People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — EX-PREMIER MERCIER DEAD. [ARTICLE]

EX-PREMIER MERCIER DEAD.

After a Lingering Illnest He Passes Away at Montreal. Montreal, Can., Oct. 31..—Ex-Pre-mier Mercier died at 9:10 Tuesday morning. [Honore Mercier was born In St. Athanase, Que., October 15, 1840. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1867. He was editor of Le Courrier de St. Hyacinthe from 1862 till 1864, and also in 1866, and, after sitting in the dominion parliament for Rouvllle from 1872 to 1874, was elected to the legislative assembly of Quebec as solicitor general in the Joly government in May, 1879, and held this portfolio till the resignation of the government in October of the same year. He was reelected in 1881 by acclamation, and again in. December. 1886, and, on the resignation of the Taillon administration, formed an administration and became attorney general in January, 1887. During his term of office he became involved in the scandal caused by the Quebec harbor improvements and was impeached for malfeasance in office. He was acquitted, however, though several of his intimate associates were found guilty and heavily punished. Since that time he has remained out of politics.]