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After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...
Died. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming, 85; of bronchial pneumonia; at Washington...
...conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...
Died. Otto Tremont Bannard, 74, Manhattan banker and alert citizen; of bronchial pneumonia; on the liner President Cleveland bound for the Philippines. He will be buried in New Haven, Conn...