The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-27
FELL DEAD.


Former Attorney General Garland Dies
While Addressing Supreme Court.
Washington, Jan. 26.-Former tAttor-
ney General Augustus H. Garland fell
senseless, while addressing the United
States court; shortly after noon today.
and died almost Immediately.
Senator Gallinger, who is a physician,
was called and said his death was due
to stroke Of apopexy
Mr.. Garland's two sons, who are liv-
ing in this city, were telephoned for
and arrived after their fathers death.
1t is said that never before in the his
tory of the United States supreme
court. has, an attorney been stricken
with death while making an argument
there. There have been cases in which
counsel have fallen, stricken with ill
ness, but no case in which death has
followed within a few minutes, as hap
pened today. Mr.. Garland has been in
poor health for several years, and some
months ago was in the hospital for
some weeks. His friends noticed when
he was well enough to be out again.
tiStI iiN 1eli ldJllHu- rapidly and WAS
growing feeble. Several weeks ago he
was taken i'll with the grip and had
suffered from its effects ever since. He
doctoPed himself by taking popular
remedies and, it is understood, had not
considered his case serious enough to
call in physician. Yesterday after
noon, while in the supreme court
room, he laid his head on his hand as
he sat at a table for the accommoda-
n al o,,l J.. -
ing very i'll. This morning before he
went into the court room, he spent
some time in the clerks office, and re-
marked to one of the officials that he
was not feeling very well and he
thought he would go to Fortress Mon
roe, next Monday, to take a rest. He
did not regard his condition at all
serious.
Augustus H Garland of Arkansas
had long and varied training in pub
lie affairs. He was a delegate to the
state convention that passed the ordi-
nance of secession in 1861, and of the
provisional congress that met at Mont
gomery, Ala, the same year. He also
served in both houses of the con-
federate congress, being in the senate
when the war closed He was first
elected to the United States Senate
1 - iNN''''F'' III loOIs .OuJ was nOI dQ-
mitted to the seat. After serving one
term as governor of the state, he was
again elected to the Senate in 1876,
taking his seat March g. 1877. and he
was reelected again in 1883, his term
expiring March 3, 1889. He always held
high rank as a lawyer, and his argu-
ment in the test oath case as to law
yers in the supreme court of the United
States, which he gained, is held in
orb nh hHr t1,n
politics he was a conservative demo-
crat.
Mr.. Garland was born in Upton
county, Tenn, June IL, 1882. His pa
rents moved to Arkansas a year later,
and he had since made that state his
home. Young Garland was educated
at Bardstown, KY, then the most
famous seat of learning in the south
west. In the Catholic colleges of st.
Mary and ST.. Joseph he received a
thorough training in the classics, ma
thematics and beles-lettres, and dur
ing the latter part Of his collegiate
course he also enjoyed unusual oppor-
tunities for the study of law. He was
admitted to practice at Washington,
Ark, where his parents had originally
settled in 1853; but in 1856 he removed
to Little Rock. Senator Garland was
a strong, vigorous man, intellectually
ana pnySlcally HIS person was not
particularly striking, for though his
frame was of the stalwart type, his
department was modest and unassum-
ing. He was sociable and full of hui
NOR, with a keen appreciation of the
ridiculous. In debate he was a strong
and clear speaker using words with
precision, and never INDUCING in long
winded harangues. He was credited
with high executive abilities and great
readiness in the dispatch of business.
Mr.. Garland's wife died soon after he
was elected to the Senate. He was
made attorney general by President
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