The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-25
HIS CAREER CLOSED
LYCURGUS DALTON, THE CONGRESS
sIoNAL POSTMASTER, is DEAD.
Was Not Well After Returning from
His Home at Bedford, Ind.-Death
Of General Greenland.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.


WASHINGTON, d. c., March 24.-Lycur-
gus Dalton, postmaster of the House of Rep
resentatives, died at 1850 O'Clock tonight
He has been suffering for the last six
months from nervous prostration and spinal
troubles. Recently there has been COM
plication of troubles. A bronchial affec-
ton was contracted and its severity, doubt
less, hastened the end. Since his return
from Bedford, last November, Immediately
after the election, he has been totally in
capacitated, remaining quietly at his home
on ''B' street, near the Capitol. 1t is said
that he was very excitable and inclined to
magnify trifiing annoyances into misfor-
tunes, and his few visitors, for this reason,
were careful not to mention anything in his
presence calculated to worry or excite him.
Those who have been much with Mr..
Dalton, were fully aware that his condition
was serious, but did not regard 1t as critical,
until the last few days Yesterday he be-
come unconscious and remained SO until his
death tonight. At his bedside were his
wife, son and daughter. The funeral ar
fha te ape o' @ yni be here
instead of being taken to his home at
Bedford, Ind. John 4. Ross. of Maryland,
who has discharged the duties of Mr.. Dali
tons Office will continue in that capacity
until the Fifty-fourth Congress convenes
and his successor is elected.
'Curg Dalton, as he was called, was
very popular in Washington He was one
of the most efficient of officers and always
obliging and courteous in his treatment of
everybody. Democrats and Republicans
alike will be deeply grieved at his death.
Mr.. Dalton was a native of Bedford, Ind.
His first public service was as State Libra
rian. After two years in that office he
was elected to the State Legislature for
one term In 1881 he came to Washington
as superintendent of the folding room in
the Senate. In 1885, he was elected post
master of the House of the. Forty-eighth
ninth and Fiftieth. In the F'ifty-first, he
was the Democratic nominee, but was de-
Ms sRa for he y
second and FIfty-third Congresses, thus
serving five fnl1 terms He leaves a widow
and four children, the. eldest just grown
ana the youngest child of eight.
Henri Hoylyn Hayter.
MELBOURNE, March 24-Henri Hoy1yn
Hayter c. M. c., the distinguished statis-
tician, died to-day. He was seventy-four
years old.
Mr.. Hayter was born at Edenvale, Wilt
shire, England, in October, 1921. He emil
grated to Australia in 1852, and in 1857
Joined the department of the Registrar
general where he was for many years at
the head of the statistical branch. While
in this position he brought the official sta
tistics of Victoria to a high state of per-
fection. In May, 1874 the statistical branch,
over which Mr.. Hayter presided, was crea-
ted into separate branch. Soon after he
assumed the office of government statis-
tician he originated the work by which he
is best known, the Victoria Year Book"
of which he was the editor at the time of
his death. He was the author of Notes of
Tour in New Zealand Notes in the
Colony of Victoria" volume. of poems.
many papers and numerous other works.
He was a member of the Statistical Asso-
citation of Boston, Mass and many other
scie entific, statistical and geographical as
sociations. In July, 1882, he was created
an officer of the French Order of Public
Instruction, and in June 1884, chevaler
of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Gen. Walter w. Greenland.
PITTSBURG, Pa, March 24.-General
of Pennsylvania, died at 1890 o'clock last
night, at his home at Clarion, Pa, after
lingering illness. The funeral will take
place Wednesday at 10:30 a.
General Greenland was Acknowledgement
under Governor Pattison during his last
term. Previous to that appointment he was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the National
Guard In the last campaign he was de-
feated for the office of Secretary of Internal
Affairs. He was well known throughout the
State politically and was very popular. He
was a Scottish Rite and thirty-second-de-
gree Mason and Knight Templar. A wife
and three children survive him.
Captain BcIIafrs, WeII-Known Editor.
ST. LOUIS, March 24.-Capt. Clement W.
Bellairs, well known throughout the coun-
try as a sporting editor, died here to-day at
the age of fifty-two.
Other Deaths.
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