The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-12
TRAGIC DEATHS.
THE BULLET, BLADE AND BOWL
Violent Deaths Of Noted Men-How They
Met their Destinies-Battle, Muir
der, and Sudden Death-Cat-
slogue of Iatastrophes.

The dozen congressman or ex-Con
Sressmen who have suicided, as referred
10 in this correspondence couple o
days ago, does not by any means fill M
the list of those who have met tragi,
deaths. congressman are human tn,
same as other people, and the history o
their lives and deaths and selection,
from the same make an interesting
chapter to the student of human ma
!ure. Take the case Of Nathaniel Pen
BODY, Tor instance He was an Office.
OF the revolutionary war, having bee,
me hrst man to resign Il royal com.
mission for the cause of his adoptt d
country. He was Il member g.
the Continental Congress- and promin
cnt in thNrevolutionary war, and hon
cred by all; yet he spent the last wears
NJ his life in the DEBTORS limits of lin,
lall, having never recovered from The
pecuniary embarrassment which fol-
lowed his long service in the war, and
ilndlly died as above stated.
Another case in which a member of
congress died I'm utter want was that ul
ih0ihas Alexander Marshall of Ken
lucky, son OF Humphrey Marshall. He
was member of the Twenty. secnuo
Congress and man OF great brilliancv.
ne Decane,' so says POur's Congress
Sional Record, "a confirmed druukard.
AND OFTEN STUFF RED ron room.
being during the last wears # his liz.
entirely dependent upon charity for su,-
tenance.' lie died suddenly In Louis
Nllle. Going to the other extreme the
records show that rs many have died
from govt as from want. Assassination
mas been the cause of the death of sev-
tral congressman. IL is not NECESSARY,
to mention Lincoln and Garfield. both ~
whom were members of Congress and
both of whom died by the assassin's
hand. In addition to these was the case
oI James l.. White, of Indiana, who was
IN the REIMBURSEMENT Congress and
was shot by drunken man while walk
ing upon the street Of his town in Indi
ana. John Simpson, who was elected to
me Thirteenth Congress from Kentucky
was massacrcd at River Raisin in tho
war OF 1913, Tor which service he raised
u company of volunteers, for the eXne-
dition under Gen Winchester. John
iluyler Of New Jersey, who
was a member Of the Thirty-dfth Con
gress, WAS killed by drunken man
near his home in New Jersey i'm 1870. II. &.
iiendman who was in the Thirtv-sixth
Congress from one of the Southern
States and was reelected as a Secession
Isl to the Thirty-scvcnth Congress, was
called from his house and assas-
sinated at Helena, Ark, after the
war. Reuben Davis, who was in the
| Ihlrty-titth Congress, was shot in n
courtroom by u prosecuting attorney
while engaged in defending a prisoner.
ut Columbus, Miss. Quite u number of
| Congressman have
MET THEIR DEATHS IN nUELS
or as the result of duols. George A
| Waggaman, Senator from Indiana from,
! ISL 70 lSil, died from wounds received
in "a duel in 1873, Felix X. Xolicoiler
who was in the Thirty-third, Thirty
fourth and rhirty-lilth Congresses, aile
afterwards \ Brigader-General i'm In,
Confederate Army, died from wound,
received in u personal encounter will
zen Frye, of Kentucky, in 1862. iona
than Sibley, of Missouri, who was in
Congress thirty-nve wears apo. Nn
killed in u duel by William Grave. a
Kentucky, also member OF Congress,
IN ISIS. ThOs. Harris, of the Thirteenth
Congress, died from wounds received in
u "rencOunter with Col. Simpson on
! April Is, 1916" Armistead Thomson
Mason, Senator from Virginia, i'm ISL,
and 1917, challenged his brOthor-in-law
John NJ. Mccarthy, aud WAS killed nj
first fire. The duel took place neal
! Washington. Spencer Bettes, who WA,
in the Twenty-iirst Congress-, was kille,
in a duel with Maj. Biddle at st. Loui,
| in 1881. Robert Potter, ufNurth Carolina
who was member of the Twcnty-tirst
| Congress from that State, Committed ,
brutal maim," says Poolc's record, "ol
two relatives of his wife, of whom n,
was jealous, on August ~, lS3l.n II,
was lined $1,000 and sent to prison for 81 y
monthn. lio afterwards moved to Texas
and was thoro killed in
DisR&l UTAnLE PR WAITE QUARREL.
Z. NJ. Ripley, of New Hampshire, who
was an officer in the war of 1872, and VIII,
was at that time wounded, was "A mem
Der of tho Twenty-lOurth Congress, hi
only son was murdered in the Fannini
massacre, and from the effects of TN,
and the opening OF one of his wounds
Mr.. Ripley died. John Rutledge, who
was member Of the Provincial Con
gress In 1865, and of the Continental
congress, was appointed Associate Jus
ticC OF the supreme court by Washing
ton, but was not confirmed. He sooI
lost his reason, became sick and died In
the year 1900.
William Pinckney, of MARYLAND, nc
was AT one time Senator from that State
died from over oNertion in arguing 1
case in the Supreme court.
j. j. Stevens, who was "A delegate from
washington territory to the Thirty hfth
and Thirty-siXth Congress, was killed
in the battle at Bull Run, while carry
ing the flag Of his command. His Is
only ono of many eases in which ok
congressman We're killed or received
mortal wounds during the war.
Abraham X. Nenable, who was in IA,
Second, Third and Fourth Congresso,
~ a member of the House, and after
wards u Senator from Virginia, WI,
burned to death in u Richmond thcatr,
/ in 1871.
The tragic death Of William NJ. Tweed
who was member Of the Thirty-third
| congress, and afterwards prominent In
New York politics, and his dying in iai
Is familiar TO all Washington Cores
pondeuce.
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