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Show j TliFF0RDEI j OF JOURNALISM a; . ; g . PEORIA. 111., June 6. Robert M. Hanna, the dean of journalism of this i ia, Jection of thc country and familiarly j nown as "MarsV d;ed this after- fl toon after an illness or four months, g guttering from a complication of dls- , 2SSCS. ! Mr. Hanna was boru in Thraxton ,V county. West Virginia, in 1839. In tho ( i ' cnrly 'SOs Mr. Hanna was associated with Robert Burdeltc on the Burlington Burling-ton (Iowa) Hawkcye. after which he removed to Peoria, where he has been editor' of the various papers in this V city ever since, the last eleven yean with the Peoria Journal. ' ; Mr. Hanna has sened as state hu mane officer, in connection with his editorial work and has proved one of the moat efficient officers of that society so-ciety in the history of this country. |