Show MARK TWAIN CALLED NOTED AUTHOR AND HUMORIST PASSES AWAY AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS man lan beloved by all the people who had D delighted alighted millions with his quaint humor Is worn out by grief and agony redding conn samuel lang corne clemens mark twain died painlessly at thursday night ot of angina pectoris pec toris ls lie ile lapsed into coma at 3 thursday after afternoon nood and never recovered aon consciousness ness it was the end of a anim man ma n outa outworn orn by grief and acute agony of oc body at the deathbed wore mrs airs clara clemens her husband dr robert halsey dr quintard albert bigelow paine balne who will write mark twains kwains biography and the two trained nurses mark twain was born samuel langhorne clemens in florida mo november 30 1835 my aly parents he writes tn in his own burlesque autobiography were neither very poor X MARK TWAIN nor conspicuously honest the earliest ancestor of the twaina have aej any record of 0 was a friend of 0 the family by the name of higgins the county chronicles chron lelea have it that the elder clemens failed in business and died leaving his ion on tho the ample world to make his fortune to in accordingly mark alark twains kwains acquaintance que latance with literature began in putting pitting words into type not ideas into fato words educated only in public schools ch he was waa apprenticed to a printer at 13 and worked at his trade in st loula louis Clacina ti philadelphia and new york until at 16 he could gratify a boyish ambition to become a cub to a mississippi river pilot both these happenings reacted pro foundley in his later life ills his knowledge of river life acquired when he was a pilot took form in tom sawyer huckleberry plan finn and lira lin on the mississippi regarded abroad as aa his first title to tame fame it even suggested his pseudonym for cor mark twain la Is a leads mans cry to thu pilot in shallow stages and his familiarity with printing turned him naturally first int into 0 newspaper work then into creative w writing ri t and finally into the publishing business wherein like sir walter scott he suffered a bankruptcy disastrous to everything but bill his honor and like sir walter again paid off by hla his pen debts not of his bis own making mark twain has been as described in his own words a silver miner la in nevada a gold miner in california next neat a reporter in san francisco aest a special correspondent in the sandwich islands next a roving correspondent in hi europe and the east bast hext an instructional torchbearer on the lecture platform and finally I 1 became a scribbler of books and an immovable fixture among the other rocks of new england ile he was married in 1872 to olivia L langden of elmira N yi four children were born of whom two a son and ti it daughter died early one other daughter jean who had been an invalid for life was waa found dead in her bath tub last fall in her home bome at redding conn her tragic death greatly saddened her father who declined in health from that moment A third daughter clara is mrs ossip galbol wife ake of the plan pianist lat whom she married last year mark twains kwains first book was ivas the jumping frog ills hla best known in this country possibly was innocents abroad ills hla surest title to fame generally la Is believed to be tom saw yer and IU ita companion volume the Advent adventures urea of huckleberry finn blun in all his books had a sale of wore more than copies and wore were translated into six languages escaped convicts recaptured ared leavenworth kan two of the six convicts who escaped troya fro u the federal penitentiary at ft leavenworth on thursday by seizing a switch engine and ahr threatening ent ening this prison guards with dusty revolvers made of wood are being sought tonight by a posse poasa ot of forty armed guards oud and scores ot of citizens four of 0 the convicts were wera recaptured after i a few ours ot of liberty farmers for alien malej around are ar joining lit in the hunt virjes bocen Wo con Cen evicts still at large in the hope of sa s g A t ting tine a reward 3 |