Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Died in His Arms. [ARTICLE]

Died in His Arms.

While the Rev. George J. Meredith, pastor of the Newport church, was preaching an eloquent sermon yesterday, it was noticed by his congregation that he seemed disquieted at the screams of a child that came from the parsonage adjoining the church. Finally, he was unable to continue his discourse, and hastily left the pulpit and ran into the parsonage, just in time to have his youngest child die in his arms. In the absence of the father and the family the baby somewhere had found a package of arsenic, and, thinking it sugar, had taken sufficient* to kill him in a short while.—Bridgeton (N. J.) correspondence New York Press.