Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OBITUARY.

Death at New York of John Roach, the Well-Known Ship- ’ Builder. Alice Oates, the Comic Opera Singer, Passes Away After a Long Illness. Judge Rogers, of Chicago, Stricken Down While Standing in a Dry-Goods Store. John Roach. [New York telegram.] John Roach, the great ship-builder, died in this city on Monday morning. Mr. Roach was in great pain from the cancerous growth with which he suffered, and he was kept under the influence of morphine. He had brief intervals of consciousness, during which he spoke to his son Garrett, who was constant in his attendance at the bedside. Only a few intimate friends of the family were admitted to the house, and nobody

other than the nurses and the physicians were allowed to see the patient. The dying man sank rapidly, and when he passed away it was without a struggle. At his bedside were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. McPherson, of Philadelphia, John B. Roach, Garrett N. Roach, Stephen W. Roach, Miss Emetine Roach, John Walton, a nephew, Mrs. Roach, and three grandchildren. John Roach was born in County Cork, Ireland, but was reared in America in the city of New York. Prior to his. starting in business on his own account he was a common workman in the Allaire works. At this place he soon advanced himself through his adaptability to business to the position of foreman, after which he established himself with a very small capital, but his old employers' recommendations assisted him to a moderate credit, and his natural force soon gave him prominence. In 18 >7 he was able to purchase the Morgan Iron Works for about 1400,030 and in 1868 the Neptune works for $150,000, and two years later the Franklin forge for $125,C00, and also a large property at Chester, Pa , where he subsequently put in operation the extensive works known as the Delaware River Iron ShipBuilding and Engine Works, of which corporation Mr. Roach was the President and owner. He was the builder of numbers of vessels for the United States Government, having been given the contract for the ships Dolphin, Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago. The Boston was finished in August, 1886, and the unfortunate Dolphin—which caused John Roach so much trouble by having been rejected under the Cleveland administration—was at last transferred to the Government through negotiations between Mr. Roach and Secretary Whitney.

Alice Oates. [Philadelphia dispatch.] Alice Oates, the well-known comic-opera singer, died at the residence of her husband, in this city, on Monday. Sbe had wasted away

greatly under a painful complication of diseases, and death came as a welcome relief. She was born in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1849, and her family name was Merritt. Her education was begun , in her native town and . continued at Terre Haute, Ind. In 1865 >she married James A. •Gates, leading man at I WoodJs Theater in Cincinnati. Alice Oates first appeared on the stage in Chicago in

Alice oates in 1870. It 6), when she was 20 years of age. Her voice gained her the part of Earl Darnley -in the burlesque of “The Field of the Cloth of Gold.” Her success was instantaneous, and after the first week she was billed as a star. She played a long time in Chicago without a

cnange of bill, and then brought' the burlesque to this city, where it ran at the Chestnut Street Theater over two hundred nights. This was her first and last appearance in burlesque. Afterward she devoted her talents to comic opera. Her husband died of consumption in 18Z0, and in 1872 the widow married* Tracy W. Titus, from’’ whpm, however, she was soon divorced. Mrs. Oates’ sang and acted with sue-*;

cess in New York, Alice oatf.s in 1886. and all over the United States. She became best known through her performance in connection with the Oates Comic Opera Company, of which she was both directress and prima donna.

John G. Bogers. [Chicago speciaL] John G. Rogers, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County, fell dead in a dry goods store on State street Monday. Up to that moment he appeared to be in perfect health.

The. announcement of his sudden demise was painful to the community where the deceased Jurist has lived for many years and where ho won hosts of warm friends and admirers >

The bal oting to-day for U. S Senator resulted the same as heretofore: For Turpie, 75 For Harrison, 71 For Allen, 4 We trust our Democratic Senators will remain firm, to adjournment if need be.

Our State Constitution provides for “the election of a Governor and Lieutenant Governor at the same time, and provides that their term of office shall be for four years; and provides that the offic’a term of the Governor and Lieuten-ant-Governor shali commence on the second Monday in J nuarv’ 1853, and on the same day every fourth year thereafter. * * * There is no provision in the Constitution for the election of a Governor or a Lioutenant-Gavernor to fill an unexpired term in that office. * * * The Constitution provides that he shall be elected for a particular term, beginning at a specified time, and to last for four years. It does not provide for his election for any shorter period/’ says Judge Ayres, in his ruling against the republican Rober(t)son. v Ve suggest the incorporation of the quoted points into “Thompson’s Digest of qlie Constitution” as printed in the Republican organs of this place—the “Republican” and “Message”— this week.

Kentland Gazette: The ground upon which Mr. Meaghe r was unseated was that of his ineligibility, by reason of an election to the office of justice of the peace. The Constitution of the State provides that no person elected to a judicial office shall be elected to any other office during the term for which he was elected.” The office of justice of the peace to which Mr. Meagher was elected was a myth—had been abolished, and no opportunity was afforded him to enter upon its duties. Judge Laßue, of the Tippecanoe Common Pleas, served for some years when that Court was abolished. He was elected a republican Sedator, and odmitted to that body, although the term for which he had been elected to a judicial office had not expir d.— tie was seated on the proposition that the abolishment of the Court clo >ed the term for which he had been elected. What Was sauce for Judge Laßue should be sauce for Mr. Meagher. The Republican members of the House care nothing about what “the Constitution of the State provides;” their object in unseating Meagher was to steal the United States Senator.— Prompt retaliation by the Senate quickly put a stop to that proceeding. J udge Turpie will undoubtedly be the successor of Ben Harrison* and will be a vast improvement. Let the thieves who were CDgln<'orin.g the stc-’l continue { bowl ;