Show tragedies of a famous legislature the new york legislature of 1881 became famous because it refused to return conkling and platt to the united states senate after their resignations ig nations over the disagreement with garfield concerning this body go an old timer indulged in reminiscences saying did apu itea ever con consider the number ot i tragedies I 1 ten among state bocora ra wao served in that year rear 1831 1881 conkling met an untimely death in the blizzard ot of 1898 nate wendell We cdell state treasurer killed hilled himself aimse it senator halbert was killed in a cyclone and senator wagner was wag killed at spuyten duvvll assemblyman AiSem blyman charlie chickering killed himself by jumping from the lue window ot of a new york hotel tind assemblyman robert ray rai hamilton man was murd murdered red ln in wyoming |