A Year's Disasters

Chicago, Jan. 3.- The Tribune says: "So far as reported 6,867 lives were loBt in 1887 upon the ocean and 235 upon the lakes and rivera, a total oí 8,792, as compared with 2,749 in 1886; 1,812 by railroadB 2 610 by disasters in the New World and 178,950 in the Old World, rncluding pestilence and battle, makins in all 199,' 164 as compared with 122.791 in 1886."