Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country.. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. J (H \i) REAR IX lUS ROOM. Frank McKenna, a Benton County Trustee, Dies at Lafayette.

Lafayette, Ind., May SI.-—Prank McKenna, age tliirty-six, trustee of Parish Grove tp., Benton county, was found dead at the Palace Hotel, near the Big Four station, today'. McKenna came to Lafayette yesterday, and became sick when in the street. He was assisted to the hotel and spent the night there. Early today the clerk of the hotel was called by -McKenna, who said he was feeling had and might need a doctor. At 10 o’clock the clerk found him dead. The coroner has not yet learned the cause of his death, lie was unmarried. He is survived 'by his father and several sisters.

/A. sister, Laura, of Fowler, was on her way to Winona, and was prostrated when she learned of her brother’s death, and is in a serious condition. McKenna was for several years an agent for school supplies and was well known throughout the state. ,