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Show NEWS CAUSES MAN'S DEATH Postmaster of Dayton Dies While Visiting Son in Oakland Excitement Ex-citement Causes Apoplexy Apo-plexy San Franc"i8CO; March is - Killed by news of the flood In Ohio, Frederick Freder-ick G Wlthoft, for 15 years postmas Iter of Davton. is dead today at the 1 home of his son in Oakland, where be had been visiting. Mr Withoft was ! president o! the National Association of First Class Postmasters, a thirty-second thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shrln er. a member of the Dayton City club n personal friend of Governor Cox and at one time chairman of tin Davton Commercial laague The body will be taken had; to Davton Mr. Withoft was about to return to his home when the first news came or the disaster that had overtaken It. Each succeeding addition of the newspapers news-papers added to his excitement and depression, which finally resulted in a fatal stroke of apoplexy |