The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17

ueht OIL san Domingo, was shot, even
as he himself at once made way with
llcreauN, his predecessor in office,
while assassins have also reached
Prince Troubctskoi. the Russian sclup-
High Court of Finland; SAM ell Dow
lch. Persiu's Finance Minister; the
korcan Prince, Tchin Pomil, former
iy minister to Russia, and David Ora
ham Phillips. one OF the most promi-
ncnt OF Americas younger novclists,
whose murder in II New York thorough.
fare in l9li's opening weeks. was one
oil the sensations OF the twclvcmonth III.
With dark death and dread disas-
ter still III mind, literature has lost
TOO. l.. V. MiShcls. OF "Briivvcr Jim's
Baby" fame, who died In October OF a
Sunshot wound. accidcntly sclft-in-
iiictcd, ard Myrtle Reed" tMts J. s.
Mccuiloush). one of the most widely
read OF our tnlc- tcllcrs who commit
ted suicide in the late summer.
Another who called In death with
welcoming hand" was the octogcnar-
ian, Rcar-Admiral Taylor. L. S. n.
John Jobson the millionaire car
pct manufacturer. died Of n fall in his
u,
OF Canada's supreme Court wns
thrown from his carriage and fatally
injured. The French Minister of War,
iicnri HcrtcauX, was killed in March
during an acroplanc meet near Paris.
when one of the aerial machines
swcoped suddenly into tho group OIL
official Observers. and the war in Trip
oil has cost the life OF the Duke Zazi-
oil. ono Of Itnly's most prominent COM
!ns publicists and patriots.
Newcomers md NonnEcnurious
At Twenty-Five this captain of King
Nictors forces was the youngest of
all included in this record. though on
ly couple Of years his senior was sir
Ram Singh l.okindar. AIahuraiah OF
Dholpur. an extremely talented and en-
llghicned overload of one of Indiu's
! Oldest native states. Ills death in
April was preceded barely fortnight
by the demise Of yet another OF the
great Asiatic pcninsula's European-
trained young princes. the Mahara in h
of Jodhpur, whose Rajpu, inheritance
was larger than tho State of Maine
With Il population OF wcll-nigh 2,0OO,-
O4G
or equal years with this last thirty
one, was J. \. Miskcy. the American
racquet champion. and Mrs. Katherine
Cecil Thurston, the talented Irish story
writer, whose The Masqucrcadcr" ana
1 The Gambler long stood with the
| hes, sellers" Just entering their
| fourth decade were Eugene Rovcric
the French sculptor: Jennie Joyce. tho
American coincidence, who. II score ar
! years ago. WAS hold the most bcauti-
! inl Slrl on our stage: and Vaughan
| iNcSter. novelist ana drumatist who
| lived long enough 10 hear Of the i'm
lnehse success which had greeted his
| The rro'i,,ni Judge"
| NJ IN" other extreme in tho matter
/ OF age, the neurology includes an even
! dozen win" had rcaclIcd TO ninety dc
! Gr""s north" or more:
A%ci HS--lsaac IIcrn; q real Rom
any hela as king of all Ciypsics."
F.! ASed 99--C harios Louis Grata. the
| Trench pnsteiist
AGED 9G--J, G Hepburn. rresby.
/ terrain missionary in the Far East.
AGED Iiipnilytc GARNER. the
f"r'stan Publisher and philanthropis,.
ASed - William Webster, dean II
American Observation-Disclosures
Aged 9.-Alon1o steele. last survivor
Of the battle OF san Jaclnto,
Aged 9@--Frank Work. the American
horseman.
Asod a2--Thomos Rupert Jones, the
English palneontologist.
Aged ?2-Robert Gregory, dean of
st. Pcul's Cathedral. London.
Aged @2-JotiE Townsend. of the
New YORK. bar.
AGED 5i-Gcneral Sir Frederick
Stephenson. veteran of the Crimea.
Aged 9o-FclX Elem. the Fccnch
painter of Venetian scenes.
Within month or so OF this same
Pier No. 90 were the German chem
ist. Jacob II. van Hoff. winner of ono
of the Nobel prizes In 1901. and Sir
Francis Cation. the British investipn
tor and author. whose fame for
, thoronEhncss, precision. human INFER.
: est and value is not less than world
: wide.
Gnps In Every Calling.
: Not one OF lies callings bu; mas
$ seen gaps made IN The ranks Of those
n noteworthy !uborors who have cor:
: iributcd 50 well 10 It's manilcid end.