Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-19
THE DEATH ROLL.
The Senator from North Carolina
Has an Apoplectic Stroke.
a SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Gen. Henry W. Siocum Dead at Brooklyn
Distinguished Soldier and States
MANTLE Battles In Which
He was Engaged

WASHINGTON, April 16. Senator
Vance, of North Carolina, died at his
home, 1925 Massachusetts, avenue, this
city, at 41:2O o'clock Saturday night.
He had stroke of apoplexy Saturday
morning. He had been suffering for
some time with paralysis and compli-
cation of diseases, but the end was
sudden and unexpected, as he was re-
gaining his health and it was thought
was on the road to recovery. He was
compelled during the winter to leave
the senate and go to Florida Here he
grew somewhat better, and in7Yiew of
the struggle over the tariff he returned
TO Washington. He was a member of
the committee on finance, but took lit
tie or no part in framing the present
tariff bill
BIOGRAPHICAL
Zsbulon Baird Vance was born in Buncombe
county North Carolina, May Il 1880 His grand
father, David Vance settled I'd North Carolina
before the revolution David Vance, father Of
Senator Vance, was killed in duel with Sam
-uel p. Carson OSenator Vance was educated at
Washing ton ce}lege in Tennessee and at Chapel
Hill He was admitted to practice law in 1852,
becoming in the same year county solicitor
for Buncombe county. In 1856 he, was elected
TO the Thirty first congress h was re-
elected in 1853 and became an active parttct-
pant in the Stormy scenes in congress pre-
ceding the orJtbre AZ Of the of the re-
bellion- He a first opposed secession. but
when the st4p was taken By his state, went
with II, and eAtered this confederate army in
May, 1851. He was at once commissioned cap
tain in the Twenty sixth regiment, and three
months later Swss promoted TO the rank OF
colonel In the autumn Of 1862 he was elected
governor of Tie state, which position he held
four years, bsing reelected in IS ~ He pur-
chased steamship and established q system of
carrying cotton to Europe, receiving in return
arms and clothing.
In May 1865. realizing that resistance to the
federal troops longer possible, he is
sued message counseling peace. ana advising
the citizens of the state to accept the results
of the war. He was arrested on orders from
Washington by detachment of Kilpatrick's
cavalr but was released after few months
In April, 1867 he was pardoned By the presi-
dent, and for a few years retired to private
life.
He was elected United States senator in 1870
but on account OF his active participation in the
war the senate refused to admit him, and he
resigned n1872. In 1876 he was for the third
time elected governor and in 1879 was again
unanimously elected to the senate. He was re-
elected in 1888, and 1891 and had three more
years serve.
Senator Vance was twice married His first
wife Harriet Newell Empsy. who died at
Raleigh. November 8, 1878 Oils second wife
was Mrs Florence S. Martaa. of Kentucky,
whom he married in June. 1881
Gen. Henry w. SIocum Passes Away.
New YORK, April 15.-Gen. Henry w.
Slocum died at 1905 Saturday morn
ing. He had been i'll only a few days
and death was not expected Just be-
fore o'clock Friday night he suddenly
began to sink and his family physician.
who had charge of the case. was sum.
moned- He saw at once the
serious condition of the patient
and called Drs Fuhs and Benjamin
in consultation They succeeded
in arresting the relapse, and at
o'clock it was thought that he was bet
ter. He suddenly grew worse, and his
family was summoned to his bedside
to await the end. At II o'clock he fell
into a sleep, which continued three
quarters of an hour. A few minutes
before midnight he awolze. and spoke
to the family. At 1905, while perfectly
conscious, he passed away.
BIOGRAPHICAL
Gen StOcum had been one of Brooklyn'S dis
tinguished citizens since the close of the war
He a former president of the Brooklyn
club and had been connected with many other
organizations, social and military. He was
born in Delphi, small town near Syracuse
N Y, September "a, 1897, and had started t.
take an academic course when fortune threw
West Point cadetship in his way. He en-
tered the academy at the age OF 81 anC
graduated in 1852, the seventh in
clsss OF forty-two. Immediately after gradu
ating he assumed command second ieuten
ant of the Four h artillery and was ordered tc
Florida, where there was trouble with the
Seminole Indians 1t was his first experien ct
of the hardships and discomforts of battle.
The command then ordered to For
Moultrie and while there the young heutenan
began to read law as a relief from the monot
v1f 4 OfE -lrZ
regiment idleness he resigned, went back u
Syracuse and began to practice law.
In two years Mr.. Slocum was elected to tn
lower house of the legislature, and in 1889 h
chosen county treasurer of Onondag
county, and was holding this office when tn
rebellion broke out He accepted command, a
colonel of the Twenty-seventh New York vol
unteers, and lea the regiment into battle a
Bull Run, from which field he carries
severely wounded to the hospital, where h
lay for several months He was then mad
brigadier- general, and under Mcclellan he'll
command of the left division of the army OF tn
Potomac aid was after wards made general O
volunteers To follow Gen. Slocum's milftar
career to the close of the war would be to writ
a history of some of the most impor
tant campaigns of the war. At Gettvs
burg he shared the honors with Meade. tn
commander and with Hancock, and at SheI
mans request he took command of the army o
Georgia in the great march to the
It was Gen Slocum who said at the Gettys
burg council of war: Stay and fight it out"
In September, 1887, he resigned, and, goin
TO Brooklyn, became a lawyer again That fal
he was the democratic candidate for secret tar
OF state, but was defeated. He was sent to cor
gress in 1868, again in 1874 and third term Il
1884 In 1879 he was elected president of tn
board OF city works, Brooklyn, and was one O
the commissioners of the Brooklyn bridge. H
advocated making the bridge free to the publ
and had the satisfaction of seeing his sugges
tions adopted in 1891
Sensational suicide.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-J. Cooper
McGinn committed suicide in a sensa