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Show COLONEL SHEPARD DEAD. The Editor ot the Hew York "Halt and Eipress" Lays Down Ills Pea. i'HYSirilNS A1I31IMSTLII LTItUl. The l'ttllrnt llecmiies Uncoiiloiii Ilio llrmii crr Sudden. His lame or II. Nrw Voitlf, Mareli 21 Colonel l.lllot I'ltcli HlKrari, editor ol Ilio Matland Izpttu, illcil tuelelenlj this nlternoou t till Home Ms death loU lowed nti administration ot etlier by l)r. L'liarlca Mollurnoy and the family doctor, I)r. MoLaln, who were about to make nil examination to aiccrtaln If the colonel' mil) lolorutliat lieauaorctl from a ttona In tho bladder wcru cor-rcct. cor-rcct. Last erenlng ho moroly told Manager Man-ager A. II. I)o I rrecn that ho wmld rirohsbly not be down on Friday but Ho would bo them Baturday afternoon. Jlefore tho arrival of tho doctor lio oomplalneil of etere I alna and called uptltoJait and rpreit auelgnfua number of InitructlonaaUiiit the luturo conduct of the uowtpaier In cuoany thing elioulU happen to him. i.aler tho dlitrtis hii euflered lolt film and when the hyilclani and tiunea caino bo waa lu good pplrlti. Ho Induced his wife and jeiungoat daUKhtera Marguerite and Alice, who weio at honit, to so out calling for tho day. llliiou, l.lllott I. Hhepard, Jr , was at homo. About 1 o'clock (Jolonel Bhiparl (aid ho waa ready for tbu auri(eoua, and they, Willi tho nunm, Legaii tho work of uttlnR him under etlier. Ho In-lialeel In-lialeel tlio drug but two or tlirie tlmta M hen tho hyalclana doteoted danger, oua lyuiptoma and stopi ed tho lulmlu-t lulmlu-t loll. Colonel Hhepard tank rapidly and for tome time It uaa fiarel ho could not bo rallied. 1'owerlul ttatora. Uvea wire admlnlatered and at tho end of an hour's work with ox) gen hu waa letloreid to partial couaclouaiitts, and lontlnued apparently to rally until 4 o'clock. Then wllhout warning anil for no aj pan nt rvaaon ho began raj Id ly to sluk. '1 ho oxygen treatment was iraumed, but It waa of no atall. At 4 20 o'clock ho died, lie waa uuconacl. bus and hla death was caceful. Tho cauao of tho death, aa glron by tho (hyalclanr, was euJtma of tho lungs. Immediately befero Colonel Butpard'e death messages were sent to Mr". Bhepurd announcing that hu waa cry low and might not live. Bho reacbtd the houso at U o'clock, lm. lutdlato frlenda of tho family soon began be-gan to arrlvr, and n string ol carrlogts was continually at Ilio ilfth avtnue side all the evening. At a late hour no arrangements had Lceu mudo for tho lumral. |
