Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1905 — DEATH SUMMONS SENATOR BATE [ARTICLE]

DEATH SUMMONS SENATOR BATE

Ie Victim of Pneumonia Contracted During the Inaugural Ceremonies. Washington. March 9. United States Senator William BTimage Fate, of Tennessee, twice governor of his state, a veteran of both the Mexican and civil wars, rising from private to major general in the latter, and for eighteen years a conspicuous membet of the upper house of congress, is dead at his hotel apartments in this city, aged 78 years. Death was due to pneumonia and defective heart. Senator Bate attended the inauguration ceremonies on March 4 and his death is believed to be due primarily to exposure on that occaslon.