, that discrimi nation in rates on goods from the Pacific bast existed,and that the coinpany could not charge mo »ashort, than a long haul, The jury held that the 'mileage rate was a reasonable oue. In the quo warranto pro- caedings instituted by the attorney general of Nebraska in the state supreme court ugainst the Atchison & Nebraska railroad, company, the court decided, April 20, that the consolidation of parillel lines of rail rouds was expressly prohibited by the con stitution, The leasing“of ‘the road to the Burlington system was declared void. The local courts handed down a few op ions that will bear repetition. Judge Wakeley, May 25, declined to' restrain Sunday base ball playing, holding that the game was an iunocent amusement and not a desecration of the Sabbath. Onc of the remarkable de cisions of the year was that of Judge Dundy in March, in which he enjoined the Union Pacitle engineers from boycotting Burlington cars, aud from conspiring to strike, but thoy could quit the service of the company, ‘The city hall injunction was 1s sued by Judge Doane, February 14, prohibit- ing any chango in the Meyer plans or divert ing the money voted or chauging the site be fore submitting the question to a vote of the ple. The state supreme court, April 12, ided in favor of the defendant iu the case of Carroll, involving title to land in North Omuba valued at $1,000,000. The case of the mayor and city council ' of Lincoln, punished for contempt by Judge Brewer, cawe up in the United States supreme court January 9, and was doecided in favor of the plaintiffs. The court decided that the proceedings of the federal court in Nebraska were 1 the nature | ot & wsurpation il and that the detention of the In was illegal ot Als of Linc The Labor World The greatest struggle of anized labor A inst al was that of the twin br neers and firomer . which began on strike was ral Man f th wvas two pow »ad company in stant r and T men v a b the While wreck and ruin_strotched o lino from the lakes to the moun iever wavered in their d | the kers at an. was in nts in March ent to On th ne men various jut I wnd it ipse Santa Fo en f rond as a protest a ¢ 1Bu n freight. In two da, 1t W A and work resume witel ud brakemen iext jo the strikers, Burlington stri on, meeting every complication with the en or speration, Th ta_the pany in dollars already exceeds 5,000,000, whilo ) the organizat months was over £750,000, exciusive of the diroct wages 10 the men. Tho strik paid from £40 to #60 per month, the money being 4 b, th working members, The loss of life causcd by the strike and the employment of meom petent men is estimated at 150, Nine *10st in Omaha and Lincoln by assa 'rom this strike grew the of railrond cniployes now nearly d, composed of the etiginecrs, firemen brakemen, switchmen and Knights of Labo, nwragzed in the operation of railroads. next great battle was that of the brewers of New York and adjacent citics against their union employes, April 15, Tho strike was of brief duration, and clos a4 compromis The Bricklayess union of Omala the spring declared for .50 4 day of cizht hours, and attempted to enforce the demand by striking. Work on buildings wis sus pended during the spring and carly summer months, and t neral’ vrosperity of the city seriously affected. The contractors, se cured enough men 1o begin work in mid suminer, paying 4,50 for nine hours, and finally beating the union - The gencral convention of Labor was held m Indianapolis in_ Septel ber, General Master Workman Powderly was endorsed, disturbing agitators kicked constitution” of the order re out and the vised to meet the exigencies of the times, Bt the the cost ms i uine ecarly in of he Knights Remarkable Robberies, National bank of Auburn, N. Y., reduced the sury institution by ¥200,000, and slipped across the boundary Jan A pair of masked robhors viflad t car of u train on the Southern und made with o | treus ra i Blufls, Ark., a rdm the express’ safe. Montreal, wnadinn 1ivst 1 of that Pacifi was h 108t audacious Tan, 14 e lustrial coru o its valu wd threee away. Kentucky was an earthquake in the middle of the wholesale thefts of State James W, Tate. He was an honest man, and had held the surer fora duzen years. Ihs sled him to rob the common 4,000, Tate founda worthy Axtworthy, city treasu of who skinued the tuxpavers of =26).000 and_fled with the boodle last August. Had time and means permitted he would have discounted Tate by several thousand. e took all there was, and 18 now rev in shadows of oyalty on the co ht highway mén tiekled a train “on the Northern Pacific v Billings, Mout., June 17, amd lifted the tents of the cxpress safe] ‘The passen rs escaped the usual courtesics, Thre natenr entthroats attempted a repetition of e robbery on the Union Pa cifie, A . near Rawlins, Wyo. The strinlings were balke by Brakeman Frank man, and develoned remarkable sprintin on the neighboring plains, zetting out ach of the ofiicers. On October 1 erty quirtette drew_a bead on th rstuke pay train nea®Deadwood, but guards and =15,000 was ved, d the nain ¢ way W the Willcesb: rohh pan st shaken as by March by Treasur, od in house of the ( was stripped safes wealth of disciple in Cleveland g are now on’ th A weel later r John B, Md and a box ¢ murdarers. Lwaymen el ar Duck Hill, Mo., for ous passeuger pulled robbers and died instantly. T the Illino rifle on the Sgme Local Events, were 75 violent deaths in Omaha the year, The railronds scored 22 victims, of whom 12 wore employes. Thi 1 perrsons took the various suicide routes. by worphine, 1 by a combination of love and morphine, 2 by poison, 2 by hangin and the pistol, vazor and acill, 1 each, Six murders were committed. the prominent ones being the shoot { Howard in wine room and the JKing trazedy at the Pax ton. Fhere were 7 accidental deaths and 7 deaths by drowniug 1 persons blew out were buried alive by the caving of embank ments, 2 eniliren scalded to death in u tub of hot water, 2 victims of summer heat, and cremation, 'l coid, elevator and eoast ing, 1 cach, The inter-state heard the gr Mareh 14, 1our churches w year T pier of the Pacili wreeking boat aud et 19,000 onthe railroad company’s purse. The State Soldiers’ home at Grand Isiand was dedicated.-in the presence of 10,000 peo ple, Jun ymmerce commission ievances of Omaba merchants «d with a brudge, June stono of the 1 ed dise was overshad arth, the night of July 22, fur e hours of delightful entertain ical and sentimental astron Douglas county sil One of most the remarkable accidents and resenes on record was the entombment ofJohn P. Anderson, in a well at Johnstown, Neb., July 21, and his rescue alive seven duys idges over the Missour! ri smuwerce during_ the year Iroud bridgs at Nebraska the Omaha and Council September 30, and the wher . > new ! were dedicated to the Burlington 1 sity, A 30 Ts wagon bridge, Sioux City railroad bridge, Dec Thrilling Tragdies Among tho travedics that crimson record of 1535, the fendish wor of the Ripper.” o London, is e place, for the shocking miutil tims dnd the unpenetrable my g the identity of the murd T, the ack, d to first uof the vic surround- Seven vie marry him, He was tak night and hurled into eternity bridie \e morning of May 4 witnessed a fright ful calamity at Ariington, Neb, The fan j of the widow F'recse, seven in a {l 1to 00 yoars, were cremated 1na bar 1 from jail at mid from a rail od fr burnit - MUSICAL AND DRAMATICO. Ma ! New Yor soasorn Rose Ce lays Joe Emme Coquelin and Hardin are Francisco. w1 pla Power's “lyy ing for a week Minnie Maddern beg gagement in Chicago. Mume, Janause to very large Mike Kelly part Wilson 13ay businoss pla s to do asmal T'in Soldoir ott's next At October 14, 1550 ni Concert company, after an i, has disbanded pa s revival of “Mache London on Decembor 20, Josevh Murphy is flitting drawing through he crowd wherever he app I'rederick Warde's William Te was re ceived with marked favor in Chicago where he vlayed Lotta has ended hier 1 naua season, and will hob-nob with th of Baltimore. Gordon (formorl y nd is to tour Bugland in anew pluy Arthur Sullivan is arranging in in for translation and produc men of the Guard Gilbert and Sullivan ar at work on another oper: is belioved to be laid in America Bull, a_son of the violmist, Ole Bull, has orsanized a concert tour through cities in Norway and Sweden “Paola’ is the title of the opera by Harry Panlton and Edward Jakohowski which J C. Duff will produce next spring in New York Siz Bevignani. for many yoars musieal di rector of the Royal Ttaltan opera company, London, will accompany Mme Albani on her Anierican tour, William Peak, the veteran has taken anufactur and those who recall his hardly be told that he has s néw venture, A Philadelphia man says that tinot secared her entry to the st vace of two newspaper 1 whio owed her mother, bill and could not pay i 'S new opera, CNeronc 1s be A and will probably be produced la during the winter season of 188900, work is $ix sho: 10ts, cach having a 1l ch Ambroise Thomas, director ¢ Conservatoire, will ¢ 1 o wost s Philadelphia protty girls Mrs ol 1 Ihe Princess cported as ho hie scene of which Alexander celebrated ex-bellrmgor, 1 musical glasses, former skill need nude u success of Sadie Mar o through shemiansin New Mrs. Martin, a the Paris wt the musical p nances in with the unveilin wnt 10 the memory of Mehul av his nutive town of Givet The you American soprano, Miss Amanda” Fabris, uppeared as Isabella in "‘ tobert the Devil™ at Glasgow the 19th ult Thouzh somcwhat nervous at fiest, she gained confidence towards the finish, and ro ceived warm applause. Miss Helen Danvray-Ward who turned up under an ssumed name in France the other day, is sud to be looking after a play. Sk will_probably bring something back fros the Paris s s her acquaintance with rance is thorougl, The entire matter in regard to Modjeska and Kdwin Booth is very simpiy: Booth offercd to give Moajesica the position of lead ing lady in his company. She wanted to stad So did Booth. Some other lady will p “leads” with Booth nest scason, That the sitiation in the proverbial nutshell Joscfloachim will celebrate next y fifticth anniversary of his artisti having commenced his_pubiie carecr at’ the sof I'he professors and students. High Sciool for Musie, over Proposc to present rble bust of himself. The mortal remains of Christoph Willibald Gluck, like those of Beethoven and Schubert, to be shortly removed from their present Look at Our Warm Lined SHOES - AND SLIPPERS, '| OVER & SCHOELPLY, 1415 Douglas Street. 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