Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — DEATH OF BISHOP M'CABE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF BISHOP M'CABE

“Chaplain” of Wap Eminence Succumb* to an Attack of Apoplexy— Knew Hi* End Was Near. New York, Dee. 20.—Denth claimed Bishop C. C. McCabe, of the Methodist Episcopal church, In the New York City hospital yesterday morning. Mm. Mc-

Cabe and the bishop’s nieces were at the bedside when the noted clergyman died He did not regain consciousness. Bishop McCabe on Dec. 10 delivered at Philadelphia bis lecture on ‘‘The Sunny Side of Life In Libby Prison” and then on me to this city. There was nothing about his appearance as he was abont to step on the ferry boat at the Twenty-third street terminal of the Pennsylvania railway to Indicate that denth was near. But he staggered as he stopped and fell unconscious a stroke of apoplexy. He did so well the first day at the hospital that recovery was hoped for. but he seemed to know that his end was near for as soon as he became conscious lie asked that his wife he sent for. Tie was 71 years old. His title “chaplain" came from service In that capacity in the One Hundred and 1 went.v-Second Ohio in the war of the rebellion. During the war he was captured and spent four months In Libby prison. He was a magnetic ora. tor. and very successful as a “money miser.”

RISHOP C. C M'CABE.