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Show DEATH SUMMONS STATESMAN. Former Senator Crane of Massachusetts Massachu-setts Passes Away. Dalton, Mass. Winthrop Murray Crane, former United States senator, former governor of Massachusetts, a leading figure for many years in the Republican party, in the affairs of the nation, and active head of a great paper-making industry, died October 2 at his residence, Sugar Hill, in this-town. this-town. He passed from life quietly and unconsciously in an attack of sleeping sickness, which followed an illness of seven weeks, due, according accord-ing to his physicians, to encepholitis, or ' inflammation of the brain. Born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853, the son of Zenas M. Crane, a paper manufacturer, Senator Crane was educated in the public schools and at Williston seminary. He never attended college, but after leaving the seminary, entered the paper mills founded by his grandfather at Dalton and in them lie maintained an interest inter-est throughout his life. An outstanding characteristic of Senator Crane was the fact that he attained eminence in public life without with-out being an orator. Although he served eight years in the senate, it was said of him that he never made what really could be called a "speech" in that body. |