Connecticut western news., 1895-01-17
A YEARS DEATH ROLL
WORK OF THE KING OF TERRORS
 IN 1894.
A Busy Time For tho Grim Messengcr. How He Entered the Ranks of States- men. Soldiers, Poets, Financiers, Clergy men, Social Leaders md Royalty.

veteran, in New York; aged 63
 William P, Earle, old New York hotel keeper, in New York; aged S2- Elizabeth Peabody, educator and reformer in Boston; aged S9. s. Benton J. Hall. prominent Iowa lawyer. at Burlington, Ia. aged 5e. 10. Rear Admiral Donald McNeil Fairfax, D. 8 N, retired, at Hagerstown, Md. aged 70 II. Isabella Shave ThacSeray, widow of the author, at Leigh. England; aged 75. l9. John Haley Spears, associate of Lincoln. at Jacksonville; aged 90 Ex-Gov. William Gaston of Massachusetts in Boston; aged A. 90. Helen A Shafer, president of Wellesley col
 lege, at Wellesley, Mass; aged a.
 Ex-Gov. William Gilpin of Colorado, at Den yer; aged s1. 24. D. ". Irwin, prominent Chicago business man, in Chicago; aged 64. T. Rosina Vokes, actress, at Torquay, Eng land; aged 70. 8. George ". Childs, proprietor of the Phila delphia Ledger, in Philadelphia: aged 65. x Morton s. Wilkinson. ex United States sen ator from Minnesota, in Wells, Minn.; aged S. L.. Schofeld, pioneer manufacturer of iron rails in the south, at Chattanooga; aged 80 6. Gen. Jacob Ammen prominent Union veteran, at Yorkland, O.; aged S8 Dr. Theodore Billroth, distinguished German surgeon, near Vienna; aged S. g. Dr. Gustave Leipnitz, well known charao ter on the coast, in San Francisco; aged s3 Col. John R. Baylor, Texan pioneer and
 noted Indian fighter, near San Antonio; aged 72 g. Maxine du Camp, noted French author at Paris; aged "A. ls. Homer Ramsdell, ex-president of the New York and Erie railroad. at Newburg, N. Y.; aged S3. Hans von Bulow, the celebrated pianist, at Cairo, Egypt; aged GA N Gen. Edward Hincks. civil war veteran, at Cambridge Mass Mrs. Myra Bradwell. editor of The Legal News and the first woman lawyer in Hi nois, in Chicago; aged 63 i6 Col. Jonathan Drake Stevenson a promi nent Californian, in San Francisco; aged a. r. R. W. English, personal associate of Lin coin, at Kansas City; aged 83. IS. William T. Stansbury, a printer on the Bal. timore Sun since lS57. in Baltimore; aged 7S.
 l9. Joseph Keppler. famous cartoonist and one of the founders and owners of Puck, in
 New York city; aged 8 21- Louis Wistar, wealthy citizen of Philadel phia, at Atlantic City; aged 68 22. Dr. William B. LaphaIn, well known Maine
 historian and geologist, at Augusta, Me; aged e3.
 2. pr. Martin Luther an eminent Pennsyiva-
 mia physician, at Reading; aged 6S. MARCH.
 l. Ex-Gov. John c. Downey of California, at Los Angeles; aged C., Dr. Frederick William Poole, D. D., eminent librarian of Boston anl compiler of a valu. able index to periodical literature. in Chi. cago; aged "a 9. Gen. Ju!5al A. Early. prominent ex-Con federate. at Lynchburg. Va; aged 7S 4 James Montgomery Bailey, "The Danbury News Man, humorist author and editor, at Danbury, Conn. aged 53. 8. Benjamin Bunker, editor of the Kennebec Democrat, at waterville, Me. aged 6. Il. Rev. A. T. Wood, prominent Presbyterian, nt Omaha; aged 7. IA John T. Ford, the we'll known theatrical manager, at Baltimore; aged 65. l9. Commodore William D. Whiting, U. s. N. retired, in New York city; aged Fl. %. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, at Turin; aged 92 Prof. Isaac T. Goodnow, prominent Kansas pioneer and educator, st Manhattan, Kan; aged 80.
 25. George TiclSnor Curtis. an authority and
 writer on constitutional law, in New York city; aged 62 28. Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt, senator from
 Georgia and prominent ex-Confederate, in Washington; aged 70 APRIL. l. pr. Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard the eminent French physician, discoverer of the ''elixir of life, ," in Paris; aged 70.
 z. Richard Wistar, noted millionaire, in Phil adelphia; aged e5.
 Ben King, the Chicago poet and humorist,
 found dead at Bowling Green, Ky. ls- David Dudley Field. the eminent lawyer.
 in New York city; aged S9.
 Gen. Joseph Brevard Kershaw, a brilliant Confederate soldier and later a distinguish
 ed lawyer and judge. at Camden. s. C.; aged "A.
 IG Gen. Henry Warner slocum, a distinguish
 ed Union veteran, in Brooklyn; aged 67. Senator Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, in Washington aged a. Gen. Oliver Lathrop Shepherd, U. s. A.. re
 tired, civil war veteran, in Nev- York
 city; aged Sl.
 IT, Henry $. Ives. the rapid" fnanoier. at Asheville, N. c. 2 William B. Daniels, ex-governor of Idaho,
 at Tacoma; aged 76
 James W. Throckmorton, ex-governor of Texas, at Mckinney; aged 70.
 2s Jesse B. Seligman, the New York banker. at Coronado Beach, Cal. 5 Gen. R. s. Granger, U. s. A., retired in
 Washington; aged S3.
 8 Nathaniel Springer Berry, war governor of New Hampshire, at Bristol N. H. aged ee. 29 Francis B. Stockbridge, United States sen
 ator from Michigan, in Chicago; aged 68. Maj. Joseph Kirkland, Q well known vet ersn and author, in Chicago; aged GA | S0 Frank Hatton, editor of the Washington Post in Washington; aged 48. MAY. 1. George N. Abell proprietor of the Balti. more Sun. in Baltimore.
 g. John Jay, ex-minister to Austria, in New York city; aged 77. G. John Hapgood Maynard, prominent resi-. dent of Manchester. N. H., at Manchester; aged 90. 2. Frances Elizabeth Barrow. "Aunt Fanny" popular author and writer for children in New York city; aged S2. William F. Sayles, the third richest man in Rhode Island, at Pawtucket; aged 70.
 g. Thomas C. Latto. we'll known Scotch Amer ican poet in Brooklyn; aged 76. g. Gen. Matthew M. Trumbull, Union vet
 eran, in Chicago; aged es. 2 Sewel E. Jewell, a noted abolitionist, in
 Haverhill, Mass. aged s.
 A A. c. Hunt. ex-governor of Colorado, at
 Tenallytown, near Washington; aged 65. l6 Rev. Dr. Edward Bright editor of The Ex.
 aminer, in New York city; aged 86. 19. Andrew J. Graham, author of the Graham
 system of shorthand, at Orange, N. J.;
 aged 64.
 20. Edmund Yates, English author and jour
 nalist, in London; aged 6S.
 21. Gen. Phil Cooke, distinguished Confeder-
 ate veteran, in Atlanta; aged T.
 %. Mordecai l.. Hopkins, an old Chicago jour
 nalist, in Chicago.
 A. Ex-Gov. Charles Collis Van zandt, at Berk-
 shire, Mass.
 7 Prof William Dwight whitney. eminent philologist of Yale college in New Haven; aged 67. Ex Gov. Rodman NJ Price of New Jersey, a pioneer of California, at Hazelwood; aged
 T8.
 l2 Commodore John Rodgers, U. s. N, re
 tired, at Oakland, Pa aged 71. R Rev. E. c. Robinson, professor in the Uni
 versity of Chicago and formerly president
 of Browne university, in Boston; aged 70. T. Judge William Walter Phelps, business man
 and diplomat at Englewood N. J. aged 8
 "King Pharaoh" chief of the Montauk In
 dians. at Franklinville, Suffolk county, N.
 Y.; aged 6.
 Commodore John N Easby, U. s. N. retired,
 in Washington; aged 75.
 8. Mime. Marietta Alboni, famous contradict
 in Paris; aged 70.
 B. Rear Admiral William Greenville Temple
 U. s. N, veteran of the Mexican and
 civil wars, in Washington; aged 70. 90. William G. Green. Q well known banker and