Evening star., 1908-01-10
SOME NOTABLE DEATHS.

RICHMOND, Va. January lO-Maj
Thomas L. Courtney. aged eighty years
for some time superintendent of re Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road. died at his home here yeste rday
morning. He retired from active service
many years ago and was pensioned by the
railroad for faithful services. For twenty
years he was an officer in the Grand
Lodge. Knights of Pythias.
NEW YORK. January 1O-samuel Car
penter. seventy-one years old, died -ues-
day night. He was employed by the Penn
sylvania railroad forty-niEe years and
was eastern passenger agent at New
York for more than thirty years. He
retired from service in December, 1906. He
was native of Philadelphia.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, January 1O.-Capt.
Daniel Ellis. seventy-nine years old, the
celebrated Union scout of Last Tennessee.
is dead at his home near Elizabethton,
Tenn. The Confederacy set a price on his
head. but he succeeded in plotting thou
sands of East Tennesseeans and western
ate lines into Kentucky, where they join
ed Union regiments. He was also vet
eran of the Mexican war.
AMHERST. Mass, January 1O-Dr Au-
gustuS Armagnac, head of the departme
Of modern languages at the Massachu-
setts Agricultural College. died Wednes-
day of apoplexy while seated at his desk
in recitation room. He was sixty-eight
years old. He was native of Haiti and
was graduated from Princeton in 1851.
BALTIMORE, January 10-Fuller Wa
ters. a prominent resident of west Balti-
more. who for q. number Of years took an
active part in republican politics in this
city, died at his home. 1915 West Lom-
bard street. Wednesday in the f1fty-fourth
year of his age. Death was due to pa
ralysis. from which Mr.. Waters had been
He was born in Carroll county. Nd. and
received his education at Western Mary
land College. Westminster.
KEYSER. w. Va, January 10.-P X
Smith. eighty three years old, a retired
merchant OF keySer. died at his home
Wednesday. He worked many years for
the B. and o. railroad. Mr.. Smith was
Union veteran. He was twice married,
and is survived by his second wife and
two sons.
RICHMOND, Va, January 1O.-Dr.
George l.. Stone, one of the beSt-known
homeopathic physicians of Richmond who
had been i'll several months, died yester-
day afternoon. DR.. Stone was about sixty
three years old. He leaves a widow. but
no children. He came to Richmond about
twenty-six years ago. He was regarded
JS tne OlucSt homeopathic pHy SlCidH III
point of service in the city. He was
graduate of the University of Michigan.
YORK, Pa, January l0.-While feeding
his horse Wednesday William B. Bashpre,
father of the proprietor of the Grand Ho-
ell this city, was stricken with heart
failure and died. He was fifty nine years
old and at one time owned the Pennsyl-
vania House here.
YORK Pa. January 1O-Col. r. W.
Drenning of Wrightsville. York county,
died yesterday of erysipelas. He was
colonel on the staff of the commander of
the Department of Pennsylvania, G. A.
r.. and was twice chief burgess of
Wrightsville.
NEW YORK January 10.-Cyrus j.
Lawrence aged seventysix years, Of the
banking firm OF Cyrus ]. Lawrence & Son
and vice president OF the Bush Terminal
Company, died yesterday. He was di-
rector of the New York. Susquehanna and
Western railroad.