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Show AMONG THE LIST OF DEPARTED. A subscriber wants to know if Chaunccy M. Dcpew is dead. If our memory serves us well. Mr. Depew died at the time nf (he insurance insur-ance scandal which shook the foundations founda-tions of some of the largest life insur- a net companies in the United State. Whether the centieman has been laid to his final rest, we cannot say, as he disappeared at that time and has not been heard from oince. About a year ago there was som-r i mention of a Chaunrey M Depew as ail after-dinner speaker a one of (he big functions in the Fast, but the speech as reported was so devoid of the former senator's rich humor that we are quite sure the orator was not the inimitable Chauncey who, born In L834, would he SI years old had he lived until April 23, this year We have written Mr Depew, seeking seek-ing further information as in his demise, de-mise, and, if favored with a reply, will give our readers the benefit of the post mortem Our inquisitor also asks: "Are all our ex presidents dead?" We were proceeding to answer in I Ut affirmative when a message camo from Albany, N V . announcing the beginning of a big libel suit brought by William Barnes against Theodore Roosevelt. William Howard Taft was buried alhe at Yale, the ceremony of nutriment nutr-iment being performed in 191.1. |