Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1903 — Two Morphine Victims. [ARTICLE]

Two Morphine Victims.

Under the head of “Damnable Morphine” the Fowler Republican relates the deaths of two bright and promising men. One of these that of Mr. Entler, editor a of the Pine Village News, we have already mentioned. The other was Dr. Watson, until lately located at Earl Park, He was a graduate of a Scottish university and claimed to be a cousin of the celebrated Rev. John Watson, who writes under the name of lan McClaren This Dr. Watson, who had family,'was elected coroner of Benton county the last election, but he was a slave to morphine, and did not qualify. Some time ago he left his family and went to Houston, Texas, and last week was found dead in his bed, as a result of an over-dose of that drug,