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I COLONEL THEODORE DIES AT HOME III OYSTER BUY HIS HEALTH FOR THE MS? YEAR HID BEEN NUUffiKU Ex-President Had Not Been Well for Many Months and Suffer-; ' ed Affliction New Year's Eve Which Was Pronounced as Being Sciatica, Later Diagnosed, as Inflammatory Rheuma tism Which Was the Immediate Cause of His Sudden Pass- . ing Away. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep early Mon day morning at his home on Sagamore -Hill in this village. Death is believed to have been due to rheumatism which - affected his heart. ' The colonel suffered a severe attack" of rheumatism and sciatica on New Year's day hut none believed his ill ness would likely prove fatal., The former President sat up most of Sun- ' day and retired at 11 p. m. About four a. m., Mrs.. Roosevelt, who was the only other member of the family at Oyster Bay, went to her husband's room and found that he had died dur ing the night; I ' ' . Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to Colo nel Emlin Roosevelt, cousin of ihe for: mer President, and he came to the Roosevelt home immediately. ' Tele-: s grams were dispatched to the Colo- v nei s cnnaren, wno were in oiner parts - of the country. Two of the colonel's sons, Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Captain Kermit Rosevelt, are in service abroad. . Captain Archie Roosevelt and his wife left New York Sunday night for Boston; where the captains wife's fa ther is ill. Mrs. Ethel Derby and her two, children are in Aiken, S. C. , Telegrams of . condolence and sym pathy began to pour in from all parts of the country as" soon, as the news of Colonel f Roosevelt's death became known; . v-i-: , The former" .President came to his home on , Sagamore Hill from the Roosevelt hospital, on .Christinas day, but a week later was stricken with, a severe attack " of rheumatism and . sci atica, from which he had been suf fering for some time. The rheumatism affected his right hand and it be came much swollen. He remained In his room and efforts were made to check the trouble. Saturday, the colo- nel's secretary, Miss Josephine Striek er, called to see him but the Colonel was asleep in his room.' Miss Strieker said no one had any idea that death was. so near at hand.,' Tlags were placed at half mast in Oyster, Bay Monday. -' V Son's Death Broke' Him Down. wuoui. vuo imuga llldl IS DclieVeu. to have -contributed ' more than any other to the Colonel's breakdown was the death last fall of "his son; Lieu tenant. Quentin Roosevelt, the aviator, in action . in Prance.' Colonel " Roose velt bore the sorrow of his death with "Ia fortitude that was in keeping with ! his spirit in public lif e ' He suffered .- lost poignant griefs in "silence and 'tried to forget them by plunging'hard i. than ever into his' work ROOSEVELT " News of the death of the former President 'was received here by Miss Josephine Strieker, the Colonel's sec retary, in a telephone message from Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Strieker said that the colonel had suffered an attack of inflammatory rheumatism on New Year's day and i had since been more or less confined to his room. The attack of rheumatism, settled mainly in Colonel Roosevelt's right hand and 'Mrs. Roosevelt sent at once for a: nurse in the .village- of Oyster Bay. seem His condition did not at first to be alarming and the turn for the worse is believed not to have come until Sunday night. In announcing Colonel Roosevelt's death, Miss Strieker said: "Mrs. Roosevelt called me on the telephone shortly before 7 o'clock, say ing that the Colonel had died early in took place shortly after he left Har the morning. She did not give me any ' V2trd ln 8S0- He Vent to ErP particulars and I am leaving at once I cli?be thf Matterhorn, and as a re . y . - isult was elected a member of the Al- ror Oyster Bay. 5 j pine club of L0ndOn an organization "The attack must , have been very pf men who had performed notable sudden. On New Year's day inflanv feats of adventure. matory rheumatism developed in Colo- nel RnnsAvPit'a hanH y,ty. ! came I very much swollen. Mrs. Roose- velt sent for a nurse in the village and the Colonel was made as comfort- able as possible. It did not occur to ma qI fi,t v . me at that time that he was serious- - . ly ill. Miss Strieker went to Oyster Bay Saturday to pay the Colonel a visit; She said. 1 A t,o. . 4.x. , , , . At that time the Colonel was sleep-" mg m his room and I did not see him and there was. nothing in the circum- stances of his illness, at that time to indicate, to me that death was near. ,. kr ,x .. ' Mrs. Roosevelt called me this morn- ing and told me of the Colonel's death. I could hardly; believe it. "Mrs. Roosevelt gave me no particu lars of his death." r ''It is understood that only Mrs. Roosevelt and the nurse wea-e with him at the time of his death. The oth er members of the family are in other parts of the country or abroad. j A telephone message received later from Oyster Bay .said that Colonel Roosevelt had died at 4 a. m. Been Unwell Past Year. New .York. Colonel - Roosevftlf last illness may e Baid to date from last February. On February 5 it was announced he had been removed from his home in Oyster Bay to the Roose te.lt hospital ' in this .. city, following ah operation on one of his ears. Soon afte his arrival at the hospital he un derwent two more operations for the. removal of diseased tissues in hU in fected e&r:. and. it was, admittP I the time he was seriously ill. STDRY OF COL Roosevelt's Life WHO RECENTLY DIED AT HIS HOME IN OYSTER BAY, MASS. r WAS ONE 0 F GREAT W 0 R K S Hat Left t People Vivid Impression on the --. '" .. r ' V- The Nation Mourns. ' Colonel Roosevelt's career has left such a vivid impression upon' the peo pled his time that it is necessary to touch but briefly upon some of the JDre striking phases of his varied, interesting and "strenuous"" life .to re call to the public mind full details of his many exploits and experiences. Called to the White House in 1901 after PresldentvMeKinIey had been as sassinated, Colonel Roosevelt, 42 years of age, became the youngest President the United States has ever had. Three years later he was( elected as Presi dent by the largest popular vote a President had received. , Thus Roosevelt, sometimes "called a man of destiny, served for seven years as the nation's chief magistrate. In &' subsequent decade the fortunes of politics did not favor him, for," again a candidate for President this time leading the progressive party which he himself had organized when he dif fered radically withj some of the pol icies Of the Republican party in 1912 he went down to defeat, together with the Republican candidate, "William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Dem ocrat, was elected, j Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed with his friends that! his life, his character and his writings represent ed a high type of Americanism. . Of Dutch ancestry, born in New York city on October 27, 1858, in a house in East Twentieth street, the baby Theodore was 'a weakling. He was one of four children who came to "Theodore and ; Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.. The mother was of south ern tock and the father of northern, a situation which during the early years of Theodore, Jr.'s boyhood was not allowed to interfere with the fam ily life of .these children during the Civil war days, j i So frail tliat her was not privileged to associate with the ; other boys in his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tutored privately, in New York and during travels on which his parents took the children abroad. A porch . gymnasium at his home provided him with physi cal exercise with which he combatted a troublesome asthma. ,His "father, a glass importer and a man of j means, was his constant companion; he kept a diary; he read so much history and fictional books of adventure" that he was known as a bobkworm;1 he took boxing lessons; he was an amateur naturalist; and at the age of 17 he entered Harvard University. There, he was not as prominent as some oth ers in an athletic way, as it is not re corded tha-t he "made" the baseball and football teams, but his puny body had undergone a metamorphosis and before graduation h became one of the champion boxers of the college. This remarkable physical development was emphasized by something which A few months after his graduation Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee. qf Boston She died In 1884, leaving one child. Alice now the wife o ! Repre-J sentative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith Kermit Carow of New York, and to them five children were born Edith, , i. , . now the wife of Dr. Richard Derby, and four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ar- chibald and Quentin. . - The public career of the man who was to become President began not long after he 'left college. His pro- f ession wag law but actlvities that were to come 'left him no time - in which to practice it. In 1882, 1883 and 1884 was elected to the New York State Assembly, where his efforts on behalf of good government and civil service reform attracted .attention. When the Republican national con vention of 1884 was held in Chicago, he was chairman of State delegation; the New York , After this experience he dropped out of politics for two years. ' Going west, he purchased ranches; along the Lit tle Missouri river," in! North Dakota, and divided his time between outdoor sports, particularly 'hunting, ' and lit erary work: Here he laid the founda- t which wa h- U AAA . W A. WA V " X" lished from 1889 t6 1896, and of other volumes of kindred character.,- . , -Returning to New York, he became the Republican cadidate for mayor, in 1886. L He was' defeated. President 'Harrison in ' 188? appointed him - aj member of the United States Civil Service Commission and ; President Cleveland continued: him- in ; this; of fice, which he resigned in 1895 tS be come New 'i York city 'a ) police cotnmis sioner, V i. ' ' , VA thing - that attracted mp , to this office.". Roosevelt" said f at the' time, ne accepted this appom'tmenv "was "that J it was tJxb6 done ln the hurly-burly, for I donft like cloister life." Honestly was theiTwatchword of this adminis tration, alid the two years of his occu pancy berime memorable through the reforms fee inaugurated, attracting the nation's Attention while holding a po sition whch was obscure in compari son witlithe events to come. Illicit liquor traffic, gambling, vice in gen eral of iiese evils he purged the city in the fae of corrupt political oppo sition, an$ the reputation he establish ed as a Reformer won him the' per sonal selection by President McKinley as assistant secretary of the navy, -in 1897. A jear later the Spanish Amer ican war gjroke out. v ' . The Roosevelt temperament did not allow theHman to retain a deputy cab inet posioh with war offering some thing mo;e exciting, Leonard Wood, now a ntiljor-general in France, was then Priident ' McKinley's physician and one p of Roosevelt's staunchest friends. ,-.- " ' The famous Rough Riders were or ganized h Wood and Roosevelt a band of ifehting men the mentipn of whose n0ne today suggests immedi ately thfj word "Roosevelt." They came out of the west plainsmen, miners, rugh and ready fighters who were nattfjral marksmen and Wood be came the'k colonel and VTeddy," as he had become familiarly called by the public, - Oieir lieutenant-colonel. In companypwith the', regulars of the army tWp took transports to Cuba, landed atSantiago and were soon en gaged inSthe thick of battle, Among the prom,tions which this hardy reg iment's gallantry brought about were those of , Wood to brigadier-general and Roosevelt to colonel and ' this title Theijdore Roosevelt cherished until jthefend. Some of the Rough Riders formed the military escort when he ii'as elected President a few 'years later. When Jbuba had been liberated, Rooseveif returned to New York. A gubernatorial campaign was in swing, with the -Republican party in need of a capabl candidate. Roosevelt was nominate. Van Wyck, his Democrat ic opponent, was defeated. The reforms Roosevelt! had favored as assembly man he fpw had the opportunity to consummijte, together with others of more importance, and it was during this administration that he is said to have earned the hostility of porpora tlons. 1 Wjlen the Republican national conventioij was held in Philadelphia in 1900 hs party in -New York State demanded and obtained his nomina tion for -iice President on the ticket with Willim McKinley. In November of that yelir this ticket was elected. sThe ponies of McKinley, Roosevelt endeavored to carry -out -after he suc ceeded tip former upon the Presi dent's tragic death at the hands of an assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre decessor' st cabinet as his own and he kfpt In c ice the ambassadors and ministers Lwhom McKinley had ap pointed, 'is much as two years before the presidential campaign of 1904 Re publican 'organizations in variqus States j bean endorsing him as their next candidate. j lit was jhus that "the man of des tiny" Ideal became associated with his life. - Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leav ing the governorship of New York to become vice President, was moving forward tom state politics into na tional ! polics, so his political oppo nents processed publicly to believe; but it! was their secret desire to "shelve" iiie man and eliminate him from prominence in their own commu nity, it ws said, that prompted these political fjes to obtain for him the vice preslc'lential nomination, which he personallyrjdid not desire. ; At the Ijeight of his public and po litical career, during the four years of the . term f.jr which he had been elect ed,: Roosevelt accomplished achieve-, menis wnip nistorians win rans nign in he international and industrial process of the country. They includ ed his j influential negotiations which, conducted if at Portsmouth, N. H., ef fected peafbe between-Russia and Ja pan; mainj-jenance of the Monroe doc trine at al period when European pow ers were : interested . in the , affairs of Venezuela 1 1 the recognition of Panama as a repulse' and his treaty rwith Panama bjf which the inter-ocean ca nal throuX that country was put un der way; find the settlement, through his moral influence in the face of a situation ti which there was no ade- qute feder.Cl legislation, of the Penn sylvania 'pal mine strike. For his part in tel.minatihg the Russo-Japanese conflict he was awarded the Nobel Peace Priz; in 1906. 'Four years later, once mom a private citizen, he was special jantpassador for the United States at flie funeral of King Edward VII of Ennland. J A rift . m the friendship between Roosevelt Jtnd his successor as Presi dent, Willm Howard Taft, led to the former's announcement of his opposi tion to Mrl Tafts' renomination. The ex-Presideijt's influence had been large in placing Mr. Taft in the .White House. Nofr his influence was equally strong in 'preventing "Mr. Taft from remaining fithere.- Men who had clash ed with tbjs Taft , policies quickly ral lied to Roosevelt's support. Roose velt assembled what he' termed as con structive jieas as opposed to the con- servative nes. of the so-called Re publican fpld Guard," characterized tfeem wit the description of "Pro essive"fand organized '' the j Progrs- sive party by withdr? wing with his followers Jfrom the Chicago conyention qf pi2. He became : the new; party's tandidatei'for . President: This split in the Republican party resulted ln Woodrow Wilson's election.'- - One of the most" dramatic incidents in. I'txsevelts life occurred during this campaign. ? As he was leaving a hotel,' in Milwaukee, to go to a meeting hall to make a political . address, a man standing among the spectators in the street fired; a shot which struck the Colonel and smashed a rife. Roosevelt Insisted he was. not seriously hurt and his automobile conveyed him to the hall. There he spoke' to an audience which bad knowledge of what had happened bobbins women and "grave faced men shaken with emotion by his appearance under ' such circumstances. Examination of the wound showed .It was serious " and the candidate was hurried by special train to Chicago for treatment. Though -he -speedily . re covered the bullet was never removed' The assassin was sent. to an asylum for the insane. Roosevelt after leaving the White House devoted his life largely tp liter ary work, hunting and exploration. He became contributing editor to The Outlook in 909, continuing this for five years, and later held editorial positions with The Metropolitan and the Kansas City Star. ' From 1882 to 1917 he published about fifty volumes of works covering the wid6 range of natural history, hunting, biography, the Rough Riders, Americanism, Na tionalism, conservation of womanhood and childhood, - animals, exploration, the world; war and America's partici pation in it, an dhis autobiography. His hunts for j big game and his zest for exploration took him into the Ameri can west, the heart of Africa :and the wilderness of ' Brazil. Upon his return from his African journey a return during which he made triumphant entries into Euro pean capitals and was received by na tions' rulers including the Emperor of Germany he arrived in New York to experience what was generally con ceded to "be the greatest ovation an American private citizen was ever ac corded by. the people of his country. This was in 1910. At the head of an exploring party in South America in 1914 he discovered and followed for 600 miles j a Madeira river tributary which the Brazilian government subse quently named in his honor, Reo Theodora. ; This was the famous "River of Doubt" so-called because in many quarters considered . authori-. tative it was questioned whether Roosevelt was the first man to explore the stream. During this journey the president ; contracted a jungle fever which was held indirectly responsible for the a4s cesse3 which developed ma lignantly and required several opera tions at th Roosevelt hospitalin New York City jin 1918. Theodore Roosevelt, besides being a Iprolific writer, lectured and "made pub lic speecnes extensively, not omy in his awn country, but in England, Spain, South America and other parts of the world. The facility wtih which he made political enemies and follow ers made him a! marked man for both the friendly and bitter attention of cartoonists; and paragraphers. Quaint and picturesque phrases were coined liberally by him and by others concern ing" him. r'Speak softly and use the big stick,"; "weasel words," "pussy foot" "mollycoddle" and "my hat is in the ring" were some of the Roose veltian 'expressions which attained wide publicity. ' The strenuous j physical activities in which Roosevelt engaged at the White House included boxing. It was not un til about eight years after he left the White House that it was disclosed that during: one of these bouts, which he welcomed as a means of keeping him, in fighting trim, a blow lalnded by a sparring opponent injured one of the Colonel's eyes. Later blindness of this eye developed. ; j ,In the later years of his life two court suits, in which he figured in one as plaintiff and in the other as defendant, j! winning them: both, kept Roosevelt hefore the public eye. Dur ing the presidential campaign of 1912 a Michigan editor charged him with intoxication. Roosevelt instituted a suit for? libel and marshalled a notable host of: witnesses to testify regarding his private: life and habits Their tes timony was so overwhelming that the charge was withdrawn in open court and the Jury brought i na nominal ver dict of six: cents in favor of the. ex president. William Barnes, Jr., of Al bany, N. Y., accused Roosevelt in 1914 of uttering' libel in a statement as serting that the .."rottenness" of the New York State government was due directly to the domination of Tam many Hall! in politics, aided by Mr. Barnes and his. followers. At Syra- cuse, "N. Y.r in 1915 the jury's verdict acquitted Roosevelt. - When the European war began Roosevelt vigorously advocated a pol icy; of national preparedness, urging universal military training for the nation's youth. Xai speeches throughout the country and . in his magazine and newspaper writings he criticised, in this respect, the policies of Woodrow Wilson during Mr. Wilson's first term as president. Mr. Roosevelt, it has been said, was keenly disappointed when he did not receive the Republican nomination for President in 1916. At the same time however, , j he refusd to follow ; the advice of some of his staunchest fol lowers 'that he "again ; head-the pro gressive" party ckeC Instead he" pre vailed upon the -. progressive; party to makes Charles Evans Hughes, the Re publican candidate, its own choice. 1' ; DEgEflGIIT AMERICAN TROOPS ENGAGE li SEVERAL BATTLES WITH - THE BOLSHEVIKI. SNOW TWO TO FOUR FEET DEEP Hot. Artillery Fire Forces the Ameri cans to Withdraw temporarily from Villages Occupied by Them. . With the American Army on the Dwina. American troops fighting dp. pcrately nea Kadish, have anven back bolshevik troops which made an advance there: The bolshevists also launched attacks cn the Onega sector and bombarded the allied front. Thfe Americana came into battle along the Petrograd road and- in . the frozen swamps J that border it. The battle was fought in 'snow from two to four feet in depth. American forces captured" Kadish after a display of gallantry that evoked the admiration of the allied comman ders. Special caVe has been taken of the American wounded and the body .of an American officer was taken back 100 miles by sledge and then shipped , to Archangel for burial. There were some casualties, but they were-small in comparison to those Inflicted upon the enemy. - On Tuesday, the bolshevists opened a terrific fire from three and six-inch guns ' and launched a counter-attack against the buildings held by the Am ericans in Kadish. So hot was the ar tillery fire that the Americans were withdrawn temporarily from the vil lage., .The line, . however, was not takon back very fir and the new po sitions were firmly, held. The enemy did not occnnv Kadish hfla.iisp'' .thf , barrage fire from the Americans guns made the place untenable. Shells falling on the frozen ground spread their zones of destruction twice as ,far a3 they would j under normal con ditions. Later, under tfte protection of artillery fire, j American detach ments again swept forward and reoc cupied the town. The men engaged in the advance were j from infantry and trench mortar units. , REVISED STATISTICS SHOW ; INCREASE OF DEATHS Washington. The influenza epi demic which- swept: the country during the latter part of last year caused 111,688 deaths in the 46 largest cities and increased the combined death rate for those communities in 1918 to 19.6 "per thousand according to statistics made public by the cen sus bureau. Total figures for the country were not available. Baltimore with 1 26.8 per thousand and Nashville with 26.4 had the highest rates of the registration cities, while St. Paul with 13.9 and Minneap olis and Grand Rapids with 14 each had the lowest. PROTESTANTS RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT IN CHURCH Rome After his visit to the Vatican President Wilson returned to the American embassy, whence he drove, with Mrs. Wrilson, to the American -Protestant Episcopal church. He was accompanied by Thomas Nelson Page, , the American ambassador; Brigadier General Wm. W. Harts, U. S. A., -and Count Bruschi-Falgari, gentleman-in waiting, to King- Victor Emmanuel, and Countess Bruschi-Falgari, lady-in- waiting to Queen Helena In the vestry he received represen tatives of evangelical churches in Italyt They were introduced by Dr. Dexter .G. Whittinghill, superintend ent of the American Baptist mission; Rev. Walter Lowerie, rector of St. Paul's American church, and Francis B. Keene, the American ; consul gen eral. Other bodies represented were the Waldensian' , church, the English Baptist missions, the Italian-American Methodist churches, the . Wesleyan missions, the Presbyterian church and the British Bible Society ROOSEVELT WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Washington. It is understood here that Col. Theodore Rosevelt. is about to announce that he will not be a can didate for the presidency in 1920. His health is poor, and the rigors of a campaign might make it worse. If Mr. Roosevelt gets out of the way it is be lieved that Senators Lodge. Knox, Watson, Harding and Sherman wlil enter the race. That Is one way of explaining the bitter; attacks on the president In ,the senate. MEXICAN REFUGEES SEND I DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE El Paso. Six hundred refugees of all political factions formed an organ ization here and decided to send dele gates to Paris during the peace con gress there with a view to obtaining a permanent: peace in Mexico and .the repatriation ox an political , exiles iu the" United Stales and Europe. Dele gations " wil .also be sent to President Carranza, .Francisco, ViHa, , and other leaders In the interest of this move- meat. - -vf ,v, .7.-,-vl.-- 1 t 1
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