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Show UK MKIMN KITS. The Sorrowful Fate of a Itoy Who Was Afflicted from Childhood Ills lonely llurlal This Afternoon. Thomas Ball, a victim of epilepsy, lay over at Joseph William Taylor's undertaking under-taking rooms at U o'clock thia afternoon dead. The corpse waa almost revoltiug In its post mortem appearance notwithstanding the fact that the undertaker had lavished upon it all the care and the gentility of an undertaking establishment. It represented an empire of bloat, the tissue all gone and eaten away by a malady which, aggravated by thu unhi idled use of liquor, had afflicted him from childhood. Bell was formerly connected with Forepaugh's circus, but bad recently obtained' employment In a local theater where he waited wait-ed on the boxes aud served liquids to their patrons. On Wednesday lsst he was seized with an epileptic (it, anil his friends, as a Inst measure of redemption, redemp-tion, concluded to take him to the local branch of the Keeley institute. Dr. (iroves, the skillful chief of "the faculty at that institution, in-stitution, looked into the most aggravates case, but decided to take no steps until the unwelcome patient had recovered his sensibilities. sensi-bilities. He left liell entirely to the nurses. So treatment was administered, and this morning at .'.SO the lit that had occasioned his removal to the Institution was repeated with such violence that the poor fellow yielded. The remains were buried ot i o'cloek this afternoon. |