The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-21
FORGOT HOW 70 SLEEP
Strange Case of Millionaire
Balm, Recently Deceased.
ONLY CHANCE FOR A NAP
Was to Go to a Theatre or a
Billiard Hall.

Knosha, Wis, Dec. 2o.-Millionaire Ed
ward Balm. president of the Balm Wagon
| company. whose death is announced from
Pasadena, Cali, was Familiarity known as
the man who never slept" and il IS
doubtful if another case like his exists.
1t is virtually a fact that for the last
sixteen years he did not sleep an hour
| in his bed Constant devotion 10 BUSH
ness was the cause of his sleeplessness, he
having been known to remain in his fac
tory upsto sixteen years ago as late as
and o'clock in the morning, and when he
would seek rest he found it impossible TO
sleep. At that time he practically reliey-
ed himself of business cares.
For the greater part of the past ten
years 1t was his custom to take daily trips
to Chicago to pass the time away in street
car riding and driving during the day, and
at night he was always to be found either
at theatre or billiard hall, which were
the only places he was able to get short
nap, the music at the theatre and the
clicking of the billiard balls alone afford
ing him short spells of repose. He was
born in Kinderheck, y. Y, seventy-five
years ago. The cause of his death was
pulmonary apoplexy.
st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 2o.-Dr. wellington
Adams, who succumbed to an attack of
pneumonia yesterday, was well known as
an electrician and inventor. He believed
himself the inventor of the present meth
cd of mounting a motor or a single axle
in the construction of electric street cars.
A suit to establish his claim, however,
failed. DR.. Adams was the protector of
the Chicago-St. Louis electric railway,
tween these two cities, but which failed
The deceased, who was born in Brooklyn,
n. Y, in 1856. leaves a widow and six
children.
New York, Dec. 2o.-Rev. DR.. Daniel
Wise is dead at his home in Englewood,
n. J. He was born in Portsmouth, Eng
land, in 1913, and came to this country in
1888 and became a minister of the Meth !
odist Episcopal church. From 1855 to 1870
he was corresponding secretary of the |
Methodist Sunday School Union and Tract |
Society and editor of the Sunday School !
Advocate and also of the Sunday school |
and tract publications of the Methodist |
church. He was author of more |
than thirty religious works for young |
people.
New York, Dec. 1-Colonel Thomas I
Ward Osborne died at his home in this |
city. aged 65 years. He won distinction at |
the battles of Charlottesville and Gettys- I
burg. After the war he was chief of the
Freedman's bureau in the south and sub
United States senator from
Florida
Springfield, Ohio, Dec. 2o.-At the COVER
nor's office today a telegram was received
from Elgin saying physicians have given
up hope for the recovery of DR.. John 8.
Hamilton, superintendent of the state in
sane asylum. DR.. Hamilton was former
ly surgeon general of the United States
marine hospital service. He was also
widely known as editor of the Journal of
the American Medical association. DR..
Hamilton has been suffering for about ten
years from an ailment of the intestines.
San Francisco Dec. Nd. Horatio Steo
bins, the most prominent Unitarian minis
.er on the Pacific coast and pastor of the
First Unitarian church of this city, is be-
ieved to be dying of heart failure. He
las been at the head of the First Unfair
an church for about thirty years, where
ne succeeded DR.. David King.