Show murat halstead dead cincinnati murat halstead one ot of the leaders in american journalism for over halt half a century and widely known as a vigorous editorial and magazine writer died at his home in this city thursday afternoon in his seventy ninth year at his bedside were his wife his son robert and one daughter mrs airs arthur stem sirs halstead celebrated their golden wedding anniversary a ittle more than a year ago at which time mr Halste Hals teada ads health seemed frail and as time passed he grow weaker so that the news of his death was not wholly unexpected |