Great Editor Dead

St. íjouis, Mo., Jan. 2.- -Joseph B. McCuIIagh, editor of the St. Ixmis Globe. Democrat, and one of the best-known newspaper men in the country, is dead, as the result of a fall twenty-five feet from a second-story window of liis apartmhts at the residence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Manion, 3837 West Pine boulevard. Careful investigatioa warrants the conclusión that Mr. McCullagh was awakened early in the morning by a smothering attack, and, climbing out of bed, nervous and unsteady trom th spell, went to the window for more air. As he threw the sash up to itt full height he was probably overcom? with iveakness, lost his balance and rolled out over the window sill and feil te death. There seems to be a difference ol opinión as to whether .Mr. MaCulIagh's death was due to accident or was the result of his own act. The latter theory Is scouted by friends. The 'body, ciad in a night robe, was discovered by Mra. Manion's colored man servant about 7 o'clock in th morning. Mrs. Manion dispatched her coachman to summon Dr. C. H. Huges, who resides ia the neighborhood and was Mr. McCullagh's physician during nis last illness. Dr. Huges' conclusión froin the condition oí the body when h examined it, is that Mr. McCullagh plunged headfirst from the window about 3:30 o'clock. On the ground around the foundation of the house is a stone water-taBle. In the fall Mr. Mc Cullagh struck a sharp corner of this stone with the left side of nis head fracturing the parietal bone. THis caused concussion of the brain and instant unconsciousness, if not death The physician is of the opinión tha death followed immediately after the shock of the fall. The man's head was lymg la a small pool of blood from the wound, but otherwise it showed no evidence of violence. Just how Mr. McCullagh happened to fall out of the window can only be a matter of conjecture. He had been Blek several months, and latterly was compelled to keep to his room. He passed the last night unattended. Wednesday evening Me. McCullagh etired to bed about 7 o'cloek, leaving word wlth the housemaid that he did lot wish to be disturbed unless it was by his physician. Before going to bed herself Mrs. Manion looked hito Mr. McCulIaeh's room. She saw that everything in the room was in order, and then retlred to her own apartments. About midnight she woke up and detected an odor of escaping gas. She investigated and found a burner in the combinataiou gas and electric light chandelier, wfaioh hangs suspended in the center of Mr. McCullagh's room, to be open. The odor of gas was very strong in the apartments. Mrs. Manion turned on an electric llght and shut off the gas. Mr. McCullagh weke up. "Joe," she said, "did you know gas was escaping in your room? You would have been a dead man in the morning if I had not discovered it." Mr. McCullagh was apparently too drowsy to realize what his sister said. He murmured an inaudible reply, and felí asleep again. Mrs. Manion returned to bed. Indications seemed to be that Mr. McCullagh had got out of bed for something.and in tiying 10 turn on an electric light he turned on the gas. He did not notice the error, and retired again unconacious of danger. The funeral is set for 2 oclock Saturday álteanoon at Mrs. Manion's residence. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd, pastor of the Second Baptist church', and the Rev. John Synder. a Unifkripn minister of this city, will eonduct the services. The interment will be at Bellcfontaine cemetery. j Joseph Burbridge MeCullagh was bom in Dublin in 1843. He carne to the United States when only 11 years old and at once became an apprentice in a weekly paper published in New York City. In 1858 he went to Si. Louis. From there he went in a few months to the Cincinnati Commercial, for which he soon went to "Washington and afterward became war correspondent. His letters, sigtied "Mack," made him famous.