The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-29
ALE. LAWS SAD FATE.
Carried Off AT Lima, Peru, By q
Deadly Fcycr-iiis Last Hours
T0uciingly Described
by u Friend.
From the Nashville American, 2Oth,l

patch from his brother, j " in'm
rs, Tr"cY Guy announcing 'nc o'"'n
OF a D, Law, nv Lima leIu' "','''
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LIMA, NEhu, Oct u Dear SIr' ah'
FRIEND: lon Will he surprised J." re
ceIvc y letter IRON me- hut lheS nave
chosen me ~ write 10 YOU NJ was
acquainted WIN MN bhl' J""'' 'hh
doing something ltai gives me paln T."
do. but | am n inN ""lud l." II" Il
! presume All ma IoIi vow lI'a' l ""o
mere, / came here IN the second IAN
OF june.
well, John, Aired y. La" vas up
pointed The master OF machinery III '"c
Oroya shops at Gallon, on Ih' l7t hnN
OF October, ana took SICK -" I"' ~
He died on the mrrnInG oI the IAN, AT
~ minnles past IL rlprk--hi'u WIN
what they call oSpHr lever. lh'ic Is
not more than one "ul ct Il huiu!"''
that survives thai most drraiIuI dis
ease | remained al,h him amt t"'k
care Of him, aud nN"l lrIi hIn, night
or day, until he died | didn't a'"
my clothes oii-he Nuuldnt let me. /
and Mr., Henry B,cNn, had Two 81 llr
best doctors in thl- country, but they
could not save him. lie I'pd the best
of care. We got "A room IN tn" French
and English hotel IN Lms. He LETT
no WORT Of any KIND, Tor hc dlI not
think he was gong so soon, nor dl'i
any one else thiuk 1t. lie wa, out oI
his head for three days, and never
came TO his right mind before he died
ile was like a wild man. 1t took one
man to keep him in the bed. and
sometimes two men could hardly EoId
him.
John, | didn't have the heart to
write 20 his wife aud child Please d"
it. for ne, and tell hen in some WA. |
will send Won Il paper wIlii the an
nouncrmrnt OF his death IN It lie hn I
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Mr.. RrmIrv Was formerly an "ngI
Drcr on the Nashville, CIIa'tano'Gi "
st. Louis Railway, and was an 'atI
mate friend to the deceased
The South Pacific Zines, OF the 1914
inst, published in Lima, one side IN
English aud the other III SpanlSH, gives
n very complimentary notice "i Mr..
Law Ia announcing bis death. IL SAYS
thai no man had more enirarcI him
scltto the people or mad" mu,c friends
than hc had done in the eho!t space Of
time he had lived there.
Dcccasr,! was born near potlSvrIto,
Schw kill county, Prnns, %lvauin, aud
at tne time of his death wa 80 years
old. He came to Nashville when ii
Years old, learned his trade in the
Chattanooga shops under ThoS Web
ster, and was connected with the ruaA
az engineer and subsequently rs fore
man of the shops, until about 2 year,
.. ..l.,, a., ,,.L ,I.r.., 81 =. I,,
tive on the Nashville u Decatur road