Show NOTED YOMAN IS DEAD t lrs Kate Chase Sprague Passes Away at Washington I ILL FOR THREE MONTHS t CONDITION REGARDED SEROUS ONLY TEN DAYS AGO I A Remarkable Woman Whose Social and Political Career While Her Father Salon P Chase Was Chef Justice of the Supreme Court Vas of Brilliant Nature Washington July 31Mrs Kate Chase Sprague wife of a former governor gov-ernor of Rhode Island and the daughter daugh-ter of the late Salmon p Chase governor gov-ernor of Ohio United States senator and chief justice ot the United State supreme court died at bet homestead Edgewood in a Washington suburb early this morning She was 59 year of age ageFor three months she had been ill but had consented to medical treatment only ten das ago She grew steadily uorse and the end came a few minutes after 3 oclock this morning I At the I bedside were her three daughter Is I Kitte Sprague who lived with her I mother Miss Portia Sprague of Xurra gansett Pier and Mrs Donaldson of Brooklyn N V Kate Chase began a brilliant social career when her father Salmon P Chase then a widower was elected governor of Ohio Whea Mr Chase was made secretary of the treasury under Lincoln the family removed here and his daughter was soon ac kowledged to be one of the mot beautiful beau-tiful women oC the capital With the outbreak of the war she married the young governor of Rhode Island William H Sprague When Governor Sprague was elected to the senate their home was a gathering place oC the foremost men and women of that day At the height of the social nd politIcal ical success which they attained a do I mestc cloud made Its appearance re suiting in a divorce Mrs Sprague then made her home at Edewood a country coun-try place left her by her father Financial revere clouded her later ear the homestead was mortgaged and disaster was impending when a year ago old friends came to her rescue res-cue raised the mortgage and arranged for her an alowance of 300 a year |