The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
THE DEAD OF LAST YEAR.
MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN GONE.
The Father of the House and Many PrOmi-
nent POlIticisns-The Bench's Severe
Losses-Others Who Have Joined
the Great Majority.
lst. Louis Globe Democrat.

than that OF average years, Tor the laws
which guide and govern social phenom-
ena, like those which direct the purely
physical or natural manifestations, are
practically unvarying and constant. 1t
bears, however, many names which have
long been familiar to the world. Death
which, as typified in the Arabian philoso-
| ply as the 'black camel which kneels at
the gates of all" has carried off scores of
earth's greatest, wisest and proudest in
the past twelve months. Every depart
ment of human endeavor is represented
on the mortuary rolls of the year which
has just expired.
Prominent OH the list of the departed
statesmen OF 1890 are the names of Will
lam ID. Kelley, for many years Father of
the House of Representatives; Samuel j.
Randall, who attained that honor after
! Kelley's demise: John c. Fremont, the
first candidate for the presidency which
the republican party ever selected Sena
ton Beck, ex-Senators Thomas c. Nc
Creery, Isaac Christiancy, r.. &. Lapham
and Ii. II. RiddleberQer; Clinton B.. Fisk,
the prohibition presidential nominee in
1888; Philip f. Thomas, secretary
of the treasury in Buchanan's cabi.
net; W. w. Belknap, secretary OF
war under Grant; George W.
McCrary, who held the same portfolio in
the HAYES cabinet; L. f Moves, ex-Gov-
ernor of Ohio and eX-minister to France
James Z. English, ex-governor of Con-
necticut; Robert C.. Schenck; James l..
Thorold Rogers OF England; Lord Thomas
Freemantle COtteslee of the same u
try; Joseph q. Bigger. Irish member of
parliament; Count Julius Andrassy, once
head of the AustrO-Hungarlan ministry;
Marquis Tseng, a Chinese statesman and
diplomatic, and Senator dmond de La
fayette, a descendant of the Lafayette who
assisted the Americans during b war for
independence, and the last bearer of that
honOred name.
Among the great jurists who have died
in the wear were Samuel +. Miller, of the
L. :. supreme court; W. d.. Simpson,
chiefjustice OF the supreme court of South
Carolina: J. \. :. Mitchell, of the Indiana
supreme court Charles Danforth, OF the
supreme court OF Maine; ex-Judge Drum
mond, of the L. :. district court, and
Judge John O'TIagen, head OF the Irish
land commission.
The list OF dead in the ranks OF the IT.
~tsrdteurS contains the names OF B. z. Sbil-
laber (Mrs. Partington), John Boyle
0Reilly, Oliver Is. Bunce, James Franklin
Fits, the novelist; George II. Boxer, poet,
essayist and diplomatic Eugene Schuyler,
distinguished in the two latter roles, and
the Rev. William Nassau Wordsworth, the
British author, and Alphonse Karr and
Alexander Chatrian, French writer's. In
this list perhaps also NAV properly be
placed Fletcher Harper, a member OF the
great publishing house OF Harper Bros,
and Daniel :. Appleton, head of the pub
fishing firm of Appleton d Co.
On the roll OF deceased journalists are
Washington Mclean, formerly proprietor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Edwin Cowles,
editor of the Cleveland Leader; Alfred
Cowles of the Chicago Tribune; Andrew
Shuman of the Chicago Journal; Sir Ed
mund Baines of the Leeds Eng Mercury,
and Beverly Tucker of Virginia.
Among the dignitaries OF the church to
whom the crown of life" came within
the year were Cardinal Newman, Canon
Henry Z. Liddon OF 1t. Paul's; William
Thompson, archbishop of York Nathan
VI. Adler, chief rabbi of the
British Empire; Cardinal Pecchi.
brother of Pope Leo NIL; Johann
J.. Doellinger, the distinguished German
theologian and writer; Benedict Murnane,
provincial of the passionist order in the
United States; the Rev. Robert Laird Col
lier, Bishop James OConnor of Omaha;
Vicar General Laurent of Montreal; Vicar
General Vincent of Toronto; NicarG eneral
Keegan of Brooklyn, and George 3.
Cheever, an American congregational
clergyman, we'll known twenty wears ago
aud earlier a. a pulpit orator, lecturer and
writer.
Within the year the ~reveille sounded
for the last time for Maj.1iens. Crook and
Terry, Lord Napier Napier OF Magdala"
-Gen Sir Howard Crawford Elphinstone
OF the British army and ten. Radetsky, a
famous Russian officer, one of the heroes
of Shipka Pass.
Vice Admirai 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
Eugene Carpenter and Robert Fleury,
French painters, and Joseph Boehm, Ger
man sculptor.
The dead educators and scientists in
clude Ebenezar Dodge, president of Madi-
son university; r. b. WEIGH, of Auburn
theological seminary, and Chester IL. Ly-
man and DIR. Christian III. Peters, astrono-
LitIEt NiltIt MlculCd ctIcnCC u represented
by Surgeon Gen. Baxter of the L. :.
army, and Asst Surgeon Gen. Perrine,
also of the army.
The amusement world has been called
upon to mourn the departure of Dion
Boucicault the playwright and actor;
Niels Wilhelm Gade, the Danish musician
composer; Lillian Grubb, the opera
singer, and Adam Forepaugh, the show
man.
Sincethe year began William III, king
of Holland; Prince Amandeo of italy,
brother of King Humbert and formerly
king OF Spain; Sitting Bull. the Sioux
Indian potentate; together with the sultan
of Zanzibar and the king of Dahomey,
have surrendered their title and authority
in obedience to the edict 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 Astor, capitalist John
b. Trevor, banker and philanthropist;
Charles H.. Mallory, head of the Mallory
line OF steamships; Richard +. Burton,
African traveller David Doves, merchant;
Abraham Lincoln, son OF the American
minister 70 England and grandson of the
president OF that name Capt. Couch, chief
ofthe Oklahoma boomers HenryT Child,
philanthroDist George Burns, of the