Show NIP r L NOTED journalist GALLED CALLED joseph pulitzer Pull tzer for more mor than a 1 of quarter of a century one of amer aca leading figure figures Is dead charleston S C joseph pulitzer Pull tzer proprietor pr krietor ol 01 the new york horld orld and the st louis post dispatch died at 1 40 clock sunday aboard bis big yacht the liberty in charleston Char leaton harbor the immediate cause of mr nir pulitzer Pull tzer i 1 death was heart failure iio it had acer la in III health for several days but unit a few hours before the end none notie ol 01 those around him film suspected the grav ity of his condition for more than t nn a quarter aar er of 0 a cen ce lury fury joseph pulitzer Pull tzer had been one ol 01 the leading figure figures in american jour ballam born in hungary in 1847 an aua educated there he came to this couii coun try la in 1863 enlisted in the uncut army and served as a cavalryman un til tit the end of the war bo lie set tied in st louie louis which was for man years the scene of his activity pol fol many years his newspaper was as a newspaper reporter and at as a city editor managing ed aitor and part proprietor of the west lafache post edited by carl schurz schutz lie bought the st louis dispatch it and united it with the poat po at as th the post dispatch which under his man became in a few years one ot of the best known ane an most widely cir journals in the section mr entry into new lor orl journalism occurred in 1883 when bt h bought the world then a paper 0 email mall circulation its circulation and prestige grew rapidly under his gen cral eral direction A building to house louse it t which he erected in 1890 on park row was until overtopped by the eky sky scrap ers of later yeary r one of the most striking of new hew york s office buildings mr lir pulitzers a acht began to fall him in the late eighties and nod after a time he became totally blind ever since bo he had bad been a partial invalid but up to the last had kept general super vision over bis his newspaper properties in new york and in st louis and taken pronounced interest in civic clyle affairs much of his big w wealth has been given for educational ducat ional purposes he lie donated 1 to columbia un university hersity to establish and maintain a college of bour hall sni and established scholarships in that institution for deserting de senin graduates of new newyork york public schools schwa during hia his residence in missouri missour lis sour mr pulitzer Pull tzer served as a ator ot of the legislature and wae was a dIe legato gate from that state to the den dem ratte na us lional convention in 1880 1890 he lie was se lecter to the forty ninth congress cons resa from a now york district I 1 ut resigned after a few months service |