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GUS STRAITS DIES SUDDENLY AT LEXINGTON. Ilad Just Sent a Message to His Brother in Cincinnati That He Was in Good Health. Lexington, Ky., October 30. Gus Straus, aged fifty-eight, merchant, financier and turfman, died suddenly in his home in this city about 1:30 oclock today. During the morning Mr. Straus had served as. the foreman of a jury in the Circuit Court. At 12:30 he had affixed his signature to a verdict giving George Osborne one year in the penitentiary. Then he went home, ate his luncheon," called up Phil Chlnn at Cincinnati, held a conversation with him over the long distance telephone, closing it with the request that Chlnn tell Henry Straus, his brother, that lie was in the best of health. He sat down in a chair and five minutes later was a corpse. Mr. Straus was a brother of Louis Straus, who died about seven years ago. As a firm of Louis and Gus Straus they had been in business in Lexington for a third of a century. Henry and Charles Straus of Cincinnati are also brothers of the deceased. Mr. Straus lias been identified with the Uioroughbred industry for years, at one time racing a string in partnership with John E. Madden, owning such horses as Harry Iteed, Myrtle Harkness, Amanda and others. He purchased a yearling from Con. Enrlght in 1S9C for S50 and sold him the same fall to Madden for 1.500 and the following year the youngster proved to be the mighty Hamburg, whose winnings and sale gave Madden the money to establish Hamburg Place.
