Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — FIRST DEATH OF THE SESSION. [ARTICLE]

FIRST DEATH OF THE SESSION.

Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, Falls Into the Sleep That Knows No Waking. The reaper of Death has begun wortttimong the Congressmen early in the session. Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, of Kansas, is the first victim. His illness was of long standing, and is said to have been caused by overwork at the last session, in connection with the debates upon the tariff question, in which he took a very prominent Bod leading part. Mr. Haskell represented the Second district of Kansas, which includes the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Wyandotte. His heme is at Lawrence. He was born at Springfield, Vt, March 23, 1842, received a classical education at Eaetbampton, Mass., and took a special course at Yale College; engaged! in mercantile pursuits; removed to Kansas in 1855; was a 'member of the State House of Representatives in 1872, ’75 and ’7B, serving the last term as Speaker of the House; was nominated tor Governor by the Temperance party In declined; was elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty sixth Congresses, and was ro-etected to the Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth Congresses as a Republican.