The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-02
DEATH ROLL OF 1898.
SOME VERY BRILLIANT NAMES ADoRN
THE GRIM RECORD.
Mon and Women of National md World
wide Celebrity. Statesmen, Soldiers,
Financiers and Leaders of So
ciety tho Shining Marks.


torian, in New York city; aged g.
o. z. A. Cappa, bandmaster of tho Seventh
New York regiment, in New York city;
aged IS.
Maj. J. p. Frost of the Boston Globe, an old
New England journalist. in Boston.
10. Gen. Benjamin +. Butler, at Washington;
aged 10.
IA. Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett, a Union veteran
and cX-minister to Sweden, in Baltimore:
aged 80.
10. Gen. Rufus ingalls,, U. S. A (rctircd) in
New York city; aged "a.
II. Gen. rutherford Is. Hayes, eX- president of
the United States, Mt Fremont, o.; aged II.
rs. Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts.
In Boston; aged IS.
"a. Justice l.. q. G. Lamar of the United States
supreme court, Mt Macon, Ga; aged 6S
q. Hon. james e. Blaine, in Washington:
aged 63.
Gen. Abncr Doubleday, U. S. A. tretired) a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars at
Mendham, n. j.: aged a.
u. Gen. 5. 5. Carroll, U.S.A. (retired) in Wash
fngton; aged 20.
FEBRUARY
r. DR.. Norvin Green. president Of the West
ern Union Telegraph company, in Louis
vile; aged 80.
~. Gen. Z. G. L. Beauregard, the Confederate
veteran. at New Orleans; aged rs.
~ Rufus Hatch, a well known stockbroker,
In New York city; aged 81.
MARCH.
2. r. NJ. Bishop, ex-governor of Ohio, at jack
sonvillc, Fla; aged 81.
5. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, French historian
and critic, in Paris; aged T5
Gen. Thomas Reynolds, a Union veteran in
Chicago.
TO- Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody, professor
emeritus In Harvard university, at Cam
bridge, Mass; aged 81.
II. Col. Charles Z. TAYLOR, the oldest telegraph
er In tho west, mt Frankfort, Ky; aged SO.
II. Jules Ferry, the French statesman. in
Paris; aged VI.
20 Commodore Horatio Bridge. U. s. ~ re-
tired); aged 81.
~ Ex-senator Eli Salisbury of Delaware, at
Dover; aged 40.
"a. Col. Elliott r. Shepard, editor of tho Navy
York Mail and Express, in New York CITY:
aged 80.
2s. Gen. L. Kirby Smith, tho Confederate vet
Gran, Mt Sewanec, Tenn; aged 10.
APRIL.
o. +. *. Bruce, formerly known in Chicago rs
tho Corn King" in that city; aged 6s
Z. Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, tho first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of California:
aged 81.
George l. Seney, nnancier and philanthro-
pst In New York city; aged IL.
TO- Manuel Gonzales, eX-prcsdcnt OF the Mex
lean republic; aged %.
70 Mrs. Almira Hancock, widow of Gen. W.
). Hancock, in New York
% Gen. +. +. Bcalc, n Union veteran and cx-
United States minister to Austria, in WASH
ton; aged II.
IT. Gen. John NJ. Corse, tho hero of Allatoona
at Winchester. Mass; aged IS.
MAY.
4. Ex-United States Senator j. w. Patterson
Of New Hampshire, Mt Hanover, y. H.
I. Col Ward IL. Lamon, who was Lincoln's
private secretary, at Martinsburg, w Va.
III. Dr. Charles Carroll Lee, president of the
New York Medical society, in New York
city; aged 81.
II. Gen. L. ID. Townsend, adjutant general of
nj Nm oh fr,ut
L. Gen. s. q. Armstrong, principal of Hamp-
ton Normal institute and Indian school, Mt
Hampton, Va: aged 81
Ii. Kew. w. ii. n. liissell, bishop of the Prot
9stant Episcopal diocese OF Vermont, AT
Burlington; aged SO.
~. James E. Murdoch, actor and elocutionist
at Cincinnnti; aged So.
~. DIR. Lyman ~. Abbott, n New England can
Ger specialist, at Maiden Mass: aged So.
JUNE
4. Edwin Booth, the eminent tragcdian. in
New York city; aged ~.
Dr. d. h. hendricks, II noted mathcmati-
clan, ut Des NIoincs aged 20
d. Rev. DR.. o. X. Blue prominent In the Meth
ouist church south, Mt Greensboro Ala;
aged 20.
II. Gen. James y. Hall. II civil war veteran Of
Maine, died OH board of train on the New
York Central near Syracuse
II. Senator Leland Stanford, the California
capitalist, at Palo Alto, Cal; aged 3D.
u. Kew. w. w. kone the Oldest Bnptist min
lister III the United States, in Denison, Tex;
aged ~.
July.
o. Commodore Francis Lockwood, u. s. \.
retired), at Flushing, y. y; aged o.
q. Guy de Maupassant, the French rom,nti
cist; aged a.
I. Justice Samuel Blatchford of tho United
States supreme court, ut Newport, II. l.;
aged %.
D. Ex-Governor y. X. Allison of Florida. in
Jacksonville: aged 50.
TO- Charles Brenneke, formerly well known nc
an architect and engineer ut Marshall
town, Ia: aged 20.
10. Gen. David W. Miles, II Pennsylvania vet
eran, ut Lancastcr aged d.
Gen. j. &. Kelton. U. ). a. tretired). Mt WASH
ton; aged 81.
l6. Cen Edward Jardinc n Union veteran In
New York city; aged u.s.
Rear Admiral Earl English, u S. ~ ire
tired, ut Washington; aged is.
III. Gen. j. q. Walker. II veteran of the regular
army and of the Confcdcracy. in Washing
ton: aged 10.
Il. Rear Admiral Mclancthon Smith, U. S. n.
Cretired), At Green Bay, Wis; aged IS.
70. Gen. George w. Morgan, n Mexican and
civil war veteran, at Fort Monroe, Va:
aged 81
:. Gen. William T. lines, Il civil war veteran.
at Grand Rapids.
8. James l.. Wright. ono OF seven founders OF
the knights of Labor at Germantown. Pa;
aged 49,
q. Gen. George b. Bingham. a Union veteran.
ut Westboro, Mass.
Z. Alfred Butler Starcy. editor Harper's
Young People, in New York city.
U. John Is. Wright, manager of Ford's thea
ter, where President Lincoln was assassi
mated, ut Allston. Mass; aged IS.
George Makepeace Towle, historian and Jour
nalist, at Brookline, Mass; aged a2
VILLAIN Il. w. Ball, an old Boston Journalist
In that city; aged g.
Rear Admiral Thornton a. Jenkins. u. g N
at Washington; aged 81
~. George Shiras. father of Justice Shiras, and