Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-31
Death OF CHARLES r. CRISP
Distinguished Statesman Passed
Away Yesterday.
An Invalid for Some time-..Chronic
Heart and Lung Trouble Ag-
gravated by MalariaI
Fever the Cause.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 24.-This commune
ty IL deeply grieved over the death Of
e~x-Speaker Chisp. that occurred yes
terday afternoon.
Mr.. Crisp had been In intense pain
all day. Every few minutes he would
suffer greatly. but no danger was
feared at such an early moment. His
wife. together with a sa~nitarlum nurse.
Miss Sharp. was watching at his bed
side. At about a quarter of 2 O'Clock
Mr.. Crisp was seized by an attack. The
watchers saw It and sent down stairs
for DIR. Holmes. Jurge Chisp's two
daughters, Mrs. Fred Davenport and
Miss Bertha Crisp. and his two son
Charles F. Crisp, Jr., and Fred Crisp,
were quickly summoned. When they
entered the room Judge Crisp vas still
unconscious. He made a few motions
Of recognition. breathed a few times and
died. He could not speak. SO quickly
had the dread messenger come that the
stricken family stood appalled, in the
death chamber.
Mr.. Crisp's death, while thus sudden,
was not unexpected by the physicians
who have been watching him. He had
been declining for several years. His
''h 'sfN'Ff "a2
by an attack OF malaria fever which he
contracted at his horne, Americas, ~
few weeks ago, but which itself yielded
to treatment when ne came to Atlanta.
He was considered convaiescent and
only last Sabbath had ridden out, but
when renewed health seemed within
view he was attacked by congestion OF
the lungs and heart, caused by two pre-.
vious attacks Of pleuro-pneumonia, re-
suited In his death.
DR.. Holmes. the attending physician,
said this evening:
Judge Crisp had beer in i'll health
for the past six or eight months. He
had been suffering for two or three
years with intense pains, coming at in
tervals In the chest.
Thursday he had a favorable day,
and was decidedly better than any day
since Sunday night. The lung trouble
yielded very satisfactorily 10 treatment
Thursday evening he was visited with
very severe pains in the chest hat DC
CURED at very short intervals. He con.
tinued TO have those pains until las
yesterday afternoon, when he suddenly
expired, probably from rupture OF the
heart as the result of fatty degenera,
ton
Definite arrangements have not been
completed concerning the funeral. but
II Is understood that the body will ulS
mately rest at his old home In Ansricus;
among the people who loved 80 we'll tc
honor him.
Governor w. Y. Atkinson, who has
just been reelected chief executive OF
Georgia for a term of two years, Il
prominently mentioned az successor to
the senatorial sea which woul hav1
been Mr.. Crisp's had he survived
Should he enter and be elected Their.
would probably be a contest for the
governorship between Hon. Robert l.
Berner and Hon. a. s. Clay, chairmar
OF the state democratic executive com
mittee.
1t was decided late last evening Ina
the body of the distinguished Georgian
would be removed his morning from
the sanitarium TO the state capitol
where IL will lie in state until 7:3) O'CLOCK
Sunday morning, at which hour IL viii
be transferred to a train and borne an
der appropriate escort 10 Americas, Mr.
Crisp's home, where the funeral will
take place Sunday afternoon ar 3:9(