Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1913 — Adam Burns Died Sunday Morning At Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Adam Burns Died Sunday Morning At Lafayette.

Adam D. Burns, who lived in Rensselaer some years ago and worked for A. Leopold, died Sunday morning at 5:30 o’clock at his home in Lafayette, at 1600 Canal street. He had been in poor health for some time, suffering from hardening of the arteries, but had continued to work as a draymAn. Last Saturday he did some heavy lifting that caused him to suffer a stroke of apoplexy, and this caused his death a few hours later. He leaves a wife and several children, said to bejn a very needy condition. - Burns belonged to the Rensselaer order of Knights of Pythias and Keeper of Records and Seal George W. Scott, was notified of his death and informed of the family’s needs. The local lodge provides a payment of S3O in the event of death of a member and this sum will lie sent. Burns also belonged /to the Odd Fellows lodge f t Stockwell. His funeral took place Monday afternoon at his late home, burial being made in Grandview cemetery. Chancellor Commander Delos Dean and Frank E. Cox attended the funeral of Burns and report that his family was in quite destitute circumstances. Burns had been unable to. work, they were told, except at odd jobs for a long time. He had been drawing $1 per week from the local Pythian order and $1 per week from the Stoekwell Odd Fellows for a long time and this ssfems to have been about all the family had to live upon. Mr. Dean thinks that they had but two children, a grown son and an adopted, married daughter.

President Wilson Saturday withdrew the nomination of Adam E. Patterson of Oklahoma, a negro, to be register of the treasury. Patterson declined the appointment, and the president nominated Gabe E. Parker of Oklahoma, a Choctaw Indian, recommended by both senators from Oklahoma and the congressional delegation from the state. Southern senators threatened a fight on Patterson.