Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-31
DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK.
Some of the Most Celebrated Persons
Called AWAY in 1905

President William Rainey Harper of Chi
cago University deaths first celebrated
victim. His fight for life against cancer
| had aroused the sympathy OF all classes
and his final defeat came January 10 He
iacKed year OF 30 Six days later came
the death OF Marshal Field of Chicago mer-
chant prince at 20. On the 25th General
Joseph Wheeler aged 90. veteran of the
civil and the Spanish wars. died.
February's record included John A. Nc
Call. former president of the New York
York Life Insurance Company. 81. on Feb
, ruary IS: David b. henderson former
Speaker of the House OF Representatives,
g. on February %. and Prof Samuel P
Langley OF the Smithsonian Institution. ~.
on February %
In March the list was longer Former
Gov James s. Hogg of Texas. 30. on the
3D.: Lieut. Gen. John NJ. Schofield a. at
New York on the 4th: Eugen Richter IS;
radical leader In the German reichstag on
the 10th; Aunt Susan b. Anthony, Sc on
the 18th, and Gen. John NJ Thayer, S6
civil war veteran. former governor of Ne
braska and United States senator. on the
10Th.
Eastman Johnson eminent portrait paint
er. was the first to be called In April. at
the age of 81. on the 5th. On the 10th Prof
Nathaniel s. Shaler of Harvard. ~. was
called away. On the 18th James A. Bailey
%. circus man, died Unexpectedly On the
18th Daniel Huntington, American paint
er, died at 80. On the 10Th Pierre Curie.
AZ, with his wife joint discoverer of radium
was killed by a truck on the street Tho
months mortuary list closed with the
death of John DAILY, turfman. aged IS. on
the 26th
Mays dead were not less distinguished
Carl Schurz. who died on the 18th. aged
Il, was first on the list. George f Nc
Neill of Boston, father of the eight hour
movement. died on the 18th. aged 60. On
the I'D Henrick Ibsen passed away at TS
On the Both Michael Davitt was called at
the age of GO
In June the eminent dead were Arthur
Pue German, 81. of Maryland, 4th: Richard
John Seldom, g. of New Zealand. 10th:
Robert B. Roosevelt. a. uncle of the Pres
ident on the 18th. and Capt. Hank Haff
TO- celebrated yacht skipper. on the Both.
Samuel Garcia, inventor of the laryngo-
scope, died July 1. at the great age of 101;
Henry A. Ward, the eminent naturalist In
| Chicago, at ~. on July 4; Alfred Belt.
South African diamond millionaire in Lon
don, on July 1G, at 53; two days later Lady
Curzon, T,ourned by the entire English
speaking race: Russell Sage. July %. aged
30; John Lawrence Toole, English
dian. at 16, on July 30 Mrs Pearl Cragie
C.John Oliver Hobbes'D. who died on Au-
gust IL, at 80, was deaths best-known
victim in that month.
Hermann Oelrchs. &c. of California and
New York. died September 1: Daniel ODay.
CO, Standard Oil '-magnate,'' on September
Is; Gen. Dimitri Theodorovich Trepov. d.
September 10, in his bed, despite the threats
of the Russian revolutionists to kill him.
Representative Robert r. Hit of Illinois.
%. passed away September 20. and Gen
James c. Hill, confederate 90, September
81.
These were the deaths in October: On
the 9th. Archbishop Bond of the Anglican
Church, primate of all Canada. aged 81:
on the same day, Adelaide Ristori. Italian
actress, aged 80: on the 10th. Mrs. jefferson
Davis. aged 80. and, the 31st. Judge
Joseph E. Gary of Illinois. aged So.
lockwood Hoar of Massachusetts, rep
resentative in Congress and son of the late
George Frisbie Hoar, died November /, at
81; Maj. Gen. w. r. Shafter, who led the
Santiago campaign in Cuba. November u.
at Il; Mrs, Margaret Bottome founder and
president of the Kings Daughters, No
vember a. at 20.