Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — SENATOR ELKINS DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR ELKINS DEAD

West Virginia Senator Passes Away in Washington Home. Senator Stephen B. Elkins died at his Washington home. Sudden collapse, following a long Illness caused death. The end was not unexpected, for the

senator had been sinking fob hours.* Senator Elkins was 69 years of age. At his bedside were Mrs. Elkins, his two sons, Blaine and Richard Elkins, his daughter, Miss Katherine Elkins and Henry Gassoway Davis, his father-in-law. Mr. Elkins had been sick for several months. He was unable to attend the - sessions of congress when it convened early In December and had been confined to his home on K street practically all fall. Every effort had been made to bring him back to health, but it was unavailing and in the last few days septic poisoning is understood to have developed and this probably caused the end. Senator Elkina had been in the United States senate since 1901, when he was elected by the unanimous vote of the Republican members of the Virginia legislature. His present term of service would have expired on March 3, 1913. His death will probably mean one more Democratic member of the senate.

STEPHEN B. ELKINS.