Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — Senator Ben Hill Dying. [ARTICLE]

Senator Ben Hill Dying.

Washington, March 15. Senator Ben Hill to-day remarked that Ufa was all behind him, and he was only waiting for the ena. He is temporarily easier than a few days ago. His friends have no hope of his permanent improvement. . He has undergone four operations. The first was the removal of a small wart-like excrescence on the side of the tongue; the second was the removal of about one-fourth of the tongue and entire floor of the month, and the third, a hard and painful kernel developed in the posterior part of the mouth, was removed. It was afterward discovered that the parotid gland was affected. It swelled and became violently inflamed. The symptoms were so violent that the gland was removed. From this time the patient steadily failed, cancer being a commonly fatal disease in his family. •