Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-17
Dnbuque's Famous Gastrono-
nc Wonder Meets With a
Sudden Death Sunday
HAD AN ENORMOUS STOMACH
Phil MeIIoy Astounded Medical Men
and tho Public by His Gastronomic
Feat Ate Twenty two Pounds Of
Beef at One sittins-said He Did
Not Taste Food.
Special to Times Republican,

Special to Times Republican,
Dubuque, Oct 17.-After a most
eventful life, filled with wild expert
ences and freaksh acts, Phil Melloy.
dropped dead in this city, Sunday NOR
ming.
Melloy was known thruout the state
and immediate vicinity as the Cham
plon eater of Iowa." and he was am
bilious to be known as the "cham-
plon eater of the world In his boy
hood days he began the performance
of feats that have baffled the medical
science of this state, and have arous-
ed interest among the medics Of the
middle west, who learned Of them. He
often remarked that when boy his
mother was accustomed to fill his
lunch basket with couple of dozen
biscuits and other eatables and when
he arrived at the school house he
hadn't anything left. His wonderful
stomach was always open to food. no
matter what quality or quantity. He
made monthly visits from his farm to
this city and he aroused the curiosity
OF MANY by his heavy eating. Many
years ago he devoured twenty-five
pounds OF raw beef in a boarding house
and the boarders almost feared him
He finally moved to Dubuque and his
freakish work was continued, only on
larger scale.
He came prominently before the pub
lie a few years ago when he downed
eighty-four eggs in six minutes and
bad and good were mixed up in the
lot, He wagered that he could eat
ten dozen eggs in thirty minutes His
challenge seemed an absurdity, and it
found ready takers, who put up their
money. Expert crackers were engag-
ed to prepare the eggs, and as fast as
they broke them he ate them with the
result that seven dozen had disappear
ed, and the betters mixed in decid-
eddy bad quality, and he sickened and
surrendered.
He made hit, however, and was
soon in demand by fakirs and saloon
men. who saw a great opportunity to
advertise. Tallow candles, eight
pounds at time, were devoured with
ease. Melloy said: II ate tallow
candle every morning OF my life, just
to take the taste from my mouth. Axle
grease, all kinds Of meats, raw at
that, were received by his stomach.
A very interesting story was told
by Melloy, and was corroborated by
witnesses. He nearly ate out res
taurant owned by a man named Igo.
Melloy entered the eating house and
asked about oysters. One word brought
on another and he offered to bet he
could eat every oyster in the place.
There were several gallons in stock
and the gourmand made them go down
his throat in quick time, and pro-
posed more, but Igo had changed his
mind about the mans ability. When
he lived on his farm near Sylvia
Switch, he was accustomed to visit
the barn yard, seize chicken. wiring
off its head, and then devour 1t, with
out cooking.
Because Of the fast receding years,
and his old age. Melloy dropped from
the public eye, during the past sew
eral months, but he came out a little a
cuple of weeks ago, when he offered
to bet $25 that he could eat a small
quarter Of beef, If placed in a room