OCR Text |
Show THE RECORD OF DEATH, A New Mexican I.egthlator. Ai.m euqi e, N. M., Jan. 4. Judge William C. Haseltine, solicitor-general of the Atlantic & 1'neilic railroad, died Satur. day of pneumonia. He was a distinguished lawyer, twice, a member of the territorial senate of New Mexico, chairman of the republican re-publican central committee, member of the constitutional convention, president of the New Mexican Bar association, and a prominent prom-inent Mason. He came from liattle Creek, Mich., twelve years ago. A Pioneer Of Washington. Seati.e, Wash., Jam i. Colonel .T. C. Haines died at his home In this city Saturday Satur-day afternoon from a complication of complaints com-plaints induced by pneumonia. Colonel Ilaiucs was born in southern Illinois in 1 84 1 , and after some years' residence there was in Chicago. He came to Seattle in 1870, residing resid-ing here continuously since. He was a prominent lawyer and politician. He was chairman of the state republican committee in 1888, but resigned upon being arrested for complicity in the fam0U Uardr.er opium, smuggling case. He was taken to New 5'ork for trial and acquitted. Commodore Vanderbilt's t'ounin. Vallejo, Cal., Jan. 4. After a lonsr illness W. A. Vanderbilt died Saturday afternoon. He was born in New fork in 1816, and was for many years in the employ of his coi;iu. Commodore Vanderbilt. From 1840 to ISO!) he was In the service of the Pacitlc Mail coinpauy. He superintended the rebuilding of the single turreted monitor Comanche and the construction of the double turreted monitor Monadnoek, now being completed at Marc Island uavy yard. A Prominent ltailroad Man, Chicago. Jan. 4. John 13. Carson, eir-president eir-president of the Chicago & Western Indiana Belt line railroad; c.v-president of the Louisville, Louis-ville, New Albany & Chicago railway, and who had held many other important railroad positions, died this morning after an illness w hieh compelled him to retire twoyearsago. A Jtelffian Political Economist. I'.utis, Jan. 4. The influenza has taken another distinguished victim In Entile Louis Victor de Lavclayc, the. noted Belgian writer on political economy, whose death at Liege was announced jesterday. A Mexican flniumt. Citt f Mexu o, Jan. 4. loaquin Garcia, the noted general who was General Jaurez's right-hand man, died here Saturday iu abject ab-ject poverty. Deputy Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Toronto, Ont., Jan. 4. Colonel Gilmor, recently appointed deputy lieutenant governor gov-ernor of Ontario, is dead. |