People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — “Matilda the Fourth” Dead. [ARTICLE]

“Matilda the Fourth” Dead.

Franklin, Pa,, Aug. 15.— ‘-Matilda the hourth,” one of the most famous Jersey cows in the world, owned by Congressman Joseph C. Sibley and his partner, Maj. Charles Miller, of this city, died here suddenly Sunday night of milk fever. She had given in one year over 16,000 pounds of milk, which yielded 950 pounds of butter. She was valued at SIO,OOO.