Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — More about the death of Mrs. Israel. [ARTICLE]

More about the death of Mrs. Israel.

A Letter Ikon* Elvln Israel. To The Rensselaer Republican: Dear friends of Jasper county, my native! home. I wish to contradict a part of that letter concerning the death of my beloved wife, which came out in The Republican some time ago. We were married the 6th of last July in Kingman county and shortly afterward moved to Edwards county: where we have since lived as happily as any couple could expect to live, in our circumstances, and also as happily as any one could wish, up till just 9 days before she died. She was teeling well and better than she had felt fob two weeks and wanted to go up town, as it was a beautiful day, thinking it would help her health. The day before this, Mrs. William Henkle and Mrs. Thomas Pritchard were Over to oar house to see LiZzie, my wife, and as she was feeling so much better, they wanted her to come over the next day, and said if she would that they Would send down after her, the next mOrniug, aqd she said She would if the weather was fine and she was feeling well. The next morning was nice and she arosd, feeling much better, and ate a hearty breakfast, and said she would go up town and would be back early in the even! pgr IWas going About a mile from home and she told me to come back through town and bring her borne lemofis and eggs, and with these words I kissed her as usual and left the house. Ori returning in the evening I came to the house and found that Lizzie hadn’t got back, as she said she would. Not knowing the reason I went to see and on arriving at town the doctor told file that she had taken a chill, and was unable to come that evening; and she being at Jhomas Pritchard’s, and he having given me Orders not t 6 come to his house, some time before this, as we had a racket. I looked around to find him, but could not, and I thought if I went over to the house it might raise a disturbance antT make Lizzie worse, in the situation she was in. This was on Friday and I let the matter run on till Sunday, and the doctor told me she was getting a good deal better.' and I concluded to go and see her any way and bring her home if she was able to come, racket or no racket. I went to the house and opened the door and went in where Lizzie was, and she being glad to see me, gave me a kiss and telling me the reason she hadn’t come back and wfis unable then to come back. Abofit that time Mr. Pritchard entered the room, armed with a harrow tooth and began terribly rough on me, and told me to leave the room and not come back any more. I didn’t say" very much but took it out in thinking and thought it >est to leave the i - oom, which I did very quietly, and this so frightened her and she took it so hard, that that Very ’fright she miscarried and took much worse and died the next Saturdays and that this very thing is what caused the miscarriage and death is what I think and also the doctor that waited on hes. I date any one to deny this. I hope the readers of your paper will sympathize with ,me aud not believe all they hear from Greensburg, from my enemies any way.

ELVIN ISRAEL.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, says she goes to sleep “draped in soft, luxurious gloom.” J3lie was evidentlyreferring to an experience in a snowed in sleeping-car.