Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — Chess Champion Pillsbury Dead. [ARTICLE]

Chess Champion Pillsbury Dead.

Philadelphia. June 19.—Harry Nelson Pilisbury, tlte American chess champion, is dead at the Friends’ asylum in Frankford. n victim of the game to which he hud devoted the best part of tils life. Apoplexy, after an illness of several months, appears as the immediate cause on the records of the Institution, but it is known that Flllsbury’s mind was affected by too close application to the problems of chess, and of late he has been only a shadow' of his former self.