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Show THE1' RECORD OF DEATH. Itaar Admiral Taylor l'aanaa Awaj Pram I'ni-amoula othar Deaths Washington, April 20. Kear-Admi-ral Alfred Taylor, retired, died yesterday yester-day afternoon from pneumonia and acute bronchitis, following au attack of grippe. He w as bora iu Fairfax county, Virginia, in l'HIO. He reached the grade of lieutenant in 1S17, and in the Mexican Mexi-can war during the blockade of Vera Cruz, and other naval operations along the Mexican coast, he served with the frigate, Cumberland. He was on duty on the steamer, Mississippi, with Commodore Com-modore Perry's expedition to Japan in is.1l -.".". Two of his sons hold commissions commis-sions in the army, and a third lives in New York ( ity. OIIIKlt HEATHS OK A PA V. CinrAiio, April 20. Alanazon Sweet, who came to Chicago when only soldiers. sol-diers. Indians and squatters wore here, nnd who was one of the twelve men that agreed to found the town of Chicago, Chi-cago, died Saturday, aged HI, at the home of his son in Evanston. New Yo;;k, April 2;). John Thompson, Thomp-son, founder of the Thompson Bauk Note Reporter and also of the First National and the Chase Natioual banks of this city, died yesterday. New Haven, Conn., April 20. Dr. James K. Thatcher, professor of physiology physi-ology iu Yale university, died suddenly this morning of pneumonia, aged 4S. BiTt'Ai.o, April 20. Justice Thomas Coriett of the supreme court, died last night in this city. |