Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — Chicago Paper Quotes Dr. John D. Ellis As Authority. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Paper Quotes Dr. John D. Ellis As Authority.

The Chicago T'rilbune in reporting the death off JUugene M. Bumphrey, a Chicago lawyer, from what pftiysicians call “petroxnlortis,” tgave Dr. John D. Ellis, a former Rensselaer young m!am, as authority for the explanation of whait “petromortis” is. Drt Ellis shid: “The thing is new in science in some of its aspects. Persons who are subject to vertigo may be attacked when in a close, small garage. The danger lies in the failure of certain elements of the gaeoHne to oxidize. In ‘any event there ia a quick suffusion of a violent gas that renders the victim faint. Thus, if the exhaust of an engine continues, the result is almost instant death. The post-mortem showings are those of brain and lung congestion.” tßumjphrey had gone to his garage and cranked up his machine. LateT his body was found on the floor of the garage, the engine of the car was running and the garage was filled with fumes of gas. William E. Keener, clerk in Fendig’s shoe store, undertook some fancy stunts, at the skating rink last evening and fell, alighting on his right elbow, which was dislocated. Dr. Johnson set the arm .but Will wiM be laid up for a few days and has decided to spend the time in Lowell, where he has relatives. Charley Spain, who with his family had spent Christmas at Monticello and also paid a visit to his sister, Mrs. W. G. Coffei, at Colburn, Carroll county, came home suffering from a severe attack of grip or influenza and is confined at his home. His brother, Floyd Spain, is (hiving the Standard Oil trade for Mb for a few days.