Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — DIABETIC POISONING CAUSED DEATH OF W. W. BURNS. [ARTICLE]

DIABETIC POISONING CAUSED DEATH OF W. W. BURNS.

Body Arrived in Rensselaer After Day’s Delay and Funeral Held Saturday at Christian Church. William W. Burns, whose death at his farm near Alexandria, Minn., occurred last Tuesday morning, was the victim of diabetic poisoning and his death resulted after an Illness of only 24 hours. The body reached here on the 10:55 train this Saturday morning, having been delayed by failure to transfer at St. Paul, Minn., although the wife and daughter came through to Chicago on time, and did not learn until after their arrival that the body had failed to accompany them. Mrs Burns’ father, Sim Dowell, of Conway. lowa, met her at Chicago, and gave assistance in locating the body, which reached Chicago this morning. Mr. Burns had been in his usual health apparently when a sore re sembling a felon appeared on his right thumb. He thought it was a felor and last Monday had it lanced. Tht next morning he was dead. The sore on the thumb did not cause the poisoning, but the poisoning caused the sore and death seems to have been inevitable. Many of the old neighbors and friends of the deceased man and his widow were at the station when the corpse arrived and the grief-strlken wife received many expressions of sorrow at her great loss. - The funeral was held at the Christian church at 2 o’clock this Saturday afternoon and burial was made in the old Smith cemetery in Barkley township.