Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — ROSEWATER FOUND DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROSEWATER FOUND DEAD.

Omithii Kdif oiv anil Unlit 1 <-iflli Strii *kfa »ltli Ifi-nrt lililnn;. -TrEdward,4tti>cWJiiJr, m-nbruTor and ydi-t-or of th«> Dtuaha Bee and prominently Identified with the political, financial and

business affairs of Omaha and the State Of • Nebraska for forty years, was found dead in District Court room No. 0, on the third floor of t-ho -Bee building, early Frill ay. Mr, Ro*ewaterUevidentlv had • • ' *. * : -•.-- :■ sat down on a

bench in the court room and fallen asleep, and died of heart failure. Mr. Rosewater went to Waterloo, Neb., -Thur.-d.iy • afternoon to-maUo a speech ata Re-fttihlb'nn poHtlOfel iiiectiiig. He lTrrch' ed Omaha on his return at 7 o’ehx'k and went to his .ofiiee id the Bee building, lie is known to have been in the office during the evening, but was not seen by meniiurs of his family after re urning from Waterloo. It was a habit of Mr. Rosewater to go to different parts of the building whenever li is pleasure so indicated, and it is pivsiuiu'd 1)e-sieppodJuilP tht> large court room and sat down for a minute's repos.' and fell asleep. When Judge Troup arrived at the court room in the morning he found the . body of Mr. Rosewater on a bench. The death of Mr. Rosewater, coming so suddenly, was a shock to tlie people of Omaha. I)r. Charles Rosewater, brother of the dead editor, attributed death to the excitement attendant on a long campaign in which Mr. Rosewater was a prominent candidate for the nomination by the Nebraska State convention - for United States Senator.

EDW. ROSEWATER.