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Show VETERAN ACTOR DEAD. Joseph Jefferson 8uccumbs After Heroic Struggle Against Grim Reaper. West Palm Beach, Fla. Joseph Jet Eorson tho eminent actor, died at his oroo, "The Itcefs," at Palm Beach at 0:15 Sunday evening. 'The end came lifter dn t unconsciousness and after a heroic struggle of days which bad exhausted his vitality. At the death-bed his wife, his sons Charles and Frank Jefferson, his nurse, Miss Mabel Bingham, Dr. It. B. Potter and his faithful servant, Carl Kettcler, woro urcscnt. Tho sickness of Mr. Jefferson which ended. In his death was contracted, It la beliovcd, while on a recent visit to bis son, Charles D. Jefferson, at Hobo Bound, a fow miles above Palm Beach, whore ho wont to meet his friend, former President Clovoland. It Is beliovcd be-liovcd that from a slight Indiscretion In his eating thero ho. suffered an at-taok at-taok of Indigestion. Since his return to his homo his condition grow steadily stead-ily worse with slight rallies until the end. |