Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Death of Thorndyke Bice. [ARTICLE]

Death of Thorndyke Bice.

Allen Thorndyke Rice, the newly appointed Minister to Russia, died suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, early Thursday morning. Mr. Rice had been troubled with tonsiTitis for several days, and would have sailed for Europe Wednesday had his condition permitted of it He was not considered at all dangerously sick until 11 o'clock Wednesday night. He died at 3:30 in the morning. He was born in 1853. lie connected himself with the North America Review in 1876, and. under his management it became a very valuable Sroperty. Mr. Rice was appointed sinister to Russia only a few weeks ago ' by President Harrison.