Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — GENERAL MCNULTA DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENERAL MCNULTA DEAD.

Veteran Passes Away Suddenly at a Hotel in Washington. Geti. .Tqlin.McNulta of Chicago died at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington Thursday evening. Gen. McNulta went to Washington Tuesday to attend to business in connection with the Illinois National Bank, for which he was the receiver. He was in his usual health until 7 ” Thursday aftvrnoon. He went to lunch with t'otnptroHor u Dawes at noon, and the*, returned to the hotel to do some writing. .Judge Weldon of the court of claim's, - whoGeii. MeNulta’s law

partner when they both lived in Bloomington, called at the hotel about 5 o’clock and found the general indisposed. Dr. Sowers was called and diagnosed the disease as angina pectoris. Gen. McNulta died before 6 o'clock, within an hour after Judge Weldon found him ill. Had not the judge called the general would have died with no one near him. Comptroller Dawes telegraphed to Judge flrosscnp -and—Alexander Revell, requesting them to notify the family in Chicago. The general’s son, Donald, is a lieutenant in the Twenty-third infantry, now in the Philippines.* He was also informed of the death of his father.