The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-02
Deaths Harvest in 1912

past year includes James s. Sherman,
Vice President of the United States;
Gen. Cincinnatus Leconte. President
of Hayti; Alexandra Lopez de Romano,
ex-President of Peru; Ramon Corral
formerly Vice-President of Mexico;
Lieut.. Gen. Sir Frederick w. Kitch-
ener, Governor of Bermuda; Alloys l.
Count Lexa Won Aehrenthal premier
of Austria-Hungary; Jose Canalejas
Mendes, prime minister of Spain; DR..
NJ. G. Milovanovich, prime minister OF
Servia: Count Holstein-Ledreberg for
mer prime minister of Denmark; Ar
thur Wellesley Peel, Viscount Peel,
formerly Speaker of the House of Com
mons; Henri Brisson, formerly presi-
dent of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties George Coulon, vice-president of
the French Council of States; Gen.
Shiaroku Ishimoto, the japanese MIN
lister of war; Henry Labouchere, the
British statesman and journalist; Au-
guste Marie Francois Beernaert, the
Belgian statesman; Viscount Ouro Pre-
to and Dr. ]. NJ. da S. Paranhos, Baron
de Rio Branco, two noted Brazilian
statesmen and Gen. John Wilcox No
BILE, Secretary of the interior under
Harrison.
Unusually great was the mortality
among former governors of American
States. The list of the victims in
cludes Henry B. Cleaves and Frederick
ROBBIE of Maine William A. Richards
and John w. Hoyt, of Wyoming;
James D. Porter, of Tennessee; Austin
L. Crothers, of Maryland; William
Larrabee, of Iowa. John Fremont Hill,
of Vermont; Royal Chaplin Taft, of
Rhode Island; Gen. Francis T. Mich
oils of Louisiana, and Charles B, Ay-
cock, of North Carolina.
The United States Senate lost four
members by death during the year,
Senators Isidor Rayner, of Maryland;
Robert Love Taylor, of Tennessee;
George Stuart Nixon, of Nevada and
Weldon B. Hepburn, of Idaho; also
the following former members: An
thony Higgins, of Delaware; William
d. Washburn, of Minnesota; fernando
De Soto Money, of Mississippi; John
J. Patterson, of South Carolina; Will
liam A. PETER, of Kansas, the founder
of the Populist party; John Percival
Jones, of Nevada; Col; James Gordon,
of Mississippi; John L. Wilson, of
Washington; Gen. Henry H. Bingham,
Of Pennsylvania, the Father of the
House of Representatives; Congress
man Geo. H. Utter, of Rhode Island;
George R. Malby of New York and for
mer Congressman Leonidas F. Living
ston, of Georgia; George N. South
wick, of New York, and many others.
Among men of affairs, capitalists,
heads of great corporations and repre-
of commerce and industry
was unusually great during
the past year. At the head Of the list
are Col. John Jacob Aston and 81
Julius Charles Wernher, the head c
The De Beers Diamond Syndicate
others are Frank Stuart Bond, forme
president of the Philadelphia & Reat
ng r. r.; Edwin Hawley, Charles FL
1ey Cox, James T. Harahan, form
president of the Illinois Central ran
'oad; Lord Christopher Furness, the
British, shipbuilder, Samuel H. Cramp,
'ormer head of the Cramp Shipbuild-
ng concern; Emil L. Boas, Americana
'esident director of the Hamburg1
American Steamship Co.; Gustav H
the noted steamship official |
saac N. Perry, of Chicago; .Ernstt
Thalman ond Donald Mackay, of New
York, bankers; William c. Clark,
bread manufacturer, Newark, N. u
Amory A. Lawrence, cotton manual e.
urer; Henry S. Dickinson, paper maIn-
Ifacturer; Matthew Chaloner DurfIe
Borden, cotton goods manufactureIr;
;amuel NJ Bixby, manufacturer OF
hoe polishes; three noted merchant u.s.
sidor Straus and John Arbuckle OF
Jew York and Simon Mandel of Obi
ago; and many others.