Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — SUPREME JUDGE DIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUPREME JUDGE DIES.

Justice Howell K. Jackson of Tennessee Passes Away. Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of Nashville, l’enn., at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the C4th year Q.f._Uis._agc, of eonsuinp- - tlon. Judge Jackson was appointed by President Harrison in 1890. He had been in failing health for the last four yenrs, but it has been only in the last eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends Uneasiness. Quite lately he seemed to improve slightly. He went to Washington

to sit in the second hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after hieaeturn home appeared to lose strength rapidly. Judge Jackson was twice married,, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter of David 3. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born four children, ns follows t Henry, Mary, William 11., and Howell, Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present Soliciting Freight Agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; W. H. Jackson is District Attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati; Howell E. Jackson is manager of the Jackson cotton mills at Jackson, Tenn. In ,1870’Judge Jackson married Yiss Mary E. Ilnrdiug, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding. Hans Hanson was sentenced in the Rolled States Court at San FraniUeo ,t» bn hanged Oct. 18 for the murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of tine bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas St. Clair killed the mate as the first step in u mutiny. St. Clair will die the same day ag Ida companion in crime. Dr, Clifford J. Wright, a young physician of Covington, Ky., a member of oue of tine wealthiest Kerftm fcy families and prominent in society, died In convulsf.vu. The attending physician said the trouble«ras doe to the excessive use <y! cigarette*.

JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSON.