The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Served Under Jefferson Davis in the
Mexican War and as Brigadfer
in the Confederate Army.
DEATH CLAIMS ALBERT BAL
MEMBER OF THE. FIRM OF NOTED
MUSIC HALL PROPRIETORS.
Sudden Demise of Congressman ASH
ley B. Wright, of Massachusetts
Samuel c. Reid Also Dead.

JACKSON, Miss, Aug. IA telegram
received late this afternoon from Missis-
slppi City the s;uf coast summer resort
announces the death of United States Sena-
tor James 4. George, at o'clock D. m.
Dr. Henderson, family physician, and SON
ln-law of Senator George, gave out the fol-
lowing statement at o'clock this after
noon. The senator is sinking gradually
and the end is expected within twenty
hours. This morning Hon. A. G.. Kincan-
non, state superintendent CT education,
whose wife is a granddaughter of the sena-
tor, also received a telegram to the effect
that he was sinking rapidly.
Later in the day Senator Walthall ar
rived on the north-bound train. He came
direct from Mississippi City, where he had
been with Senator George the past two or
three days, and, though he declined to be
interviewed on the subject of the condition
of the health of his illustrious associate,
he did not offer any cheering suggestions
and from MS detected countenance it was
easy to read that he feared the worst.
Pink George, of Carrolton, a son of the
senator, was passenger on the south
bound train this afternoon. He was hast
ening to, his fathers bedside, being called
by a telegram from his brother, which
read: Father is sinking rapidly"
Senator George journeyed from his home
at Carrolton to the gulf coast about ten
DAYS ago and hoped the change would bene-
lit him and it was thought it had until the
news came to-day OF the relapse.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE sergeant
alarms of the Senate received a dispatch
tonight from Senator Walthall, of Missis-
sippi, saying that his colleague Senator
George, died at 2:3O this afternoon, and
asking that Vice President Hobart and
Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi be no.
tilted. The sergeant-at-arms accordingly
telegraphed Mr. Hobart, at Plattsburg, on
Lake Champlain, where he is with the
President The Vice President will de-
termine whether a committee of senators
will be appointed to go to Mississippi, a
duty somewhat difficult at this season with
senators widely scattered and the place
of funeral remote.
James z. George was born in Monroe
county, Georgia. Oct. 20, 1926 His father
having died in his Infancy, he removed
when eight years of age, with his mother
to Noxubee county, Mississippi, where he
resided two years; he then removed to Car
roll county, where he was educated in the
common schools then existing. He volun-
teered as a private in the First Regiment
of Mississippi Volunteers in the Mexican
war. commanded by Col. jefferson Davis
and was at the battle of Monterey. On
his return he studied law, and was admitted
ed reporter of the High Court of Errors
and Appeals in 1854, reelected in 1860, and
prepared and published ten volumes of the
reports of the decisions of that court, and
afterWard prepared and published digest
of all the decisions of the Supreme Court
and High Court of Errors and Appeals of
that State from the admission of the State
into the Union to and including the year
1870 He was a member of the convention
in Mississippi in 1861 which passed the ordi-
nance of secession, and he voted for and
signed that instrument. He was a captain
in the Twentieth Regiment of Mississippi
Volunteers in the Confederate States army;
afterward a brigadier general OF State
troops and afterward colonel of the Fifth
Regiment of Mississippi Cavalry in the
Confederate States army. Mr.. George was
chairman of the Democratic state eXecu-
tive committee of Mississippi in 1879 and
1876. In 1879 he was appointed one OF the
Judges of the Supreme Court of MISSISSIPPI
and elected chief justice, but resigned his
seat on the Supreme Bench in February
1881 to take his seat in the Senate on the
4th of March of that year. He was re-
elected in 1886 and again in 1892. His term
of service would have expired in 1879
Senator George was well liked in the SEN
ate Notwithstanding rather Drusque man
ner. Those who knew him realized fuly
that beneath the outward crust was Rdden
a kindly and gentle disposition. He was
also universally respected for his great
erudition on legal ana constitutional ques-
the Senate during the present generation
who had made greater research into consul
tutional questions or could discourse more
profoundly upon that instrument or gov
ernment, Very few constitutional questions
ever arose in the Senate that he did not
participate at length in their discussion,
and he talked on comparatively few other
topics Mr.. George was ranking Demo-
cratic member of the committee on agriGul-
ture and he served as the chairman of that
committee in the Fifty-third Congress, but
he devoted more of his time to the affairs
of the committee on judiciary, of which he
was a member, though holding a less prom,
interest in the preparation of the substitute
for fort the bankruptcy bill providing for volun>
tary instead of involuntary bankruptcy'
" in the consideration of the bill in the
Senate. Mr.. George declined a reelection
to the Senate more than a year ago, on
account of his health, and Hon. H. d.
Money had been chosen as his successor for
tbe term beginning in 1899