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Show I PAUL VAN DER VOORT DEAD Ncwa hna been received of tho death nf l'aat C'omniundcr-ln-l.'lilf f Vim Der Voort, who ua horn In Oliln tu I M.I. and wna under l'i yearn of ano when he enllut.'d for three mm ilia' erko In tho Blxtyeliihtli Illinois Inlantry. llo ro enllati d In Cnnipnny M. Humeri Hu-meri Hi llllnola Cavalry, and i with bla reRluietit In aorvlce In Iho Ninth and Twenty-third Corps, and In the Cavalry Corpa of the Military Division of the Mlaaliuilppl. llo waa tnken prUoncr and confined for nearly a year In Anderionvllie hi,, I other boulhern prlmuia; n UHebarRed AuKiiat 1, 1HU5. as aorKeant. Alter the war he entered tho railway mall service ser-vice llo Joined the Urniiil Army In llllni, la In 18(11) and waa aitHlatant adjutant ad-jutant Korerul to Iiepartinint Coin-tunu.ler Coin-tunu.ler llllllurd. lie rcaicnerl that position un hlH removal tn Oinuha, where ho wua Inatrumental la the re-orKunlr.ntlon re-orKunlr.ntlon of tho Iiepartment of No-hranka, No-hranka, to which ho waa analiuird aa provlHlonal commander. On ihe formation for-mation of the department he waa electod department commander, and afterwards wua elected aenlor vice coiniiianiler In rhlef. Kubaeiiuently he waa elected cominiiniler-ln-chlpf at the alxti'omh antiuul aeanlon. hold at nnlllmnro. Mil., Juno 21, 1XN2. He died auddunly In Cuba of paralyali .f Iho heart. Hla wife and aim were it hla bedside at the time of hia daajvi. |