Representative Ford Dead

Grand Rapids, Mich., Aprill 2L- Congressman Melbourna H. Ford was found n bed yesterday moruing unconscious, and the doctor who was called pronounced it a case of apoplexy. He died at 2 p. ,m. Mr. Ford was bom forty-two years ago in Michigan. He was a niidshipman in the navy. He was elected to .he state legislature from this city in 8&4, was elected to the Fiftieth congress, lefeated ior the Fifty-first, and reelected ast November by over 2,500 plurality. He eaves a wife and three children.