Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-04
DEATH OF KATE FIELD

The Talented Woman SucCumbs to fneu-
monin in observation-disclosures, Journalists
and AuthOrist, Sho was Success IN
Every Calling and . Leader of Thought
and Molder Of Public Opinion-Leading
Traits of Character.
CHICAGO, May 31.-Kate Field ID
dead The sad news was received last
evening in a cable message reading as
follows:
yokohama. Kohlsaat, Times Herald,
Chicago:
kate Field died, May 10; Honolulu;
pneumonia. THURsTON.
The sender Of the cablegram was the
ex-minister from Hawaii to the United
States.
Miss Field was born in st. Louis,
but the numerous biographical
Sketches of this brilliant woman do
not say what year she was born In.
Her father, Joseph NJ. Field, and her
mother, who was Eliza Lapsley Rid
die, of Philadelphia, were able to give
her rare educational advantages and
through them she inherited brilliancy
and versatility, her mother being
charming actress. Kate was
educated in Boston, Italy and
England, and travelled all over
the world. She was essentially cos
mopolitan. After her classical educa-
ion she gave special attention to mu-
steal studies, becoming pupil OF Gar
cia and William Shakespeare, the En-
glish tenor. She made several visits.
to Europe, and during her stay abroad
became correspondent of the New
York Tribune, Philadelphia Press and
Chicago Tribune, besides doing work
for periodicals.
In 1874 she appeared as an actress in
Booths theater, where her dramatic
talent asserted itself.
Since leaving the stage she has de-
voted her talents and energies to lee
turing and journalism, in which she
achieved the greatest success. Among
her published works are ''Planchette's
Diary Adelaide Ristori,'' Mad On
Purpose" Ia comedy, Pen Photo
graphs of Charles Dickens Readings"
':Haphazard," Ten Days in Spain,
History of Bells Telephone"
She founded the National Review
several years ago, and in 1890 began
the publication of her famous late
Fields Washington, in the national
capital. She remained the editor, pub
Usher and sole owner Of the unique
weekly publication, the only one in
the world which bore a woman's name
An attack of the grip in the winter OF
1S94-5 left her untitled for hard edi-
torial work, and on this account she
was compelled to suspend pu blication
Of her paper and travel for health, do
ing occasional lecturing and light jour
nalistic work.
Last fall Miss Field was sent to the
Hawaiian islands by the Times Herald
as special correspondent, and was thus
engaged when removed by death.
AS editor of the little Washington
weekly Miss Field became creator
and manipulation of public sentiment
and was accorded her full due of high
rank among prominent men at the
capital, who both courted and feared
her vigilant and powerful pen and
speech. Yet she was the most popu-
lar woman in Washington among
statesmen. She frequently stirred the
country to sense of it's shortcomings.
Her home was at the Shoreham hotel.
The latest advices received by the
Times-Herald from Miss Field stated
that she had made the perilous ascent
to the crater of the active volcano
Mauna Loa, where no white woman
had ever trod before, and that she had
been greatly benefited in health by
the trip. This letter was dated Maya.