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Show SENATOR TILLMAN DEAD. Veteran of Twenty-four Years' Service Answers Summons of Grim Reaper. Washington. United States Senator Sena-tor Benjamin R. Tillman, veteran of years' service in congress and chairman chair-man of the senate naval affairs coiic mittee, died at his home here July 3 the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. As governor of South Carolina, us a leader in the southern wing of the Democratic party and as an active participant par-ticipant in the last generation's growth of the American navy, Senator Tillman had been prominently before the pa'1" lie for many years. Senator Tillman was the ei?'"'1 member of the senate to die since tlie United States entered the war. Tii others were: Senator Lane of Oregon: llursting, Wisconsin; Newlands. N vada; Brady, Idaho; Hughes. New-Jersey New-Jersey ; Rroussard, Louisiana, ami Stone of Missouri. |