Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — MITCHELL OF OREGON DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MITCHELL OF OREGON DEAD

Hemorrhages Following the KxtraO* tion of Teeth Close the Senator’s Career. Portland. Ore., Dec. 9. Senator John H. Mitchell died yesterday, after suffering for twenty-four hours, as a result of hemorrhages, following the

ext raction as four teetb. Ho was kept alive forseveral hour* by saline injections. John Hippie Mitchell wae born in Wasbingtou county. Pa., June 22, 1835. He wae raised on a farm in Butler county, and when IT years old began teaching to secure funds to pay bis way

through college. He came west in April, 1860, and finally settled in Portland, where he went into politics end in 1873 was elected to the United States senate. He was defeated In 1870. elected In 1885. defeated in 1807. and elected in ,1901. His wife is in Paris, France, where she spends much of her time since the marriage of their daughter to the Imke de Rochefoucauld. One of his sons is an officer in the United States army. His conviction of land fraud and sentence to the penitentiary is recent history. An appeal against his sentence was pending in the United States supreme court, but his death will close the case. Washington, Dec. 11.—Vice President Fairbanks has announced that it Is his understanding that friends of the lata Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, will not request that a committee of senators be appointed to attend the funeral serrlces, and therefore he will not name one. No request for resolutions of respect la probable, either. This will be the first instance In the history of the senate where the customary ceremony in honor to the memory of a deceased member baa not been held. Hearst Presses His Campaign. New York. Dec. 15. William R. Hearst’s legal campnign to recount the ballots in New York’s recent mayoralty election has been extended to include the acts of many election inspectors. An order to show cause why these inspectors should not appear before the board of election canvassers and correct errors was signed by Supreme Court Justice Stover. Thev order is returnable Monday. Too Old fbr Big Crops. Peru, Ind., Dec. 15.—Jesse Bond, who lives near this city, and was formerly a commissioner of Miami county, has an apple tree at his home that is 71 years old. I-ast year it born only seven apples.

SENATOR MITCHELL.