The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-11-07
EUGENE FIELD

[As he appeare in ls9
soundly till daybreak. when his son,
who occupied the room with him.,
heard him groan, and putting out his
hand, found that death had already
taken place. Mr.. Field leaves widow
and five children.
Had Suffered For Some Days.
For some days Mr.. Field has been all
ing, but it was supposed he was suffer-
ing from his usua stomach troubles,
and no serious turn was anticipated.
Dr. Frank Reilly, who was summoned.
pronounced death to have been caused
by the formation Of a clot Of blood in
the heart.
Although on Sunday Mr.. Field was
feeling so ill that he telegraphed to
Kansas City cancelling all engagement
which he had there, he sat up until a
late hour chatting with Mr.. Yenowine
Of the Milwaukee Illustrated News Mr..
Yenowine was to have accompanied
Mr.. Field to Kansas City.
Something of Mr.. Fields Life.
Mr.. Field was born in St. Louis Sept.
2, 1850, and was therefore 45 years old
at the time of his death. He was the
son of Roswell Martin and Frances
(Reed) Field. His parents were both
natives of Windham county, Vermont,
and his American ancestry dates back
to the Pilgrim fathers. His father
graduated from Middlesbury college
when only Is years old, became a law
yer and introduced bill in the Yer
mont legislature permitting atheists to
testify in courts of law. He was bred
SCOTS first attorney in the case which
resulted in the famous bred Scott de-
cision by the United Safes supreme
court.
After finishing his education, he
adopted. the profession of a newspaper
writer, beginning with the St. Louis
Journal; in 1872. His next connection
was with the St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette,
in 1875, after which he returned to St.
Louis to take an editorial position on
the Times-Journal: In 1880 he was on
the staff of the Kansas City Times, but
left that paper in 1881 to become man
aging editor of the Denver Tribune.
He came to Chicago, Aug. 13, 1888, to
accept position on the editorial staff Of
the Chicago Morning News, now the
Record, and his connection with that
paper continued without interruption
until his death.
Mr.. Fields Last Contribution.
Mr.. Fields last contribution to his de-
partment in this paper, "Sharps and
Flats" was published Saturday morn
ing and in it was characteristic de-
Tense of Bill Nye and refusal to accept
the imputations as to the cause Of the
recent assault on the humorist at Pat
erson, N. j.
In addition to his newspaper work,
Mr. Field has found time to perform
much extra labor in the literary field,
and has established reputation as a
graceful and clever writer of stories and
verse. HIS last poem of pretension was
"Dream ships,' published in the Octo-
Der Ladies Home Journal. He was
especially adept in the poems and stories
of child life, and his printed books now
number half dozen volumes. He has
also made himself familiar to the public
as reader of his own stories and
verses, having at different times ap-
peared jointly with Edgar Wilson Nye
and James Whitcomb Riley.
Some Of Mr.. Fields Work.
Among his better known books ar
the ''Denver Tribune Primer" 1882;
'.Cultures Garland" 1887; Little Book
of Western Verse;" 1889; Little Book
of Profitable Tales 1859; second book
of verse, 1892; "With Trumpet and
Drum 1892; Echoes From the Sabine
Farm 1893
Mr.. Field married Miss Julia Com
stock Of St. Joseph, Mo-, on Oct. 16,
1873, and had seven children. In June,
1898, Knox college conferred upon him
the honorary degree of A NJ
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-The Journal
srys: One-half the marketable wheat
crop of the Northwest has been sold and
delivered by the farmers. Minneapolis
and Duluth have received since Aug. 1,
48, 900, 600 bushels Of wheat. That is
more than one-half received in three
months of what was received the entire
crop year preceding. Country ele-'
vators have $4,000 900 bushels of wheat
in store, and some of the elevator
companies place the amount at
&c, 100000. 1t is considered con-
Sentative to say that country
mills in the Northwest have ground 49,
0OO, 900 bushels since Aug. l, and that
5000, 900 bushels have been shipped out
of the three states by routes other than
through Minneapolis and Duluth. This
makes total of 81, o00,0 900 bushels sold
from the new crop, leaving less than
that amount to be marketed in the next
nine months. Receipts will necessarily
have to fall of soon and the situation
would appear to favor higher prices for
wheat.