EX-PRESIDENT HAYES HIS DEATH OCCURS AT FREMONT AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. Neuralgia of tlie Heart the Immediate Cause —Events of an Active and Philan thropic Life The Electoral Count ol 1870—An Honoruble War Record. FREMONT, 0., Jan. 18.—Ex-President R. B. Hayes died at 11 o'clock last night, but the information of his death was not learned for some time later, as everything was kept exceedingly quiet in the vicinity of the Hayes mansion. An early report that the patient's condition was improving i and that lie was resting easy allayed most j suspicion, so that the sudden appearance of Webb Hayes with the announcement | that his father had just died proved a shock to all. From Mr. Hayes it is learned that the condition of his father took a sudden RUTHERFORD B. IIAYF.S. change early in the evening and rapid dis solution followed. The members of the family have all along been exceedingly re ticent regarding the condition of General Hayes. II in Last Illness. Ex-President Hayes was brought here last Saturday suffering from an attack of rheumatism of the heart, with which he had been stricken at Cleveland. It was the second attack of the kind he had received within two weeks, and although his condi tion was regarded as somewhat serious and excited the alarm of his family, the encouragement given them by Dr. Hilbest, the family physician, led them to believe that the patient would soon recover. For this reason all knowledge of the ex-presi dent's illness was kept from the public. The sickness had been watched during the day and evening with much interest by the friends of the general, and as is gener- I ally the case many conflicting rumors were afloat, but an interview with Rutherford P. Hayes appeared to reduce the facts to a statement that his condition was practi cally unchanged. The members of the family passed the day quietly remaining at the family residence quite closely. Webb has remained with his father almost con stantly, only leaving the house ashorttime during the day. Rutherford is associated with the Fremont Savings bank and spent part of the morning at his place of busi ness. In the afternoon he came down town, i stopping at the telegraph office presumably to answer some of the many telegrams that are constantly pouring in upon them. Dur ing the afternoon Miss Lucy Elliott Keeler, a relative of the Hayes family, spent sev eral hours with them. The Life of Ex-President Hayes. After his retirement from the White House March 4,1881, ex-President Ruther ford B. Hayes was heard of but seldom. Occasionally he attended a Grand Army re union, and he was a prominent figure at the Columbian celebration and banquet in New York city Oct. 12-14, 1892. He was al ways present at the annual meetings of the board of trustees of the Peabody fund, of which all ex-presidents are members. But beyond these modest functions Mr. llaye9 remained in absolute retirement at his home in Fremont, 0., up to the time of his death. Mr. Hayes' career furnishes one of the most interesting chapters in the polit ical history of the United States. He was born in Delaware, 0., Oct. 4, 1822, his father having died the preceding July. He was graduated with honor from Kenyon college, Ohio, in August, 1842, at tended Harvard law school for a little over a year, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. In November, 1848, his health being some what impaired, lie went to Texas for the winter, and after a period of unsettlement located in Cincinnati the next winter. Hi* MurriHße to Lury Webb. On Dec. 80, 1852, lie married Miss Lucy Ware Webb, daughter of Dr. James Webb, a physician of high social standing in Chil licothe. Of their eight children four sons and one daughter reached maturity. Mrs. Hayes was noted for her devotion to sick and wounded soldiers during the war, and to temperance and public charities in peace. Her refusal to have wine served in the White House during her sway there gave her a world wide fame, and for that action she received many testimonials of esteem both from Europe and America. Under the first call for troops by Presi dent Lincoln the literary club of which Mr. Hayes was a member organized a company, and he was elected captain, and on the 7th of June following the governor of Ohio commissioned him major of the Twenty third regiment Ohio infantry. HIS HOME AT FREMONT. lie was judge advocate for a short time, was commissioned lieutenant colonel Oct. 24, 1861, and greatly distinguished himself at the battle of South Mountain, Oct. 14, 1802, where he was severely wounded. Soon lifter he became colonel of the regiment, and as such particularly distinguished himself in many movements and battles. He led a desperate charge on Cloyd moun tain, and at the first battle of Winchester won the applause of the whole array. But it was at the second buttle of Winchester, Sept. 19,1804, that he won immortal honors. There he led an assault across a morass, And his horse having mired he charged on J foot, and though but forty or fifty men fol lowed so close as to keep up with him this squad captured a battery which had been | deemed perfectly secure. Again at Fish er's Hill and Cedar Creek lie performed prodigies of valor, liia commission as brigadier general soj>n arrived, and on March 13, 1865, he was made brevet briga dier general "for gallant and distinguished services." In the meantime he had been ! elected to congress from a Cincinnati dis trict. I It was on this occasion that he made his famous retort. A friend having written to him to come home in the fall of 1864 and canvass the district, he answered with a rather sharp reproof, ending with this sen tence, "An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to elec tioneer for a seat in congress ought to be scalped." He was re-elected in 1860. but his two terms in congress were uneventful. He voted with his party throughout, except on some minor resolutions on finance. In view of his subsequent prominence as a "prompt resumptiouist," it is rather singu lar that these votes indicated an opposition to strong measures leading toward resump tion. In 1867 he was nominated by the Repub licans for governor of Ohio and was elected. No election of that era excited more aston ishment. The state had long been over whelmingly Republican, the majorities ranging above 40,000 for some years, yet at the first election after the soldiers came home, with a phenomenally lurge vote, the highly honored general had less than 3,000 majority over Allen G. Thurman, and the legislature was carried by the Democrats. That body chose Judge Thurman for the L'nited States senate. i Governor Hayes was re-elected in 1809, this time by over 7,000 majority. He had now become the exponent of advanced "hard money" views, and on the platform of prompt resumption he made his third cam paign for governor in 1875, receiving about 5,500 majority after a campaign of almost unprecedented vigor on both sides. In the meantime he had run for congress in 1872 and been defeated by some 1,500 majority, and had in 1873 retired from public life and settled in Fremont, O. Soon after he came into possession of the large estate of his uncle, Silas Birchard, which further con (lrmed him in his resolution to lead a pri vate life, and he only yielded in 1875 to the most earnest solicitations of the Republic ans. As President of the United States. His repeated success in Ohio induced the Republican national convention in 1876 to nominate him for the presidency after a deadlock between the two great forces in the party led respectively by Senator KOB coe Conkling and Speaker James G. Blaine. When the election had taken place it seemed certain that of the 869 electoral votes 184 would be cast for Mr. Tilden, the Democratic candidate, being one less than a majority. There were thirteen electors in respect to whose election there were grave questions in dispute. In order to secure the election of Mr. Hayes all of these thirteen votes must be counted for him. As the Republicans had a majority in the senate ami the Democrats in the house, it was certain that the two brauches of con- MRS. LUCY WEBB HAYES. I gress would not agree in the counting of the disputed votes. In the emergency a proposition was made by the Democratic leaders to submit the entire question to an electoral commission composed of five senators, five representa tives and five judges of the supreme court. This commission, by a majority of one, decided that the disputed votes should all l>e counted for Mr. Hayes, giving hijn a majority of one vote, and he was duly elected. In financial affairs his administration was an unequalifled success. It was his good fortune to become president just at the time when panic and depression were giving way to "better times." Seven years of unexampled deficit in the crops of west ern Europe and equally unexampled good crops in the United States made the re sumption of specie payments possible. 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Sunday School 10 :W A M Prayer Meeting 0 00 P M 13 LECTION NOTlCE.—Notice is hereby given J.j that at the election to be held at the third I -'I i> (1 | I'Vi.i u;i,-y. lMi-j, being the Ist day ot the month, th • following officers of the mid dle coal Held poor district are to be elected, to wit: One person for director, to serve three years, from Aipril I,IWW, whose residence must be in that portion of the aistrict known as the Lu zerne portion of the district. One person for poor auditor, to serve three venrs from At ril 1, lww, whose residence must be in that portion of the district known as the Weutln rly or middle district. A. S. Monroe, ) A. M. Kemuiller, Directors. Surnuel liurleman, t Advertise in the Tbidunb.