The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-21
AN EX-SENATOR DEAD
ID. w. PERKINS, OF KANSAS, DIES
SUDDENLY AT WASHINGTON.
Member of the House for Many Years
and Preston ID. Piumb's Success
sOr in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, June 20-Hon. Bishop
w. Perkins, ex-United States Senator, and
for years a Representative from Kansas.
died suddenly at his home in this city this
afternoon. His death was due to cholera
morbus, contracted in Indian Territory
few days ago. He leaves wife, two daugh-
ters and a son. all of whom were present
at the deathbed. A week ago he returned
to Washington from Kansas, and since
then has been suffering with bowel trou-
ble but until last night steadfastly refused
to call a physician. During the night he
became worse, and DR.. Brumbaugh, the
family physician, was called in He pro-
nounced the attack cholera morbus. The
ex-senator passed a quiet night. No seri-
Gus alarm was felt during the day until
8 o'clock this afternoon, when the symp-
toms grew much worse. Drs. Sewers and
Balloch were hastily summoned. Their ef-
forts to afford relief proved futile. He
sank rapidly, and at o'clock passed
away. No arrangements have yet been
made for the funeral though the remains
probably will be taken for interment to the
home of the family in Kansas.
Mr.. Perkins was a ready speaker and an
able parliamentarian. While a member OF
the House he was often chosen to fll the
chair in the absence of Speaker Reed.
Since his retirement from the Senate, in
March. 1893, he had been engaged in the
practice of law in this city, being associa-
ted with ex-Assistant Secretary of the In
terror Chandler in the prosecution Of In
dian depreciation claims before the Interior
Department Ex-senator Perkins would
have been a prominent candidate for the
Senate to succeed Senator Martin at the
axrrair-o ton IF
Mr.. Perkins was born In Rochester, Lo-
rain county, Ohio, Oct. Is, 1S41; received
common school education. with short at
tendance at Knox Academy, at Galesburg
Ill. He read law at Ottawa, ILL.,, was ad-
mitted to the bar there in 1861, and COM
menced pratice. He served four years as a
soldier in the Union army, going out as
sergeant in the Eighty-third Illinois In
fantry, and was adJutant and captain or
the Sixteenth United States Colored In
fantry for two years and six months. Mr..
Perkins county attorney of Labette
county in 1853; he was elected probate
judge of the county in 1870 and again In
judge Of the Eleventh judicial district of
Kansas, and in November of that year was
eiected n in November. @ 5 1874 and again in
November, 1878, holding the office for al
most ten years. He was president OF the
Board of Trustees of the Oswego College
for Young Ladies for many years; was
elected to the Forty-eightn Congress as
Congressman at large, to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and
was appointed Jan. /, 1892, to the United
States Senate to fill, until the election of
his successor. the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Preston Il. Plumb, which
occurred Dec. 20, 1891.
Other Deaths.
GLASGOW, June 2o-George Giles, OF
Minneapolis, Mimi, arrived here on June
s. intending to spend some time in Scot
land for the benefit of his health. He
died to-day at the Waverly Hotel, where
he was sojourning.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, June 20-Col.
Benjamin S. Ewell, emeritus president of
William and Mary College, is dead, aged
eighty-four years. He was brother of the
well-known confederate general.
NEW YORK, June 2O-The death is an
nounced of Alfred Kappes, n. A, we'll