Show DEATH OP OF ROSCOE CAN r not io go now I 1 am very busy 1 was the pathetic appeal which conkling in his delirium made to his attending physician his hia petition has been granted ranted and he has been permitted to pass to a sphere where he may exercise unfettered by mortality those powers of mind which made him famous and great among his countrymen at ten minutes bea before ore two this morning he breathed his last in tits his apartments in id the hoffman hoff man house new york it will be remembered that the associated press gave an accod account at of the manner in watch mr conkling lost hit his way and wandered lor for a time in the darkness among the snowdrifts snow drifts in union square during the great blizzard of march 12 and now he be at length had reached the hoffman house in a state of great exhaustion to the feard fearful ul experiences of that occasion his death is probably due etwas it was thought next day that he had well nigh recovered from f the ill effects of exposure to the f fury ury of the storm but a cold which lie he had contracted krew grew gradually worse until march 80 when dy DV anew agnew the ta fa mou new york physician vi was as called lu in lu in explanation ot of the gaiu tu in the head bead of which the patient complained the doctor pronounced him to be suf but fering from an abscess in in the ear on april 9 a very delicate surgical operation was performed uy oy winch an opening was wa made from a point just behind the affected ear to its ita iuteri interior or mechanism the object being to ta draw off the pus which threatened to cause cale inflammation ot of the brain suck and death it was a desperate aldei native but was unavailing the Coo klings were an intellectual and talen talented led family of the Empi allied conkling conking lather father ot of the statesman just deceased was a jurist and law writer ot of great ability augustus an elder brother ot of escoe organized a new york regiment in I 1 iffie w which L h he commanded during tue greater g reater part of tile the war lie he laus held various official position saud has made a reputation as a writer on political scientific tide and commercial subjects their bister mrs margaret Al argaret 0 bi ecle li ii the autho ot of several volumes and a contributor to current lite literature litera tuie escoe R ecoe conkling was born october 30 Via Alban yand received leee ived an aa academic education ue studied law with his fathera fat herand adopted that profession his first elect election ign to a Poli political Lical office occurred in 1858 when tie he became mayor of utica ile he was elected in november of the same year to the united stats slates house of representatives tv es lie he was several times reelected re ie elected to that hodi body the last time in the fall ot of 1866 but before taking 11 his seat he was in the following january chosen to succeed iia harris in the united states tates fc ile he was returned in 1873 and again in 1879 la in 1876 lie he was a close competitor lor for the republican nomination nomina tiou tor for president apparently no statesman in the country had before him a blighter future tuan than that which opened up before the new york senator benator at the time ot of president gai fidius inauguration but immediately immediate jy af after ler that event lie he bet up a claim to tae right to control in con coa lection with ath his colleague in tile the senate banate the Fec fedrial teral patronage age of his state slate president garfield withstood withstood this thia claim a d conkling resigned evidently with the belief th that tte the new york legislature would forthwith reelect biz him and thus emphasize its ica approval of the position ne nad had taken his colleague senator tuomas taomas U C platt took tile the same course but the legislature after a long lon and remarkable contest over the question refused to return either Con conkling conklin klim or platt and abd it is popularly underwood understood that this result led conkling to fore swear public life on the election of two otner other republicans to the united states senate banate from his state he went to new york city and engaged in a law practice which soon became very extensive and lucrative ana to which tie he devoted himself assiduously up to toe time of hi bis illness he was a very bard worker and in his hid delirium would talk of cases in ia baica he was interested te briscoe conkling was wap in many respects a great man lu in the practical management and conduct of great ie legal g I 1 cases before a j jury ary or 0 court of if equity lie he probably never bad a superior among nis countrymen while in congress he was always recognized as one of the best informed ablest and most practical of its members and was noted tor for his bis qualities as a toiler helas an orator ot of rare power and displayed in his public career deep and clearly defined convictions and the courage to maintain them theia the fact has often been cited and now that he is dead will be dwelt upon b by admiring biographers that no charge of corruption corruption was ever made against him in connection with bis legislative or political course beyond doubt he was in this regard one of the purest statesmen of his time |