Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
SOME NOTABLE DEATHS.


OTTAWA. February 2o.-William Henry
Dewey, relative of Admiral George
Dewey died at his home at London, Ont.
Thursday. aged seventy-nine. Mr.. Dewey
father. William Dewey of London. Eng
| land. was first cousin of George Dewey
father OF Admiral Dewey
STANFORD. Conn.,. February %
Dwight Waugh a thirty second degree
Mason. and former official in the town and
borough government of Stamford. died
| Thursday of pneumonia in his seventy
seventh year. He had been through all
| the chairs in the Grand Lodge and chapter
and Grand Council of the Masonic order
HARLOTTESVILLE. Va. February
2-.-Capt. ]. Henry Rives. former chair
man of the state republican committee
and i'm 1872 candidate for. Congress. died in
New York. where he was on visit to his
daughter. Mrs. Francis Lee Stuart. Capt.
Rives was seventy-four years of age. He
| was born at Redlands, near Carriers
Bridge.
NEW YORK. February 22-George AL
fred Shaw who died in this city on Mon
day. after short illness from nephritis
was well known in newspaper circles.
having in journalistic career of over
cipal dalies of New York He was sixty
seven years old and was born in London.
PARIS, February 22.-Marquis Saliva
tore de Castrone. husband OF Mathlde
Marchesi. died Thursday. He was eighty
two years old and was d co-worker with
Garibaldi and sacrificed his own consid-
cradle fortune for the cause of Italy. He
was a political refugee and was singing
| under the name of MarcheSi when he mar
| RED the woman who SIIhGeOIcntlv gained
| a worldwide reputation as teacher Of
| singing.
NEW YORK. February oo.-Ex-Police
| Sergeant Thomas ii. Newman, one Of the
guard that conveyed the body of Lincoln
| across Philadelphia when the martyred
| PRESIDENTS remains We're being taken to
their Last resting place in Springfield.
| Ohio. died on Tuesday at his home in
| Tacony. He was born in Flatlands N.
| Y. November =, 1893. and was appointed
by Mayor Henry reserve policeman.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. February 21--
| George A. Robertson. one of the best
known newspaper men in Cleveland died
! Thursday. aged fifty-eight years. He
| served as special home secretary for Gen
! Garfield while he was in Congress, and
also while Garfield was president OF
| Hiram College. He wrote much of the
campaign literature for Garfield in the
latters presidential campaign.
! COLUMBUS, Ga, February o1-Freeman
| Confederate veteran. died at Columbus,
| Gd., Thursday. While working for the
| naval iron works in Columbus during the
| civil war he made the only breech -lead ding
cannon manufactured for the confederacy.
| BALTIMORE, February 2l.--Mrs Vir-
| ginia Duval Atkinson, widow OF Dr. Isaac
! Fdmondson Atkinson, died Thursday of
acute Bright's disease. which developed
last Friday, She survived her husband
| only fifteen months. She was born.
siXty-two years ago in Frederick county
| and the daughter of James Lingar
Hawkins Duval and Rebecca Kemp
| Duval
BALTIMORE. Md. February 21-Prof.
Julius q. Miller. instructor of mathematics
and Latin al the Baltimore City College,
and one of the oldest teachers In the city
by virtue of years Of service. died at his
| home here Thursday. His death was
due to complication of diseases caused
| by general breakdown the result Of over
work. Prof. Miller had most interest
ing career. both as teacher and as a
| soldier in the Confederate army. He
was born in Matthews county. Va, in
1890. He received his education at the
| Virginia Military Academy, at Lexington,
| Va.
BOSTON. February 22-William Fl.
| LapOinte. q well-known hotel man. died
| at his home here yesterday. aged sixty
| eight years. When he retired as manager
| of the Revere House, few months ago,
he had been in the hotel business forty.
| eight years. He was native of Kingston,
Ont. and had been connected with hotels
in Springfield, Mass; New York city and
| Boston.
! BALTIMORE. February 22.-Dr. Robert
D'Unger, who recently died in Chicago,
was at one time a resident of Maryland,
and was brother of the late John D Tn
ger of Catonsville. He completed an in
vention for transmitting by wire pictures.
handwriting or the representation of any
object. He prepared working models OF
his invention. with which he expected to
transmit a picture from Chicago to New
York in half minute. DIR. DUnger was
born in Pennsylvania and came to Balti-
more when young man and began the
practice of medicine. 80