People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — A SUDDEN CALL. [ARTICLE]

A SUDDEN CALL.

A Detroit Publisher Drops Dead In a Lodge Room. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 18.—A tragic scene was enacted at the Michigan Sovereign Consistory cathedral here Tuesday night while the sixteenth degree, Princes of Jerusalem, was being conferred on a class of candidates from all over the state. During an intermission between the different portions of the work \V. 11. Bootliroyd, for forty years a hook publisher and dealer here, started to cross the floor of the cathedral. He had taken but a few steps when he fell to the floor. Two doctors rushed to his aid, but he was dead when they reached him. He was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1532. He leaves a widow. The cause was pronounced valvular disease of the heart