The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-17
HOW THEY DIE.
The Variety of Ways in Which People
Have Quit Business on Earth.

'"S variety oI ways IN winch People
Have Quit Business on Earth
Death has as many ways Of appear-
ing on earth as he has seasons for his
own, and a running glance through the
newspapers for day will show a va
riety in styles of shuffiing off this NOR
tai coil which is compliment to the
ingenuity of the race. AS examples,
look over the appended list:
The aged wife of Andrew Morgan of
Rhinelander, Wis, was burned to death
by her clothes taking fire from a wisp
Of lighted straw she was using.
Charles w. Vosmer fell out of a hal
loon at San Francisco.
John Flagg, prominent member of
Battle Creek, Mich, society, died from
excessive smoking of cigarettes.
r. G. Wilson, Lacrosse, Mis-. was
thrown from a vehicle in which he was
riding and was killed.
Henri Smith of Kansas City. aged rs.
died from laryngeal tuberculosis.
Jesse Merrick, an old settler of Gales
burg, Ill, was instantly killed by a
lraln as he attempted to cross a rail-
road track
Dorr Manlee. while wrestling in a
corhfield near Niles, Mich, fell on a
cornstalk which penetrated his storn-
aeh i've inches and killed him instant
ly
Baby Brodie, aged four years. of
Kansas City. died OF inanition.
Cora Smith, in the Iowa penitentiary
for life for killing her father, swal-
lowed a handful Of spiders and was
found dead in her cell.
A17apt
ton, Ia, aged S6, on a visit to relatives
III Kansas City, died of old age.
Patrick Shanahan, coaehman, re-
turning from funeral, was run down
py a train at Bayonne, n. J., and
w. S. Rogers. a leading republican of
Syracuse, N. Y, hanged himself. Wor-
ry.
w. H. Bush, prominent hotel man
OF Denver, died of an operation for APP
g. e. Van Houten of jamaica, N. Y,
stepped out Of the way of one traini
into the way Of another and was killed.
w. st. Clair of Mabel, Mimi, was ac-
c1dentally shot in the head by his
friend while hunting and killed on the
spot.
John Tennis, a farmer near Easton,
Mimi, was found dead in the road with
his head crushed in.
Minnie Klancke of Cincinnati, O.,
aged "a. Respondent, took a drink of car
bolic acid and was found dead. n
William Callahan, an attorney of
Youngstown, O., was found dead in his
brothers Office and $500 missed from his
person.
Martha A. McFillen shot George We
chile at Sandusky five times for love"
John Hole of Charlottesville, Ind,
hon he
with another fellow and shot himself.
1t proved to be another girl
Tennie Butcher, a 17-year-old girl,
near Bloomington, Ind, hanged herself
in her fathers barn. Trouble with her
parents.
superintendent Leisure and f. c. An
derson of the C. & N. r. r. water sup
ply department, while in well at
Boone, Ia, were crushed to death by
pump weighing a ton dropping on
them.
John Corbett, LIST North Carolina vol
unteer infantry, at Jacksonville, Fla,
was shot while trying to kill fellow
soldier with an axe.
A s. Sampson OF West Duxbury,
Mass, aged 60, died in San Francisco
from disappointment in losing a rich
widow he had gone there to marry.
AXel j. Ndikkelsen, a Chicago police
man, in fun uniform, killed himself on
his wife's grave.
Miss Lou Dick Of Monticello, KY, was
shot by her sweetheart, who saw her
talking to a rival, and raised row in
which the girl took the part of the rival.
Private Kemm of the LIST Missouri in
fantry shot Leslie Wesley in St Louis
for taking his wife away from him.
Albert Aigner, near Valparaiso, Ind,
was dubbed to death by his brother
Henry, who was drunk.
James Shaughnessy of Worcester,
tied hundred-pound stone around his
neck, tumbled into a pond and was
drowned