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Show LOSES LAST LONQ FIGHT, Tom L. Johnaon, Twice Congressman and Four Time Mayor of Cleveland, Cleve-land, Succumbs to Grim Reaper. Cleveland. Ohio Tom I.. Johnson, iwlce enngrofsmnn frmn lho Twenty-first Twenty-first Ohio district, four limes mayor ot Cleveland, champion of lho Ihrce-cent Ihrce-cent street railway lure, und lending adwieato of lho alnglo ta theory of Henry tloorgo, died hero al K:.1 o'clock Monday night after a long Illness. Ill-ness. Ho was flfiy soven years of rp. . Mr. Johnson had been 111 for a year, but hla condition was not thought ae- rloua unlll ho Buffered a relapse on TOM L. JOHNSON. Wednesday, April r. Ho bad boon gaining alrenglh ever since ho cninn homo lifter nicli.llng rlic suiiiin. r on Nnnluckot Inhinil. Tom L: Julmaun once referred to himself In a nubile mlilreus as a "stormy petrel,'' and this metaphor, aptly described lilm mid In. Healed Ihe course of his uareer. From the time ho cnlcrod tlio nfflcei of u Loulsvlllo atri'Ol iiillway company ua a boy of fifteen ulilll his .defeat for a tilth term as ninyor Jit fieviland. on November i, IDiHI, lie was ever In lb" center nt some storm, fir.' mini or pollUcal. Ho' often said-It wf Hum lhat ho enjoyed hlmnelf hc-l. Johnson was bom in . .(ioorgelow u, Ky.. July Ik, . : . . A an' Em ' ' f' "fnit paViil don't aeo why we need to atudy these problrma about the man hp u'ld hje wheat for one fourth of whtiMM ciirn waa worth, and from' boifi silica, be iikiiIo a propt of I'J'J. How '-rrltii'lr irorn, aj.d wheal did he sell?" , .. "Of ,. rtuirae you can't aeo the good "t It. jojjvc. Johnny. Hut In Inter life these problema will all come back to you when you renllte bow much they havo belprd you." "Well, papa, do you remember the auswiy; to thla one?" "Vby er . Hun nlniig. child. Don't you eoeel am reading the paper?" |