Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1909 — SLEEPING SICKNESS KILLS [ARTICLE]

SLEEPING SICKNESS KILLS

St. Louis Man Believed To Be Victim of Insect’s Bite. St. Louis, May 4—George J. Owens is dead at the city hospital here of a malady diognosed by physicians as the Bleeping sickness. Owens said he never had been in the tropics, to which the malady is peculiar, and the phyicians can account for it only on the theory that he was bitten by an Insect and inoculated with the germ.