The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-01
sudden Death of led Momber OF


National Reputlics.. ! ssierday'l
Major Robert NJ. A. Hawk, Representa-,
tive In Congress from the Fiuh district OF
Illinois. died NJ his rooms, No. $40 1weiith
street. last night OF apoplexy, after onIy
few hours, illness. He returned to wash
ington wednesday morning from MS uiS,
trict. where he went on matters connecteu
u,itb his denomination. and was III excel
lent shirts. as ffty-eight OF the seventy
DELEGATES 10 the con0rcs Ial convention
~ the district had notified his friends OF
their intention to vote for his NOMINATION
ne his own successor 10 the Folty-eigllth
Congress. which nomination is equivalent
IN an election. The convention was 10
nominate to-day. Wednesday he was well
and In good spirits, but at y. VI. yestcr-
day he was taken i'll with severe attack OF
bilious collie.
THE ATTACK WAS PAINFUL,
buf he was easier during Yesterday, and his
friends felt no uncasiness a. 10 his condi-
ton. Early in the evening he grew worse
somewhat. but not alarmngly so.. About 0
p. NJ. Senator Logan. whose rooms are just
overhead. called on Major Hawk and sat
smoking for half an hour, and then returned
TO his room. remarking that Hawk would
be all right in the morning. A short time
latcr-about 9:4j p. Ma lady went to
Major Hawks room with cup OF tea.
when he extended his hand and said he
"felt very sick indeed" and almost imme-
distey afterward was taken with a fit OF
vomiting, and his servant was sent TO sum-
mon friends in the house. When these
hurried to the sick legislators bedside a
lady present said that Major Hawk was in a
dying condition.
PHYSICIANS WERE HURRIEDLY SENT FOR,
but few moments after they arrived the
dying man had another severe fit Of yomit-
ing, and in q moment later he fell back on
the pillow and expired without a word.
The physicians present pronounced his
death to he from apOploXv, but persons in
the house think it was caused by the rur-
ture OF a blood-vcsscl I'D the body. Major
Hawk was man OF large stature, OF full
habit, and had recently expressed to .
friend his apprehension that he was sub
Jet to apoplcctic attacks. lie leaves a
family residing at home, at Mount Carroll,
Ill.,, who were informed by telegraph Of
the unexpected sad tidings. Immediately
after the death, which occurred soon after
10 p. NJ, the Illinois delegation in Con-
gress was summoned, and Sorgoant-at-
Arms Hooker was sent for
TO TAKE CHARGE OF TIE REMAINS.
Major Hawk was born in Hancock county,
in Central Indiana, April %. 1889. lie re-
moved 10 Carroll county, Ill.,, where he
wa, educated in the common schools aud
IT Eureka College. During the war he en-
tered the Union army as a lieutenant OF
Infantry. and was promoted to captain in
February, 1868, and was breyetted major
April 10, 1860, for calamity in the field,
where he lost his right lcg in action. After
the veterans Oi The Union were diSbandeG
in 1860, the young major was elected clerk
OF the Court OF Carroll county, an Office to
which ne was elected four times, serving
until 1919. when ho vacated the position 10
enter Congress, to which he was elected in
ISIS Is Republican, and be was reelected
20 the Forty-seyenth Congress in $50 by a
majority OF more than 5000 over his DEM
oUat and Grconback antagonists.
Only yesterday, few hours before
Lis sudden taking of, he received by telc-
graph the news Of his unanimous renOmi-
nation for the Forty-cighth Congress,
which was equivalent to reelection.