Show SUDDEN sup dEN DEATH DEAm i OF POLITICIAN ClAN j J tr wn of Pitts burg bUll Joliet kt tire Majority M Jo 4 I pu PARTY LEADER MAN MANY YEARS IYAR Y POLITIcaL mu VAL IS BIS 4 I March 15 Recorder er J O 0 OBrown OBron Brown Bron of this city dt who tendered his hla resignation to Governor Pennypacker on Friday last lut died suddenly at his h home here this afternoon The immediate cause of or death Nth was wae nervous prostration ceased caused ca it is be believed believed by the unusually perturbed con condition of polities politics in the county Mr Brown was w always alwa delicate phys pIya physically leally but his hIa death was entirely un ua unexpected expected at this time Be Es was a horn bOrn near this city in 1846 1 and h s always since early manhood been prominent ra in county and city politics polities Mr Kr Brown BrowA served as the t th head of the department of public safety from November 1877 1177 until August 1101 when he was re in removed moved by Recorder A k M N I Brown Bra In 1901 he be was appointed recorder er by Gov Governor Oe Stone to succeed A M N Brown His resignation was w sent t to te Governor l Pennypacker on last Jut Friday aJ to take effect tomorrow When the fact of his h resignation was waa made known to his fol followers followers lowers lowera the consternation was w great t tI I and he be was wag made the target of or much ell reproach b by those who counted much Mich h upon his holding officer succeeded ed by br William B Hayes Hyes Bar oa OR ORthe the first Monday Monda in April The Th death of Mr Brown makes NIwa the third prominent politician in th the county during durin the past put two years The rite other oth two were Senator C L Magee X and I George Van These men were practically in control of Republican RepUblIcan lican polities politics in la Allegheny county count for top to thirty years When J O 0 Brown BroWD was wal re Fe recorder reorder order corder he reappointed nearly all of or the theold theOld old cd officials of ot the organisation who had bad been Tipped ripped out of or and end this action is i believed to have han been the principal reason of the t upheavals which permitted tile the party to carry earl the last three local elections rs Ps Parn March M ck IS Governor 1 Pennypacker r expressed ex great surprise when advised of ot the UIe death deA of Recorder I Brown BroW He H H declined to te my all no when b would Ill fill II the vacancy j |