Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-06

KrsosnA, wis, March

KENOSHA, Wis, March 3.
Postmaster-General Timothy o. Howe died
IN this city this afternoon. Mr.. Howe came
here on Monday last to visit with relatives for
few days before returning to his oficial
duties at Washington. Before coming he had
been at his home in Green Bay, and had visited
Appleton, Oshkosh and other cities in the
northern part of the State. A week ago to-
oay ne took a long walk in q driving snow
storm and contracted severe cold. His inn
mediate friends urged him to remain there
untl the difficulty arising from the attack
should pass away, but on Monday, feeling nc
worse ne started for this city, his friends at
ureen BAY believing that all danger was
passed. Arriving here he experienced the
e ieenng of illness, but nothing serious
I was reared. Tuesday symptoms of pneumonia
set in He was not confined To his he'd. how
! ever, Till Thursday, when, his symptoms be-
cunning alarming, DIR. Isham, of Chicago, was
euhiinohed. As the result of the physician's
iiinistrations the symptoms of the case inn
PtoNeu, ana Mr.. Howe became so much
pet,er tnat it was hoped and believed thu all
uaheer was at an end. Saturday night. how
e,er' d sudden change for the worse took
pace ,ace, ana dispatches were forwarded to
.I nhs.on and other points addressed to
i"iy ana immediate friends of the sick
man ASKING tnem TO come here ON the first
train. Mr. Howe continued 70 grow, ,rors,
untli TWO O'clock sthist 'aetsrroon. Nf,r,, NJ
passed away He remained perfectly con-
sclous MI about ten O'Clock this morning and
/ suffered put very little. After that hour he
wapSered somewhat in his mind, and his ut
serances al such time showed that his official
! uuties weighed upon his mind up to the mo-
..en1 Oh ms death. He was conscious at
times, and at eleven o'clock showed unmis-
taxable evidence that he recognized his
/
7 at that hour. His death was peaceful
and without pain. He seemed to pass
away as though entering upon a natur-
ai steep, and for SOME moments
after death it was almost impossible to decide
that he was not simply asleep. Mr.. Howe
died at the home of his nephew, Colonel j. III.
Howe He came to this city two weeks ago,
when he first arrived from Washington, and
! spent several days here. He was then in ex.
ceilcnt health. He went from here to Green
bay, and his intention was to return here and
complete his visit before returning to Wash
ington.
Judge Howe was a native of Maine. horn n,
Llvermore i'm that State, February "a, 1916
ana was consequently sixty-seven years old
his VIE died in 1881, and his only surviv
ing relatives are his son Frank, daughter
Mrs. Totten, wife of Colonel E. Totten
Washington; his nephew, Colonel Jane.
II. Howe; and his niece, Miss Grace Howe
Of keDosha.
The News TT Washington,
WASHINGTON, March %.
Frank, your father is dead" 1t was II
this cruel manner that comparative strange
informed young Mr.. Howe upon the stree
this afternoon that his father was no more
The shock which the son received was scarcel,
greater than that felt by the entire commu
nifty this evening when it became known, an
the surprise was less, for dispatches whic
had been received by members of the faml
during the day had prepared them for a fata
termination of Judge Howe's illness. Assist
ant Postmaster-General Hatton, early this aft
ernoon, received dispatch from Kenosha in
dlcating that Judge Howes illness had be
come OF more alarming character. He in
mediately dispatched messenger to the Pres
ident and to the house OF Judge Howe Thi
messenger had hardly left when another di,
patch came indicating still more alarming cor
ditions, and soon after came the news of hi
death. Mr.. Hatton Immediately took a cal
rage, went for Secretary Lincoln and for Sec
rotary Chandler, and with them proceeded /:
abe White House. The President was visibl
affected. He had scarcely heard of the seriou
turn in the illness of his Postmaster-G enera
before the news came to him that he was dead
The death of the Postmaster-GeneraL out
side of his immediate family, will bring sin
cere grief TO no one more than to the Presi
dent of the United States and TO the remain
ing members of his Cabinet. And to Judg,
Folger. who is himself lying upon a bed O
pain, the news, when his physicians permi
1t to be broken to him, will be q terribl,
shock. They were nearly of the same age
their habits were judicial and, though com
parative strangers before they had entered
the Cabinet, their relations had become of the
most cordial character. The President ha,
learned to look upon Judge Howe as one O
the most trusted of his counselors and, Will,
the Postinaster-General seldom VOLUNTEERED
opinions, there was no one about the Execu
tive councilchamber to whom the Presidcn
more readily tm ned for suggestions than t.
the late Postmaster-General.s