Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT BITS OFTHE UNLSUAL Happenings in the Nearby (Title* and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. SIX DIE IN ONE FAMILY FYom Dread Influenza Near Sheldon, Illinois, In Two Weeks. The influenza scourge has claimed six victims in the family of Jesse Eastburn, at Eastburn Station, 5 miles west of Sheldon, Illinois, in abouit two weeks time. The first death was that of a daughter, Mrs. O. iD. Nance, aged 22, of Frankfort, followed by that of her husband, aged 23, who was in the Field Artillery at Camp McClellan, Alabama, and came to attend the funeral of his wife, dying at the Eastburn home. The Eastburn family all contracted the disease from their daughter’s husband, and four robust sons, Clifford, aged 17, Earl and Freeman, aged 19 and 13, respectively (both dying the same day), and John, the eldest son, aged 23, dying the day following, making four deaths in the family in four days, three lying dead in the house at one time. The parents and three remaining children are recovering.