A Grand Man Gone

Roswell G. Horr, for a niynber of years congressman from the saginaw district of this state, died at his home in Plainsfield, N. J., last Friday night, after a somewliat brief illness with a complica tion of bronchitis and Bright's disease. Roswell G. Horr was born in Waltsfield, Vt,, November 26, 1830, butl when he was a child his parents moved to Lorain county, Ohio, and it was in the Buckeye state that he spent his youth. He taufcht school in Lorain county to pay part of his expense in Antioch college, from which fae was graduated in 1857. He was a republican from the birth of the party, and in 1872, when he began the practice of law in East Saginaw, Mich., he took an active interest in the presidential campaigu and made speeches in many parts of Michigan. His reputation as a campaign orator gained for him a lucrative law practice. In 1878 Mr. Horr was elected to congress from the Eighth Michigan district, and he was re-elected in 1S80 and in 1882. He was defeated' for re-election tocongi-ess in 1884, when he made paign speeches in several states for Blaine and Logan, and nèglected his own district. Mr. Horr leaves two sous and two daugliters. The sons are Frank H. Horr, of Ithaca, Mich., and Rollin A. Horr, of Saginaw, Mich. The daughters are Mrs. F. W. Hebard and Mrs W H Ewart, both of Plainfield, N. J