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Show jjf j DEATH OF SENATOR MILLER. ; A brief dispatch, from Washington, re- : j I ceived at a late hour to-day, announces S 4 it the death in that city this afternoon of Senator John F. Miller of California. ; j , Senator Miller was born in Indiana, in ' j 1 1 1831, his parents being Virginians. In t 1852 he graduated at the New York State i Law School, and soon thereafter went to ' ' ;: , ; California and entered npon the practice , of law. In 1869 he entered the army as - i Colonel of the Twenty-ninth Indiana , I Volunteers, and was soon placed in com- I ! I mand of a brigade.serving under Sherman, II ; i i Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas, and receiv- j , ! i ing severe wounds in the battles of Stone I River and Liberty Gap. In July, 1863, j ' . ; he was laid out on the battlefield with a f , shot through the eye. A year later he returned to duty minus an eye and richer ' i ; 4 only by. the increased pay which came ; J. with his promotion to the rank of Briga- ; j- dier-General. ! . In 1866 he returned to San Francisco, ; with a commission as Collector of that Port, in which capacity he served for four years and declined reappointment. At i the close of his term he fell in with General : i ' Lovell II. Rosseau, whom President John- , ! son had sent to Alaska as United i j i States Commissioner to receive that Ter-ritory Ter-ritory from the Russian authorities, and ' I , - a man named Hutchison, to whom cer- i i tain fur-hunting privileges had been ' granted. General Miller and Hutchison formed what is known as the Alaska ; ' Commercial Company, and it enriched ; j ' both and others beside. Honors followed '''; riches in rapid succession, and in 1881 he 1 : was elected to the Senate from California ' i as a Republican, to . succeed ; Newton '"',') Booth, and took his seat March 4th of ' j. ;j that year. ' .1 General Miller was liberal with his j ! j wealth, though not wasteful. The cause . ' ": of his death is not mentioned in the I !j' dispatch, but is supposed to be a dis- I ; ease very similar to asthma. 1 ' 4 |