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Show JOHN W. MACK AY. John r. Mackay of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, the wealthy mine owner, died in London on Sunday. Last Tuesday he suffered a sunstroke from which he partially rallied, but on Saturday a change for the worse took place. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. Perhaps Per-haps no man in this country was better acquainted with John W. Mackay than Judge 0. C. Goodwin, Good-win, from whose writings we copy the followino- brief note: "The news of the death of John W. Mackay will cause a personal sorrow to thousands of people on this coast. So great was he, so true, so generous, so altogether manly in every place and under all conditions. condi-tions. Plenty of men are rich; of them all we know not one such man as was Mr. Mackay. In face and bearing, in hand and foot, he was imperial as Caesar, but in his life and his niinglino- ainono- men there was not one imperious look or word or gesture; unless some base nature expressed a doubt of his integrity and he heard of it. If every gracious act of his life could be converted into a flower, they would garland his bier with a glory never seen around a death couch before; if his impulses could take material form they would fall in benedictions on every poor man's home; they would steady the hands of every hiffh officer of our govern -nient, for love of his adopted country and solicitude for its welfare wel-fare with him weregrand passions." |