DEATH LIST OF 1897.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XVI, 16 April 1898, Page 472

DEATH LIST OF 1897.

Among the noted people who died during the year 1897, according to ‘Harper’s Weekly,’ were Professor Henry Drummond, Alphonse Daudet. Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of the Pitman system of shorthand; Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite (who bequeathed a sum stated at $10,000,000 to ‘encourage scientific study and promote international peace’); Mrs Henry Ward Beecher, Senator Daniel W. Voorhees, General Jo Shelby, the Confederate cavalry leader; Joseph B. McCullough, editor and war correspondent; Johannes Brahm, the composer; Albert Fink, the noted American railroad expert; W. S. Holman, of Indiana, the ‘watch-dog of the Treasury’; Barney Barnato, the South African speculator, who committed suicide at sea; Father Kneipp, originator of the Kneipp cure; Captain Boycott, of County Mayo, Ireland, victim of a most extraordinary case of accidental immortality; Mrs Oliphant, the novelist; Jean Ingelow, novelist and poetess; Count Mutsu, the Japanese statesman; Henry George, author and economist; Canovas del Castillo, Spanish Premier; Charles A. Dana, journalist; George M. Pullman, originator of the Pullman palace-car system; Sir John Gilbert, president of the English Royal Society of Watercolour painters; Francis Turner Palgrave, poet and essayist; the Duchess of Teek, and Professor William Henry Riehl, the German publicist and historian.