Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Paris Surgeons to Operate on Owen. [ARTICLE]

Paris Surgeons to Operate on Owen.

Logansport Journal: In the baths where Cleopatra and Anthony laved, former Secretary of State W. D. Owen, of this city, has been seeking health for several weeks at Cairo, Egypt. Today he will enter a sanitarium in Paris for an operation on his spine which surgeons believe, will reiieve chronic illness. Since Owen, and W. T. Giffe, of this city, were at their plantation in the Isthmus of Tebauntepeo two years ago, Owen had been suffering from *a complication of ailments. He has sought health in the most noted resorts of the world, including Baden, Nauheim Carlsbad and Cairo, gaining strength but slowly. Mrs. Owen is with him "and they have been guests of Consul General Jack Gowdy, of Indiana at Paris for several days. The most skillful surgeons ortno flench have told Owen his health will not be recovered until the spinal affliction is cured. On leaving the hospital he will return to the United States and leave soon after for Übero, 1 Mexico, where he will spend several months regaining bis strength and looking after the immense interests in which he is interested.