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Show LO0IR8 Solicitor GeneralNof the Government Suddenly Carried Off Hoston. Sept. 9. Solicitor General Lloyd W. ltowers died here at 11::;? a. ni today of complications arising from an attack of bronchitis. Thi solicitor general had been ill about two weeks. Death came suddenly while Mr. I'.owers was tulking with hift family. A blood cbt In the heart causer a I most instant death. Mrs Uower-. f son and the nurse were ;nesen. The family had been staying at t!i Hold Touraine in this city (or i to-miht. The solicitor generul was r.l cais of nee. Mr Iiowers was appointed solicitor general bv 1'reideiii Tall -n March 22. 1 !"'!. The Appointment wa ; irin .f the tlr.-.t odlclal acts of Mr. Tnft as president, who had long iiei-Mr. Iiowers in hlch rcnard. The solicitor general was one of the men known to have h-c-n in the mind of 'be president presi-dent for appointment to fll! ono 'f the existing vacancies on th--- I'nit.d Slates sunreme court bench. The first news of Mr. P.owi-is" iii-ness iii-ness became generally known thrii,;;i a telegram sent by Mrs. Hmvei to I President Taft last Tuesday. Th'i message was delivered to the rel-dent rel-dent on the train whl! be was u,i bis way back to Hexeily from ta conservation cultures.-) at St Paul. S solicitous was Mr. Taft that as sou as he reached Hoston he called at th1 hotel. He found the patient so niuci improved that he was able to see him. Daily reports concernii-g the condition condi-tion of the sick man have been encouraging, en-couraging, and yesterdav the prospects pros-pects of his being aide to leave tho hotel were discssed. The physician who has attended Mr. Bowers hero said todnv that the patlcr.t hnd i good night's rest, ate a gi.od breakfast break-fast today and was chatting cheerfully cheer-fully with his wife and son, when hi suddenly stopped talking and a moment mo-ment later was dead. Dr. Frederick Cocgeshall said the original Illness of Mr. Bowers, which took the form of a severe cold, wn due to overwork. The cold attacked him at Gloucester, where' Mr. Bower hod come from Chicago, " his home city, to spend the summer. TOnsllb-1 developed and, to have expert medical medi-cal assistance, Mr. Bowers was brought to Boston. An abscess en one of the tonsils necessitated an operation, op-eration, the efie Is of w hich. Dr. Coggcshall said, were too severe for the weakened system to throw off. Bioqraphical Sketch. Washington, Sept. Lloyd W. Bowers was graduated from Yale In ! 1 S 7! and from the Co'.jmbla law scho) in 1 S-S2 . he was general o nisei ni-sei of the Chicago Ac Northwester; railway in 1S&: and lastlv solicltn-general solicltn-general of the I'nited States and bad charge of the government business before the highest Judicial tribunal of the country. He was born at Springfield. Mass, March 9. The Bowers family was prominent in Massachusetts ano Iniluded many cb.-rginen and teach ers. Mr.' Bowers was admitted to the bar In June, .SS2, and. after a brief exper.ence In New York cltv. won t nnii r partnership with former Chief Justice Wilson of Minnesota. !-atet he moved to Chicago, where. In June, I.S0:!, he became the head of the lega'. i department of the Chicago .t North western railroad. Mr. Bowers was twice married. In i 1SS7 he married Miss Louise B. Wit son of Winona. Minn, who die ten years later. In Um; he married ...s Charlotte Josephine Lewis. |