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Show WESTING WE IS CALLEDBY DEATH Succumbs to Heart Trouble After Three Month5, Illness 68 Years Old. j New York, N. Y., March 12. George 11 ' Westlnghouse died here today. j r A member of Mr. Westlnghouse's j ' staff said that he had been suffering III with a heart complaint for three j j, months. Latterly it grew worse' and" j II on Monday last he had a relapse II! which left him weak. Mr. Westing-house Westing-house is GS years old. Ill Mr. Westlnghouse was 6S years old III and was perhaps best known as the 111 1 inventor of the airbrake which bears I p his name and revolutionized railroad- j I Ing in this country. He was born In, at Central Bridge, N. Y., and received receiv-ed his early education In tho common j i schools. He served in the civil l war. . 11 At his death he was the president II of nearly thirty corporations. The . H air brake which he inveted is used j I throughout the civilized world, and in almost every part of tho glove arv II. great plants which be founded. in 00 J |