Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — THE GREAT DEAD OF 1901, [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT DEAD OF 1901,

Year Has Been Notable in Passing of Conspicuous People. The year 1001 lias been quite as notnany of its recent predecessors in the loss of those who have been conspicuous in their various departments of labor nnd hare made their names widely known. Th'e political wcarkl has lost William McKinley, murdeied during his presidency by the assassin Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition; Beujnmin Harrison, the eminent lawyer and oxPresident: William M. Evarts, also a great lawyer and ex-Secretary of State; Prince von Ilohenlohe, the German exchnncellor; Francesco Crispi, the ox-pre-m‘ r of Italy, nnd Li Ilmig Chang, the smartest and sanest man of his time in Chiua. Among the rulers of the world Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, has passed away, likewise the Dowager Empress Frederick, Abdur Rahman Kalin, the Ameer of Afghanistan, and Milan, the dissolute ex-King of Servia. The world of literature and the art* has suffered severely. Among the prominent writers who have passed away are; John Fiske, the historian; Charlotte M. Y’onge, and Sir Walter Besant, novelists; Robert W. Buchanan, the British poet; William Ellery Channing of the famous Concord group of writers; Maurice Thompson, the story writer and essayist; and Ignatius Donnelly, the romancer and Baconian cipher inventor. Music has. lost Verdi, the last of the old school Italian opera composers; Benoit, who was the chief representative of the Flemish school of composition; Sir John Stainer, the organist and author of the beat dictionary of terms yet produced; Franz Ktimntel. the pianist; Alfred Piatti, the ’cellist, and Audrnn, the French light opera composer. In art France loses Jean Cgztn, one of its greatest painters; England, Kate Greenaway, the delightful illustrator; nnd the United States, James McD. Hart and Edward Moruu. two of the best representatives of the old school of painting.