Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — THE YEAR THAT IS GONE [ARTICLE]

THE YEAR THAT IS GONE

(RECORD OF THE EVENTS THAT HAVE MADE IT MEMORABLE. .Roll of Its Distinguished Dead—Schedule of Its Disasters by Fire, Flood, War, and .Disease—Rai.road and Marine Casualties —Summary Proceedings by Jack Ketch and Judge Lynch. The Past Twelve Months. JANUARY. .I—Pontifical high mass was celebrated at St. Peter’s. Rome, by Pope Leo XIIL on the occasion of his golden jubilee; 30,050 spectators witnessed the imposing ceremonies. 'J—Coldest day ever known in California; mercury in many places fell to freezing point. 13—At Brainerd, M.'nn., the mercury registered 58 degrees below ths zero mark. At Chippewk Falls, Wis., spirit thermometers recorded 68 degrees below zero. 15— Great suffering among people and wholesale destruction ot cattie in Northern Texas, caused by severe cold weather; Colorado River frozen over—first time on record. 17 — Commiesipn appointed by New York Legislature to report on most humane method of executing condemned criminals recommended abolition of hanging and substitution of electricity. ' ' 26 Mrs. Clarissa Jackson (colored), of Hancock County, Ohio, became a grandmother at the age of 25 years. FEBBUABT. 10 — Patrick J. Hart, who was hanged for murder at Hel'ena, Montana, claimed to have marie a discovery for prolonging human life, one of the ingredients being ashes. He was unable to demonstrate its value, because the officials refused to delay the execution of his death sentence. 11— Albert, the pedestrian (James Albert Cathcart), beat the record in a walking-match at New York, covering 621 miles in six days. 27 — Inauguration at Chicago of a remarkable strike of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers against the C., B. &Q. R. R.; the corporation is one of the greatest in mileage and. wealth in the country, and the B. L. E. numbers about 25,(XX) members . 29—John A. Beal, aged 13, begaitt his term o! imprisonment for lite at the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary, his crime being the brutal murder of his mother. MABCH. I—Fnr the third time in her married life of three years, the wife of James McElmore, of Texarkana, Texas, gave birth to triplets—nine children, all living and doing well. 12— Great storm along the Atlantic coast: telegraph lines cripple!, trains blocked, and business generally paralyzed; New York was buried in snow, and Washington, Baltimore and Ph ladelphia almost completely isolated. The financial loss to the states involved exceeded S2O, 00,'JOO, New York's share of this sum being $7,000,00.). The metropolis had gone back 2 0 years in its history, so fur as travel was concerned, and the strange spectacle was presented of young men starting rom the City Hall on snow-suoes to points within ten and twenty miles of the city. 27 Gen. Boulanger, a disturbing element In French political and army circles, pla :ed on retired lilt. amiil. 16— Elizabeth Arnold (colored) died at Pittsburgh at the i ge of 118 years. 18— New Yorx Assembly passed bill substituting electricity for the halter in case of criminals sen- enced to death. 21— ’lhe famous trotting horse Dexter died of old age and exhaustion at the stable of his owner, Mr. Robert Bonner, New York. Dexter was foaled in April, It 5), and in August, 18H. a, Buffalo, covered a unle in 2:17 —the lastest mile ever tro.ttd at that time—when he was purchase! by Mr. Bonner for e 33,0 0, and withdrawn from the tu f, 2<—General Jo-eph E. Johnston, highest of rank of living officers of the Confederate uriny, elected an honorary member of a Gr.nd Army pos.in l-uil idelphia. 28— Lack of support compelled the suspension of the Alarm, the anarchistic sheet formerly edited by Albert It. Parsons, of Chicago. ,30 —President Cleveland sent to the Senate the nomination oi Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, of Illinois, to be Chief Justice of the Unitad States Supreme Court. MAY. i—Dwyer Broilers, it Brooklyn, N. Y., paid $8,209 for a yearfing colt at a sale of thoroughbreds near Paris, Ky.—highest-priced yeaning ever sold at aucticn m the United states. '1 he new purchase is a full brother to the famous Hanover, a horse that won $90,090 in cups and stakes for the Dwyer stable during 1«87. 9—Bev. Dr. Lyman Abbott called to the pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, as the successor of Henry Ward Beecher. 19— Judge Speer, in the United States District Court at Atlanta, Ga., ruled that when a dishonest postal clerk opens a decoy letter he breaks no law and is not amenable to punishment. •29 The Supreme Court of North Carolina decided that a woman who had murdered her husjband was entitled to a widow s share es his property. JUNE. 3—B eomship Etruria made the trip from Queenstown to New Ycrk in leys than six days two hours—fastest trip across the ocean on record. Average speed, about twenty-two statute miles per hoar. 5 Airhulat San Francisco, from London, of the British bark Balaklava, her voyage lasting one year and seventy-four days. There was not a sailor aboard who shipped on her in England ; ten were washed overboard in a storm off Cape Horn, and the remainder deserted whfie at Valparaiso for repairs ; two more lost in a storm after leaving the latter port. 19—At the Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive works, Altoona, a locomotive weighing pounds was built in 15 hours 55 minutes. - 21—Letters from London, England, were delivered at Vancouver. B. C., within twelve days. 2<—Lake Ben,on, Minn., had a severe frost ■which badly injured small fruits and main fields. JULY. I— Dispatches from Eufaula, Indian Territory, announced the murder by horse-thieves of Deputy Marshal Phillips and posse, making a record of seventeen sheriffs killed in that vicinity ■within two years. 6 The financial exhibit of the C., B. & Q. Road for the first five months ot 1888, compared ■with the corresponding period of 1887, showed a loss of s4,l94.l<2—caused by short crops last year, reduced rates, and the great engineers’ strike. ll After drawing nay and emoluments of his various grades in the army for thirty years, Lieuten nt Colonel Leslie Smith, commanding the po t at Fort Mag nnis, Montana, made application to become a citizen; he had never been entitled to the rignt of suffrage. 14 —Plant City. Fla., was ordered to be tom down and burned, in order to stamp out yellow fever. 17— A huge waterspout passed over St. Augustine, Fla, upsetting boats in the river, and tearing out the streets; several dray loads of fish ■were secured on the streets after it had passed. AUGUST. I—Dr. Ernest WelsSenberger, of Heidelberg University, who had been observing the gas •wells at Findlay, Ohio, predicted volcanic eruptions for that vicinity in the near future. 6—Prospectors brought in rich specimens of gold frqm the Boulder country, Montana. 10 —Governor Hill, of New York, disapproves of the custom so long in vogue of having criminals exteuted tn Friday, and designates Tues- - day instead. 14—By order of the President, Major General John M. Schofield was plase i in command of the army, with headquarters at Washington. 10—President Cleveland's letter accepting a renomination unde public. 16—Two men named bteele and Mockabee were put off a train at Stepstone, Ky.; they were drunk and had been fighting; when the train was sto ped he duel was resumed, and Mr. Mockabee was killed by ths fifth bullet from Mr. Steele's pistol, after which the latter boarded the train and proceeded homeward. 22 The ce.ebrated calf case (Jones County, Iowa) terminated by a jury at Waterloo finding a verdict for plaintiff, Robert Johnson, for $< ,0u0; the case hal been psnding in various courts for more than fourteen and several well-to-do persons were in paying costs ; the calf was worth about $45. 29 London, Eng., startled by a series of some half dozen mysterious murders in Whitechapel; all the victims were cl’nsolute ■women of the poorest class, and too unfortunate wretches were found with their throats severed and their bodies disemboweled and mutilated in a brutal manner; the detectives were completely at sea as o the identity of the unknown murderer, who was thought to be an insane man, as no attempt was made to despoil the bodies. 80—Number of immigrants arrived at ports of

the United States from principal foreign countries. except Dominion ot Canada and Mexico, during first nine months of 1848, 432,882, against 411,26 z during same period last year. OCTOBER. 3—The Hon. George Bancroft, American historian. reached his eignty-eigbth birthday. 8— Chief Justice Melville Weston Faller, U. 8. Supreme Court, took the oath of office. 9 The Missouri Grand Lodge of Masons decided that saloon-keepers are ineligible to membership in that order. 20— Congress adjourned, the session being the longest in the history ot the country. 22 David Crack, of Marlbro, Md.. claiming to be 107 years old, and a veteran of the war of 1812, was joined in wedlock to Susanna Oakes, a widow of 7 . 25 The Michigan Supremo Court decided that where an unmarried voter sleeps in one precinct and eats in another he must register in the precinct where he eats. 26 The Australian Government commenced building a fence of wire netting B,uuj mites long to divide New South Wales from Queensland, to keep down the jackrabbit nests. Australia offers $lO ,00j to any one who will discover something that will exterminate the pests. 28— New Bedford, Mass., visited two by.welldoflned earthquake shocks. NOVEMBER. 3 Mrs. George Hirsch, of Navarro County, Texas, gave b.rth to six children, four boys an 1 two girls. 9—The unknown murder fiend of the Whitechapel (London) district added another to his list of victims. 27 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that a disagreement of the jury in murder trials is equivalent to an acquittal, on the ground that the Federal Constitution declares that a man cannot more than once be put in jeopardy of life or limb for the same offense. DECEMBER. B—President Cleveland ordered the civil-ser-vice rules extended so as to include persons applying for positions on postal cars. At Boston, Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, the noted woman bank swindler, was indicted and imprisoned. 11—A profond sensation was created at Rome by the Pope's refusing to bless a number of medals sent from Ireland ; his Holiness charged the people of that country with disobedience. 13—Volunteer, the celebrated sire of trotting horses, diod at WalnutfiGrove, Orange County, N. Y., at the advanced aged of 34 years. Death-Roll of the Year. JANUARY. 2—Ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey. 8— Bonamy Price, M A., professor of political economy in Oxford University. Ex-Congress-man James 8. Rollins, of Missouri. 9 Gtn. Washington Seawall, U, 8. A. 13 —Fredk. Schwatka (fataer of Lieut. Szhwatkai, one bf the founders ot Oddfellowship in the United States. 21— Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield (mother of the late President Garfield), aged 8) years. 28— Rear Admiral Clark H. Wells, U. 8. N. 39—Prof. Asa P. Gray, ths eminent botanist. FEBRUARY. 11— William Kd y, inventor of ths Bessemer process of making steel. 15—Dav d Ross Locke, widely known as “Petroleum V. Nasby. 1 ' 2i—George H. Corliss, famous mechanical engineer and manufacturer. 21—William Wilson Corcoran, mi lionaire philanthropist, of Washington, 1). C. 25 —Col. E. B. Cash, of to ath Carolina, noted duelist. MARCH, 4 Amos Bronson Alcott, well-known author; Boston, aged 88. 6 Miss Louisa M. Alcott, the charming writer and fait Hui daughter ot A. Bronson Alcott. 8— Gen. D. H. Strother (“Porte Crayon’), artist, author and soldier. 9 Iriodrich Ludwig Wilhelm, first Emperor of Germany aud seventh King of Piussla, aged 91. Thomas J. Potter, Vice President and Gen ral Manager of the Union Pacific system, aged 48. 12— rienry Bergh, of New YorK, a warm triend of dumb animals, and organizer of hunlane societies. 17—Ex-Gov. Hcrace Fairbanks, of Vermont. 29 Ex-U. 8. Senator John P. King, of Georgia. 21—Gen. George W. Cass, organizer of the Adams Express. 23 Morrison Rom ok Waite, Chief Justice United States Sup.erne Court. 24 Ex-Gov. Joun T. Hoffman, of New York. ‘•6— Ex-Lieut. Gov. Win. Dorsheimer, of New York. Felix O. C. Darley, designer and illustrator. 29 Gen. Charles A. Stetson, for forty years proprietor of the Astor Hease, New APRIL. 4 Beniamin Harris Brewster, ex-United States Attorney General. 5 Jacob Sharp, the Broadway (Now York) street railway manipulator. t —Bev.' Mr. Sutherland, the New York evangelist, better known to theater-goers as “Senator" Bob Hart, formerly of the minstrel stage. 7 Quincy A. Gilmore, Brevet Major General U. 8. A.

16—Matthew Arnold, noted English poet, critic, and scholar. 18— Ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling, of Hew York. 19 — Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, of New York, last survivor of the once famous United States Sanitary Commission. A. 8. Abell, founder of the Baltimore Sun; a twenty times millionaire, aged 3. 21—William B. Dinsmore, President of the Adams Express Company. 21 —John A. Rice, of Chicago, well-known hotel man. Rear Admiral Cuarles Stewart Bojgs, at New Brunswick, N. J. 24—Judge Samuel D. Lecompte, ex-Chief Justice of the Territory of Kansas. MAY. 4 General Warner Lewis, distinguished citizen of lowa and distant relative of General George Wash ngton. 5 Norman McDonald, of Cape Breton, N. S., last known survivor of battle of Waterloo, aged 110. / B—Martin H. Bovee, of Wisconsin, chief mover in abolishing capital punishment in many States. 10—Commodore Norman W. Kittson, of St. Paul. 19— Brother Quinton, leading elder of the Dunkard denomination, while on his knees offe ing prayer at the German Baptist Conference, North Manchester, Ind. 29 Josie Mansfield, who figured prominently in the Fisk-Stokes tragedy in New Fork in 1872. JUNE. I—General Henry W. Birge, one of the commanders of the Army of the Shenandoah during the rebellion. B—Rev. James Freeman Clarke, distinguished Unitarian divine; Jamaica Plain, Mass., aged 78. 20— Dr. J. H. Zukertort, champion chess-player of the world. Hon. Joseph M. Sterrett, Pennsylvania’s oldest editor an I publisher. 23—Hon. John Trunkey, Associate Judge Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 28—Thomas B. Lincoln, grandnephew of Gen. Lincoln, Of Revolutionary fame, and the only man tried for treason during the late civil war; near Elkton, Md., aged 75. JULY. 15— Sir John Henry Brand, President of the Orange Free State, South Africa. 20— Ex-Governor Thos. L. Young, of Ohio. 2'1 —Ex-Gov. Thos. Carney, of Kansas. 30— Bartley Campbell, well-known playwright. 31— Dr. Robert Mor-ris, distinguished Masonic lecturer and poet laureate of Masonry. AUGUST. 5 General Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. A. 7—Lawrence M. Donovan, made famous by several daring leaps from bridges in this country, was drowned after jumping from the Hungerford bridge over the Thames, London, England ; aged 23. William P. Davidge, comedian; en route to San Francisco, aged 74. 14—Charles Crocker, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Colonel James L. D. (Don) Morr.son, a noted Democratic politician of Illinois. □2l.—The Right Rev. Samuel S. Harris, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. SEPTEMBER. 6 Lester Wallack, the veteran actor and manager. 12—Professor Richard A. Proctor, astronomer and lecturer. 18 — Rev. Dr. Ravolll, founder of the kindergarten system of education in America: Pittsburg, Pa., aged 80. 21— William Warren, veteran comedian. 23 —Francois Achille Bazaine, once a famous Marshal of France, at Madrid, Spain. General Salomon, exiled President of the Republic of Hayti, at Faris, France. OCTOBER. s—Tom King, ex-champion pugilist of England, who in his time defeated Jem Mace and John C. Heenan. 16— Hon. John (“Long John”) Wentworth, a pioneer citizen of Chicago, who during his career had been a frontier editor, a farmer, Mayor of Chicago, and member of Congress. 17— Marcelina Campos, a negress, at Havana, Cuba, aged 114 years, leaving a 90-year-old son and a 12-year-old great-great-great grandson. 19— Rt. Rev. E. R. Welles, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee. 23—At | Sandusky, Ohio, Willis J. Cook, the

noted operator, familiarly known as “Bit." 2d-Ex-Goy. Wm-T. Hamilton, of Maryland. General 14 Yu Doo, a famous Chinese soldi* r and a leader of the Black Flags who fought against che French in Tonquin; 1,20» Chinese, all in white, marcnxl in tm funeral procession at New York. 29—Jndge William K. McAllister, of<he Chicago Appellate Court, aged 70. Hon. John P. Campbell, ex-Congressman from Kentucky. NOVEMBER. 6—John Halton, of Farmington, Mich., who was a paralytic, desired to live long enough to vote for Cleveland; his wish was gratified, as he was taken to the polls, where his bal.oz was deposited, and he died soon after ramming to his home. 8— Mrs. Hannah Sharkey, of Youngs own, Ohio, aged 111 years. 13— Escher Gaines, colored, aged 123 years, at Newport, Ara. 17—Rear Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, U. 8. N., who med been placed on the retired list. 28—Mrs. Gen. Win. T. Sherman. DECEMBER. I—Judge Thomas Settle, of North Carolina. 19—Rear Admiral Leroy, U. 8. N. 12 —Chief Colorow, the celebrated leader ot the Utes, aged 70. 14— Anna Langley (colored) at New York, aged 17; believed to have been the tallest girl in the country —7 feet 2 inches; one of her ancestors was an Indian cnief. 16— Dr. James Scott, of Columbus, Ohio, author of the famous Scott liquor laws. 17— James C. Morford, la>t of the “old defenders" of Fort McHenry; Baltimore, aged 93. The Year’s Disasters. JANUARY. 4 Two express trains collided near Meppel, Holland; 26 persons killed. American snip Alfred D. Snow wrecked at entrance to Waterford harbor, Ireland; 30 lives lost. 12 — A terrible storm swept over the Northwest—the worst blizzard since 1873; from Dakota, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Montana came pitiful stories of suffering and death; about 20j people perished. 24 Explosion in coal-pit at Victoria, B. C.: 72 miners killed. FEBRUARY. 18— Terrific earthquake in the province of Yunnan, China; 2,000 lives reported lost. 19— Mount Vernon, 111, destroyed by a cyclone; 40 killed, about 259 injured; loss to property, over $■,000,009. 2(—Ferryboat uulia blown up at Vallejo, Cal.; forty lives lost. Italian vilago ot Valurttx destroyed by an avalunzhe: thirty persons killed. MARCH. I— French schooner Fleur de la Mer foundered off the island of Cayenne; sixty passengers drowned. 10—Explosion of pleasure steamer’s boilers at Cartagena, West Indies; forty 1 ves lost. 17— A paasenger_train crashed through a trestle at Blackshear, Ga., and fell forty feet; twen-ty-five persons killed. 21— Burning of the Banquet Theater at Op&rto, Portugal; 12j deaths. 27 in the valley of the Vistula, Germany, an area of ten miies square, containing seventyseven villages, was submerged; 39 lives lost, 3 ,000 peopie made homeless, and loss to property estimated at $>0,0j0,009. 2)—Explosion of tire-damp in a colliery at Rich Hill, Mo ; over sixty men killed. APRIL. 5 Amesbury, Mass., swept by the fiercest conflagr iticn in its history; loss, $1,000,090. 28— North.rn Texas swept over by the worst flood known in its history; over 10J miles of the Santa Fe Railroad under water. MAY. 4 Delhi and Moradahad, India, visited by destructive ha ls2orms; 150 persons killed. 12 to 2»—The overdo wing waters of the Mississippi did great damage to towns and farmin? land, along its banks. Dubuque, Keokuk, Clinton. Burlington and Muscatine, Iowa; Rock Island aud Quincy, 111., besides Winona. Minn , suffered severely. The loss caused by tuis mighty flood was nearly sl, .OI.OIC. In the Red River Valley ot the Sou h the loss was almost beyond comouta ion, many of the plantation) being covered with six feet of water—the highest flood since 1843. JUNE. 5 Almost the entire city of Hull, opposite Ottawa, Ont, was swept away by fire; 50J houses burned and 2,590 people rendered homeless. 18— Dnbois, a mining town in Pennsylvania, laid in ashes; 3,000 people homeless ; loss. sl.009,000. 2 i—Fifteen hundred lives lost by inundation of Leon, a Mexican city o.' 100,099 inhabitants ; loss, $2,090,200. JULY. II — Terrible loss of life in a coal mine at Kimberley, Routh Africa; over 300 persons (white and black) perished. 17—Volcanic emotion at Makmats, Japan ; 400 killed and 1,00) injured. 22 Roslyn, a coal-mining town of Dakota, burned; 1,500 people left homeless; loss, $509,000. 25 One thousand persons killed and several villages destroyed in the vicinity ot Yokohama, J apan. AUGUST. 6 During a storm on the Pacific coast of South America an English and a French bark were sunk in the harbor of Valparaiso, with a loss of twenty-five lives. 9 Several busine is blocks burned at Chattanooga. Tenn.; loss, $1,50),<09. 13— Disastrous flood in the vicinity of Pekin, China; twenty villages overwhelmed, with 10j--009 people drowned. 14— Steamers Geiser and Thingvalla collided in a fog off Sable Island, the former sinking in five minutes ; 107 lives lost. 22 —During a heavy fog in the Bay of Ban Francisco the steamers Ocean!ca and City of Chester collided, the latter going down in five minutes ; ovqr thirty lives lost. a storm at Nekagori, Japan, 3,090 houses were demolished, 609 vessels wrecked anl injured, and 52,000 people rendered homeless. SEPTEMBER.

3—Floods in Bohemia reached alarming proportions ; at Budweis 15,000 people were rendered homeless, finding refuge in the hills; the Danube rose steadily, submerging six villages in the valley of the Poprad; crops and granaries were swept away. 10— San Francisco scared by a blaze that destroyed property to the value of $1,250,00). 11— During a hurricane in Cuba entire fishing villages along the coast were swept away, 800 lives were lost, and the damage to property, reached into the millions. Valparaiso, Chili, flooded by the breaking of an artificial pond; 1,000 lives lost. 12— Jacksonville and Fernandina, Fla., were visited by the dread scourge, yellow fever, the result being a total of about 4,700 cases and 490 deaths. The island of Cuba was swept by the fever, causing hundreds of deaths, and the island of Nassau declared a forty-day quarantine, as did also the principal cities of the Southwestern States. 30—Business failures in the United States for the first nine months of 1888 number 7,550, with liabilities of over $90,000,00). against 6,85) in 1887, with liabilities aggregating $128,000,000. OCTOBER. 2 Snow covered the entire northern peninsula of Michigan, and seriously delayed railroad trains by heavy and slipping snow on the tracks ; the mountains between White Haven and Wilkesbarre, Pa., were covered with snow. 10 —Seventy people slain in a railway accident at Mud Run, Pa. 21 —Ten cars of a train of excursionists returning to Potenza, Italy, from Naples, crushed by an avalanche; ninety lives lost. November. 9—Fire in the Rochester (N. Y.) Steam Gauge and Lantern Company’s works resulted in the death of forty employes. An explosion of firedamp in coal mines at Pittsburg, Kan., killed over eighty miners. 13— Thirty minem met death at Dour, Belgium, from an explosion of fire-damp. DECEMBER. 8 — The jail at Birmingham, Ala., was attacked by a mob bent upon lynching Richard Hawes, a murderer; the rioters were fired upon by a guard of officers, a dozen men being killed and many more wounded. At least 1,0 0 shots were fired, none of the officers being hurt. 13 —Failure of De Lesseps’ PniM.mii Canal scheme announced. Throttled by the Law. JANUARY. 6 —Nathan B. Sutton at Oakland, Cal. 13 —Henry Schmidt/ci West Union, Icvra. 20 —James E. Nowlin (aged 18) at Car ibridge, Maas. 23—Dan Driscoll at the Tombs prison, Now York City. FEBRUARY. 3At Minden, La., Jim Cornelius, a negro boy aged 14; murder. 9 Clement Arthur Day at Utica, N. Y. 10— Patrick J. Hart at Helena, Montana. 17 —Martin L. Scott at Detr Lodge, Montana. MARCH. I—Oscar1 —Oscar F. Beckwith at Hudson, N. Y.

9—Macey Warner at JefferfonviHe, Ind. APRIL. 3 Adam Volkoviteh at Wilkesbarre, Pa. 4 Luther Shaffer at Lockhaven, Pa. 7 Prophet Frazer at Waterboro, 8. C. | I 3 —"HEppy Bob" Van Brunt at Warsaw, N. Y. Nels Olson riolong at Fergus Falls, Minn Chillers Banks at Willisville, Texas. 29—N. B. Lester at Lebanon, Tenn. 26—George McC. Dunham at Woodbury, N. J. iff—Ja.k Crow. George Moss, and Owen D. Hill (negroes with Indian blood) at Fort Smith, Ark. Jack Prater at Orangeburg, 8. C. James Davis at Columbia, 8. C. John B. Biscoe at Leonardtown, Md. may. 8— Robert G. Hall and David Vincent at Philadelphia. 11— Rev. George McDuffie at Greensboro, Ga. 12— Zephyr Davis at Chicago. 17— WniLon George at Columbus, Ohio. z2—At Greenville, Miss., a white man named Graham and two negroes—David Mooie and Willard HalL JUNE. 13— Eady and Michael Rosette, halfbreeds. at Regina, Northwest Territory. I.2—William Patterson at Louisville, Ky. 23 —George Wilson at Albion, N. Y. JULY. 6—Gns Bogles at Fort Smith, Ark. —the Sixthat has taken place there. 19— Edward A. Deacons at Rochester, N. Y. 13— George M. Rider at Marshall, Mo. Ebenezer Stanyard at Columbus, Ohio. 18— Henry Ebert at Jersey City, N. J. Richard. Keeney at Freehold, N. J. 20— Abra J. (“Sailor Jack") Allen at N. Y. Hicks Carmichael at Knoxville, Tenn. Simon Pitts at Clayton, Ala. 22 Frank Williams at Blackfoot, Idaho. AUGUST. 3 Charles (alias “Blinkey”) Morgan at Columbus, Ohio. 19— Hugh M. Brooks (alias Maxwell) and Henry Landgraf at St. Louis, Mo. Charles H Riedel at Newcastle, Del. 17 —Alexander Wood at Blackfoot, Idaho. 21— Dan Lyons at the Tombs, New York City. 31 —Burk Mitchell at Houston, Texas. SEPT EMBER. 14— Doc. Dangan at Columbia, 8. C. Alexander Golden at Ban Francisco. OCTOBER. s—Philip Palledoni at Bridgeport, Conn. 12— Famine McCoy, a negro girl aged 19, at Union Springs, Ala.; murder. 29—William Washington at Columbus, Tenn. 26 Ben F. Carterat Rawlins, Wyoming ; Hugh Blackman at Toledo, Ark.; Ephraim Mayers at Edgefield, 8. C. NOVEMBER. 14— William Showers at Lebanon, Pa. 15 — Charles Johnson at Waterloo, N. Y. 21—Jake and Joe lobler at Wichita, Kan. 23 George W. Miliiken at Shawneetown, 111. 3J—John Henry Meyer at Placerville, Cal. DECEMBER, 11—Asbury Hawkins at Riverhead, N. Y. 13— Lyman Pus ee, by shooting, at Tushka Homma, Indian Territory.’ Victims of Judge Lynch. JANUARY. I—Oscar1 —Oscar Coger, colored, incendiary, at Chero - kee, Ala. 4An American named Baggott, near Durango City, Arizona. 16 — in Laurens County, Georgia, a negro prisoner. 17— Two murderers shot by a mob at Caldwell, Tex. 21—“Nosey" 8 nlth at Sun River, Montana. At Limestone, Indian Territory, the leader of a gang of bank-robbers, name unknown. 27 “Dread. ” alias James McKnigut, at Purcell. Indian Territory. 28— Three negroes at Plymouth, N. C. Ben Edwards at Amite City, La. FEBRUARY. 8 — A negro, name unknown, at Pontchatoula, La. 9A. J. Morris at Bever, in No Man’s Land. 14 — Alonzo Holly at Pinckneyville, 111. 28—Sam Pri e at Clinton, Ky. 2'J—Tom Forsythe at Carthage, Tenn. MARCH. 9 Will Thomas at Tunne. Hill, Ga. 10— Turn Roof at Trenton, Ga. 18— rt m. A. Parker at Washington, N. C. 14— John Skifmer a Hopkinsville, Ky. 28— John Wood at Denison, Texas. 29 Theodore Calloway at sayneville, Ala. APRIL. < 4 J. Howe atFqifc Collins, Colo. 9 Bill Morgan rad three other horsethieves at Healdton, Indian Territory. 15— Jack Mollar, half-breed, in Garfield County, Colorado. 18— Near Gallatin, Tenn., Isaac Kirkpatrick and his wife Puss (colored); suspected of arson. 19 — Eight horsethieves strung up without time for prayer, in the vicinity or Purcell, Indian Territory. 23—Hardy Posey at Bessemer, Ala. MAY. 1— Joe Harris at Vicksburg, Miss. Henry Pope at Summer rille, Ga. 2 George Morton at Warrior, Ala 5 John Wright at St. Helena Cal. 6 Dan Sale.near Danburg, Ga Thomas Fra- , ser at Blount's Creek, N. C. 10— Tom Rooney at Woodburn, Ky. 17— “Dandy" Hook, Chitwood, and two other horsethieves, names unknown, near Woodward, Indian Territory. 18— Four negro laborers at Washington, Tenn.;, criminal assault. 1

JUNE. 2 Andrew Granditaff, a young desperado, at Viroqua, Wii. j 3 Allen Sturgis at Thompson, Ga. 10- At Fort Shaw, Montana, a negro soldier' named Robertson. Dennis Williams at Ellaville, Fla. I 11— James Foster at Henderson, Ky. 13— At Monarch, Colo., a gambler named. Schen-k. I 17—Washington Ives at Natchez, Miss. 26 William Moore, near Mattoon, 111. [Later developments showed good reasons for believing that! Moore was innocent; that the vigilantes , had acted hastily; aud that the testimony against him was unworthy of credence.] Ned Clark in Worth County, Georgia. 27 Wallace Mitchell at Syracuse, Kan. 28— Chubb McCarthy at Minneapolis, Kan. | John and Wyley Lee at Chetopa. Kan. JULY. 10— Ham Staples, near Atlanta, Texas. 11— William Smith n Pulaski Coanty.Virginia. 14 — John Humphreys at Asheville, N. C. j 27—Eli Bryant at Starkville, Miss. L. 8. Elmer at Wahpe 1 on, Dakota. 1 31—Fremont Emmons at Pawnee City, Neb. W. H. Handley at Carthage, Tenn. AUGUST. 10 — Amos Miller at Franklin, Tenn. 14— James Stott, JameA Scott and Jeff Wilson, outlaws; Apache County, Arizona. 15— Noah Griffin in Calhoun County, Florida. 17 —Outlaws in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, hanged William Nagler and Louis Nagler, ranchers and stockmen. 20— Billy Cole at Guide Rock, Neb. 31—Archer Cook at Farmville, Va. SEPTEMBER. 16— Jean Pierre Salet and Didieare at Ville Platte Prairie, La. 23—Lewis Davis at Steelville, Mo. OCTOBER. 5At Trinidad, Col., Hickman. 15—Lewis Edwards at Jessup,‘Ga. 17 — Nat Nathaniel at Wharton, Texas. 21— Near Snake River. Col,, two hunters named Dutohie and Adams, who persisted in killing elk and deer for their hides, after'being warned to desist. ’ 26 Henry Jones at Woodland Mi Tenn. 27 Thomas Sayre nsar Brom well, W. Va. NOVEMBER. 6 Archibald Pelon at Grayling, Mich. DECEMBER. 4 George Witherell at Canon City, Col. 11— Noah Taylor at Harrisburg, Pa.