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Show --.., Obituary. SHIELDS. Hosts of friends mourned the death of Charles T. Shields, who died at Park City last Saturday. Deceased was born at Dexter, Mich., and for many years past has been in business at Park City. He had but recently returned with his wife from an extended eastern trip, including a visit to the scenes of his early life. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon. M'CURDY. Mrs. Harriet McCurdy, aged SS years, mother of D. S. McCurdy of this city, died at her home in Washington, D. C, Monday. She was the last surviving relative of James G. Blaine on the maternal ma-ternal side of the house. Her son, D. S. McCurdy has just returned from a visit of several days with her. Her other surviving children are Miss J. A. McCurdy and Mrs. Delos Smith of the war department at Washington. M'DERMOTT. Peter McDermott, a locomotive engineer, engi-neer, was found dead in his room on Monday. Very little is known of the man here, he having come recently from Alliance, Neb., where he is known to have lived for a number of years. A friend of McDermott's, who heard of his death yesterday, called at the undertaking establishment of E. G. O'Donnell, where the body was taken, and identified the picture of a girl about 18 years of age as the. daughter of the dead man. His birthplace is " supposed to be Green-leaf, Green-leaf, Kas. He was well-dressed and from his correspondence it is judged that he was well educated. He was known to be the owner of two good pears to have come to this city for the betterment of his health, and had planned to 1 get a home here for his wife. A telegram from J. R. Phelan of the Burlington road was found among Mc-Dermott's Mc-Dermott's effects, and he seems to have been wanted by several railway. companies. com-panies. From all this it is supposed that he was a very reliable man. He had made one trip from this city to Pocatello, for the purpose of getting acquainted with the road. McDermott was an unusually large man, being six feet two and a half inches and weighing weigh-ing over 300 pounds. Sullivan. On last Friday morning Mrs. Han nah Sullivan of Mercur was buried from St. Mary's cathedral. Requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Morrissey, who preached an eloquent sermon, paying a well merited mer-ited tribute to the deceased. Mrs. Sullivan leaves a husband and five children to mourt her loss. She was a noble woman, a loving wife, a devoted mother. May God comfort the bereaved ones in their sorrow as he only can. The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful, and after resting on the casket until the" cemetery was reached, was brought to the church and placed on the altars, according to instructions from a son of the deceased. May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in Deace. . " LARKIN. - After a heroic battle with death that extended through many weeks of pain, William A. Larkin, late city ticket agent of the Oregon Short Line at Butte, passed away at St. Mark's hospital hos-pital last week. - Mr. Larkin was brought to the hospital hos-pital on Aug. 13 last, suffering from appendicitis ap-pendicitis with complications. He was operated upon, but his condition was such that the appendix could not be removed at that time. For ten weary weeks he lay at the hospital before being permitted to leave. Finally he was allowed to start home, but had scarcely reajfled Butte when he was seized with a chill and was obliged to return to the hospital at once. By this time his once ?turdy constitution had become so enfeebled that his was a losing fight, but his splendid courage and fortitude never for a moment deserted de-serted him, and he continued the unequal un-equal struggle to the end, his efforts being strengthened by the inspiring presence of his devoted young wife, who remained steadfastly at his bedside bed-side throughout all his illness and is now almost prostrated by her great grief. Mr. Larkin was not quite 27 years of age, and had a most promising future. He was born in Devonshire, England, and came to America when about 14 years old. He entered the employ of the railroad five years ago and was steadily working his way by ability and integrity to the front rank when his illness began. An event that shocked Ogden and provoked much indignation was the fatal shooting of J. Fred McCabe, a youth of 17, by a highway robber on the night of Thanksgiving, as he was proceeding from a social festival to his home. The murderer, at this writing, has not been apprehended. The funeral services were held last Thursday morning at St. Joseph's church. Rev. P. M. Cushnahan officiating. officiat-ing. Hundreds of friends of the young man and his family, as well as others who were drawn by the sudden and tragic manner of his taking off, called at the home Wednesday evening for a last look at the face of the murdered boy. |