Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-31
OBITUARY.

Wilbur Wright, Aviator and Inventor.
 Dayton, Ohio, May 30-Fellewing a sinking spell that developed soen aft CT midnight, Wilbur Wright, the noted aviator and inventor, died of typhoid fever at 3.15 a. m. today.
 MT. Wright had been lingering on the border for several days and though his condition from time to time gave some hopes to members of his family, the attending physicians, DTS. D. B. Conklin and Levitt Spitler felt throughout the latter part of his sick ness that he could not recover.
 At the death bed were the members of his family, which included his aged father, Bishop Milton Wright, Miss Catherine Wright, Orville, the coin ventor of the aeroplane, Reuchlin Wright, and Lorin Wright. All of the family reside in this city, except Reuchlin. who lives in Kansas.
 Mr. Wright became i'll May { while on business trip in the east. On that day he returned to Dayton from Bos- ton and consulted Dr. Conklin, the family physician. He took to his bed almost immediately and 1t was several days before his case was definitely diagnosed as typhoid.
 Throughout the early part of his illness MT. Wright attributed his sick ness to some fish he had eaten in Bos- ton. He explained to his physician, however, that he had no conclusive reason to believe that the disease orig mated from this source.
 Wilbur Wright was born in Henry county, Ind, April 16, 1867. Orville was born August 19, 1871. Both Will bur and Orville attended the local high school and stood high in their studies.
 Hampered by heart trouble, caused, it if Is thought, by accidentally being struck by polo stick, Wilbur was compelled to abandon his purpose of attending college. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, being away from home much of the time in attendance upon his church duties, the two boys helped to maintain their home. The two first started job printing office and for a while published a small sheet that had a suburban circulation.
 They then entered the bicycle busi- ness and opened a repair shop, at the same time manufacturing bicycles.
 In the meantime they began study ing the flying machine while carrying on the bicycle business, and in pursuit of this subject they acquired a knOwl- edge of the underlying principles, fur ther adding to their knowledge by a working acquaintance with different modern languages.
 For approximately two weeks the patient has been unconscious but as his eyes roamed about the room in the direction of the nurses the doctors and members of the family, he gave unmistakeable evidence of a sub-con- scfous desire to recognize them. On Wednesday morning as Orville sat at the bedside, Wilbur smiled faintly.
 While definite arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made it is probable that 1t will be held Satur- day afternoon with interment in Wood land cemetery, south of Dayton.
 Sorrow in France.
 Paris, May 30.-The death of Wilbur Wright, the American aviator. has caused profound sorrow throughout France, where he was everywhere pop ular.
 The newspapers contain long euIo- gistic sketches recounting his first flights in France at the beginning oi 1908. They generally agree that Frances supremacy in aviation is due to the fact that the Wrights showed the way.
 Gen. Henry M. Baker.
 Manchester, N. H., May BOA pri- vate message received here tonight an nounced the death of General Henry M Baker of Bow, former congressman and former national committeeman from New Hampshire, in Washington D. C. He was the executor of the vii of the late Mary Baker c. Eddy, foun. der of the Christian Science church Tl-1.
 the trustees of the estate of Mrs. Eddy and had figured prominently in the liti- gation over her will. He was II year: old and a direct descendant of Hannah Dustin, heroine of the Indian wars.