The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09
OBITUARY.


manufacturer. who for several years had
been identified with horse breeding inter-
ests of the country, died yesterday at his
home % West Seventy-second Street. New
York. from the effects of a surgical opera
tion performed on Saturday to remove an
abscess behind his left ear. He was fifty
two years old. He was a director in the
| Trust Company of America and had hold
1 insS in many corporations. Recently he
| had been interested with ex-senator Mil
Ter and John w. Maclxay in mining invest
ments in South America, Mexico, Cali
fornia, Montana, Arizona and Canada
He had owned Autograph, 2:16ls; Robert
McGregor. 2:1715; Delmar, 2:1sa. and Di-
rectum, 2:O5A, the champion stallion, at
present the head of the stud Mr.. Spier
WIS the owner of Suburban Farm, GIens
Falls. and for several years had bred
light harness horses there, spending thou
sands of dollars every year to crafty his
tastes in that direction.
The Rev. Charles C. Griffith, pastor OF
the Church OF the Ascension, Baltimore,
died yesterday from blood poisoning. He
was a native of Franklin County, Va,
where he was born forty-fve years ago.
He graduated in 1885 from the Philadel-
phia Divinity School. His first charge
was at EpiPfi5fny Protestant Episcopal
Church in Washington. as assistant to
the Rev. DIR. Paret, now Bishop Paret.
He leaves widow and six children-four
sons and two daughters. Mrs. Griffith
vas Miss Clara Greble. a daughter of
the late Gen. John GrebIe the first Union
officer killed in the civil war. He is sur
vived only by two brothers and one sister.
The latter is Miss Leonora Griffith. His
hrskF harS no aN~ frk Low
assistant rector at Holy Trinity Protest
ant Episcopal Church. Philadelphia, and
the Rev. ii. Allen Griffith, assistant rector
at the Church OF the Ascension in this
city.
Horace Candee died at his home in SYRIA
cuse yesterday at the age of seventy
three years. Mr.. Candee was represent
tative citizen of Syracuse. having lived
there from the time he attained his ma
iority. When only twenty-five years old
he became a contractor and took on his
own account the contract for the con-
struction of five miles of the main line
of the New York Central Railroad. Later
with his brother Daniel he built ten miles
of the Binghamton road now the Lacka-
wanna, and in the early seventies built
the third and fourth, or freight tracks.
OF the Central for distance of thirty
miles east from Rome, N. Y. He was
Republican in politics, and in 1871 was APP
pointed by President Grant internal reve-
nue. collector for the Northern district of
New York. He leaves widow.
Richard ]. Newman, Familiarity known
as Dick Newman, one of the old time
Democratic politicians in Brooklyn, N
Y, died on Monday at his home in Brook
lyn in his sixty-eighth year. He was
born in Halifax and coming to this coun-
rN- Wit xr-Ha
in Brooklyn He became a Democratic
leader in the Ninth ward and after serv-
ing four successive terms as supervisor
was sent to Albany for four years in sue
cession as Assemblyman. All through his
political career he never wavered in his
fidelity to Hugh Mclaughlin and he was
rewarded by the latter b. being anchored
in the closing years OF his life in an office
in the county court. He leaves a son and
three daughters.
a cable despatch from Paris announces
the death in that city of Gen. Mariana
Ignacio Prado, ex-President of Peru. He
was seventy-fve years old. General Pra-
do served as chief executive of the South
American Republic from 1874 to 1878. He
was sick when he visited New York eight
months ago and went to Paris to be treat
ed. General Prado was distinguished
more for his valor than for his statesman
ship. The greater part of his life was de-
voted to the army, which he eutered-as u
private He died wealthy man. He leaves
a widow. five sons, and two daughters.
One Of his sons, Xavier Prado. left New
York for Paris two weeks ago in answer
to summons from his father.
Mrs. J. Young Scammon died at her
home in Chicago on Sunday evening at an
advanced age. Death was from heart dis
ease She took great interest in educa-
tional affairs and it was said that the
members of the Board Of Education often
went to her for consultation. Her hus-
band died in Chicago in 1890 at the age OF
seventy-twO years, after having been
identified with the city and its develop
ment since 1895. He was lawyer and
He worked assiduously
on the establishment of the first railroad
projected west of Lake Michigan, the Ga
lena and Chicago Union Railway.
Annie NJ Cummings. of Chautauqua,
n. Y, Secretary of the Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. died at the home of her brother
in indianapolis yesterday. She overtaxed
her strength Mt the annual meeting of the
society in Chicago in November and
started to California TO spend the winter.
but was taken ill on the way and was
brought back to Indianapolis.
Evan Williams, who has been identified
with the management of the Comstocll
mines of Nevada for thirty years, is dead
in San Francisco, where he went to
secure medical aid. Williams was asso-
ciated with Senator Jones' of Nevada in
the Crown Point mine for years and later
had charge of the Nevada and Mexicon.
mills.