The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-30
HOW HE DIED.


lie Ate Light Meal and Then Withdrew
10 His Room-was Stricken With Cere-
bral ApopleIy aud Quietly Passed Away.
Rev. Father MeGIynH's Touching Grief,
NEW YORK, Oct, 29,-Henry George,
the candidate OF the Jeffersonlan Demo-
cracy, for mayor OF Greater New York,
died in the Union Square hotel at 4:45
this morning. Death is thought to have
been due TO apoplexy.
Mr.. George arrived at the hotel at
about o'clock this morning. He had
just come from several large mass meet
ings in the boroughs of Queens and
Brooklyn. The work OF the night seems
to have told on him. He complained of
being tired, but his friends and relatives
who awaited him. thought It only the ma
turaI fatigue that follows such hard
campaign work as Mr.. George had been
doing,
Not long after reaching the hotel he
retired. Mrs. George awaited him in
IAtDIlA VI AilG AOLGls ~ was eAbbaN "fWN
o'clock when Mrs. George was awakened.
She found Mr., George sitting In an arm
chair.
~ am not feeling quite comfortable"
said Mr. George TO his wife.
won't you go back TO bed?" inquired
Mrs. George anXlously.
"I will sit here awhile" was the an:
swer.
Mrs. George at once grew anxious al
to her husbands condition. Mr.. George
gradually grew incoherent and lapsed
into mi-conGclousness.
Mrs. George was now thoroughly
alarmed and called her son, Henry
George, Jr., from an adjoining room
Frank Stevens was also called In.
Mr.. George was now unconscious.
A call was sent to DR.. Kelly, OF III
East Fifty-nlnth street, and he came
without delay
Mr.. George was still unconscious. All
efforts to revive him failed. Without
sign OF recognition to those around him
he passed peacefully away at 4:45 o'clock.
Mrs. George wac Frustrated ana was
cared for by friends OF the family at the
hotel.
Tom Johnson was Immediately sent
hIItNtu Ut HOlGA aN bsAV ~ AAA'
He announced that meeting OF the
George leaders would be held at the
Everett House at II o'clock this morn
ing, to determine upon the course OF ac-
tion.
Frank Stevens. personal friend OF
Mr. George and one OF his campaign
managers. was at the candidates bed;
side after the fatal attack came. He
said this morning:
~ came into the Union Square hotel at
1 o'clock this morning and found Mr..
George sitting at table In the dining
room with a few friends. Mr.. George
had Just returned from the Central opera
house, where he had delivered a speech.
AFTER light meal Mr.. George COM
planned OF indigestion. He soon retired
after bidding us all good night. Mrs.
George found him sitting In arm cha1
about $3.50 o'clock. Soon after his con-
diuon became alarming and she sum
moned several OF us. l went at once for
the doctor and on my way stopped at the
Waldorf and notified Mr.. johnson. He
was greatly shocked and lost no time
getting down 10 the Union Square hotel.
II then went to Mr.. Georges residence
on Ninety-seCond street, South Brook
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| family there. His son Richard and his
unmarried daughter were there at the
| time. With them were two nleces of Mr..
George, daughters of his brother
Thomas, who resides in Philadelphia"
DR.. Il. G. Kelly. Mr.. Georges family
| physician, received n message at his
home in East Flfty-ninth sereet, at 4
| o'clock this morning. that Mr.. George
was dying. He Immediately dressed
and went to the hotel. There he found
that Mr.. George was stricken with apo
| plexy. He was already beyond hope.
| The physician could do nothing and the
! family and he awaited the end Mr..
| Georges death was painless
DR.. Kelly said that he saw Mr.. George
n few days ago and that he was then In
better condition than he had been ut the
opening Of the campaign,
When asked as to whether he had ad-
vlsed Mr. George to enter the canvass,
the doctor replied evasively:
Il don't think any power in christen-
dom could have prevented Henry George
from sacrificing himself in the cause In
which he was enlisted, and knew him
we'll"
In the death certificate. DR.. Kelly said;
Il hereby certify that / attended tho
deceased from September, 1881, to Octo-
Der. 1897; that saw him alive last
on the 29th day OF October
1897, at 8 o'clock In the morning. and
that to the best Of my knowledge and be.
lief the cause Of his death is hereunder
written.
"'ChIcf cause apoplexy CcercbraD;
contributing cause, asphyXla; duration
OF disease one half hour"
The Rev. Edward McGlynn reached
the Union Square hotel shortly before II
O'Clock. The dispatch which summoned
him merely announced that "a dear
friend" was dead, but bearing In minL
his own premonlhons and tho premonl.
tlons that Henry George had conilded Ia
him, he concluded rightly that his great
associate In the single tax battle OF other
years had expired.
AZ the hotel he was met by Henry
George. jr When he was taken into the
room where his friend lay dead, he burst
into tears. The scene was a DISTRESSING
one. Afterward DR. McGlynn said:
"Honry George died az Abraham Lin.
coin died. Nncoln waB asBasslnatted
Just after his great work OF saving tht
Union was contaminated. il wac said
that he was merclfully spared the petty
annoyanccs and chickering's OF the recon,
strucuon period Henry George wal
struck down by fate In the zenith ot his
powers but the great work that he In.
auguratod viii so on.
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SKETCH OF GEORGES LIPE.