The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-16
SHUMAN GONE.
THE VETERAN JOURNALIST OF
CHICAGO TAKEN AWAY.

Suuuon StrOK0 ID ApOpleNy on tho
Street Drives Him Into a Lodging
House. Whore He Expires Before a Ply
sIcian Reaches His ~Bedsids-An Hon
orsd Career Ended.
Chicago dispatch: Andrew Shuman,
president OF the Evening journal COM
pany and ex-Lieutenant Governor of
Illinois, died very suddenly about II
O'Clock at night at a lodging house at
ls Quincy street. Death was caused by
apoplesy, and was marked by the alb
sence of any member Of his family or
any of his numerous friends.
Mr.. Shuman had been observed walk
ing on Quincy street about 1890 o'clock.
He appeared sick and seemed
to walk with difficulty. He assembled
the first fight of stairs at No.
Is and asked of Mrs. Wheeler, wife
of the proprietor of the place, for q
room. He complained Of feeling i'll and
asked that he be shown a room imme-
diately. He was assigned to No. $, the
second room from the heaa of the stairs.
and. hurriedly disrobing. retired at once.
After Mrs. Wheeler had shown him the
room she went for u towel, there being
non OF the wash-stand. When she re-
turned with it she heard heavy breath
ing, accompanied by an effort at vomit-
ing. She opened the door and found
Mr.. Shuman in bed lying OH his left side
with the face buried in the pillow.
Mrs. Wheeler ran to the office, where
her husband and son, Benjamin Wheeler,
and a young woman named Miss Belle
Hoye were playing at cards. She eX-
citedly told them of the condition of the
late arrival, for it was not known at
that time who the man was. They hur-
ried to the room and found Mr.. Shuman
lying partly on his back. His face was
of a deathly palIor, and the eyes were
turned upward and rapidly setting in
death. He was choking.
Mrs. Wheeler tore open his shirt col
lar, thinking it would facilitate his
respiration, and this result was temper
arily accomplished. But for a moment
only. The choking sound at the throat
increased and the breathing was
laborcd. His ayes closed and opened.
but there was no recognition in them.
His hands, white and moist with the
damp of death, clutched convulsively
and all was over.
Mr.. Shuman lived with his wife and
daughter at Evanston. He usually left
for Evanston about 5 in the evening.
He had intended remaining in the city
for the night, the early part of the even
Ing having been spent in conference with
some political friends.
He was Very devoted to his wife, who
has been an invalid for a number Of
years. She only quite recently returned
from a health resort in New York state,
where she had been for several months.
He was greatly concerned about her
condition.
Just before her departure from the
health institution she autographed to her
daughter 10 come to her Immediately.
Because the dispatch was sent to his
daughter and was not more explicit
nearly Frustrated him with fear that she
had suddenly grown worse. He told a
friend that he believed lie would go in
ane if some word from his wife did not
reach him. This constant worry about
her had produced visible effects in his
own condition.
Upon the death Of Mr.. Shuman his
family and a few of his most intimate
friends were notified.
Andrew Shuman was born Nov. 8,
1890. in Lancaster county. Pennsylva-
MIA, of old Dutch stock. He received q
common-school education, and at the
age OF IA was apprenticed to the print
ing business in the Office of The Lancas-
ter Union and Sentinel. In ls46 he
entered the Office of the Daily Adver-
tiser at Auburn, n. y. In 1855 he be-
came editor of the Daily journal at
In July, 1856. he became assistant
editor OF the Chicago Evening journal.
finally becoming its head. In 1855 he
married Miss Lucy B. Dunlap, of Ovid,
n. y. He has N daughter, who mar
ried Mr.. I. M. Elliott of Chicago. Mr.,
Shuman held several important public
offices. He was commissioner of the
Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet from
1864 to 1871, and in 1874 was elected
acknowledgement of the state.
The best years of his life were devoted
to the Evening journal. After the
death Of Charles l.. Wilson, president Of
the journal company in 1878. Mr.. Shu-
man was elected president of the COM
pany, a controlling interest in which
was held by Mrs. Wilson and her
daughter.
In March, 1880, Mr.. Shuman and John
K. Wilson, a nephew of the former pro-
prietor, leased the Journal from the
company. During 1883 the mpan
was r~eorganized, with Mr.. Shuman as
president.
About q year ago Mr.. Shuman retired
from active participancy in the manage
ment Of the paper with which he had So
n been identified, but retained his
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