Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — Fishhook Scratch Kills Jurist. [ARTICLE]

Fishhook Scratch Kills Jurist.

- Beaver Dam, Wig., Aug. 6.—Judge Silas W. Lamoreux, United States land commissioner under President Cleveland. and a Wisconsin steel manufacturer. is dead from sepsis arising from a small scratch on his hand from a fishhook