Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1904 — Coffee Berry Produces Death. [ARTICLE]

Coffee Berry Produces Death.

A lamentable accident with a fatal termination oooured in this vicinity last Saturday. On that day, at Charles Pettit’s plaoe near Parr, Ida their infant daughter got a coffee bean in her wind-pipe. It lodged so low down that it could not be reached without an operation, and Monday she was taken to Chioago, and Tuesday operated upon, at the Presbyterian hospital. Profs. Engalls and Bevans, two of Chicago’s most oelebrated physicians performed the'operation. It was found that the coffee bean had passed clear down into the upper part of the lungs, and the operation to remove it was a very rare and delicate one. So rare in fact that only three others are on reoord in the United States and Canada. The ohild passed through the operation well but the shook appears to have been too great and" its death oooured at eight o’olook, lest Wednesday morning. The body will be brought baok for burial, on the milk train, that night The baby was about 14 months old. They have only one other ohild left, a new born baby, and the mother herself is reported to be in a very critical condition.