New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-01
DEATHS AND ANNIVERSARIES.

DEATHS AND ANNIVERSARIES.
Among Americans of note who died IN
1909 are Rufus w. Peckham. associ-
ate justice OF the United States Supreme
Court: Ethan Allen Hitchcock. former
Ambassador to Russia and Secretary OF
the Interior; John A. Johnson, Governor
OF Minnesota: William r.. Morrison, long
the leader of the anti-protection FORCES
in the House of Representatives; KEEP
resentative David A. De Almond, OF
Missouri; Senator Anselm j. McLaurin'
Of Mississippi; ex-Senators David 1ur-
ole. William M. Stewart, William "A.
Harris and Matthew c. Butler, Jonn
Goode, Carroll d. Wright. ex-Comriis-
sioner of Labor and Director of the Cen
sus; Lieutenant General Henry C. Cor
bin, Major Generals Oliver Q. Howard
and Elwell S. Otis. Rear Adnirais
George A. Converse and Henry Erben,
the Rev. DIR. George p. Fisher, theo-
Logan; Bishops Charles B. Galloway ana
Daniel C;oodsell, of the Methodist
Church: Bishops Bernard J. McQuaid,
William G. McCloskey and Thomas a.
Hendrick, of the Roman Catholic
Church; Bishop William H. Hare, Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church; in the
world of arts and letters, F. Marion
Crawford, Sarah -Orne Jewett. Henry
Lea, Edward Everett Hale, Richard W.
Glider. Dudley Buck. Clyde Fitch. Fred
eric Remington. Charles r. McKlm ana
Helena Modjeska; in journalism. Alex
ander X Mcclure and William NJ. Lat
fo~ net, ,cY1ln
Heinrich Conried, theatrical and oper-
attic manager; William T. Bull, surgeon;
Henry a. Rogers, Edward II. Hartman.
John S. Kennedy and Spencer Trask,
financiers; Claus spreckels. John II.
Starin, Geronimo. the Apache chief. ana
among New York political leaders John
Raines, Patrick Fl. McCarren and Tim
othy p Sullivan.
The foreign death list for the year
comprises the names of Leopold IL, or
Belgium; Don Carlos, Spain; Manuel
Amador and Jose J. Arrange, Panama;
Alfonso Nj. Penna, Brazil; Manuel
Iglesias, Peru; Prince Ito, Japan: Chang
Chih-tung. China III. o. Arnold-Forster
and Earl Percy, England; Theodor
Barth, Germany; the Marquis de Gallif-
fet, France; Grand Duke Michael
Nicolaievitch and Sinovi p. Rojestven-
sky. Russia, and Pascual Cervera,
Spain The world of letters and art lost
George Meredith, AIgernon c. Swim
burpe. Sir Theodore Martin. Catulle
Mendes, Ernst Won Wildenbruch, En-
manuel Poire c'Caran d'Ache'D. Cesare
Lombroso, Benoit Constant Coquelin, Z.
A. III. Coqueiin and Adolf r. Won Son.
henthal
Memorial celebrations OF interest in
1909 comprised the Alaska Yukon ex-
position at Seattle. the Hudson Fulton
celebration at New York and the Por-
toIa celebration at San Francisco and
the observance of the hundredth birth
day of Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan
Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ra-
pI1ael Semmes.
Notable anniversaries abroad were the
seventeenth centenary of the conquest
Of Caledonia by Severus. the fifteenth
Of the vandal entry into Spain, the
seventh of the massacre of the Abb
genses and of the foundation of the
Franciscan Order, the sixth OF the Papal
flight to Avignon and the conquest or
Rhodes. the fourth of the birth OF CAL
vim (elabora tely ceIebratedl. the third
of the formation Of the Catholic League
in Germany and OF the expulsion OF the
Moriscoes from Spain, the second Of
Malplaquet and of Pultowa, the first
centenary Of the revolt of Hofer, Of
Sara gossa and TalaveIa, of Aspern and
wagram and the peace Of Sch0nprunn,
Of the accommodation of Napoleon
and the arrest of tine Pope, of the di-
vorce Of Josephine. OF the Russian ac-
QUESTION Of Finland, OF the independence
Of Mexico and of Ecuador. Of the death
Of Haydn and OF the births of Darwin,
Tennyson and Gladstone. The year saw
also the semi-centenaries OF Magenta,
Solferino and Villa Franco, of the Rus
sian conquest of the Caucasus, of the
publication of 1.-THE Origin OF Species"
of the blood is thicker than water" cpl
sode In China and of the deaths of Hal
lam, De Tocaueville Humboldt, Meter
Mich, De Quincy and Macaulay.