People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Charles Gayarre, historian and litterateur, u ho introduced the culture of Indigo and sugar cane into died at New Orleans, aged 90 years. Montgomery Corse, who was brigadier general in the confederate army, died at Alexandria, Va. He was 79 years old. Judge Charles I. Walker, one of Detrdlt’s most learned and distinguished men, died at Flint. He was in his 81st year. Mgr. May, vicar general of the Long Island diocese of the Roman Catholic church, died at his residence in Brooklyn. Seth T. Sawyer died at Alton, He was 88 years old and had been a practitioner before the Illinois bar for more than fifty years. A eulogy of. Isaac M. Turner was delivered try his widow at the funeral at Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Nancy Drew, mother of Charles Drew, the actor, dropped dead with paralysis of the heart at Massillon, Ohio. Mary Regina Holl, daughter of Princess Marie Regina of Spain, Is dead at the Hawaiian village of Koolausla. John L. Lathrop, general auditor of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, died at his home in Chicago, aged 76. John Leavitt Stevens, ex-minister from the United States to Hawaii, died at his home in Augusta, Maine, aged 75 years. George W. Van Horne, editor of the News-Tribune and postmaster at Muscatine, lowa, is dead, aged 61 years. H. B. Rowlson, formerly of the Michigan legislature, died of heart disease at Mobile, Ala., where he was spending the winte. An attack on the economical policy nf the estate administration was mu . / 'the special committee of the iii.. house which investigated the . . i asylum. In the Wyoming senate Mr. Ihiut made an attack on Judge Blake i was given the lie by Mr. McGill. Charles W. Copeland, who built the first iron hull in the United States, died at Brooklyn. He was 80 years old. John Trumbull, who was the first manufacturer of silks in the United States, died at Caledonia, Wls., aged 79.