Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — RESULT OF SPIDER BITE IS HER DEATH [ARTICLE]

RESULT OF SPIDER BITE IS HER DEATH

Former Rensselaer Woman Victim of Blood Poisoning as Result of a Slight Iqjury.

Mrs. Horace Brown, of Noblesville, died at her home in that city Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock of blood poisoning, the result of a spider bite. Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Minnie Stackhouse and prior to her marriage 22 years ago, resided in Rensselaer. Chas. Stackhouse, trustee of this township, and Mrs. Mary Peyton, of this city, are cousins of the deceased. A dispatch from Noblesville to the Indianapolis News gives the following account of her death: While on her way homo last week from Yellowstone National Park she arose from a Pullman sleeper to find her lip swollen from the bite of a poisonous spider. On consulting the railroad com-

pany’s physician, in Chisago, she received treatment and was sent to her home. Although confined to her bed. she rested well until last night when a decided change tor worse took place, whan she became unconscious, remaining so until the end. Mrs. Brown was one of the. most popular women in social circles in Noblesville. She was Mias Minnie Stackhouse, of Indianapolis, where her mother still lives. She was for-ty-two years old and became the wife of Mr. Brown twenty years ago. Two brothers and two sisters, besides the mother and husband survive. One brother lives in Indianapolis, one In California, one slyter In Terre Haute, and the other abroad.