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Show Bishop Hurst Dead. WASHINGTON. May 4. Bishop John Fletcher Hurst of the Methodist fcplwco-pal fcplwco-pal church died here at 12 A) this (Monday) morning. Bishop Hurst had been In falUng health for .nearly two years and frr more than . a year it had been recognized that a fatal ! termination of his malady was - but a question of months. - He was stricken with para'yils in London Lon-don last September, a year a so, when attending at-tending the emmenlcl conference. The news of President McKlnley's assasflna- tion prostrated him, and the shock brought on rapidly the decllna that finally final-ly ended hi his decease at an early hour this morning. |