The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-17
OBITUARY.
Gen. $. ID. Maxey. Classmate of
Grants at West Point.

Grants at West Point.
PARIS, Tex, Aug. l6.-General s. JB.
Maxey died at 1920 o'clock to-day at Eureka
Springs. Ark. of complication of diseases
incident to old age. His remains will be
brought to this city for interment to-mor-
row. orr.
General Maxey was born in Todd county.
Kentucky, March 81, 1925, graduted at West
Point with General Grant. served in the
Mexican war under General Scott, and was
at the siege of Vera, Cruz. the battle of
Cherubusco and storming of Chapultepec.
He came to Texas in 1862 was States at
torney of the Eighth judicial district from
1853 to 1860. when he was elected to the
State Senate, which position he resigned and
raised the Ninth Texas Infantry, Confeder-
ate Volunteers. He was shortly made a
brigadier general and later "a major general,
and distinguished himself on many battle
fields After the war he resumed the prac-
tice Of law, and had many narrow escapes
defense of the rights of his people. In
1875 he was elected to the United States Sem
ate over the Hon. John H. Reagan and ex-
Governor Throckmorton. and was reelected ,s
feated for third term In 1887. because he
would not yield to the popular clamor
against railroad and other corporations.
since which time he has lived in retirement.
Hon. Martin Cole.
NEWTON. n. j.. Aug. 16.-Hon. Martin
dents of Sussex county, New Jersey, died
at Montague. Thursday. of general debility,
aged seventy-nine years.
Judge Cole was a lineal descendant of
Borant Jacobien Kool. who came from Hol-
land. 1880. He was in the New Jersey Leg
islature in 1858 and 1859. and in 1878 was APP
pointed by Governor McClelland lay judge
of the Court Of Common Pleas. and in 1880
one of the judges of the Court of Errors
and Appeals.
Rev. DIR. w. l.. Newlin.
CITY OF MEXICO. Aug. 16.-The Rev.
DR.. W. L. Newlin, president of the theologi-
cal seminary of the Methodist Episcopal
Church here, died in this city yesterday at
the mission house. His disease was con-
traction of the liver He had been here four
months yesterday, and gave promise Of
great usefulness. His body will be en-
balmed and sent to his old home, at Mead
vile, Pa, where he was formerly vice presi-
dent of the Allegheny University.
Other Deaths.
RICHMOND, Aug. f6-Gen. John D. I'M
boden. the famous Confederate cavalry
general. who died yesterday at Abingdon.
in southwest VIRGINIA. was nnt've &c
Of the Virginia Military Institute. He
represented ludt County Aeils-- .
and at the beginning OF the civil war
raised a company and entered the Confed-
crate army. He rose rapidly to the COM
mand of a cavalry brigade and partici-
pated In all of the principal battles. After
the war he engaged largely in mining and
railroad enterprises. He met with fire.
quent reverses, however, and died a poor
man. He was seventy-five years old, and
had been married four times.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.--J. Dewitt Congdon,
who for the past twenty years has been
late night manager for the Western Union
Telegraph Company ia this city, with juris-
diction over the vast service OF that insti-
tuition from here to the Pacific coast. died
at an early hour this morning. Mr. Cong
don suffered an apopleptic stroke Wednes-
day night and never recovered conscious
ness. He had been connected with the tel
egraph service from his youth, having
been an employee of the Michigan Central
railroad in this branch OF its service be-
fore the war.
HAVERHILL. Mass. Aug. 16.-Samuel j.
Towle, for many years surgeon at the Ma
tional Soldiers Home, In Virginia, died
suddenly tonight from heart failure. at
his home in this city He was surgeon in
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Massachu-
sets regiments during the war.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16-Capt, Geo. w. Girdon,
one os the most prominent navigators In the
country. died at his home here to-day,
aged eighty-one. He was for twenty years
chairman of the local board of United
States steam vessel inspectors.
CINCINNATI, o., Aug. 16.--Ellen, wife of
Jason Brown, aid daughter-in-law of John
Brown of Harpers Ferry fame. died at