Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — Editor of New York World Dies While Making Yacht Trip. [ARTICLE]

Editor of New York World Dies While Making Yacht Trip.

Joseph Pulitzer, editor of toe New York World, died suddenly Sunday afternoon on his yacht. Liberty, in the harbdr of Charleston, S. C. He had been ill for about forty-eight hours, but until a short time before his death he was thought to be only slightly 111. He was a native of Hungary, living there until he was 17 years of age. He served in the union army after he came to America and after toe war he returned to New York-and went, then to St. Louis. He worked as a fireman bn a ferry boat that made trips across the Mississippi river. Before he was 21 years of age he was a member of the legislature of the state of Missouri. He later established the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. At the age of 36 he had made a national reputation as an editor and public speaker. He was a friend of the common people. He made a fortune out of the Post-Dispatch and decided to sell It and go abroad and study, but upon reaching New York he found that he could .purchase the World, then a struggling paper without much circulation, and ihe did so. He made it tbe greatest paper in New York. Probably the greatest act of his life was toe breaking up of a scheme of Wall street financiers to rob toe government by buying bonds issued when Grover Cleveland as president, at wbat proved to be far less than their face value. He exposed the scheme and offered $1,000,000 in gold for the bonds at a higher price. His offer resulted in saving toe government a vast amount of money and exposed a plot that Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, was a participant in.