The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-12-04
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General Hiram L. Brown, collector OF Gus
toms at Erie, dice on the 25th. from a wound
received at Game Mills, eighteen years ago.
Capt. X. Il. Lowry, of the United States Navy,
died at the NavalHospital at Brooklyn. on the
18th. He was bon in South America in 1926
and entered the annapolis Academy from Penn
sylYanla IN his 14u year. He rendered dlstin-
gushed service tothe Union cause during the
war.
Alfred Gather, widely known in business
circles, more particularly throughout the South
and West, as a member of the Board of Manag-
ers OF tie Adams cypress Company, and long a
resident of Cincinnati, died at New York on the
Goth.
Sir benjamin Collin Brodie. the London
chemist, is dead
William L. FLOYD. sel-known actor and
manager Of New York died on the 25th.
DAVID Nicholson. an extensive Wholesale
grocer Of 81. Lus, No, passed away On
the 25th.
Samuel c. Carg, general passenger agent Of
the Chicago, ST. Louis and New Orleans rail-
road. died at New Orleans on the 26th.
The deaths arennnounced OF Samuel L. Har-
tranft. father of ex-Gov. Hartranft, Of Penn
sylYaua; OF CHARLES Rutledge, southern CORE
spondent Of Ii Louisville Commercial; of
Mrs. Estella Anna Lewis, the author Of Sap
pho " and otherpoems; Of Hon William FoR-
Ter, one of the fist settlers at st. Joseph, Mo-.
and OF John Emry, sn old citizen of Fond du
Lac, Wis.
Leon Cogniet, TIC French painter, has passed
away.
Prof. James L. Watson. Of the Wisconsin
State University, did at Madison on the 23d.
OF inflammation of the bowels. He was one of
the most distinguished OF modern astromers.
Thomas II. Newton. ID. D., LII. D., a we'll
known and aged Presbyterian divine, died near
Wave ly, Sussex county. Va, on the night If
the 18th.
Governor james o. Williams, OF Indiana,
died about noon on the Goth inst. at his home
IN Indianapolis, of an acute disease from which
he lffered much for a period of fifteen wears
The deceased gentleman-who had he lived till
January Is next, would have been 10 wears of
age-was an active politician since 1913. He
VAS elected several times TO the lower branch
Of the Legislature of his state, and in 1858 TO
The senate. lie was elected TO congress- in 1874
and governor IT Indiana III 1876. BY his death
Lleut.-Gov. Gray becomes governor TIL the
first Tuesday of January next, when he will be
succeeded by Goyernor-elect Porter
Sir Alexander COckburu, Lord Chief Justice
of the Queens bench. died suddenly on the
night Of the 10th. of heart disease.
Field-Marshal General Sir Charles York, con-
stable of the Tower, died al London on the Goth
aged 80. He served with distinction on tie pc
ninsula and at Waterloo.
DR.. Thomas Wood a prominent Cincinnati
physician, died on the 21st from the effects of
blood poisoning, caused by attending with
chappcd hands the wounded at recent railroad
accident on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton road.
The Rev. Fielding Ewing, Presbyterian
clergyman Of Decatur, H., and Samuel Martin
prominent business man Of Dubuque, passed
away on the 18th.
John II. Harper. prominent republican Of
Indiana, fell dead of heart disease in business
Office at South Beud on the 18th.
Among the dead are DR.. G. q. Goodrich, of
Minneapolis, and Arson Hart, pioneer of Iowa
City.