People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — PHELPS IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

PHELPS IS DEAD.

The Ex-Minister to Germany Succumbs After a Long Illness. New York, June 19. —William Walter Phelps, the distinguished statesman and diplomat, died Sunday morning at 1:45 o’clock at bis summer residence, Tea Neck Grange, near Englewood, N. J. He had been unconscious for many hours, and, in fact, practically for several days, even the arrival Saturday of his only daughter,Baroness von Rottenberg, from Berlin, not serving to arouse him. Death was caused by pneumonia, complicated with other diseases, chief among which was consumption. Two years ago, while minister to Berlin, he* underwent a painful operation, from the effects of which he never recovered. At his bedside at the tinfe of dissolution were his two sons and hia daughter, together with his wife, who had been unremitting in her care of her husband for the last three weeks, from yhich time the dangerous period of his illness dates. Mr. Phelps leaves an estate valued at $10,000,000.