Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1913 — OTTO ANDERSON DEAD IN NORTH DAKOTA [ARTICLE]

OTTO ANDERSON DEAD IN NORTH DAKOTA

Former Resident Victim of Scarlet Fever—Only Meager. Account of Death Received Here. • ■ ; r - . » Otto Anderson, for some years a resident of Jasper county and, a highly esteemdd citizen, died Thursday of last week on a farm, near Hansboro, N. Dak., to which place he moved three years ago. Scarlet fever is said to have been the cause of death. Otto moved to the northwest at the suggestion of his brother, A. C. Anderson, who had made a big success there. Two failures of crops, howeveif followed his removal, and -he wrote very discouraging reports back home. Last yea/, however, he. had a very good crop. His wife visited in this county only a few weeks ago. She is a sister of Mrs. Tobias Woods, of Newton township, and it was to Mrs. Woods that the information of Otto’s death came. It was stated that the body wduld be brought back here for burial and would be shipped from Hansboro Saturday. It had not arrived yet today gnd it is possible that the family decided to bury the body there. .