Walter C. Newberry

     GEN. NEWBERRY DEAD.
Civil War General and Once Mayor
   of Petersburg Passes Away.
 Chicago, July 20.---Gen. Walter
Case Newberry, civil war general,
died today at his home here of
arterial schlerosis, after an illness of
eight weeks. He was 76 years old,
a native of Waterville, N.Y.  He
enlisted as a private in the 81 St.
New York volunteer infantry and
later entered the cavalry.
 After the war he lived in the South
for a number of years and was once
mayor of Petersburg, Va.  Later he
built a reservoir at Richmond.  Gen-
eral Newberry was a close friend of
General Pickett of the Confederate
army.
 In 1876 he came to Chicago where
he became postmaster and later was
elected to Congress.