Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — Death of Dr. Samuel Kite hey. [ARTICLE]

Death of Dr. Samuel Kite hey.

Dr. Samuel Ritchey, one of the best known citizens of the county, died last Monday morning, at the residence of his son-in-law, James Welsh, a few miles south of town. His age was 80 years and about 11 months. The direct cause of his death was an attack of pleurisy, and his sickness was of but a few days duration. The funeral was held on Tuesday, at Mr. Welsh’s residence, and interment made in the Welsh Cemetery, where, a few years before, his wife was buried lief ore him. The funeral was preached by Rev. T. F. Drake.

Electricity, Gas, Steam, and Cable-Cars. The other day three people were killed by gas in Oakland; a few days filter a man was killed in New York City, from the same cause, and probably next week two or three more deaths, will be reported from some other part of the country. If one out of these four people had been killed by electricity, the daily papers would have been howling yet, about the terrible dangers of using it. Tested by the actual loss of life, the use of electricity' is nothing like as dangerous, as that of many of our modern appliances, for saving labor, and adding to the comfort of the people. Gas kills twenty men every year, where electricity kills one. Blowing up of steam boilers destroys still more, the victims of railroad accidents are found everywhere, and the street cable roads of the cities kill and maim more people in a single year than are killed by electricity in all the territory west of the Atlantic Coast. B. l’\ FieuouaoK, KupJ. * Rrhsidaer W. L 4-!’, Co.