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Show RODERTO INOERSOLL DEAD. Mia Ureal tfiioltlc 'oirrmol to an ttlaib ill Heart llltf-asr Jfcw York, July 23 Colonel Hobcrt 0 lugertk 1 died nt hit home, Wnlston-on Wnlston-on Hudson, near Dobba 1 crry, Friday Ills death wut tuildin and unexpected and resulted from the heart disease from which ho had suffered tlnce 18 JO Mrs. Ingirtoll waa the only perion In tho room with lilm when lie died Dinllicame to him n he had recently exprcssid n ilcslro It thould lie of tin, In olden times, tald he wished to dlcalowl), with it full contitoutnett, , to lie might till thoto nbout lilm how It felL Htcentlv ho expressed n change and desired to die painlessly I and without warning ItoWrt (lrecn Ingersoll wnt born In I Dresden, enUmnnty, August II, 1833 II. sv.nl v..t .!,,4 lDy.r. nt ll ,.. a abort time In an academy in Ten- neatcc, alto taught school In that ttate lie Wgan tho practice of lnw In Southern Illinois In I55(t wa defeated defeat-ed lu 1800 as Democratic candidate for congress, became colonel of the I'.lev-cntli I'.lev-cntli lllluolt cavalry In 1802, wa attorney at-torney general for llllnolt In 1804, refuted re-futed post of minister to Germany In 1877 Colonel Ingcriolla notoriety and fame has Wen acquired through hit public lcilureadinylng the existence, of n (lod and criticising the lllble and the Christian rellglotf Colonet Ingertoll llrst attracted political po-litical notice by hit brilliant eulogy of James (I lllalne In the Republican national na-tional convention at Cincinnati In 1B70 In lilt epeech nominating Mr, lllalne for the presidency, Mr Ingertoll Inger-toll reftrrcd to hit favorite at tl'e "plumed kulght," a name that nttaihut Itself to Mr lllalne and remained with blm durlnir hit rtmalnlnr venra Colonel Ingersoll practiced law at Peoria, III , for many years, but afterwards after-wards settled In New orlc |