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Show LOSES LAST LONG FIGHT. Tom L. Johnson, Twfce Congressman and Four Tlmea Mayor of Cleveland, Cleve-land, Succumbs to Grim Reaper. Cleveland. Ohio Tom I Johnson, twice congressman from tho Twenty-first Twenty-first Ohio district, four limes mayor of Cleveland, champion of the three cent street railway fare, nnd leading advocate of the single tax theory of Henry George, died here at 8:45 o'clock Monday night arter a long 111-nef. 111-nef. lie wiib fifty seven year of ago, Mr. Johnson had been ill for a year, but bis condition was not thought serious se-rious until he suffered a relapse on '-'' r! fJ J i A. ' .' , A. .. ... , , . . 'r TOM L. JOHNSON. Wednesday, April 5. He had been gaining strength ever since he came home after spending rhe summer on Nantucket Island. Tom L. Johnson once referred to himself In a public address aa a "stormy petrel," and this metaphor aptly desctilii d him and Indicated tbe coarse of his .-ueer. From the time he entered in office 0f M Ioulsvllle si reel railway company a a boy of fifteen until hla defeat for a fifth t"rrn its mayor of Cleveland, on November '!, iyi)9. he was ever In the center of lome s'orm. flnaiK IhI or political. He nften said il was thus that he enjoyed liluiself best. Johnson rn born In Georgetown, Ky.. July Id, 1S.-.4 |