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Show Jllcil of lllcroiiuli. Hubert Potter three weeks ago had an attack of bilious fever, but nothing more serious developed until a. few days aijo. He bewail to hiccough, but it was thottht uy tlie p' . ii ian to bo only a, temporary affection brought on by the disordered m stein. The hiccoughing continaecl almost incessantly, and all the doctors could do was to jrive tho sulTerer opiates to put him to sleep, litit the rest iv lis only momentary, and the fatal hic-r hic-r imghinjr, racked his friime for more than fwo days. The physicians who were called informed the family that unless the hiccoughim; could be stopped the patient would die from exhaustion, but they knew of no remedy. Saturday niKlit Sir. Porter, who was stron.i; and heavily built, weakened rapidly, and tc" end came in a few hours ' ' |