The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-07

Hen. n =. Haraing.

COTTAGE GROVE. Or. June e.-Hon. B.
F. Harding. .ex United states senator LIvaI
Oregon. was stricken with paxaIysaS yss s,n.
was elected to the United States senate IN
1850 as a Douglas Democrat TO MI the va
cancy caused by the death OF GsL q. -.
Baker. who was killed al naAs 0tan.
BENJAMIN F. Harding was born In Wyo.
ming county. Pa January 4 lSS5: studied
70 iIsino.s in lssS ana the following year to
Oregon: In 1850 was chosen e member OF
the legislative assembly. In lsai was cniss
clerk Of the legislative asssmniy In "a;
made speaker. in 1853 he was appointed by
{ President Pierce United States district ~.
torney for Oregon; In ls6& was appointed
secretary OF the territory. which once ne
held until the state was admitted into the
Union. From 1853 until 1852 he was mem /.
Der OF the state legislature. serving the
last two years as speaker. and in lsS! ne
Oregon, taking his seat during the third
session Of the Thirty seventh congress.
Hen. Frederick o. Prince.
BOSTON, June 6-Hon. Frederick O.
Prince, widely known as = lawyer and
politician. died at his home today from
Frederick o. Prince was born in Boston
January H. 1873 graduated from Harvard
in 1888. was admitted to the Suffolk bar In
$50.
In early life he allied himself with the
whig party. and upon the disruption OF
that party transferred his allegiance to the
Democratic party and was elected a dele
gate to the Charleston convention OF that
year and cast his lot with the Baltimore
division which nominated stephen A.
Douglas for president OF the United States.
He was secretary OF the national comittee
from 1850 to 1865. He was elected mayor of
Boston In 1856 by the Democrats and twice
reelected In 1896 he was candidate for
governor of Massachusetts, on the gold
Vtalxn IN 1uoV a rid uy1A
Gladys Van Horn.
Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
ROSLYN June S-Gladys Van Horn, the
5-year-old daughter OF Mrs. Van Horn. OF
Seattle. died this evening at o'clock
Mrs. Van Horn came here two weeks ago
ard the child took sick soon after her
arrival with spinal meningitis OF the brain.
from which she died. The body Will co
sent home TO Seattle for burial. Her
California
Mrs. David Darman.
Special Dispatch to the Post -Intelligencer.
COLvILLE, June 6.-This city is much
saddened by the death last evening at
Portland Of Mrs. F. Barman. wife OF Da
vid Barman. leading merchant.
Mrs. Barman has suffered severely during
the past eight months from = cancer. An
operation during the early stages OF the
disease gave hopes Of ultimate recovery:
malignant form. and slowly life passed into
death.
Thomas w. GlaAoIm.
Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer
NANA1MO. B. c., June e.-Thomas w.
Glaholm. Of A. r. Johnson & Co., whole.
sale merchants and shipping agents, died
here suddenly this morning from heart
affection. He was one of Nanaimo's fore-
most and wealthiest business men. He
We, 55 years old. Among his family Is
Mrs. William Sloan wife of William Sloan
Of Klondike fame.
Robert Wallace, n. r.
LONDON. June 6.-Mr Robert Wallace,
Eiinhmrsh Who while speakinr during she
debate on the grant 10 Gen. Kitchener OF
Khartoum was seized with cerebral par
aiysiS is dead.