Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1916 — SHIVELY, INDIANA SENATOR, IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

SHIVELY, INDIANA SENATOR, IS DEAD

Senator From Indiana Died Tuesday . Afternoon After Long Illness. Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of South Bend, died Tuesday afternoon at the Providence hospital in Washington. He had been in failing condition for the past two years and his death came peacefully and without apparent pain. * When Senator Shively visited Rensselaer about two years ago and made a speech he was in poor health. Those who heard his talk liked it very much. The school children were urged to hear him and there was not one who did not have a good word to say for him. The immediate cause of death was diabetic cancer of the throat. Tuesday morning the senator had a chill followed by a great weakness and it became 'apparent that the end was near. At his bedside were Mrs. Shively, their sofi John and daughter Mary, a brother, Aaron Shively and the senator’s secretary, Byford Long. The body will be taken to the home in South Bend for burial.