Show SEt PASSES AWAY AJAY Jackson Miss Dec S Sen Senator ator atol A J i died suddenly to tonight tonight night at his home borne In Brandon Death was duo to an attack of heart and carrie came without the slightest varn ing at G 30 When Then time the fatal stroke came Senator was seated in a rocking chair In front of the fire in his li II He suddenly fell forward with without wIthout out speaking a word and was dead when members of his fam family II reached him him The swift summons of oC death followed but brit a few moments a remark by SCUll Senator tor McLaurin that he was feel Ceel feeling Ing butter better than he had since his reo re recent cent Illness resulting from an attack of ptomaine poisoning No No announcement as aR to funeral ar arra ra ments had been made late to tonight tonight night As to a successor to S Senator Mc McLaurin Laurin it Is pointed out that an ap mIght be immediately made b Governor Noel or that the lie new sea sen senator ator might be selected by the state legislature In January Januar Washington Dee Dec Mc Ilc who was 61 years rears old began his first term in the United States senate in bit 18 1894 4 but was elected go gov governer erner of Mississippi in 1895 1595 and served In that office four years Fought for South He was elected again to the senate in ill 1900 and served one term He then returned for tile the which began on 1 1907 1007 Ills His present term of would have hao expired on March 31 3 13 Senator McLaurin was a lawyer and began hegan the stud of law in after he had served servel through the civil war as a private in the Confederate army lie He was born on March j 1518 at Brandon Miss and was as raised on a farm He entered the Confederate arm army when lie he was 1 IC G years old Seven children survive him When the present sl session of DC eon con congress gress opened Senator did not come cODle to Washington because of illness In the senate chamber he was known as one of the strongest defend defenders ers of the south through not as radical ns as sonic He believed in the south her re rc resources sources and her future arid and he never failed to raise raiBe to her bier defense when t she bo was assailed He did some active work ork on the tho senate on the river and and was a mem her lar of other important sonata corn com amon among them those on nit civil service r immigration inter Interstate state commerce public expenditures and the Joint committee on revision o of laws of the United States |