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Show w Wk I VETERAN MBBWeDITOT I FOUND DEAD IN ROOM m- Edward Rotewater, of the Omaha Bee, H Succumbs to Attack of Heart Fall m c, ure While Sitting In Deierted B Court Room. ' , - m j ' mil m B Omaha. Kdward Itoscwator, pro- B prletor and editor of tho Omaha Deo B and promlnontly ldontlflcd with the B political, financial and IiubIiicss af- B fairs of Omaha and tho stato- of No- B braaka for foi ty years, waa , found B dead In district court room No, 0, on B tho third floor of tho Uoo building, B early Friday. Ho had evidently died H of heart failure. B It was a habit of Mr. Itouowatcr to B go to different parts of tho building B whenovor his pleasuro so Induced, B and It la presumed ho stepped Into B tho largo court room and sat down B for a mlnuto's reposo and foil asleep, B When Judgo Troup, who presides B over court No. C, arrived at tho court B room Friday morning ho waa stir- B prised to find tho lttolcsa body of Mr. B- ftoKowntcr on a bench. B 'Edward Rosowator, founded and B. editor since 1871 of tho Omaha Doe, B waa born at Uuk'ovan, Bohomla, In B 1841. Ho camo to tho United State;, B in 1854 and began work as a telegraph Hj operatpr when 18 years old. From K 18C1 to 18G3 ho was a membor of tho B United States mall telegraph corps, B nd In tho later year becamo manager B f tno Pacific Telegraph company at B Omaha. Ho was at various times a B membor of thn Nobraska legislature, B member of tho Ilepubllcan national B , committee member of tho advisory B ' board of tho national committee, B member of the United States mint B- commission and representative of tho B United States to tho unlvorsal postal B congress, of which he was vice prosl- B dent- H waR tuo original promoter B of tho Trans-Mlsslsslppt oxpoeltlon hold at Omaha In 1898. |