Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-09

special agent in charge OF the rural
mail route service OF the Denver
division, died at Phoenix, Ari. He
leaves a widow and two children.
For years Mr.. Amin was one of the
most brilliant newspaper men of the
congressional gallery at Washington.
William n. Byers, who died in
Denver, was one of the foremost of
the pioneers of Colorado. He was
for many years identified with the
publication of the Rocky Mountain
News, having been from its start,
April %, 1859, until the summer of
1878 it's editor in chief
Gustavus f. Swift, head of the
Swift e Co. packing industries, died
suddenly in Chicago, aged GA years.
He was the originator of the present
system of preparing and marketing
dressed meats and was a multi
millionaire. In 1899 he was born at
Sandwich, Mass.
DR.. Walter S. Leaning, postmaster
Of Cape May, N. j., died, aged 40
years. DR.. Leaning was a member
Of the New Jersey assembly in 1908
and state senator for the three years
following, and was three years presl-
dent of the city council and one year
city treasurer. He was a son of ex
Senator Jonathan F. Leaning.
The executors of the estate of Ed
ward r. Hunt Of Brooklyn began an &C
! tion to recover the estate of 1925 900
which Hunt had deposited with life
insurance company to buy an annual
| income to himself from the company
of $17,154 Five months after the
transaction, Hunt, who was 81 years
old. died
I William V. Mexican of Philadel-
phia, who for nearly thirty years
was editor in chief of the Public
Ledger, died at the age of SO. He
took up newspaper work in Ioov,
when he became associate editor
with John w. Forney on the Penn.
sylvanian. He served as secretary to
James Buchanan pending the latter's
election to the presidency.
Samuel f. Spyker. a member of the
Huntington county (Pa) bar. was ar
rested on complaint of Special Bank
Examiner Walter e. Mason, on the
charge of being jointly connected with
Vice President George B. White, who
is now held on the charge of wrecking
the National Bank of South Pennsyl.
vania, at Hyndmar, Bedford county.
ton Inb n CtgLVnn1tn,
the residence of his son-in-law, John
Druecker, in Chicago. Major Schroe-
ing was a prominent citizen of Wis
COnsn before the war He was
resident of Port Washington. His
military service was in the third Wis
consn cavalry, OF which the late
Governor William A. Barstow was
colonel. His death occurred in his
eighty eighth year.
Samuel Dexter Hastings, a we'll
known reformer and philanthropist,
died at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. Il. II. Hobart, in Evanston, ii.
! The funeral took place at the home
of his son in Green Bay. Mr.. Hast
| ings was born III 1916 in Leicester,
Mass, of revolutionary ancestors. He
removed to Philadelphia in 1880,
where he cooperated with William
| Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips,
Gerrett Smith and John G. Whittier
! in the antislavery agitation and be-
came one Of the founders of the
liberty party. In 1916 he removed to
Wisconsin and became public man
of much prominence. Among the
positions he held there were those OF
! justice of the peace, town supervisor,
county supervisor, member of the
| Legislature, state treasurer, secretary
OF state, member of the state board
of charities, trustee of the state
hospital for the insane, curator of
the state historical society and
treasurer of the Academy of Science.
He was also prominent in the Con
grcgatiOnal denomination as presi-
| dent of the state convention and
moderator of the triennial convention.
He was for some time the head of the
independent Order of Good Templars,
and in organizing that society he
crossed the Atlantic several times
and lived two years in Australia Mr..
Hastings was married Aug. l, 1887,
i to Miss Margaretta Shubert of Phila-
delphia, who survives him as do also
their three children Samuel d. Hast
ings, Jro Judge of the fourteenth
4 judicial circuit of Wisconsin; Mrs.
Emma NJ. Hobart, wife of Horace r.
Hobart, vice president Of the Rail
! way Age, and Mrs. Florence l.. Hoyt
wife of Henry w. Hoyt, vice presi-
dent of the Allis-Chalmers company.