Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat, May 18, 1912
NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.
~The John Freiberg family at Struble was poisoned recently by eating raw or half cooked sausage. As a result, one is dead and two others are in danger of death. John Freiberg Jr. is the one who is dead. He was a student in Concordia College at St. Paul, studying to be a preacher. He was home to spend Easter and took back a quantity of sausage. Later he was taken sick and his case pronounced “trichina.” He died in a St. Paul hospital and the body arrived here and was buried in St. John’s cemetery, the Rev. Nuoffer in charge, last Friday afternoon. Mr. Satterlee, the Ireton undertaker, had charge.
~Earl McCartney, of LeMars, who was shot in the throat last month by the accidental discharge of his rifle, has died from the effects of the accident.
IRETON:
John Freiberg Jr. of Struble has died of trichina at a St. Paul hospital. The sickness was caused by eating fresh sausage while home on Easter Sunday.