Show ANSWERED THE THELAST LAST ROLL CA CALL l Blackmar of the G c A R Dead END CAME AT BOISE BOISEr IDAHO DECEASED HAS DISTINGUISHED ED EDWAR WAR RECORD E Ida Td July duly B mon W Yo Blackmar chief of the G A R B died at 5 this afternoon of nephritis His wife was with him durIng his Illness The body hody will be embalmed and taken to the home of the deceased in Boston The general arrived here on the on a tour during which he intended to visit Grand Arm Army posts throughout the northwest He was ill when he arrived and gradually failed The sell serl of his condition was kept from the public at the of his wife Deceased was born July 5 1841 at Bristol Penn He enlisted in the Fifteenth Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry and sub subsequently joined the First West Vir Virginia ginia He served with distinction throughout the war and at Five Forks wan promoted on the field by General Custer to the rank of captain Through three administrations those ot of Gover Governors Governors nors Long Talbott and Rice he was judge juge advocate general of setta At the last national encamp encampment encampment ment of the G A R he Was elected |