The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-19
PINGREE IS DEAD.
Ex-Governor Of Michigan Passes
Away in London
With None But His Son at His
Bedside.
FAMILY HAD STARTED
To Go to Him, But Were Halted
in New York City
By the CabIegram Announcing
His Death.
'AMILY HAD STARTED

London. June 19.-Ex-Governor Hazen
S. Pingree, of Michigan, died here last
night at 1876.
His son was the only one present at
the time. The attending doctor left Mr..
Pingree's bedside at about Ills. prom
Using to return shortly H. S. Pingree,
Jr-, who had been watching at his faith
er's side for four days, and who has
not removed his clothes during that
time, noticed q sudden change in his
fathers condition. He had hardly
reached the patients bedside when his
father died peacefully, without warning
and without speaking one word.
Young Pingree has wired to his moth
er and his uncle in the United States
not to come to London.
The body of the late Mr.. Pingree will
be embalmed and taken to his home
The diagnosis made by London spec
1alists of the cancerOuS affection of the
intestines from which Mr.. Pingree suf-
fered left practically no hope for the
patients recovery. Toward the end of
his illness, Mr.. Pingre suffered great
pain and weakened rapidly. He was
unable to retain nourishment. His mind
however, remained fairly clear. During
the whole of Tuesday he was practical
" kept alive by injections of strych-
nine and drugs, administered to lessen
his pain.
HIS WIFE WAS TOO LATE.
New York, June 19.-Mrs. Hazen S.
Pingree, widow of Ex-Governor Pingree,
arrived in this city from Detroit Tues
day morning with her daughter, Hazel
H Pingree, and her HUSBAND S brother,
F. G. Pingree. The party had started
from Detroit as soon as they learned of
the seriousness of Governor Pingree's
illness in London, but received a cable
gram here that there was no use con-
condition was SO bad that they would
arrive in London too late. Last night
they received cablegram telling of his
death.
Mrs. Pingree and her daughter will go
back to Detroit at once instead of TAX
ing the steamer st. Paul as intended.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Detroit, Mich, June 1s.-Hazen Senter
Pingree was born at Denmark, Me, in
1910. In 1862 he enlisted in the First
Massachusetts heavy artillery AMI
served until the end of the war, when
he located in Detroit, embarking in the
manufacture of shoes.
In 1889, the Republican party nominal
ted Ex-Governor Pingree for mayor of
Detroit and he was elected by over 2, 600
majority. He was reelected in 1897,
1893 and 1895 by increased majorities
each time. In 1885, Mr.. Pingree was
elected governor of Michigan by S3,~~J
plurality, running ahead of the national
ticket by $4,000 votes. He was re-elect-
ed governor in 1898 by about 10000
plurality and served out his term, which
expired in 1900. Last March he started
on the trip to South Africa which re-
suited in his death in London.
Ex-Governor Pingree, while he was
mayor, accomplished many municipal
reforms, among others forcing the gas
company to lower rates so cents per
thousand; esta blishing the public light
ing plant; organizing the Detroit rail-
way on a three cent fare basis, lower
ing telephone rates and breaking up
number of sewer and paving rings that
were thriving when he came into office.
His potato patch scheme for the relief
of the poor of the city was extensively
copied and brought him much fame.
While governor Mr.. Pingree devoted his
energies toward securing a law taxing
railways and other corporate property
on an advalorem basis, instead of spec
ifcally on their earnings. His efforts
resulted in the passage of a law along
these lines by the last legislature. Mr..
Pingree is survived by a widow and
two children, a son and a daughter.
TO BRING PINGREE'S BODY
London, June 19.-The North German
Lloyd steamer Koenigen Luise. which
sails from Bremen June % via South
ampten. June %, for New York, will
take the body of former Governor Ha-
zen S. Pingree of Michigan, who died
here last night.