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Show CROVER CLEVELANO CALLED BY DEATH i j End Came Unexpectedly After i Losing Battle of Many Months ! Against Disease. I Nation Mourns Lou of StateeeXr ! Twice Chosen ae Preaicent of the United States One of the Strongrat Charactere of Political World. I Princeton. X J -drover Clevelud, I twice prnaldent of the Culled Hi Her. died at 8HI o'clock Wedi Iny morni lug. at hla home. Wcatland. wherein' bad lived alncn hi retirement aa tho nation's chief cxncutlvn, aim twelve yeara ago. When death cob whlrb. waa auiblcn. there were In th" death chamber, on thn aecond ' ' of the Cleveland realdenee, Hr, Cleveland. Dr. Jonnph I). Ilryant ( Nnw York, Mr. Cleveland a faathv Ihyalrlan and peraimnl friend. Dr llorge H. I-ockwood, oIpo of Ne York, and Dr. John ,M. "amoeban o' Princeton. An official alatement given mil and signed by the three phvalclmia ve rart trouble, aupi rlnditncd by atom-h atom-h and kidney allinenta rt long stand-g. stand-g. ns the cause of.-denth. While Mr. Cleveland had been In l r health for the hist two years, and M lost a hundred pound In woiaht, i death nunc unexpectedly. Home kreo weeks ngo hn waa brought home loin Ijikewisiil, whom hla condition pr n time waa aurh that the hotel at k?hlrli he was atnylng waa kept open jfior Ita regular aoason, because be Sis list III to lm moved. Hut when r. Cleveland was bioiight bnrk to (trliiceton hu showed algna of lm-fetivemoiit lm-fetivemoiit und actually gained flvn uinila In weight. ,1 Ho une.(tedly did .Mr. Cleveland's sili coiiio that not one of his four Killiln ii wna at home. The children lern at tho Clovnlnnd amnnier home at f.iiuworlh, N. H iiuder the earn of re Perrlne. Mis Cleveland's mother. fVord was sent to them of their fath- r'a death and they started for Prlnoe-l'0 Prlnoe-l'0 at iiurn. The children nre Ksther, iged 14; Mnrlon, aged 12; Itlrharil, iited 10, and fYancia drover, aged t. the newa of Mr. Cleveland'a death irnue aa a sudden ahix-k tn the people li Princeton, aa It did tn tha people If the rnat of the world. Prealdent Itooaevelt. on hearing tha laws of the deallr of the former preab lent, Isaued a proclamation directing bat the flaga over the While House ind the department hulldlngs be (laced at half-mast In honor of the teuiory of Mr. Cleveland. H also udered that aultable naval and mill i.ry honors be rendered oa tha day It Ihe funeral. Mr. Clnveland was 71 years old oa March 1 laat. ?.-. -i $ - "'-V rn-- ..f-'.. i EX-PRESIDENT CROVER CLEVELAND j |