New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-15
A MEMBER OF CONGRESS- DEAD.
GENERAL ELI T. STACKHrUSE SUDDENLY
sTLlCKEN WITH HEART FAILURE.
pRosrRArFD WITHOUT WARNING At HIS HOME
-rHE SIXTH DEATH ~ THE LID

| pRnsTr,TFp WITHOUT WARNING At HIS HOME
-rHE SIXTH DEATH ~ TIE LID
CONGRESS.
| w.s,,,rton Juno 1A-Another name has been
added 70 the death list Of the Lid Congress. hn J..
c,ao,hors. penrcsentolvc from the With District OF
sou,h Carolina died at bis home in this city early thS
morning from an attack Of heart failure Mr. STACK
houses death was entirely unexpected lie h'u DC"
in robust health for a man OF his as"-he ""s SAY
eight years Oli-and was one OF the part! "''. ~
cOmpaniai the body OF Colonel Poik president o' wv
Farmers Alliance, tn Raleigh last saturday. III 10
turned TO Washington Yesterday and was in atenace
mon the SOS sion OF the House early In the afternoon
While talking with Repre- cntatlve Livingston Oh
/ Georgia Mr.. stacklousc WAS seized bv En"''ps
it, but this was attributed 10 tho intense hca'' a'i
after he had gone to his homo neir the 'ap''oi w
appeared - recover completely ana rc'urh'N " ''o
Uouse where he was needed to help make quorum
After the adjournment Mr.. Stackhouse went TO MS
rooms and listened to some articles on pohucn sun
iccts which were read 10 him by his SOL "heh no
went 10 boi his son proposed to sit up win MN" o"'
he refused to permit him TO.
About half.past 1 O'Clock his son was awakened
by the sound Of heavy breathing and fastening 10
Tia, bedside Of his father found him unco':cious'
Representative Cate OF Arkansas. who lives IN the
same bouse was hastily summorei as was also
physican but before the latter arrived Mr. stack
house had passed away without r,gnning consci"u'n'eS'
Tho body OF the dead Representative VIII be re
moved tomorrow morning TO the pennsylvania h'ii-
road station b. be taken TO his homo Mt Lit'ie
Rock. s. C. Several months ago Mr. stack'iouSe lost
his wife. who died suddenly at her home In south
Carolina.
Mr. staclhousc was born in Marion. :. C.. near his
late residence March 81. 1924. lie educated in
thc p,,1Ic schools and worked his fathers farm
tcaclng school four years between the age Of n'nc
teen and twcnty-tlrcc years lie left his farm III
1861 10 serve IN Longstrcct's CORPS. Amy of North
ern Virginia. and WIS surrendered as colonel OF the
regiment. Before reconstruction lie was three unc'
elected IN represent bis county In the state Lcssn
ture since reconstruction he devoted lis attention
10 farming He was thrice elected PRECEDENT OF The
Farmers state Alliance. lie prominent IN IN"
councils Of the National Alliance and was elected 10
the Lid Congress n a Democrat largely by the aid
Of Alliance votes.
The sudden death Of Representative stackhouse In
crcases 10 six the number Of members elected to The
present Congress who now dead The deaths OF
the Senators from Kanaas and Virginia Preston H.
Plumb and John :. Barbour. still fresh III INC
p,I,ic mind. In the House but on" member has died
since the meeting OF Congress, John W. Kendall OF
Kentucky who Is succeeded by his son. Elected to
the Lid Congress. but not living TO take Ids seat
among his Cd colleagues. was the veteran General
Francis b. spsnola The vacancy occadonrd by his
death was filled by the election OF "lrke cochran.
The Idol OF the southrrn Republicans In the House
has for many years been L"ondas {. Iouk. OF
tennessee who after serving many succcSiv" forms
r,ranola he did not live To take lbs seat. lie was
slcc cedcd by hs son, John {. lIouk.