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Show ' ' 3? CHICAGO LEADIRG : - -La, DIES SUDDENLY CHICAGO, J(une 27. Graeme J Stew-' art. a leader In Chicago .commercial, rollttcaf and social life, two yearn ago a candidate for Mayor on the Republican Republi-can ticket, and a member of the executive execu-tive committee of the Republican National Na-tional committee from 1900 to 1904, died at his residence here early today, aged C8, after a month's Illness. Clotting of Mood upon the brain. Svith a series of apoplectic strokes, was the cause of hla death.' . " " On the evening of May Zi, Mr. Stewart Stew-art was seated at a table in the banquet ban-quet hall of the Auditorium hotel, one of the guests at an elaborate dinner given by the Bankers' club. He had just completed the task of collecting the $128,000 guaranty promised by the merchants and commercials clubs to the United States Government In order to bring the lake naval station to Itke BlufT, III., and was receiving the congratulations con-gratulations of his friends. - . Just as Paul Morton. Secretary of the Navy, was praistng tho Panama canal policy of President . Roosevelt." Mr. Stewart gasped and sank into his chair. He became unconscious at once and was taken to a .room, where restoratives restora-tives were administered. The physicians physi-cians announced Hhat he had suffered from 'an attack of acute Indigestion, combined with a slight congestion of the brain, and within a few days he seemed to have been well on the road toward complete recovery. But hla strength as slow In returning, return-ing, for the illness had really been a slight stroke of apoplexy. Another attack at-tack brought on a relapse. A third followed fol-lowed a few days ago, and since then Mr. Stewart's life had been slowly ebbing ebb-ing away. i, |