Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — DEATH OF EX-SENATOR VEST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF EX-SENATOR VEST.

Passes Almost Imperceptibly Away a* Home ill Sweet Springs, Mo. After lingering for weeks between life niul dentil former Senator G. G. Vest pa soil peacefully away'’Tuesday at his home in Sweet Springs, Mo. He had been so near dentil for three days that tlic end came without a struggle. He was conscious until about 2 a. in. Sunday morning, when he sunk into a state of coma, from which he never aroused. Mr. t est lost the power of speech Saturday morning, but for sev-

eral days before that he talked very imperfectly, anil during the last thirtysix hours of his life his breathing was barely perceptible. The flutter of his pulse was all that showed life still remained. George Graham Vest, United Stales Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903, was horn at Frankfort. liy., Dec. 6, 1830, graduated at Center College, Kentucky, In 1818, and in the law department of Transylvania University at Lexington. Ivy., in 1553; removed the same year to Missouri and began the practice of law In the central part of that State; was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in ISOO-61. and was first elected in 1879 to the United States Senate in the place of James Shields. Democrat, wno had been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy, Democrat, and served continuously for twenty-four hours.

SENATOR VEST.