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Show I ;f it fts Champion . of Ague Sufferers ' ;, f 'Quinino Jim" SIcKenzie of Ken- j i ' tucky Has Joined the i : Majority. V 't ' Wj OPKINSVILDE. Ky., June 25. i'i(n' ! Hon. James A. McKenzIe, former i' ii SLmL Congressman from this district. I t died at his home today, aged 64 I' ' j years. He was known everywhere as . ' "Quinine Jim." ' I) j ,' Prominence came to Mr. McKenzIe ' , through his strenuous and successful i ' 'i championing of a bill of which he was 'I I'm author, to take the tax off quinine. Tho , 1 ' tspeech which, through its humor, logic j 1, and earnestness, sent that measure ,. through the House and put the drug , j within the reach of thousands who had lt ( '. been unable to use it before on account ' !' Of the prohibitive tax upon It, was ' quoted by politicians for years after. He was afterwards appointed Minister ' ' to Peru. |