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Show James H. Blount Dead. MACON, Ga.. March 1. James If. Blount, for twenty years a member of Congress from Georgia and afterward commissioner commission-er paramount to the Hawaiian Islands during the second Cleveland term, died here Sunday of congestion of the lungs. It was on his request that Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land reversed the policy of Mr. Harrison in Hawaii. On retiring from that position posi-tion in November. 193, Mr. Blount left public life and has remained quietly at home attending to his private business. |