Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — More About Judge Cummings’ Death [ARTICLE]

More About Judge Cummings’ Death

Only a brief account was printed in this paper heretofore of the sudden death in Chicago of Judge William Cummings, of Kentland. From the Enterprise of that tor n the facts concerning his death are learned. He had gone to Chicago the week ending Nov. 23d to close up some business affairs preparatory to his intended departure for Texas to spend the winter for bis health. He had been a sufferer all his life from heart failure and this had been more acute during recent months and he had taken treatment in a sanitarium in Chicago and always stopped at a hotel near the place he tock treatment. On Saturday evening he felt very poorly and telephoned his daughter, Mrs. Stella Inman, that he desired her to come to see him. She did not reach the hotel until 9 o’clock that evening and found her father lying on the floor of bis room dead. He bad on his overcoat and his hat was laying near him and evidently he had just returned to his room or was just arranging to depart. The body could not be taken to Kentland until after a coroner’s inquest was held and this was held on Monday, and the body was taken to Kentland that day and the funeral held on Tuesday. Old soldiers, members of the K. of P. and Elks lodges, members of the bar of Newton and adjoining counties formed a large concourse of sorrowing friends to the burial

- Mr. Cummings was borninlß4l and had practiced law in Newton county since 1880. He was very popular and there was the gieatest amount of sori ow felt wherever he was known, at his sudden demise.