The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-30
PULITZER IS DEAD.
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Mr.. Pulitzer,s sight began to fail him
in the late eighties and after a time
| he became totally blind. Ever since
he had been a partial invalid, but 9p
| to the last had kept general supervision
| over his newspaper. properties here iTtd
| IN St Louis and taken pronounced IN
! tereSI IN civic affairs. Much of MS
/ wealth has been given for educational
/ purposes. He donated 81 600, 900 to Col
umbia university to establish and
4 maintain college OF Journalism and
/ established scholarships i'll that insti-
tuition for deserving boy graduates of
+ New York public schools.
4 During mis- residence in Missouri. Mr.
Pulitzer served member Of the
! legislature and was a. delegate from
/ that state to the Democratic national
I convention in 1880. He was elected to
4 the Forty-ninth congress, from New
/ York district, but resigned after few
months service.
| Beginning of Newspaper Career.
F! St Louis Oct. 30.-Joseph Pulitzer
was s'discovered'' as promising news
paper man in 1870 by Louis Which.
| then a reporter on the Westliche Post.
Mr.. Pulitzer at the time was secretary
| of the Mullanphy Immigrant Relief
| board. In this capacity he came IN
| touch with many interesting cases. 1t
was his invariable rule to call in the
reporters and give them the news BEN
eft of information CLEANED from new
corners III TINS country.
Which found Mr.. Pulitzer's method
of obtaining information unique, like
wise his treatment of individual cases,
and a word from him obtained for Mr..
Pulitzer place as reporter on the
Westliche Post, a German daily.
Prior to this, Mr.. Pulitzer had. for
five years, worked in various capaci-
ties Coming here at the close of the
Civil war, after having been mustered
out of the First New York cavalry.
after a years service, he obtained his
first employment as deck hand on
a ferry boat. Afterward he did man
uaI work on the levee, then became
hostler in the Benton barracks and lat
er became a waiter in a then popular
cafe.
Following this he had a place as
coachman, and through part of the
cholera epidemic in the late sixties, he
was grave digger. After becoming
reporter in 1870, he developed keen
interest in politics and in a few months
was elected to the Missouri state legis-
lature.
In the same year, 1870, he in his
newspaper capacity, bitterly assailed a
group OF authorities in st. Louis coun-
ty. This led to an encounter in a
downtown hotel with Captain Edward
Augustine, a contractor, who had been
mentioned in the news. Augustine
struck Pulitzer and the latter left the
room and returned in a few minutes
armed. Inc quarrel was renewed and
Augustine was shot in the right leg
The case dragged through the courts
for a year, and finally Pulitzer plead
ed guilty to common assault and paid
a fine of $780,. ~
In the years following up to 1878,
when he bought the St. Louis Dispatch
and consolidated it with the St Louis
Post, he had acquired an interest in
the Westliche Post, had undertaken
the study Of law, was made a police
commissioner by Governor Brown and
had spent a year in Europe.
Public Funeral Wednesday.
New York, Oct. 30.-The funeral of
Joseph Pulitzer. owner and editor of
the World, who died yesterday of heart
failure on board his yacht in Charles
ton harbor, will be held at ST. Thomas !
church here on Wednesday afternoon. !
The public will be admitted.
The body of Mr. Pulitzer will be |,
brought here on a special train leav-
ing Charleston. S. c., this afternoon [