Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — Mrs. William Cooper Passed Away After Long Sickness. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. William Cooper Passed Away After Long Sickness.

Death came to Mrs. William Cooper at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning. She was at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Snedeker, in the northwest part of Rensselaer where she had been brought almost four weeks ago, in order that she rnij3»t”be’'hearcr her physician. She had been failing for the past ten weeks, having a tumor of the brain from which there was no relief. The maiden name of the deceased was Ella Irene Reed. Her father, George W. Reed, died 22 years ago and her mother later married John L. Nichols. She died two years ago. Charles W. Reed, assessor of Barkley township and Harry Reed, of are brothers, and Mrs. James 'Snedeker, Mrs. J. W. Marlatt, Mrs. Ancil Potts, Mrs. Lura Pennell, of this county and Mrs. Violet Pollock, of Morocco, are sisters of the deceased. Her husband js in poor health and she leaves six children, aged 4,6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years-. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 11 o’clock at the Brushwood church near Aix. Burial in the Praeter cemetery. In the arrest of James Cummings, an ex-convict and a man who travels under various aliases, Gary police believe that they may have one of the men who have been impersonating telephone employes and who by this means gained entrance to Chicago houses where they robbed and slugged women. The Big Four ticket office at Clarkshill was broken into late Friday afternoon and the thief secured 325 in silver. Agent Cooley was loading baggage on a train when the robbery occurred. The robber overlooked a large amount of paper money in the drawer. This is the tenth in & series oL robberies of railroad stations in that vicinity in the last few months. R. A. Osborne, who has been working for Austin Moore, left today fbr the home of his father, Alexander. Osborne, at Shouns, in East Tennesee. His father lived in Jasper county for a short time following the war and may be remembered by a number of our older citizens. Qe irf now in very poor health and his son was called home on that account