Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-13
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters DR. NORVIN GREEN DEAD. Western Unions President
 Passes Away. SERI;s OF FIRES |A NASHVILLE. General Weissert'S Plea for
 Disabled Veterans.
VsNIUaEslME SKATERS ERoWNEp.
Drunken Indians Engage
 in Fatal Rissting.
DIR. NORViN GREEN

The President of the Great Telegraph Company Succumbs to a Brief lllness-Nature of the DIsease-The Arrangements for the BnrIal-BIo- graphical Sketch.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 12.-Dr. NoIvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, died at his residence
 here at 7:30 this morning. Warren Green
 had watched out the night at his father
 bedside. At o'clock 1t was plain that death was lowering near, and In half an
 hour, whils the family were watching his
 every breath, the invalid passed quietly
 away. Dr. Greens illness was only of ten
 days duration. though for six weeks he
 had been confined te+he house, and since
 last fall had not beeusWell. Dr. Yandell
 described the disease ss catarrhal diar-
 rhms. A similar attack caused him suffer
 ing last summer while at Saratoga
 Last fall he was 8 victim of the
 grip. Christmas he returned home
 from New York feeling indisposs d.
 But he kept up his work, though remain
 ing indoors the greater part of the time.
 The Western Union wires quickly flashed
 the news of Dr. Green's death all over the
 land and telegrams of coincidence began
 pouring in from every direction. General
 Thomas T. Eckert and all the officers of the Western Union sent telegrams of sym
 patby. The first arrangement of the family WAS to have the funeral at 230 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, but this is not definite, ss General Eckert telegraphed that he and party of gentlemen would A number of Western Union officers will be active and honorary bearers. The services will take place at the residence and the remains will be ibterred in Cave Hill The burial will be private.
 Dr. Green was born i'll New Albany, Ind , April F, 1818 While a child his family removed to this state. When a young man he earned, by contracting to cut cord wood, money enough te educate himself and was graduated with honor from the medical department of the Uni versity of Louisville. Not long after ward he became physician of the western mili tary academy at Drennen's Springs, Ky, of which the late James G Blaine was then one of the junior instructors Dr. Green early connected himself with the politics of the stats. and was elected for several terms to the Kentucky legislature and in the United States in charge of the of the national building in Louisville While engaged in the work he became connected with the United Morse and Peoples Telegraph and was chosen president of these inr r,rests united in the name of the Southern Telegraph company. In 1886 when the American, United States and Westsll Union lines were consolidated Dr. Green was chosen vice president. He was president of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington rail way from 1869 to 1873. During this period he was urged to accept the nomination for have been eleot;d but for clerical error 1873 Dr. Green again became vice president of the Western Union and succeeded Will liam Orton as president in 1878.
 pr. Green leaves 8 widow, four sons and two daughters. He married in 1840 Miss Martha English, a daughter of Captain James W. English, who fought in the bat tie of Tippecancs and through the war of 1872 under General William Henry Hat rjson Three years ago Dr. Green snd his wife celebrated tnelf g,iden wedding hG their handsome home in this city. For the past thirty years the greatest part of Dr. Greens i,ue had been spent in New York, but he retained his citizenship in this city. In 1878 he removed his family 10 New i York, but brought them back in 1885.
 Dr. Green became unconscious Friday morning and had no lucid mo Dents until late Iast night. Dr. John A Bfoadus, president of the Southern Baptist theoIosi cal seminary, will probably preach ,ne funeral sermon. Dr. Green lift an estate of $750, 900