Georgia Mourns

Atlanta, Oot. 24.- Ex-Speaker Criap Í8 dead. He died at the sanitarium of Dr. Holmes in this city. At 2:15 o'clock p. m. yesterduy. Crisphad been aninmate of the sanitarinm for several weeks. His coudition had been reported as very low, but no fatal conclusión to his illness had been expeoted so soon. Whcna rumor got abroa several dnysagothat he was siiking It was vigorously denied at the sanitarium, where it was given out that he was getting better. Mr. Crisp was tho ehoice of the Democrats of Georgia to sueceed Senator John B. Gordon in the L'nited .States sonate and would have been choseu to that position by the legislatura at its approaching session had he lived. Death Came with Intense Pain. Mr. Crisp had been In intense pain nll day. Every few minutes he would suffer gre itly. But no dangor was feared at such an early mom-nt. His wife, together with ,i sanltarium nurse Miss Sharp, was watohing at his bodside. At about 1:45 o'clock Mr. Crisp was seized with another attack and quite suddenly he passed into the calm of death. The watchers saw it and sent dowu stairs for Dr. Holmes. Judge Crisp's two daughterg, Mrs. Fred Davenport and Miss Bertha Crisp, and his two sons, Charles ! F. Crisp, Jr., and Fred Crisp, were at the Ballard House on Peach Tree Street They were quickly summoned. When they entered the room Judge Crisp was gtill conscious. Ho gave them the look of recogniti n, breathed a few times and died. He could not speak. Dread Messeneer Comes Quietly. So quickly had the dread niessonger come that the stricken family stood appalled in the death chamber. Mr. Crisp's death, while apparently thus sudden, was not unexpected by the physicians who had been watchiug hlm. He had been declining for several yearg. His last illness, however, was occasioneel by an attack of malari 1 fever which he contracted at his home in Americus a few weeks ago, but which itself yielded to treatment wheu he caine to Atlanta. He was considerad convalescent and only last Sunday had ridden out. But when rnewed health seemed in view he was attacke.l by congestión of the lungs which, added to the weaknessof the lungs and heart caused by two previous attacks of pleuro pneumonía, resulted in his death. Air ts the Poltlcal Sltuation, His untimely death throws the polltcal situation into chaos, and makes the choice of senator a matter of great uncertainty. The legislature is almost unanimously for free silver, however, and whoever is named will be an advocate of that poiicy. Crisp had been at the Holmes sanitarium flve weeks suffering from malarial fever. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. He was born in Sheffiold, Englanil. Id 1861 he eutered the Confedérate army as a lieutenant. After the war ho studied law. Heaccepted the Democratie nomination for congress in 188:2. Ho was elected speaker of the house for the Fifty-second congress and re-eleoted for the Fif ty-third. Will Be Buried with Honora. Definite arrange;nents have not been completed concerning the funeral, but it is understood that his body will ultimately rest at his old home in Americus among the people who loved so well to honor him. Honors befltting the high station Mr. Crisp has oceupiod in the state and the nation will undoubtedly bo paid his memory by the general assembly, ■which meets next Wednesday. DEATH OF COI.llIBUS BÜLAXO, OT.inV Secretary of the Interior Dies Suddmly at Coluuibus. Columbus, O, Oct. 24 - Hon. Columbus Delano, secretary of the interior under Grant, died at 11 a. m. yesterday at Luke Howe, his suburb.-m home near Mount Vernon. He was 87 years old. Mr. Delano died suddanly and unexp cto ly. There was no connection between his death and the accident to Mrs. Delano on Sunday. She is at the point of death. Hon. Columbu3 Delano was born In Bhor ham, Vt., June 5, 1803. and moved to Ohio in 18)7. He was educated in the common schools, Btudiod law and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He was a dele gate in 1860 to the national Republican convention in Chicago, which nominatod Lincoln ani Hamlin. He was a memberof congress from Ohio in 1814, 1804 aud 18Í58 On March 5, 1869, he was appoiuted by President Grant eoinmissioner of internal revenue, and succeeded Jacob D. Cox as secretary of the interior in October, 1870, where he remained till 1875. He had for many years been ne the trustees of Kenyon college, Ohio, which conferred on him the degrej oí LL. D.