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.. .. I .•---- ,« ... - -IFOR TWO YEARS UNDER CON ; STANT MEDICAL CARE.Close/Friends*'of Distinguished IowaI* * *States man'Long Cognizant of Seriousness of His Condition.• i r _ _11 .Messages of ./Regret. and Tributes of Esteem From Men'of all Parties'• Follow Upon News of Death.Dubuque Towa,-Aug, 5—The death oil-Senator 'Allison, coming1 so unexpectedly, even' to his friends in this city,-reveals-.-the fact: that the gravo nature of., his condition has been kept a secret/for; two years past. His immediate friends and pout teat associates have .long been cognizant'Of this-condition,. but/.havo apparently hoped that relief might. be. obtained,.and..better-, merit result. ^ . 5 ■ ;• -' - ’ ' s. ; Synopsis of’ Life,\ . : .•’ The' facts of' Senator Alii son-s.. rer markablj’*’ long and successful career, are thnS' Sy'nopsized: .' Born, Wayne county/. O., • March’2,IBM* . ... - . ■ . - . •• Educated at-.TOoos ter .academy; r*AHe-• gheny ...college -at McadvIHe^.Pa,, and WGstGmKescrvc .college; Hudson, Or -••Studied Unv ,in office of Hemphill anr* Turner, .Wooster.. O-,- -working for county.aiidHbi;for boards - .Began practice of law/. Ashland,- 0-, 1850.' \ ,■ Married.Miss Anna-Carter, 1554-;. sh© died '111 .Lsao. - • .... '•' Delegate and\secretary In-Ohio stat© convention/ 180S.• Candidate district attorney , in Ohio, 1S5G. ........Removed to Dubuoue, Jowa, 185.7.• Delegate to Iowa-state convention, 1859. \■ Delegate to . national convention ofisgo.: ■■ Member-' Governor Kirkwood's' staff to raise.regiments, 1SG1. - ?■ ElectecL.to congress, 18G2; served till 1S7L- ....On house committee of -ways and means,,,.1805.*. .:••■lt;■ - • - ■Elected to United' States senate,,1872,term* beginning March- 4, 1S73. .Marled Miss Mary Neal ley, 1878; she, died In .3 888. . ......On senata-appropriations committee, 1S7JJ; chairman. 1881-1808: 1S95.-Oil. senate Indian affair^ commit tee, ■ 1872; chairman,.'1S75-3*881- - ' '■ 'Orn.senate, finance-committee,. 1877, being’ranking member and entitled to chairmanship* 18^/dccl‘inlngr It to retain appropriations,,.. . -CLmirnian American commission international monetary conference, Brus-sels;. Nov ember,’1882. .. . —'• --OJtered.secretaryship -of the, treasury•by Gar Held, 18SL... •Ottered isame by Harrison, 1S99.. Offered sec rotary : of state by McKinley. 1S97.Renominated to senate at June 2d primaries.Died Ayg: .4, At’ 2 p.. m. of sudden• heart weakness, age 70. . .Nature of Last IIInass.The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, of last evening,-having the. source of In-- formation at command,- thus gives-a just, -and sympathetic story of the senator's last, illness and death:-Senator ■ WHIiyin “Boyd ■ Allison died in his Locust street borne *ut-T:2So’clock Ibis' afternoon: 'Willi him. at.tho moment of-dissolution were members of his household'and a physician. Tn a■ bulletin announcing-his' death DrS. ' Hancock and -Lewis assigned heart failure -as LlnV cause.Anncmncement oC the senator’s death jcfime as a -shock to his neighbors''and to the local-community no less than to the'-state and nation.-: While for -the last -two' years Senator Allison was in declining health, and while -he suffered ■the loss-of’much vitality during the •.months of the present summer, there was no news emanating from-hjs home indicating the seriousness of' his.condition/ . •;!y.r7, /\ . 7/..*”.....‘bias Been in*,Serious'Condition, / . m': -Three weeks ago, as this.newspaper has learned thft facts, .Senator.: AJHsoxt consulted Dr,-Arthur Li tile-of, Chicago-and was • advised - by the ^.latter tha.t .an operation was tho only chance prolonging.-his .life, whichr; probably would be - shortly- .term.inat6d,.vandrtha.t even with, an operation the .chances were against him, A fortnight, ago. .tin* senator went to the country .homo, .1«V •' »r- . I r (—-VCbjitinued .*’oji Page^Jh)... uw..--- - „■*-