The Portland daily press., 1897-10-30
OVerWork in the Campaign the Pri.
mary Cause.
HENRY GEORGE JR. NAMED AS
HIS SUCCESSOR ON TICKET.

News of Death Heard With Universal Ex-
pressions of lRegret-Tributes to His
Foe-Gossip as to Effect on the Contest
London and New York Newspaper
| Comment.
New York, October S9.-Henry George
died at the Union Square hotel about 5
O'Clock this morning.
| Mr.. George arrived at his hotel about
one O'Clock this morning. He had just
come from several large mass meetings in
the boroughs Of Queens, Brooklyn and
Manhattan.
| The work of the night seemed to have
told on him. He complained of being
tired but his friends and relatives who
awaited him thought it only the natural
| fatigue that follows such hard campaign
ing work as Mr.. George had beenagoing
through.
| Not long after reaching the hotel he re-
tired. 1t was about $50 O'Clock when
Mrs. George was awakened. She found
Mr.. George sitting IN an arm chair.
81 am not feeling quite comfortab le, )"
said the candidate to. his wife.
won't you go back to bed?" inquired
Mrs. George anxiously.
81 will sit here awhile was his
answer.
| Mrs. George at once grew alarmed as to
her husbands condition. Mr.. George
gradually grew incoherent and lapsed
into semi-consciousness.
/ Mrs. George was now thoroughly
alarmed and called her son, Henry
George. J1., from all adjoining room.
Stevens was also called.
A call was sent to DR.. Kelley and he
came without delay.
Mr.. George was still unconscious S. All
| efforts to revive him failed.
Without sign of recognition to those
around him, he passed peacefully away at
4. 4b clock.
| Mrs. George was Frustrated and was
| cared for by the friends of the family at
| the hotel. Tom johnson was Immediate
]y sent for and arrived ut the hotel at :. 10
clock.
| THE CAUSE APOPLEXY.
DIR. G. E. Kelley, Mr.. Georges family
home, III East seth street, from Mr..
George at four O'Clock this morning that
Mr.. George was in dying condition.
He Immediately dressed and hastened to
the hotel. There he found Mr. George
stricken with apople1y. He was already
beyond hope. Hs could do nothing and
with the family awaited the end. Mr..
Georges death was painless. A blood
cause of apoplexy.
WORK IN THE CAMPAIGN.
After his nomination for mayor by the
Jeffersonian Democrats in the present
campaign, Mr.. George made an extreme
ly active canvass, speaking several times
every evening and working from early
until late at his headquarters.
he gave 10 the campaign It's most sensa-
tional 1nc1dents-his attacks upon Richard
Croker and Thomas G. Platt, whom be
threatened to prosecute for various crimes
should he be elected mayor His candi.
dacy gave to the coming election its
greatest element of uncertainty, for ac-
cording to expert politicians it was
, practically impossible to estimate how
much of Bryans vote of last wear would
go to George instead of Van Wyck.
Last night Mr.. George spoke in the
borough of Queens and later in tht
borough of Manhattan at the Central
Opera house. He was greeted by large
and enthusiastic crowd everywhere. In
one of his last nights speeches Mr.
George said: ."
''I have labored for years to make my.
self known and now at last these things
are all written down. I believe that AL
needed reforms are summed up in the
philosophy of the right of every man t.
eat, co drink or to speak as he sees fit, sc
long as he does not trench upon the
rights of any other toilers, whose devoted
champion he has been all his life. ("
Mrs. George and Henry George, Jr.
have been solicitous regarding the effect
of the terrible strain of his being bundlec