Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — A FAMOUS AUTHOR DEAD. [ARTICLE]

A FAMOUS AUTHOR DEAD.

Robert Louin Stevenson a Victim of Apoplexy. An Auckland, N. Z., cable, Dec.,l6. says: Advices from Apia, Samoa, dated Dec. 8, are to the effect that the well-known novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, had died suddenly from apoplexy. His remains were interred on the summit of Paia mountain, 1,309 foethigh. At the time of his death Mr. Stevenson had half completed the writing of a new novel. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Nov. 13, JBSO. He was educated at private schools and at the University of Edinburgh, and was called to the Scottish bar, but traveled and devoted himself to literature. His works are well known and most highly prized by literary people. His most famous book, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” has been dramatized and successfully presented both in England and the United States.