Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-25

One Of the Best known Lawyers and
/, Jurists in the State, For Eleven
Years on Supreme Bench. s.
Large Number of Friends in the City
and State Shocked and Griev-
ed at Sudden Death.

Judge Joseph Milton Bartholomew,
for eleven years justice of the supreme
court of the state, who retired from
the bench at the first of the year, died
suddenly of heart failure at s o'clock
Sunday morning. The end came in
stantly and without warning to the
members of his family; his wife and
daughter, who had not yet arisen from
bed when Judge Bartholomew was
stricken with the attack which resulted
in almost instant death. News of the
sad event spread, quickly about the
city, and was distinct and severe
stock, to the many friends and ac-
quaintances of the judge, whose ap-
parent good health previously made it
difficult to believe that he had so sud
denly been called away.
Judge Bartholomew retired Saturday
evening, apparently in excellent health
and spirits, and rose Sunday morning,
before the other members of the fam
lily as was his custom, still in the same
apparent good health. He at
tended the q various little chores
about the house, and cleared the walk
outside the house of the light snow
which fell during the night. 1t was
his custom to build the kitchen fire,
and then call the members of his fam
lily. 81, Mrs, Bartholomew and Miss
Freddie heard him enter the house,
and shortly afterward heard a fall,
paying little attention to it, as they
thought it to be snow falling from the
roof. The noise was repeated and
fearing something might be wrong
Mrs. Bartholomew hastened down
stairs, where her worst fears were real
lied. Stricken with a fatal attack,
Judge Bartho olomew had fallen on the
threshold between the kitchen and din
ling room: Il, Miss Freddie had also
hastened down stairs, and raised her
fathers head, as Mrs. Bartholomew
endeavored to give some aid to the
stricken man. Mortally stricken, he
| neither spoke nor gave q sign beyond
a long sigh and expired. !"
The shock to Mrs Bartholomew and
Miss Freddie, alone in the house, was
inexpressibly severe. s Aid was sum
moned as speedily as possible and med
| ical aid sent for, but all without avail.
The Messenger had come and Judge
| Bartholomew was beyond reach OF
mortal assistance. DR.. Smyth arrived,
but found that death had ensued some
time before his arrival. IL. =.
| The news of Judge lBartholomew's
death will be a shock to his friends in
the city and throughout the state,
Long a distinguished member of the
bench and bar Of the state, he was es-
lpecially well known Particularly in
! the legal profession will his loss be
felt, as he was acknowledged q leader
both as lawyer and jurist- His death
lis the greater shock because unex-
lpected, He was not known to have
been sufferer from heart trouble, al
though 1T is q peculiar coincid dence that
but a day or two before his death ne
depressed a desire that when his end
should come It might come quickly
HIS father had died In that way he
Isaid, and he desired to be taken in the
/ same manner 5. "a .s3: n.
Judge Barth o1o1neW had been a res
lident Of the city for the eleven years
Isince his election to the supreme bench
of the state, occupy ing the Mckenzie
residence. He was comp lively
young man at the time Of his death
4 4 being 81 years Of age, having beer
born In lean county, Illinois, ii
/ llss,4433. He was In the prime of his
mental activity and gigor: The oe.
1casion OF his last public appearance
was upon the observance sof John Mar,
shall day BY the Joint session Of The
Legislature assembly on February "
last. AT the time he delivered tbs
princiT ad ddress, one of such mastery
cnmple pleteness and studiosls insight In
| to the character ana life of that jarist