Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-14
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. JUSTICE MILLER DEAD. Six Persons Burned in a
 London Fire. THE PRESIDENTS TRIP TO THE EAST. Arrest of Several Notorious
 Railroad Robbers. DEATH OF GENERAL W. ". BELkNAP. Opening of the New York
 Campaign.
DEATH OF GENERAL W. ". BELKNAP.
DEATHS SHINING MARKS.

DEATHS SHINING MARKS. Death of Justice Samuel F. Miller The End Comes Apparently With
 out Pain Professors Phelps and Rogers Dead General Belk nap
 Fatally Stricken With ApOplexy.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 13.-Justice Miller died tonight at 1O:52 o'clock without a struggle and apparently without pain. A few minutes before he died the phlegm in his throat gradually accumulated and his frame quivered. It was evident that the end was fast approaching and the mem- bers of his household, who were not in the sick room were hastily. summoned to his bedside. Besides Mrs. Miller and her son Irvine, there were present Dr. Cook, J. w. Woolworth, an old friend of Justice Miller, who had just arrived from Omaha, the family servants and Chief Clerk MeKenney of the Supreme court. Soon after death the face of the justice, which had become somewhat drawn dur ing the last day of his illness, changed to perfectly natural condition and he looked as if in quiet sleep.
 No arrangements for the funeral will be made until tomorrow, but it is certain that his remains will be conveyed to his home at Keokuk, Iowa, where they will be inferred in the family burying ground Tomorrow the supreme court will meet as usual at 12 o'clock, and after the an nouncement of the death of Associate Jus tice Miller by Chief Justice Fuller the court will adjourn.
 BAR HARBoR, Oct. 13.-Professor Austin Phelps, seventy, of Andover, father of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, died after long illness at his Bar Harbor cottage this morn ing. He was born in Brookfeld, Mass; mia; was pastor of Congregational church 1 in Boston; was made professor of sacred | rhetoric in Andover in 1848; in 1869 be- came president of the seminary. and since 1879 has been professor emeritus. He wrote | a number of popular religious books. His wife, Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Pro- | lessor Moses Stewart, was very gifted woman
 LONDON, Oct. 13.-Professor Thorold Rogers, the we'll known politico-economist, l died to-day at Oxford. His most celebra- ted work was his History of Agriculture 1 and Prices in England from 1259-1792." It was compiled entirely from original and l contemporaneous records and is work Shat required infinite research. He wrote 1 a well known text book on political econo- my for schools and colleges. l WASHINGTON, Oct 13.-General w. w. Belknap, secretary of war during President | 43a ;v, I,ol at about 9 o'clock this morning. It is be- ieved that death occurred between o'clock Saturday night and o'clock Sun day morning. A physician was summoned and after making a brief examination he | expressed the opinion that death had re- suited from a stroke of apoplexy. The l coroner soon afterward arrived and took the body in charge. An autopsy will be held later.
 As soon as the death of General Belknap was known at the war department Acting Secretary Grant ordered the flag on the building to be put at half-mast, in honor of the ex-secretary, and gave directions that the building be draped in black for the customary period. He also communi- cated with the family of General Belknap to offer whatever assistance they might desire from the department in the arrange ments of the funeral. As soon as the funeral arrangements are completed an order will be issued closing the department on the day of the funeral
 William Worth Belknap was the son of William Goldsmith Belknap of the United States army and was born in Newburgh, N. Y., on the 27th of September, 1929. He was educated at Princeton university, where he was graduated in 1S4S. After this he studied law for time, was admit ted to the bar and went to Keokuk, Ia. where he began to practice in 1851. A Sew years later he was elected to the legislature as democrat When the war broke out in 1861 he joined the army as major of the Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers. He was en- gagged at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, where he did good service, and also attract ed attention to himself by his services in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. In July, 1864 he was promoted to be brigadier general and in March, 1865, he received brevet as major general and was put in command of division.
 At the conclusion of the war he was ap pointed collector of internal revenue il Iowa, position which he held until Oc tober, 1869, when he entered Genera Grants cabinet as secretary of war. Thii office he held during Grants second ad ministration until March 2, 1876, when ht resigned in consequence of the disgracefu charges of corruption which made hil name notorious. He was impeached ant tried before the senate, the specific accusa . tion being that he promised to appoint Ca leb P. Marsh to maintain a trading estab = lishment at Fort Sill, military post of thu United States, on consideration of cer tain sum of money to be paid quarterly The evidence showed that Marsh ap
 pointed one John s. Evans as his substi tute, and received from him an annua sum proportional to the number of soldier quartered at the post, of which more thar
 half was paid in regular instalments t'
 Belknap. The testimony was of the mos conclusive description, and the accused could only avoid conviction by pleadin
 that his resignation before impeachmen
 had left the senate without jurisdiction f. On this technical plea he escaped, the vot l. being 35 to % against him, and a tive
 thirds vote being necessary to absolut
 conviction. The later years of hislife wer . passed in Washington.
 !, YOUNG ROBBERS ARRESTED.