Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — A Sudden Call. [ARTICLE]

A Sudden Call.

Newton, Mass., Feb. '2B.—Charles L. Colby, of New York, and formerly president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad company, is dead. He had been invited to address the 25th anniversary of the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary society at Newton Center Wednesday evening and was ascending the platform when he was stricken with heart trouble, dying almost immediately. He was about 50 years of age.