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...Coatesville, Pa., William Marshall, rejected as a Civil War volunteer because of a heart ailment, died...
CAUSALGIA. This mysterious ailment, resulting from wounds near a nerve or blood vessel, causes excruciating, burning pains. In "major" causalgia, the patient is completely disabled, screams with pain at a touch or a sudden noise. In "minor" causalgia, the patient, months after a minor cut or infection has healed, may suffer severe pains without visible cause. Nerve block with novocaine or alcohol gives quick relief...
Died. Martin T. Manton, 66, onetime senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of a heart ailment; in Fayetteville, N.Y. In a trial unprecedented in the annals of the federal judiciary, he was convicted of "selling justice" to build his private fortune, served 19 months in Lewisburg, Pa.'s Northeastern Federal Penitentiary...
Died. Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni, 69, friend and protegé of Pope Pius XI, who was named a Cardinal in 1935, served the Vatican as chamberlain-in-chief, majordomo and dean of the Order of Deacons; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...