Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08
CROSSED THE RIVER.

Eminent
Departed Year-Many Familiar Names
Recorded Among Them Soldiers. states.
men, Jurists, Lftterateurs, Journalists
Church Dignftaries, Public Educators
Royalty, Etc.
ST.. Louis. Jan. 1.-The Globe-Dem-
ocrat publishes the following list OF
prominent personages whose departure
from the stage of action during the year
1890 has been rendered noteworthy
from the places they filled in lie III
shaping the destinies of the world or
the communities they lived in:
Prominent on the list of the departed
statesmen of 1890 are the names of William
ID. Kelley, for many years Father OF the
House of Represent ltiveS, - Samuel - KAN
dali, who attained that honor after kelley 5
demise; John c. Fremont. the first candi-
date for the presidency which the Repub-
licam party ever selt cted; Senator Beck, ex-
Senators Thomas G.. McCreery, Isaac L.
Christiancy, L. q. Lapham and H. III. RID
dleberger: Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition
presidential nominee in 1888; Philip r.
Thomas Secretary of the Ire lsury IN
Buchanan's Cabinet; W. W. Belknap, Secre-
tary of War under Grant: George w. McCra-
ry, who held the same portfolio IN the hayes
Cabinet; +. f. Noyes. Ex-Governor OF ONO
and ex-Minister to France; James f. En-
glish, ex Governor of Connecticut: Robert
C. Schenck: James Z. Thorold Rogers, of
England; Lord Thomas FIeemantle Cottes-
lee of the same country. Joseph q. Biggaf,
Irish member of Parliament; Count Julius
Andrassy. once head of the AuStro- Hungari-
an Ministry Marquis Tseng, a Chinese states
man and diplomatic, and Senator Edmund de
Lafayette, q descendant of the Lafayette who
assisted the Americans during the war for
independence, and the last bearer of that
hOnored name
Among the great iurists who have died in
fi1n Init ted
States Supreme Court; W. ID. Simpson, CHIEF
Justice of the supreme Court of south Caro-
lima; L. A. s Mitchell, of the Indiana SUI
preme Court; Charles Danforth, of the SUI
preme Court of Maine: ex-Judgc Drummond,
of the United States District Court, and Judge
O'Hagen, head of the Irish Land Commission.
The list of dead in the ranks of the litter
ateurs contains the names of Il. 7. Shlllaber
(''AIrs Partington'), John Boyle O'Reiily,
Oliver b. Bunce, James Franklin Fits,
the novelist; George Fl. Boxer, poet,
cssayist and diplomatic; Eugene Schuyler,
distinguished in the two latter roles, and
Rev. VIM. Nassau Wordsworth, the British
author, and Alphonso karr and Alexander
Chartrian, French writer's. In this ii It per
hapS also may properly be placed Fletcher
Harper. a member of the great publishing
house of Harper Bros, and Daniel Apple
ton, head of the publishing firm of Appleton
& Co.
On the roll of deceased journalists are
the Cincinnati Enquirer: Edwin COwles, ed
itor of the Cleveland lie tder; Alfred Cowles,
of the Chicago Tribune: Andrew Shuman, of
the Chicago journal; Sir Edmund Baines, of
the Leeds (England) Mercury, and Beverly
Tucker, of Virginia.
Among the dignitaries of the church to
whom the ''crown of lfe' came within the
year were Cardinal Newman, Canon Henry
p. Lddon, of st. Paul's: William Thompson.
Archbishop of York; Nathan NJ. Adler, Oh eff
Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations
of the British Empire: Cardinal fccchi,
brother of Pope Leo NIL: Johann J. DocI-
linger, the distinguished theolO@ian and
writer; Benedict Murnane, PROVING al of the
Passonist Order in the United states: Rev.
Robert Laird Collier, Bishop James oConnor,
of Omaha; Vic General Laurent, of Mon
treal: Vicar General Vincent, of Toronto f;
Vicar General keegan. of Brooklyn. and Geo.
B-Checver2h American Congregational c1er-
srym1n, well known twenty years ago and
earlier pulpit orator, lecturer and writ r.
Within the year the rcyeille sounded Tor
the last time for Major Generals Crook and
Terry, Lord Naper-''Napier of hagdala'' -
General Sir Howard Crawford Elphinstone,
OF the British army. and General Radetshy,
famous Russian officer. one of the heroes
of Shipka Pass
Vice Admiral Rowan and Rear Admirals
Radford, Steedman, Gibson and Quacken-
bush have crossed the dark river since the
year began.
On the roll of dead artists are the names OF
Matt Morgan, American painter: Louis Eu-
gene Carpenter and Robert EIeury. French
painters. and Joseph Edward Boehm, Ger
man sculptor.
The dead educators and scientists include
Ebenzer Dodge, president of Madison Uni
versity; r. B. Welch, of Auburn Theological
Seminary, and Chester FL. Lyman and DR..
Christian II. Peters, astronomers; while
medical science is represented by Surgeon
General Baxter, of the United States army,
and Assistant Surgeon General Perrine also
of the army.
on to mourn the departure of Dion Bouci-
cault the playwright and actor; Niels
Wilhelm Gade, the Danish musician and
composer; Lillian Grub, the opera singer,
and Adam Forepaugh, the Snowman.
Since the year began William ILL., King Of
Holland; Prince Amadeo of Italy, brother of
King Humbert, and formerly King of Spain
Sitting Bull, the Sioux Indian pOtentate: to-
gether with the Sultan of Zanzibar. and the
King of Dahomey, have surrendered their
title and authority in obedience to the edct
of the King of Kings.
On the roll of the dead personages who do
not admit of ready classification are Walker
Blaine, son of the Secretary of State; John
Jacob Aston, capitalist; John Il. Trevor,
banker and phlanthropist; Charles II. Mall
lory, head of the Mallory Line of steamships
Richard +. Burton, Afr can traveller; David
Dows merchant; Abraham Lincoln, son OF
the American Minister to England and
grandson of the President of that nam
Captain Couch. chief of the Oklahoma boom :
ers; Henry T. Child, phlanthropist; George
Burns, of the Cunard steamer Company, Au-
gust Belmont. banker, turfman and politi-
clan; LIE Grand Villars, Governor of the Bank
of France; Mrs. Charlotte Benton, daughter
of Joseph Bonaparte and niece of the great
Corsican; Nine. Rouher, widow of Eugene
Rouher, a friend and adviser of Ma
poleon Ill; NJ. A. Dauphin, president of the
Louisiana Lottery Company, and Baron Hud-
dleston, called in England the Last of the
Barons," because he was the last to receive
the title before it WAS abolished
General Spinner. x-Unted states Treas
urer, passed away on the last day of the
year.
On the bottom of the mOrtuary list, as re-
ported by the telegraph, stands the illus
trious name of Heinrich Schlieman. through
whose labors the site of ancient TROY
Agamemnon, Achilles. Ulysses, Ajax, Paris
Helen Hector and their associates, victors
and vanquished, with Ilios itself, and the
entire record of bravery and buster. fidelity
and perfidy, which took place outside its
gates, rise up and live again
Killed by a Train.
LAS VEGAS. y. NJ. Jan. IAN ice
train jumped the track in the edge OF
the city and killed II. c. Nones, super
intendent of the Water Works COmpany