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Show GEN. FRED D. GRANT DEAD I Shockingly Sudden Death Was Caus- M ed by Heart Failure Reports that fl He had been Suffering from Cancer M of The Tongue Denied. M - iiiV Now, York, April 12. Gen. lred- H crick D. Grant, commander of tho M department of tho east, and son of fl the famous Civil War general, died H suddenly nt midnight at tho Hotel H Buktngham, whoro ho had gecn la- H ken secretly Wednesday ovenlug by H his physicians. His presence in this H city was not known until tho news S!HI that ho had been suddenly stricken t was flashed to newspaper offices by lH tho pollco. A pollcoman Btatloned .11 near tho hotel had called an ambul- iH anco at tho request of an omployco 'iB who told him that Gen Grant was jK choking to death. iE Although thero had been rumors of jH Gun. Grant's illness and reports that vH ho would never again take up his .'H duties on Governor's Island, tbo H news of his doath camo as a distinct H shock to tho public. According to H Dr. Itobort Abbo and Dr. Edward B. i Donch, his physicians, tho death of ,H tho general was caused by heart fall- tjH uro. Ho had beccn suffering for iH somotlmo thoy assorted In an official !l statement from "diabetes and attend- ant digestive disturbances." H |