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Show Death has removed another distinguished distin-guished citizen in tho person of ' Hon. George W. McCreary. His death occurred oc-curred in Kansas City.. He was a native na-tive of ludiana. In 18M Mr, McCreary began the practice of law in Iowa, and at once took an active part in politics. Ho served several terms iu both branches of the legislature, aud in 1808 he was elected to congress, and served until 18TT. He it was who, in 1870, introduced in-troduced the electoral commission bill. He was secretary of war for two years under the Hayes administration, which position he resigned to accept a circuit judgeship. His record on the bench was very creditable. Iu 1884 Judge McCreary resigned his position on the bench, and'became the general consulting consult-ing attorney of the Santa Fe road. |