Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — DIE BEFORE TAKING OFFICE. [ARTICLE]

DIE BEFORE TAKING OFFICE.

Five Members of the Fifty-fourth Congress Claimed by the Reaper. The Fifty-fourth Congress is but a few days more than four months old, and only seven, months have elapsed since the election of its members, and yet there have been seven casualties in the ranks of the House of Representatives chosen last November, five by death and two by resignatipn. Those who have died include, besides Representative Frederick Rcmann, whose funeral occurred Wednesday in the Eighth Illinois District, the following: Myron B. Wright (Rep.) of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania District, Nov. 13, 1894; James H. Codding elected to fill the vacancy. Philip S. Poet (Rep.) of the Tenth Illinois District, Jan. 6, 1895; place will be filled by George W. Prince. Andrew. J. Campbell (Rep.) of the Tenth New York District, Dec. 6, 1894. William Cogswell (Rep.), Sixth Massachusetts, May 22. Mr. Campbell was elected in Gen. Dan Sickles’ old district in New York, and his successor is likely to be a Democrat. In the other two cases there is no change expected in the political bias of the new representatives.