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EHFuszibleingDEATH OF MRS. GEORGE J. FANNING.' Letter Cmn.yx Hip s„«| \, us n^r I’HrpntH In Thin i lly.Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long of this city last Tuesday received the sad intelligence of the death of their (faugh-trr, Mrs. (J. .1. Fanning, which occurred 'Thursday afternoon, April 20th, at the Hotel Dif.fi. in New Orleans * Fanning is stationed at the Fort L tkuap • Monte) Indian agency us physician in the employ of the government and. in company with his wife, was spending the winter in the south. expecting to return to Montana about May 1st. Lr. and Mrs. Fanning had resided at New Orleans for several months to enable the doctor to take a special course at ^ the 'J nl,-me Medical college, when the llic ^-v *K'ra,,M‘ afflicted with j»*ritoniti«. Ml,,. When it was found that il would be I necessary to perforin an operation, the doctor took his wife to the Hotel Dien pi private hospital conducted by the Sisters' of Charityk where |»r. Sims, a celebrated physician. i»erfornied the operation. Everything jKissihle was done but it soon liecame apparent that Mrs. Fanning could not recover, ami shortly befoie her death she told her husband to write to her aged parents, giving them her love and to convey the sad news. The letter, written by the bereaved husband, and which hears every evidence of great sorrow, arrived last Tuesday afternoon, li was a severe blow to Mr. ami Mrs. Long, who had had no intimation lt;: their daughter s illness, and t lie aged couple is almost broken In artcd. Mrs. Long was taken ill and bus been confined io her bed ever since the sail new* was broughtto her. and considerable anxiety is felt concerning her rerov *rv.'The utmost:sympadiy of the eommn-nifv is extended Mr. and Mrs. Long in their sad afilictioti.cell -ale ■ hyl-riceicermilhyredMr•itsimsr of the c:-r I* of eks 10WThecry1inr t
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The Philipsburg Mail
Philipsburg, Montana, US
Fri, Apr 28, 1899
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