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Show Death of Tiicodore Jesperaon. We regret to record the death of Brother Theodore Jesperson, one of the press room employes of the Disehet News office, a genial man, industrious and trustworthy as a workman, and thorougbTdtter-day thorougbTdtter-day Saint. Brother Theodore was a native of Aalborg, Denmark, whence he emigrated in 1SS5 to this city. He had considerable natural artistic ability, as eIucd by hb amateur paintings, and had be been nble to devote his attention (o following his bent in that direction, as he hoped to do in time, ho would doubtless have made his mark as an artist. He was stricken with a kind of intermittent fever some months since, which prostrated him for several weeks, and from which be had not thoroughly thor-oughly recovered when he resumed his work, which he insisted upon doing contrary to the protest of his friends. He soon suffered a relapse which developed into typhoid fever, eryeipelas and dropsy, all of which combined proved too much for his rather delicate constitution. After a great deal of suffering be succumbed suc-cumbed to death yesterday morning. morn-ing. Among all those friends who now mourn his untimely death and who will hereafter cherish a tender auu loving remembrance of this premising yonug man, none will do so more sincerely than his fellow w orkmen, among whom he was a favorite. |