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Preston b. flumO, q SenaUOr OIL Jus OulCeu
States from the State Of Kansas. died a few
DAYS ago in Washington of apoplexy. This
news. passing from his lodging in a plain
brick house, diagonally opposite to the
Ebbitt House. o Fourteenth street. near
several of the hotels, spread abroad rapidly,
creating a profound impression OF assonish-
ment and regret.
tion to the laws of nature. The Senator has
been known for years as the most
pushing, energetic, Woodworking MEM
Der of the Senate. A year ago
he began to fail, his brain became
F" affected, and throbbing headaches became
more and more frequent. His physicians
warned him that continuance OF his laoors
meant death, but he refused to heed tnelr
warnings. He continued to wock with the
energy Of a steam engine, and, whsn sun
apparently in full vigor, and with many
wears of life before him, he died.
About 3 o'clock in the morning OF the fatal
aay he aroused his landlord, Mr.. Jennings,
and asked him to send for a doctor. DIR:
Philip S. Wales. ex-Surgeon-Generat
of the Navy, was summoned
remained in charge Of the case
until the end. Hypodermic injections
were administered, and about Z O'CLOCK II
The morning Gu6 OCudlOL y
scious, and continued in a state OF coma,
with scarcely any intermission, until his
death.
There were round his bedside at the time
of his death. besides his physician, Surgeon
General Wales, B. F. Menniken, who for
many wears has been clerk OF the Committee
on Public Lands, Of which Senator Plumb
was chairman, and has acted as his private
secretary; his landlord and other. attendants.
sooi ant 10 fh0 fart fnaE
Mrs. Plumb, who Is an invalid at
Emporia, Kan, t~elegraphed as soon as
Informed Of her husbands death a request
not to embalm the body until it was certain
hat death had occurred. She followed
this with another dispatch explaining that
the Senator suffered from an attack OF pros
tration last summer and had lain as dead
for several hours.
The body of Senator Plumb was gwen IN
charge Of the undertaken at 2:lI,or twenty,
two minutes after his death, and the processo OF
embalming was finished an hour afterward.
This was done by the direction OF the Ser
qeant-at-Arms of the Senate and after Or.
Wales had pronounced Senator Plumb dead.
DR.. Wales declares positively that Senator
Plumb died of apoplexy at 1l:5o O'Clock.
Sketch OF His Career.
Preston B. Plumb was born in Ohio, In
1887. Before he became a lawyer AND
banker he worked at the case as a practlcal
printer. He moved to Kansas In lSoo n
took part in much OF the early e3-
like most Senators Of long service,
he did not undergo a previous apprenticeship
in the lower House Of Congress but came
straight to the senate in 1877. He had pre-
yiously served in many important positions
In the Kansas Legislature, closing his career
there as Speaker. During the war ne fougnt
his way up from Second Lieutenancy totne
Lisutenant-C olonelship Of the Eleventh Kan
Senator Plumb has served fourteen years
In the Senate, and two years ago was re-
elected for a term which would have e1-
pired In 1895. He was one Of the best known
mem in Congress. His tall, athletic
form. his swinging Western gait, his
breezy method of speaking, and his
rugged independence n originality
of Thought and action made him a notable
man, and he was q power on all questions 20
which be gave his mind. He was an omnl-
verous reader and an untiring worker. In
the few days that the present Congress has
been in session he had submitted moro than
thirty bills of q more or less public charac-
ter.
New Workers. have been especially In
terested in Senator Plumb's efforts to induce
Congress to order the removal OF General
Grants body from Riverside to Washington.
He introduced a bill to that effect in the last
session Of Congress and again within a few
days, and was preparing to push the measure
vigorously.
The Senator leaves two unmarried daugh-
ters, who are now living with their mother
at their home in Emporia, Kan; a son OF
twenty-five years OF age, now under treat
ment for his eyesight in Philadelphia, and q
boy Of twelve and a girl Of fourteen at school
In PENNSYLVANIA