Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-14
CARL SCHURZ IS
 DEAD IN NEW YORK
FORMER MEMBER OF CABINET
 AND GREAT PUBLICIsT.
His Son and Daughter and Several Friends Were at His Bedside-He Was One of the Best Known Men
 in the Country.

New York, May 14.--Carl Schurz widely known as publicist and for mer cabinet member, died at his home in this city at 4:35 o'clock this morning. Death was due to a compli- cation of diseases following an at. tack of stomach trouble. which be- came acute on Thursday last. In spite of brief periods of seeming i'm provement Mir Schurz slowly failed and yesterday afternoon sank into q state of coma, which continued until the end. At the bedside were son, Carl l.. and two daughters, Marianne and Agatha; Edward l.. Pretorius. MT Schurz's business partner and Drs Jacobi and Strauss.
 Mir Schurz was seventy seven years of age, having been born in Cologne, March ?, 1929. His residence here was at A East Ninety first street.
 Forced to flee from the land of his birth before he had attained his ma 1ority, Carl Schurz soon became, and for more than half a century re- mained, one of the striking figures in the public life of the land of his adoption. Born in the village of Liblar, near Cologne, in 1929, Schurz became interested in the revolution ary movement in Germany while at tending the University of Bonn and when the uprising came in 1S49 he served as private in the ranks of the insurgents. He was with Gen. eral Tideman when the latter surren- dered the fortress of Rastadt in July of that year and made an almost miraculous escape through the sewer connecting with the Rhine and fled to Switzerland. A year later he re- turned to Germany, under an as- sumed name. for the purpose of lib- erating his friend, Prof Kinkel, who had been taken a prisoner at the sur render of the fortress and sentenced to life imprisonment.
 This daring and romantic project was carried to successful conclu- sion and created a sensation through out Europe. His marriage to Mar garet Mayer, the daughter of prom inent merchant, in 1852 was an in- direct outgrowth of the sensational rescue of his friend from prison. That exploit bad been made one of the features of "Die Won Hohen- stein," by Friedrich Spielhagen, a popular novelist of that time. In the story Schurz fgrues as Wolfang von Hohenstein and Kinkel as Dr Mun- ger. Schurz's acquaintance with the woman who became his wife was traceable to the fame of his exploit as described by Spielhagen.
 Soon after his marriage Schurz came to this country, locating first at Philadelphia. Three years later he removed to Wisconsin, allied himself with the Fremont forces in the cam paign, and took part in the campaign of the following year. During the succeeding twenty years he was one of the prominent figures in the politi- cal history of the country. He went to Spain as United States minister In 1861, later resigning to return and serve in the civil war. during which he earned the title of major-generai. In 1869 he was elected to the United States senate from Missouri, being the first German born citizen to become a member of the upper house of con- gress.
 His career in the senate was bril- liant one. By his unswerving course in support of independent principles. however, he became estranged from the republican party, with which he was then identified. and retired from the senate in 1875.