Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — DIED OF STARVATION. [ARTICLE]

DIED OF STARVATION.

After Working: Like an Ox, a Woman Succumb, in Fight for Bread. Death by starvation has finally claimed a woman who had for years led a life of •ervitude, being at one time employed as a work animal and hitched to a wugou with a cow. Kitting upright in bed. the body of Mrs. Martha Kaiser was found dead in her rude little home in the Knobs, a few miles back of Danville. Ky. There was neither food nor clothing In the hut. Ail lier children had left her except one son. who was too young to know of the bitter Borrowings. Death occurred several days before the discovery of the body. The last time the starving woman was •een alive she was standing on the top •f her little cabin calling for her mother and her native German hind. The mind had given way before the body to the pangs of starvation. E. J. Bowden, son of a prominent banker in Eskridge, Kan., was drowned in a pond. He was in the water bathing and was overcome by cramps. Two men were killed by a Rock Island train near LaWton, O. T„ one of them being Thomas Daniel, of Lawtoia