Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1909 — JAMES M. SPRIGGS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. [ARTICLE]

JAMES M. SPRIGGS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

James M. Spriggs of Pleasant Grove was operated on Tuesday evening by a Chicago specialist, assisted by a local surgeon, for peretonitis. He is in a very serious condition and his doctor says that he is afflicted with acute Bright’s disease, also, and little or no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mr. Spriggs is about 43 years of age, is a son of Squire Joel F- Spriggs of Walker township/fnd a brother of Randolph Spriggs, the young motorman recently killed in a street car wreck near Hammond.