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THE IIEMRS. DAVIS DIES OF PNEUMONIAWidow of Confederate President Passes Away in New York.BRIEF SKETCH OF BER LIFENew York. Oct. 17.—Mrs. Jefferson Davis aged 80 years, widow of the president of the Confederacy, who had been ill for a week at the Hotel Majestic. in tills city. died Tuesday night. Death was dim to pneumonia, induced by a severe cold which Mrs. Daria contracted upon her returl from the Adirondack*, where she had spent the enmmed months. Although grave fearsUK*. J EFPHI180N DXYIO.were felt from the first, Mrs. Davis' wonderful vitality, which brought her safely through a similar attack a year ago, gave hope of ultimate recovery until Monday night, when a decided change for the worse was evident and the attending physicians announced that the end was near. Hev. Nathan A. Beagle, rector of St. Stephen’s Protest ant Episcopal church, was hurriedly summoned to give religious comforl to the patient in her last moments ol consciousness, The clergyman re mainc.l pome time, and an hour later ii was announced that Mrs. Davis hat lapsed into a state of coma. The perioc of unconsciousness continued to the end.At the bedside when death came iretc Mrs. .1. Addison Hayes, of New ark. N. J.. the only surviving daughlei ot Mrs. Davis; Jefferson Davis Hayes a grandson, who is a student at Prince ton University; Mrs. Charles E. Bate son. a niece: Hr. and Mrs. Gustart Webb, the killer a granddaughter, ani Dr. Robert H. Wylie, who with Dr Webb had cared for Mrs. Davis throughout her illness.Mr*. Jefferson Davis was horn a Hatches. Miss. May 7. 1811*1. tie daagh ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Buri Howell, ghc was educated at Madam* Gridaiiil's school in Philadelphia, act 1«v private ton* hers at home, and was mnrried February -o. ls45. in Warrei county. Mis«.. to Jeffeisun Davis.Ill November o' that year Davis wsu elected to congress, but resigned it 1SPS to go m the Mexican war. from which he returned severely wounded Mr. and Mrs. Davis lived for sunit time on Mr. Davis' plantation in War l-’ti county. Miss., and Mrs. Davis wem ith her husband to Washington whet he wax 11* cted United States senatoi in I 17, and remained there while hi served as senator and secretary o:In im;i Davis became an interna tional figure when he was elected pres lilont of the Confederate states. Fron then until 1885 lie and Mrs. Davis maintained the presidential mansior In Richmond, but tnc capture of hei husband' and the refusal of the Unitei States authorities to permit her to hi with him dining the first year begar the tragedy cf her life. During thi second year of his imprisonment, how ever, she was permitted lo remaii with him at Fottress Monroe, and aftei his Ireedoru accompanied him to Eng land, where they lived ftom 1S67 tlt; IhT'i They returned and lived in Mem phis. Tenn.. for eight years, when thej finally removed to the Davis planta tlon. at Beauvoir Station, on the Mis sissippi coast. Here Mrs. Davis be cnme amcnuensis for her husbam when he wrote his Decline and Fal of the Confederate Government. Shi herself was decidedly literary in hei tastes, and after Mr. Davis’ death, li 1889, eked out her scanty income b] her work with the pen. Besides the nu meruus magazine articles which ehi wrote, her most notable work is Jef ferson Davis; a Memior by His Wife.''POISONED DRINKING WATERWoman Put Paris Green In Well Foi “Devilment.Baltimore, Oct. 17.—Detectives an tngaged in investigating the allege*! attempt of somebody to poison tht family of E. Stanley Gary, at Clear field. Baltimore county, by putting parle green into the drinking watw well. Mr. Gary is the only son oi former Postmaster General James A Gary and is a prominent business mar of this city. The poison was discov
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Thu, Oct 25, 1906
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