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Died, Joseph Warren Keifer, 96, one of the three known surviving Civil War generals,* longtime (1877-85, 1905-11) Congressman from Ohio, onetime (1881-83) Speaker of the House; of old age; in Springfield, Ohio. Educated under the regime of the late, great President Horace Mann of Antioch College, he rose to fame as a divisional commander for General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was four times wounded. During the Spanish War. President McKinley appointed him Major General of volunteers, and he was later elected 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish War Veterans. As Speaker of the House he formulated the Cloture rule. A determined foe of war, he addressed the Conference on Universal Peace at Brussels in 1911, was a U. S. representative to the 1914 Stockholm peace conference that was never held.
*The other two: Major General Adelbert Ames, 95, of Tewksbury, Mass.; Brigadier General John Fred Pierson, 93, of Manhattan.