St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-12
RENT DEATHS VEIL.
Senator Kenna Goes to Ex.
plore the Great Unknown
World.
After a Long Illness He Passa
Away in Mornings Early
Hours.
Funeral Services Will Be Held
in theiSenate Chamber
Today.
Gen. Butler to Be Buried by
the Side or His
Wife.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE hand oil
death has again been laid heavily uuor
! the United States senate. AT 3 O'Clock
this morning, when the keenest and Bit
terest gale of the winter swept through
the streets and shook at the window
easements, the end came to Senator
John f. Kenna, and he passed quietly
away after Il long illness. His death was
| not unexpected, for he had been failing
| steadily since midnight and when the
last struggle came he was surrounded
by the faces of those he loved best on
earth, and everything that science could
do to smoothe the fatal pathway had
been done.
His ailment was heart disease, and
!, his father had died before him from the
fatal affection. For years he had been
conscious that he was subject to fatal
termination of the disease at any mo-
| ment, and, in consequence, he had lived
abstemiously and simply and had avoid
ed any chance shock, although he was
unable altogether to resist the attrac-
tOns of the field and stream, for Sen.
ator Kenna was
A BOrn Sportsman
and loved to spend weeks at time In
the pine woods Of his native state in
pursuit of game and fish. lie felt that
these trips were beneficial to his health;
but when he returned to Washington
last fall he complained that he had not
recuperated as usual in his summer
vacation. Last October the stroke came
nI ia n a N
escape then from immediate death.
The senator was man Of great
strength and will power. and the con.
sciouSness that he would leave behind
so many helpless little ones and was
poor man Che had six young children)
nerved him to fight for his life with
superhumau vigor; and the result was
that several times he rallied and cS-
capped from the jaws of death, to the
surprise of the medical men. In one or
two instances so marked was the i'm
prOvement noted in his condition as to
Justify hopes of his ultimate recovery.
AS late as last Saturday he was bright,
aimGst cheerful, and yesterday he told
a member of his state delegation that he
was on the road TO recovery. A fit OF
nausea yesterday morning emphasized
to the physicians the
Precarious Condition
of the patient. 1t marked the failure Of
the circulation, the breaking down Of
the overtaXed heart, and they looked
for the worst. Still, he rallied again,
and the eud appeared to be still distant
until about o'clock last night, when
there were unmiStakable signs of syn
cope and collapse. From that time the
vital forces ebDed rapidly. The mem
bers of his family, except the youngest
of his children, were all in attendance
at the bedside soon after midnight, and
they were present when the husband
and father drew his last breath about 3
o'clock.
The remains will be taken to the capi-
tol tomorrow, and the funeral services
will take place in the senate chamber
about O'clock. AS the deceased was q
Catholic, the services will be impress
sive. and performed under the direction
of Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore,
to whom the senator was warmly at
tached. Tomorrow night the remains,
escorted by the congressional commit
tees, and attended by the members of
the family Of the deceased and Jew
personal friends, will be placed on
Chesapeake IL Ohio railroad train and
be taken to Charlest0wn, w. Va, the
home of tie dead senator.
Senate and House Adjourn.
The Joint committee to conduct the
funeral will be composed of Messrs.
Faulkner (W. Va.), Blackburn (Ky.),
Daniel (Va), Walthall (Miss.( Mander-
son (Neb.), and Squire (Wash.), on the
part of the senate, and Messrs. Alder
son, Pendleton. Capehart and Wilson
(W. Va.), Tucker (Va.) bingham Qa.),
Henderson QH.), DUNCAN CO.,. Mans UT
(Mo.) and Cultivate CO.,, on the part
of the house.
Mr.. Kenna's death was announced in
the senate at the opening Of the pro-
ceedings today by Mr.. Blackburn. Of
Kentucky, in the absence in West Vir-
ginia of the dead mans colleague, Mr..
Faulkner Feeling words of praise
were made by him Of the dead sell atOr,
and the usual resolutions were pre-
sented and adopted, including invitation
to the house Of representatives., the
president and members of the cabinet
and the supreme court to attend the fu-
neral ceremonies in the senate chamber
at IL o'clock tomorrow. A committee OF
seven senators was appointed TO take
charge of the funeral and to accompany
the body to West Virginia, and then, as
q further mark of respect, the senate
adjourned. NO business but the receD-
ton of the banking committees major
ity and minority reports on the repeal
of the Sherman act was done in the
house today. Senator Kenna'S death
was announced and the house adj
journed.
Sorrow in Charleston.
CHARLESTON. w. Va, Jan. 1.-THE
announcement of the death of Senator
Kenna was received here with the great
est sorrow by the people OF Charlestown
and those here from various parts of
the state, regardless of party. Commit
tees on resolutions and funeral arrange
ments were appointed by the senate
and house. A public meeting, called
by Mayor PembertOn, was held this
evening to take appropriate action on
his death.
John Edward Kenna was born In
Kanawha county, Virginia, now West
Virginia, April 10, 1913. He was left
fatherless at the age OF eight years, and
moved with his mother to Missouri,
where he worked on a farm in summer
and in winter was employed in digging
coal. At the age of sixteen he enlisted
in the Second Missouri Confeder-
ate cavalry and followed the fort
unes of the confederacy to the end.
He was wounded in the shoulder and
arm in an engagement between scout
ing parties, but kept up active service
during Gen. Prices retreat from Mis-
souri, Ill 1854, carrying his bruises and
bandages i'll this march with forutude.
At the close of the war he returned ia
his native KanaWha and was EN- ployed
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