Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1904 — Six State Senators Have Died. [ARTICLE]

Six State Senators Have Died.

Senator Gray of Evansville died a week ago Monday. This makes the sixth member of the last senate that have died since the last election. This is the largest number of deaths between sessions ever recorded so far as is known. Senator Barns, of Sonth Bend died several weeks before the dose of the session, and Senator Gibson jnst at the dose of the term. Since the assembly adjourned Senators Benjamin Starr of Richmond, Charles DeHaven, of Kokpmo, John C. Lawler of Salem, and James Gray of Evansville, have died. Four of the members, Senators Burns, Gibson, Starr and Gray, were holdovers, and new members will have to be elected for the unexpired terms at the coming eleotion, making 29 vacancies in the senate to be filled. All the dead men but odo wpre Republicans.