Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — Death of a British Admiral. [ARTICLE]

Death of a British Admiral.

Gibraltar, Sept. 18. —Rear Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, who commanded the British squadron at Manila during the Spnnish-Amerlcan war, is dead of pneumonia after an illness of a few days. Sir Edward's wife arrived here from England at night. Rear Admiral Chichester was chief of the sea'transport service during the South Africa war. Ills work in transporting a quarter of a million men 5,000 miles to South Africa won him great praise.