Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
THE HAND OF DEATH.
Mrs. E. A. Williams, Wife of Sur
veyor General Williams Passes
Away Last Evening.
Death Results After a Brief Illness
General Sorrow At the Sad
Occurrence.
The Kent Case In Mandan Still a
INTERPRETATIONS Items of
Local News.
From Fridays Daily.]

Called Home.
Mrs. e. A. Williams, wife Of Surveyor
General Erastus A. Williams, died at her
home on Tenth street, at a little past s
o'clock Thursday night, of puerperal
p%eritonitis.
The illness which terminated fatally
last evening, has been brief, having
lasted but four days. It began last
Sunday, and since that time, up to the
time of her death, there have been slight
hopes for her recovery. So serious was
her condition from the first, that her
mother was summoned from her old
home at Freeport, ILL.,, and she has been
a constant watcher at the bedside of her
daughter since Tuesday morning. At
that time, there was a slight improve
ment in Mrs. Williams condition. There
was a cessation for a time, of some Of the
more dangerous symptoms of the trouble
and her chances for recovery grew bright
or. Thursday morning, however, there
was a change for the worse, and the suf-
ferer sank steadily throughout the day,
failed to rally at any time from this last
sinking spell, and passed awav with the
daylight, at about s o'clock in the even
ing.
In death, there is always sadness. In
some deaths, however, there are circum.
stances which tend to reconcile friends
and relatives. In other cases, there are
circumstances, which add to the burden
of woe and the bitterness of sorrow, and
one of these latter instances, is the
decease of Mrs. Williams. In the prime
of her life, she was an afectionate wife,
and loving helpmeet, to a husband whose
affection for her was, in turn, unbound
ed. AS a mother, she was kind, and
loving, and her death will be an irrepar-
able loss to five children, four girls and
n boy, the eldest about ten years of
age. There is a world of sympathy ex-
pressed for the stricken husband, and for
the little ones, who are bereft at this
time, of a mother, the loss of whose ten
der care and motherly affection, is the
saddest sorrow which can be known to
them.
Mrs. E. A. Williams has been for over
ten years a resident of Bismarck. Her
maiden name was Jennie E. Hettinger,
and she was the daughter of M. Hettin-
| ger, of Freeport, ILL.,, at one time presi-
dent of the German Insurance company
of Freeport, and also a heavy stock
holder in the German bank of the same
place. She was married to Mr.. Williams
at Freeport, in 1883, and after a wedding
trip to Washington, they returned to
Bismarck, where they have lived since
that time. Mrs. Williams circle of &C.
quaintances was quite large, and her
disposition was such that to be her &C.
quaintance was to be her friend, and to
! know her was to admire and honor her.
Her death is a sad shock to her many
friends in this city, and they unite in
their expressions of regret, and sympathy
to the relatives, thus sadly and suddenly
bereft.
From Mondays Daily.]
Funeral Services
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon, the
Catholic church was crowded, upon the
occasion of the funeral rites over the
remains of Mrs. E. A. Williams, who
died Thursday night. The friends OF
the deceased we're legion, and all of them
were present to pay the last respects 10
her memory. The occasion was one OF
the saddest of it's kind which has taken
place in the city. The width of the de.
ceased's acquaintance, and the warmth
of the general affection for her, conspir.
ed to renderthe sadness and sorrow gen.
eral, and as the funeral services pro.
ceeded, there were not a few moist eyes
in the gathering. The grief of the rela.
tives of the dead, was touching, and the
wondering, and rather fearful grief OF
the little children was exceptionally sad.
The coffin was covered with beautiful
floral offerings. One was from the EN-.
ployes of the surveyor generals Office
an eloquent tribute to their affection fol
the deceased. Aside from this, there
was a number from individual friends
all bearing mute Testimony of love and
sorrow.
The services we're the usual Catholic
burial services, and at the completion
Father Martin spoke briefly and appro.
priately Of the occasion.
At the close of the services, the re.
mains were taken to the Catholic GENE.
terry, and there inferred.
Hoods Pills do not weaken, but aid
digestion and tone the stomach. Try
them.
A Child's
With her feet encased IN mems rough
cowhide shoes, and her person clad in
heterogeneous assortment of ill fitting
garments, partly mans and partly
woman's, Elizabeth Matthews, a young
girl of Is stood in Judge Tibbils' court
Monday morning, and testified as to cruel
ties inhictad 11non her by her foster mar