Show NOTABLE DEAD Count Le Mercier 0aris Dec 26 Comte Anatole Le Mercier senior member of the chamber of deputies is dead Compte Le Mercier was born June 25 1820 He was one of the seven deputies from Ch rent Inferieure personally representing the first division of Sain tes He was a descendant of the Mer cier who figured in Prance during the revolution His father was for many years a member of the chamber He received the decoration of the legion of honor and published several volumes Member of Parliament London Dec 26Charles Harrison radical member of parliament for Plymouth Ply-mouth since 1895 is dead Charles Harrison was born Aug 1 1835 and was educated at Kings college col-lege London He succeeded Sir John Hutton as vicechairman of the London county council when Sir John succeeded Lord Roseberry a chairman of that body In the first and second councils he was chairman of the parliamentary committee and became known prominently 1 promi-nently as the father cf the modern application I ap-plication of the principle for the betterment better-ment of public improvements By profession pro-fession he was a solicitor Frederick Harrison the well known essayist and president of the London positivist committee com-mittee is his brother Col George Whitney Royalston Mass Dec 26Colonel George Whitney a prominent resident of this town died today after a months illness He was born here in 1817 and for 15 years drove a stagecoach stage-coach between Royalston and Boston The opening of the Fitchburg railroad put an end to the stage business and Colonel Whitney turned his attention to other pursuits After some years engaged en-gaged in the lumber and chair business he became interested in the manufacture manufac-ture of woolens and continued i till his death 1 Henry Hersey Promoter New York Dec 26Henry Hers Y a well known pronipter fell unconscious in a restaurant tonight and died shortly afterwards Mr Hersey was 74 years of age Jos Lemar a civil engineer who has had business relations with Hersey said that Mr Hersey1 was a former president o the Steel Manufaqturers association and that he was thq Inventor ot the open hearth steel prWess For a year it is said he hasfftiSen concerned in a large land sneculation at Berryville W Va He is said Jo have left a large estate t Elia Dana Conway New York Dec 27Ella Dana Conway Con-way wife of Ivloncur de Conway the author and lecturer is dead at her home in this city aged 61 years She had been failing for more iian a year and in June last Mr Conway who was filling a pulpit in London as minister of the South Place Ethical society resigned re-signed on account of his wifes health and brought her back to her native natve land to die eut Aunt Judith Moor New York Dec 27Aunt Judith Moore the first colored woman admitted admit-ted to membership in Henry Ward BeectyeTs church is dead at her home in Brooklyn aged 74 It is said that Mr Beecher in his will reauested that she be cared for She was one of the original members of the Christian Endeavor society Relative of McXinley Milwaukee Wis Dec 27Mrs Mary Barnette who was connected by mar riase with the family of President McKinley Mc-Kinley is dead aged 89 years Mrs Barnette was born in Deervock County Antrim Ireland Her husbands mother was named McKinley and her mother was a Douglas a relative of Sir Charles Douglas Mrs Barnettes husband hus-band who was named Stewart McKinley Barnette died many years ago Aunt of Andrew Carnegie Pittsburg Pa Dec 26Mrs Catherine Cath-erine Morrison Hogan only aunt of Andre An-dre Carnegie died this morning the result of a stroke of paralysis She had been in a semiconscious state I since Dec 10 Mrs Hogan was born in Dumfermline Scotland 86 years ago and had been in this country 57 years Her remains will be privately cremated I on Tuesday Rev W W Taylor I Wilmington Del Dec 26Rev W W Taylor aged 86 years the oldest Presbyterian prea her in this state I died today He vas graduated from Yale 60 years ago At one time he was pastor of the church which President McKinleys wifes parents attended and officiated at their marriage Prominent Mason Charleston W Va Dec 260 S Long clerk of the state supreme court and lieutenant grand commander of the Scottish Rite Masonry for the southern jurisdiction of the United States died here tonight of dysentery after a short illness 1 i i Died of Old Age Cincinnati 0 Dec 26James Noble whp was private secretary to United States Serator Thomas Corwin died here today of old age For the last 30 years he has been the confidential bookkeeper of the Longworth estate in this city J W Allen Banker Worcester Mass Dec 26 James W Allen of the banking firm of Winslow Allen died in this city of pneumonia aged 37 years He was United States consul con-sul atrZanzibar from 1892 fo 1895 Moses Edisqn Worthen New York Dec 26 Moses Edison Worthen one of the leading men of affairs in Passaic N c died today of typhoid fever aged 60 years He leaves an estate said to be wprth 1000000 |