Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — DIES WITHOUT GAINING SENSES AFTER ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

DIES WITHOUT GAINING SENSES AFTER ACCIDENT.

Without gaining consciousness, I. Shortridge, of Hammond, died last night at six o’clock ,at the Wesley hospital in Chicago of injuries received Saturday evening ait the Union stock' yards where he was employed as an inspector. Mr. Shortridge had )een an inspector for twenty-five years. The cause of death was a skull fracture received when Mr. Shortridge slipped and fell. Arrangements for the funeral will ie announced later. Mr. Shortridge was seventy-two years of age and the son of a famous minister, Rev. Lemuel Shortridge who served as a chaplain in the northern army during the civil war. Ernest Shortridge, former Lake county clerk and a resident of Crown Point and Mrs. Ralph Pierce of Hammdhd z are the children who survive. The deceased was a cousin of J. C. Gwin of this city.