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Show Sir Oliver Mowat Dead, '.jp, OTTAWA. Ont.. April 20. Sir.CuVrt " Mowat, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Onta-rio, died Sunday at Government house, aged 83 years. Sir Oliver had been in feeble health for some time, but the accident In which he broke his leg last Sunday night hastened the end. Sir Oliver was Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, twenty-four, years, thus earning the distinction of having had the longest continuous term of office as Premier ever accorded to any man by the people of any province or colony in the British Empire. |