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Show STARVING HllHSlir.F TO DEATH. The Curious llallutiuatl..u That Has Hold of an Invalid. Jgffkrsoxviu.e, Ind June 20.-P. Jjellis, one of tho best known men in Jellersonvillc, is slowly starving to death. He has been nu invalid for some time, and recently his mind began to fail. A peculiar hallucination took possession pos-session of him that he had lost all his property, and that but a small amount of food remained in tho house, la order that his children might live he has refused to eat. Every day he grows weaker, and it is evident evi-dent that he can last but a short time longer.- Tho unfortunate man is about 70 years of age, and for twenty years past ho has been tho delinquent tax collector col-lector for Jeffersonville township. His wife has been dead for some years, anil his children, Harry, Herbert, Mollie aud Annie, remaining with him. Not long since the latter was thrown from a vehicle while out driving, and was iu-stautly iu-stautly killed. She was his favorite daughter, and since her death his condition con-dition has gradually become worse. |