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Source: Topeka State Journal Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Bishop Hurst Dead” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Topeka, Kansas Date of publication: 4 May 1903 Volume number: 30 Issue number: 104 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Bishop Hurst Dead.” Topeka State Journal 4 May 1903 v30n104: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| John Fletcher Hurst (death); McKinley assassination (related tragedies). |
| Named persons |
| John Fletcher Hurst; William McKinley. |
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| The following excerpt comprises two nonconsecutive portions of this article. Omission of text within the excerpt is denoted with a bracketed indicator (e.g., [omit]). |
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Bishop Hurst Dead [excerpt]
Fatal Illness Began with News of McKinley’s Assassination.
Washington, May 4.—Bishop John Fletcher Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal church died here at 12:40 o’clock this morning.
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Bishop Hurst had been in failing health for nearly two years and for more than
a year it had been recognized that a fatal termination of his malady was but
a question of months.
He was stricken with paralysis in London last
September a year ago, when attending the Ecumenical conference. The news of
President McKinley’s assassination prostrated him and the shock brought on rapidly
the decline that finally ended in his death.