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Show LAST SUMMONS ANSWERED AT NOONJODAY Weakening of Heart Muscles Induced bv Asthma Brought End HOPE WAS GIEN I P EARLY THIS MORNING Mrs. La Follette and Children Were at Bedside When End Came WASHINGTON, June 18. Robert Marion Iul-'ollotte is dead. "Fighting Hob," for twenty years United States senator from Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, staunch defender of what he believed be-lieved was the popular will and independent in-dependent presidential rnndldato last year, passed on at his home here at 12:10 p. m. today. A gradual weakening of the heart muscles induced by n siege of bronchial bron-chial asthma brought the end. He was seventy years of age last Sunday. The picturesque leader In the "progressive" political movement is dead. A tired heart, weakened from a desperate fight, first with a threat of pneumonia and then bronchial asthma finally gavo way. Brief bulletins from the La Follette Fol-lette household at half hour intervals inter-vals told today of the hopeless i fight the aged statesman was wag- i ing. j Apparently given nn outside I chance to recover,, virtually all hope was abandoned this morning after the senator had spent a restless i night. Then the ominous symptoms of heart failure became manifest. i The circulation of blond through j his frail frame gradually began to j fail. The heart that had carried ! him through a hundred political J battles was nearlng the end of his task. j Two physicians. Doctors 0. C. j Marbury and D. M. Rnnibolth, sought to make him as comfortable as possible, but their statement that the senator's condition was "grave" told that little was left for "medicine "medi-cine to do."' . . Mrs. LaFolIette, Robert L.iFol-lete, L.iFol-lete, Jr., Phillip Lnfollette of Wisconsin Wis-consin and the LaFolleltc's daughter daugh-ter hovered near the sick room, conscious that the end was near. |