Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — SENATOR GORMIN DIES SUDDENLY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR GORMIN DIES SUDDENLY

Maryland Statesman Passes Away at His Washington Home. WAS CONSCIOUS TO THE LAST Attack of Heart Failure Comes Suddenly and Leaves the Senator Dead. Daring the Past Week His Condition Had Improved So Much That a Trip to the Country Was Contemplated. Washington, June 4.—Arthur Pue Gorman, United States senator from Maryland, died suddenly at his residence in this city at 9:05 o’clock in the morning. While Senator Gorman had

been ill for many months, he had shown some improvement lately. Heart failure was the immediate-cause of death. Up to the moment of death Senator Gorman was conscious. His condition during the past week had improved so much that the family had hopes of shortly taking him to the country. He partook of some nourishment at 8 o’clock in the morning, but at 9 o’clock lie was seized witli a heart attack and diet! in five minutes. At the bedside were Mrs. Gorman. Miss Ada Gorm an. the sen;i tor'weid ust daughter, and the nurse. When the attack came physicians were sent for, l»ut the senator was dead before they arrived. JOHN C. NEW IS DEAD Life-Long Friend of Gen. Benjamin Harrison Passes Away at His Horne in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, June 3. —John C. New died at his home, 518'North Pennsyl-

vania street, at s:in p. m. yesterday of dropsy. Around ids bedside wore his wife; his son, Harry S. New. vi< ei-liair-man of the national Kepulr liian ronnnittee. and his daughter, Mrs. Ernest H. Bur-

ford, of tins city. Another daughter, Mrs. W. 11. McKean. Jr., is en route here, from her home at Omaha. Neb. New was for many years proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, was a lifelong friend of ex-President Benjamin Harrison, and was consul general in London under the Harrison administration. He had been sick for a year. He was born at Vernon. Ind., in PCil. was quartermaster general of Indiana during the civil war: United States treasurer under Grant: proprrietor of tlie ilndianapolis Journal; chairman of the Indiana Republican committee in 1876 and 1884; assistant secretary of the treasury. For the last ten years he had devoted his time to his property Interests.

SENATOR ARTHUR P. GORMAN.

JOHN C. NEW.