The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-01
EDITOR .~ROSEWATER DEAD.
Heart Failure Carries on Omaha Politician
while Alone IN His Room.

Heart Failure Carries ON Omaha Politician
while Alone In His Room.
OMAHA. Neb., Aug. Si.-EdwArd Rose
water, editor and founder Of the Omaha
Bse, was found dead in q room on the third
floor Of tho Bee building at $50 o'clock this
morning. He had evidently gone there 10
rest In the night after doing some work at
his Office. The physicians who examined
the body gave heart failure as the cause Of
death. There Is no suspicion Of suicide.
Mr.. Rosewater addressed a soldiers re-
union yesterday at Waterloo, and on his
return home he complained Of being Ia
tigued. He was last seen alive al Z o'clock
last evening, when he spoke to a janitor in
the Bee building. He evidently went to
the third floor room Immediately after
ward.
Mr.. ROsewater was essentially a political
editor. His bent was almost entirely for
politics and only last week for the second
time he saw his aspirations shattered for
q seat in the United States Senate. Three
years ago be was defeated for the Senator
defeated for the MS Office by Norris Brown
at a State convention Of the Republican
party.
Like most of the old time editors whose
thoughts run largely to national politics,
Mr.. Rosewater had his enthusiasm kindled
by his civil war experiences. Through
most of the war he was a military teleg-
rapher, at first as an operator and later
as a manager He was born in a village
about fifty miles from Prague, in Bohemia,
OF January(S , ls4l and came TO this country
in 1854 withthis parents. settling in Cleve.
Cincinnati add for three months was the
operator at Oberlin, Ohio. Then he went
10 Murfreesboro, Tenn, and for three years
was operator and manager in various places
in Mississippi and Alabama, finally becom-
ing manager in Nashville Of the main ONCE
of the Southwestern Telegraph Company.
He was there when the city was captured
by the Federal army. He enlisted as a
teleQrapher in 1882 in the Union army and
was attached to an. John g.. Fremonts
stan. Later he served with CommoddFe
Dahlgren in the Washington Navy Yard
and then with Gen Pope in his disastrous
Virginia campaign. He then became an
operator in the War Department. Later
he went to Omaha and became manager OF
the Western telegraph lines in that city.
1t was in 1871 that Mr.. Rosewater got con-
troll Of the Bee 1t was a small afternoon
and he made it one OF the fore
most Journals Of he West. He put up a
building that in most respects ia a model
plant from a mechanical viewpoint. He
began Immediately to exercise a wide po-
litical influence. He had a UNANIMOUSLY iur-
nished Office, and reception room in the
building, and he liked to tell Of the great
men he had entertained there. He had
great faith in Nebraska and was one Of the
most effective boomers of her interests.
He practically originated the Omaha expo
sition. He held Office from TIM to time,
having been a member Of the Legislature
member OF the Republican national com
mittee, member Of the United States Mint
Commission. delegate from the United
States to the Universal Postal Congress, as
we'll as holdi ng numerous smaller places
of honor He exercised only a general
supervision Of his newspaper in recent
years, the active work being lone by his
two sons, Victor and Charles.
Mr.. Rosew ater was born Rosenwasser,
and his two brothers in Cleveland, Ohio,
continue to spell the family name as their
father did. Mr.. Rosewater anglicized his
name soon after coming to America.