Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — W. A. Peffer, First Populist Senator From Kansas, Near Death. [ARTICLE]

W. A. Peffer, First Populist Senator From Kansas, Near Death.

Topeka, Kan., March 14.—W. A. Peffer, 83 years old, former United States Senator from Kansas, is critically ill at a hospital here. His right leg was amputated above the knee today 1 to check gangrene which affected his foot. Mr. Peffer was the first Populist Senator from Kansas, being elected in 1891. He remained in Washington after hie term expired to make an index for the Cohgressional Record, and returned to Topeka upon its completion last summer.