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Berlin ; Rabbi Dr. Aron, of Strasburg ; Rev. J. L. 

 Cardozo,of Amsterdam; C. D. Asser,of the Hague; 

 Giuseppe Revere, of Rome. At home, there have 

 passed away Hon. Benjamin F. Peixotto, ex- 

 United States consul to Bucharest and Lyons, 

 journalist, lawyer, and philanthropist, whose 

 services in behalf of the persecuted Jews of Rou- 

 mania were recognized and contributed to their 



political freedom; Judges Solomon Heydenfelt, 

 of San Francisco, Philip J. Joachimsen and Mr. 

 Henry S. Henry, of New York: M. R. Cohen, 

 M. D., of Kansas City ; George D. Rosengarten 

 and Isidore Binswanger, of Philadelphia ; Rev. 

 Adolph Rubin, of New York; Rev. Dr. Aaron 

 Bettelheim, of Baltimore; Louis Sachs, of San 

 Francisco. 



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KANSAS, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 29, 1861 ; area, 82,080 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus, was, 107.206 in 1860; 364,399 in 1870; 996,096 

 in 1880 ; and 1,427,096 in 1890. Capital, Topeka. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Lyman U. 

 Humphrey, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Andrew J. Felt; Secretary of State, William 

 Higgins ; Auditor, Timothy McCarthy ; Treas- 

 urer, James W. Hamilton, who resigned in Feb- 

 ruary, and was succeeded by William Sims ; At- 

 torney-General, L. B. Kellogg ; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, George W. Winans ; Su- 

 perintendent of Insurance, Daniel W. Wilder ; 

 Railroad Commissioners, James Humphrey, L. L. 

 Turner, and Almerin Gillett ; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Albert H. Horton ; Associ- 

 ate Justices, William A.Johnston and Daniel M. 

 Valentine ; Supreme Court Commissioners, B. F. 

 Simpson, J. C. Strang, and George S. Green. 



Population. The following table exhibits 

 the population of the State by counties as ascer- 

 tained by the national census of this year com- 

 pared with similar returns for 1880 : 



* Decrease. 



