KNOX, the Rev. Dr. J, H. M., ex-presi-, POND, James B., lecture manager, 65, dent of Lafayette College, 79, Baltimore, Jan. 22. LADD, Fletcher, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, 41, Boston, Mass., Dec. 12. LEGGETT, John A., ex-Governor of the Territory of Montana, 71, Hot Springs, Mont., Oct. 8. LELAND, Charles G., author and journalist, 78, Florence, Italy, March 20. LEVY, 65, Jules, cornetist, Chicago, Nov. 28. LINCOLN, George F., Consul General of the United States at Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, July 23. LLOYD, Henry D., economic writer, 56, Winnetka, Ill., Sept. 28. LOEB, Solomon, New-York banker, 74, New-York, Dec. 12. LONG, John G., Consul General of U. S. at Cairo, Egypt, member Republican National Committee from. State of Florida, 57, Dunbar, Scotland, July 28. LOOMIS, Dwight, ex-Justice Supreme Court of Connecticut, Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 17. MCCOLLUM, J. Brewster, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 71, Montrose, Penn., Oct. 3. MCCONNELL, the Rev. Dr. J. S. J., Methodist Episcopal Church official and religious organizer, 64, Philadelphia, Aug. 31. McCOOK, Alexander McDowell, brigadier general U. S. A. (retired), corps commander in Civil War, 72, Dayton, Ohio, June 12, MCCREERY, James, New-York drygood's merchant, 78, Aiken, S. C., Feb. 26. MCKAY, Gordon, inventor of shoemaking machinery, 82, Newport, R. I., Oct. 19. MABINI, Apollonio, Filipino leader, jurist and writer, Manila, May 14. MARSHALL, the Rev. Dr. Thomas, field secretary Presbyterian Board of Missions, 72, Olney, Ind. Ter., Dec. 14. MATTICE, Burr, Justice New-York Supreme Court, 47, Oneonta, N. Y., Nov. 6. MITCHELL, Henry T., ex-Governor and -Chief Justice of Florida, 69, Tampa, Fla., Oct. 14. MOODY, James M.. Representative in Congress from North Carolina, 44, Waynesville, N. C., Feb. 5. MORSS, Samuel E., Indiana editor and politician, 51, Indianapolis, Oct. 21. MURTHA, Frank B., theatrical manager, 63, New-York, Aug. 10. OLMSTED, Frederic Law, landscape arIchitect, 81, Waverly, Mass., Aug. 28. OVERTON, Edward, ex-Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, 67, Towanda, Penn., Sept. 18. PENROSE, William H., brigadier general U. S. A. (retired), Salt Lake City, Aug. 29. PERSHING, Cyrus LA., Pennsylvania Judge and Democratic party leader, 77, Pottsville, Penn., June 29. PHILLIPS, Samuel F., ex-Solicitor General of the United States, 79, Washington, D. C., Nov. 18. New-York, June 21. PROCTER, John R., president U. S. Civil Monsignor D. E., diocese Roman of QUIGLEY, 27. RALPH, Julian, war correspondent and ROBERTS, the Rev. Dr. William C. D., ROBINSON, Lewis W., Rear-Admiral U. Henry, originator of press Jan. 31. RUMSEY, William, ex-Justice of NewYork State Supreme Court and reviser of evidence code, 71, New-York, Jan. 16. RUSSELL, Leslie W., ex-Representative in Congress, ex-Justice Supreme Court of New-York, 62, New-York, Feb. 3. RUSSELL, John E., Massachusetts political leader, Democratic candidate for Governor 1893 and 1894, 69, Leicester, Mass., Oct. 28. SARONY, Otto, photographer, New-York, author, 57, Richard Henry, New-York, Oct. 11. SANDERSON, Sybil (Mrs. Antonio Terry), operatic singer, 38, Paris, May 16. SAXTON, Charles T., ex-Lieutenant-Governor of New-York and Judge of Court of Claims, 57, Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 23. Pittsburg SCHENLEY, Mrs. Mary E., millionaire and philanthropist, London, Eng., Nov. 5. SCHOENHOFF, Jacob, economic writer and statistician, 63, New-York, March 14. SCOTT, Irving M., shipbuilder, manager of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 64, San Francisco. April 28. SEIP, the Rev. Dr. Theodore L., president of Muhlenberg College, 61, Allentown, Penn., Nov. 28. SHANKLIN, John Gilbert, Indiana editor and politician, 61, Evansville, Aug. 6. SHERWOOD, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilson, author, 80, New-York, Sept. 12. SIMONDS, William E., Connecticut patent lawyer and politician, former Representative in Congress and Commissioner of Patents, 61, Hartford, Conn., March 14. Ind., SMITH, Carroll E., editor, Regent Univer- SMITH, Charles H. ("Bill Arp"), humor- SMITH, Orland, brigadier general U. S. SMITH, William Farrar ("Baldy"), ma- STUART, George H., brigadier general TOWNSEND, Martin I., lawyer, ex-Rep- VAN ALSTYNE, Thomas Jefferson, ex- Oct. 26. WHEATON, Frank, major general U. S. WHITING, Justin R., ex-Representative in Congress, Democratic leader in Michigan, 55, St. Clair, Mich., Jan. 31. WILCOX, Robert William, Hawailan po litical leader, ex-Delegate in Congress from Hawaii, 48, Honolulu, Oct. 24. WILDES, Frank, rear-admiral U. S. N., captain of the Boston under Dewey at Manila, 59, San Francisco, Feb. 6. WILLIAMS, Morgan B., ex-Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, 72, Wilkesbare, Penn., Oct. 13. WILLIS, the Rev. Jonathan S., Metho- WOODSON, Albert E., brigadier general YOUNGSON, A. B., head of Brotherhood ZBOROWSKI, Count William Elliott, millionaire and sportsman, killed in automobile accident at Nice. France, April 1. NOTABLE DEATHS ABROAD. ALEXANDER I., King of Servia, 26, assassinated at Belgrade, June 11. ARDITI, Luigi, musical conductor and composer, 80, Hove, England, May 1. ARMOUR, Sir John Douglass, Justice Supreme Court of Canada, 73, London, July 11. BAIN, Alexander, philosopher and author, 85, Aberdeen, Sept. 18. BLOWITZ, Henri G., S. A. O. de, Paris CECIL, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne, DRAGA, Queen of Servia, 42, assassinated author, 53, HENLEY, William Ernest, KOMATSU, Prince, Japanese statesman LEGOUVE, Gabriel J. B. E. W., French LEO XIII, Roman Pontiff, 93, Rome, MACDONALD, Major General Sir Hector, MAY, Phil, illustrator and cartoonist, 39,, SHORTHOUSE Joseph Henry, English London, Aug. 5. novelist, 68, London, March 4. SPENCER, Herbert, English philosopher, 83. Brighton, Eng., Dec. 8. MOMMSEN, Theodor, historian, 86, Char- SCOTT, Hugh Stowell ("Henry Seton ADDENDA AND ERRATA. On December 15 Secretary Root signed an order rearranging the military districts and commands of the army. There are to be hereafter four military divisions in the United States-the Atlantic, the Northern, the Pacific and the Southwestern-and one division in the Philippines. The Atlantic Division will include the Department of the East, excluding Louisiana and adding Tennessee, and the Department of the Gulf. The Northern Division will include the Departments of the Lakes, of the Missouri and of Dakota. The Pacific Division will include the Departments of California and the Columbia. The Division of the Southwest will include the Departments of the Colorado and Texas, with Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory added to the Department of Texas. The following division commanders have been decided upon: Atlantic Division, Major General Corbin; Northern Division, Major General Bates; Pacific Division, Major General MacArthur; Southwestern Division, Major General Sumner; Philippine Division, Major General Wade. The order becomes effective on January 15, 1904. On December 17 President Roosevelt signed the Act of Congress making effective the commercial treaty with Cuba, and the treaty was proclaimed the same day. The United States Senate, on December 18, ratified a commercial treaty with China. Its chief features are the extension of better protection to missionaries, the removal of the likin tax throughout China, the opening of Moukden and An-Tung in Manchuria as places of international residence and trade, the extension of the United States international copyright laws to China, and the promise from China to establish a patent office in which the inventions of citizens of the United States may be protected. The schedule of Chinese import duties which went into effect last year is made a part of the treaty. China agrees to revise and modernize her mining laws and to open her mineral wealth to the citizens of the United States. The Senate, on November 17, confirmed the nomination of E. Finley Johnson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands. Fletcher Ladd, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, died in Boston, December 12. At the meeting of the Republican National Committee, in Washington, December 11, 1903, it was decided to hold the next Republican national convention at Chicago, June 21, 1904. J. N. Coombes qualified as committeeman from Florida, vice John G. Long, dead, and W. S. Robinson as committeeman from North Carolina, vice Jeter C. Pritchard, resigned. Ira R. Allen, chairman of the Republican State committee of Vermont, died December 9. On December 16, 1903, Mrs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, N. Y., was elected president of the World's Fair board of lady managers, vice Mrs. James L. Blair, resigned. The Rev. Dr. George D. Baker, president of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, died on December 17, 1903. On December 17, 1903, the Pope ratified the selection of the Rev. James J. Hartley as Roman Catholic bishop of Columbus, Ohio.. On December 17 Gilbert B. Deans was nominated United States Marshal for the Southern District of Alabama to fill a vacancy. On December 17 it was announced that an agreement had been reached by Governor Taft and the Philippine religious orders for the sale to the Philippine government of the so-called friar lands. The price agreed on was $7,250,000. The lands purchased comprise 403,000 acres. On December 17 M. Comtesse and M. Ruchet were elected President and VicePresident, respectively, of the Swiss Republic for 1904. On December 21 George B. McClellan, Mayor-elect of New-York City, resigned his seat in Congress as a Representative from the XIIth District of New-York. On December 19 General John C. Black, of Illinois, announced his acceptance of a place in the Federal Civil Service Commission. ERRATA.-On page 133 the total vote cast for William J. Bryan in 1900 should be 6,357,307 instead of 6,357,807. On page 217, New-Jersey election tables, "Senate of 1903" and "Assembly of 1903," mean as elected in 1903, or completed by the elections of 1903. |