Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
TO ANOTHER MISSION.


Allen Thorndyke Rice. Appointed ana
Confirmed Minister to Russia, Claimed
by Death just as He II ABOUT to Depart
for His Post-A Useful Life and a Career
of brilliant Promise Cut short.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Mr. Allen Thorn-
dyke Rice, the newly-appointed Minister
to Russia, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
this morning.
Mr. Rice caught a cold ON Saturday last
that settled in his throat, his weak point,
and attacked the tonsi1s. Years ago Mr..
Rice had been troubled with tonsilitis.
but the tendency had yielded to an opera.
ton performed abroad. This recent cold
brought back the old trouble. He felt no
better when he returned from a Sunday
trip to Sands Point, which he had under
taken IN the hope of recuperating and on
Monday he sent for his old valet. James
Sergeant, who had been his constant at
tendant for twenty years, and took to
his room in the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
determined to nurse himself back to
health. The baggage for master and man
had been shipped by the City of Paris,
but DR.. Reyes, who was called in, decided
that it would be better for Mr.. Rice to
delay his departure. Sargent stayed up
Sunday and Monday night nursing his
master. On Tuesday Henry Crisp, pro-
IL. It
and, indeed, up till late last night, Mr.,
Rice showed some slight Improvement.
and there was no intimation of danger.
He had been restless, and complained
OF want of sleep. Last night the
doctor gave him a potion, under the
influence of which he dozed off. At half
past two O'Clock this morning the nurse
called Sergeant, who slept in an adj
joining room, telling him that Mr.. Rice
vas choking. They raised him to sit
ling position and the valet hurried for
DR.. Fuller, of No. 107 East Thirty seventh
street, DR.. Keyes' partner. AS soon as
DR.. Fuller saw the patient, he sent for
DR.. Reyes and endeavored vainly to re-
suscitate Mr.. Rice, who was being suffo-
Gated by the accumulation of phlegm
in his throat by forcing oxygen
in his lungs. 1t was too late. Mr..
to the summons. The immediate cause of
his death was edema of the CLOTHS. DR..
Goldthwaite, who lives in the hotel, was
with DR.. Fuller when he expired. The
nurse was the only other person present.
Mr.. Getting and ex-Mayor Cooper were at
once informed of Mr.. Rice's death. They
fastened to the hotel and took charge Of
the dead mans affairs. The funeral ar
rangements will not be made until after
consultation of his friends and relatives
tonight.
Allen Thorndyke Rice was born in June, 1853.
At the age of nine years he was taken abroad
and for five years lived in Europe. In 1867 he
returned to the United States and remained
here until 1871. when he went to England and
was graduated at Oxford in 1875. On his re-
turn to the United States he entered as stu
dent to Columbia Law School. In 1876 he
bought the North American Review of which
he has been the editor. He organ zed, in 1873,
and subsequently directed, the Charnay expe-
dition, which dispatched under the JOINT
auspices of the United States and Franco
to investigate Systematically the
mains of ancient civilization in Central
America and Mexico In 1891 he bought
controlling interest in LIE Matin. one of the
chief papers of Paris of which he is still pro-
prietor. He has always been actively inter-
ested IN politics, and in 1886 on the Repub-
lcan ticket for Congress in the Tenth New
York district against General Splnola. but W:
defeated by local political leaders. He was
strong advocate of the Australian system
voting He has edited "Reminiscences fAbr
ham Lincoln CNew York. 1886. and contrib.
uted to Ancient Cities in the New World"
GSS7). He was nominated to be NJ mister to
Russia by President Harrison, and confirmed
bv the Senate