Published January 9, 1897
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Mrs. Herrick, wife of Clemont Herrick, 79 West First sreet, died a 3 o'clock yesterday morning, as asthma. The funeral will occur from St. Mary's church at 3 o'clock this afternoon, burial being in the St. Mary's cemetery. The deceased was sixty-four year of age and besides the bereaved husband she leaves three grown children.
Published January 9, 1897
Chewing Gum Causes Death.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Jan. 8--Chewing gum caused the death of Lasalle Barnum, the nine-year-old son of Dr. W. E. Barnum, of Manilla. the boy was a great user of chewing gum, and complained of pain in the right side of the abdomen. Apendicitis was diagnosed and an operation was performed, from which the boy died. It developed that he had been in the habit of swallowing the gum.
Trainmaster Fatally Injured.
FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan, 8--T.O. Doremus, for the past 25 years a trainmaster on the Ft. Wayne branch of the Lake Shore railroad was fatally injured in the yards at Jackson, Mich. He was riding on the pilot of an engine and slipped off, receiving injuries which caused his death in a few hours.
Published January 9, 1897
HIS WIFE DYING.
Will Graney Hastily Summoned to Indianapolis.
Yesterday Will Graney received a letter from Indianapolis saying that his wife, who is visiting there, was ill. In the evening a telegram came stating that Mrs. Graney was much worse, and if her husband expected to see her alive to come at once. Mr. Graney boarded the first train out of Anderson for Indianapolis.
Published January 13, 1897
Dr. S. H. Charlton Dead.
SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan 12,--Dr. Samuel H. Charlton, aged 70, died at 3 a.m. He was of wide influence in his profession and became a member of the International Medical congress in 1887. He held many offices of honor in the medical profession. He was a brother of T.J. Charlton, manager of the Indiana Reform school.
Body Half Eaten by Hogs.
BEDFORD, Ind., Jan 12,--The partly decomposed trunk of a man was found in a field near Heltonville, this county, Monday afternoon. It is thought to be the body of one John Davis, in inmate of the poor farm. When found the extremities had been eaten away, evidently by hogs, and identification is not complete.
Published January 13, 1897
A Business Man Ends His Life.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Jan 13., Owing it is supposed to the failure of his business Monday, J. Bamberger, a prominent merchant of this city, committed suicide Tuesday morning by jumping into an air hole in the Mississippi river.
Evidence of a Murder.
HAYDEN, KY., Jan. 13,--The clothes of Miss Polly Feltner, who disappeared January 2, have been found in the mountains near her home, and it believed that she has been murdered.
Split His Wife's Head With an Ax.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 13,--A special from Hopkinsville, Ky., says that Reuben Seargent, a Negro, split his wife's head open with an ax because she had him arrested. She will die.
Published January 13, 1897
Aged Minister Dead.
CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan 13,--Rev. Henry Rotermund, aged 83, of the German Evangelical church, one of the oldest ministers in the state, died Wednesday morning. He retired and went on the church pension list several years ago.
Fatally Injured by a Cow.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Jan 13,--Mrs. Henry Strickner? living on a farm near this place, was fatally hurt by a cow. She went to the barn to milk the cows and was attacked by one of them and horned and trampled almost to death.
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