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Show STOCKMAN FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Peter Steele of Hanksville Passes Away Suddenly at a Local Hotel. Peter Steele, 50 years of ac, a stockman stock-man and milling man of Hanksville, Wayne county, was found dead in bed in his room at the Worth hotel, 158 East Second South street, about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Death resulted re-sulted from hemorrhage. Dr. II. B. Spra guc, assistant heal th eomniisaioucr, who was summoned, found that Steele had been dead several hours. 'The body was removed to the Larkin-Hull morgue, pending vord from relatives re-garomg re-garomg funeral arrangements. Steele entered a Jural hospital for treatment September 21, and was ilis-charged ilis-charged November 10. He had been at the Worth hotel several days, but had not been so ill as to be coitfined to his bed. Advices from Hanksville are to the effect that Steele had coinc to that town about tt;n years ago. So far known he had no relatives in, this section. sec-tion. He at first engaged in the rattle rat-tle business, later sold his firrds and' began raising t-hep. Papers found in his posession indicate that he was also interested to some extent in mining. Steele told his friends in Hnnks.ville that he was a German, and from olirfnee remarks it is be)ie ed that he had a brother and a nephew in one of the ea stein sta t es. II e was presumed to be well-to-do financially. Recently Steele made his will and named Joseph Robinson of Hanksville as executor. Tt is presumed that his i brother and nephew are made bene-j bene-j ficinries in the will. |