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Show ROBERT G. INGERSOLL DEAD. The Great .Agnostic Succumb to au Attack of Heart Disease. New York, July 23. Colonel Robert G. Iugersoll died at his home, Walston-on-IIudson, near Dobb's Ferry, Friday. His death was sudden and unexpected and resulted from the heart disease from which he had suffered since 1896. Mrs. Ingersoll was the only person in the room with him when he died. Death came to him as he had recently expressed a desire it should. He often, of-ten, in olden times, said he wished to die slowly, with a full consciousness, so he might tell those about him how it felt. Recently he expressed a change and desired to die painlessly and withon t warning. Robert Green Ingersoll was born iu Dresden, Yeats conn ty, August 11, 1833. He went west when 12 years old; was a short time in an academy in Tennessee, Ten-nessee, also taught school in that state. He began the practice of law in Southern Illinois in 1554; was defeated defeat-ed in 1S00 as Democratic candidate for congress; became colonel of the Elev; enth Illinois cavalry in 1862; was attorney at-torney general for Illinois in I860; refused re-fused post of minister to Germany in 1S77. Colonel. Ingersoll's notoriety and fame has been acquired through his public lectures denying the existence of a God and criticising the Bible and the Christian religion. Colonel Ingersoll first attracted political po-litical notice by his brilliant eulogy of James G. Blaine in the Republican national na-tional convention at Cincinnati in 1876. In his speech nominating Mr. Blaine for the presidency, Mr. Ingersoll Inger-soll referred to his favorite as the "plumed U uight,'- a name that attached itself to Mr. Blaine and remained with him during his remaining years. Colonel Ingersoll practiced law at Peoria, 111., for many years, but afterwards after-wards settled in New York. |