Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — An Obituary Mixed. [ARTICLE]

An Obituary Mixed.

! Edward L. Adams, representing the United States as Consul General at Stockholm, Sweden, was for several yeara editor of the Rochester Democrat -and Chronicle. While occupying that position he wrote an obituary notice of a neighbor’s child, whose trousers had caught lire during a Fourth «.f July ejebranon, burning the little fellow s> bacliy that he died in consequence. Mr. Adams ended his article with/the state- ; ntent that the Sympathies of ffrauds would go out to the bereaved parents. II is shock rest day may pos.-dbFy t<T Imagined when the types made him sty that "the sympathies' of a large circle of' friends will go out to Idle buru.tl pants.”