Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 15, 1925, p. 1. Note: The remainder of this item was cut off in copying as indicated by ellipsis. There are several items on the first page of this issue of the paper regarding the death of Senator Samuel Ralston. END COMES TO HOOSIER SOLON Democratic Statesman Passes at Indianapolis After Day and Night of Unconsciousness. Family, Nurses and Doctor at Bedside-Body To The Old Home at Lebanon. (Special to Bloomington Telephone) INDIANAPLIS, Ind., Oct. 15- At "Hoosier Home," planned and built for comfort and rest in his declining years, Samuel M. Ralston, 68, Junior United States Senator from Indiana and Former Governor, died last night at 11 o'clock. At the bedside was the family and in the home a number of close personal and political friends. The Senator was afflicted with heart and kidney disorders and death came as a result of uremic poisoning and unconscious for more than 24 hours the end was expected. The burial will be at the old home at Lebanon from which his political sources took him to the state capital. Mrs. Ralston, who has been with the Senator constantly throughout his illness, his sons, Julian and Emmett Ralston, his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Larue; his brother, Boyd M. Ralston, and other relatives were with him throughout the day. Fred Van Nuys, one of his law partners, and other close associates of the Senator, also were at the Ralston home when the final end came. The Senator's physicians say he was delirious part of the time last week and had been sinking steadily and rapidly since then. While the reports of last summer regarding Senator Ralston's health had caused alarm, the news of the death is a shock to the entire state. ----- Mrs. Ralston, the Senator's sons, Julian and Emmett; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth LaRue; Boyd M. Raltston, a brother; Arthur and Theodore Craven, brothers-in-law and Mrs. John Underwood, sister of Mrs. Ralston; Dr. John M. Cunningham, one of the attending physicians and the nurses . Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.