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Show SENATOR STONE IS DEAD. Missouri Democratic Leader Passes Away After Brief Illness. Washington. Senator William J. Stone of Missouri, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee ami for many years prominent among Democratic leaders, died here April 14, after a stroke of paralysis suffered four days previous. Senator William J. Stone, who was born in Kentucky, May 7, 1S4(, was in public life forty-five years and during that long period probably engaged in as many political contests as any man of his time, ranging all the way froir controversies oer county offices ti the broadest national issues. , |