Died - In Oskaloose, Iowa, September 22, 1898, James M. Bale, formerly of this city, aged 35 years, 9 months and 21 days. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church in this city, as 2 p.m. Sunday, conducted by Rev. R. D. Miller. Burial at Rose Hill cemetery. His death was the result of being stabbed in an altercation with the man with whom he was boarding, but the exact particulars we could not learn. Deceased was a son of Mrs. America Bale. He left here about eight years ago, and since that time has worked at the printing business in Chicago, until about two or three years ago, when he went to Iowa. Before leaving Chicago, the typographical union dropped him from their order for non-payment of dues, and as he was in straitened circumstances when he went to Oskaloosa, he adopted the name "James Raymond" in order that he might again join the union and secure a position on a paper in that city. There was, nor has there ever been, as far as his friends know, any cause save the one explained above, for the changing of his name. While here he was generally respected - at one time being city clerk and at another time he made a strong race for mayor of the city. His sudden death is sadly mourned by his numerous friends here. [Petersburg Observer Oct. 1, 1898 ]
Died - In Oskaloose, Iowa, September 22, 1898, James M. Bale, formerly of this city, aged 35 years, 9 months and 21 days. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church in this city, as 2 p.m. Sunday, conducted by Rev. R. D. Miller. Burial at Rose Hill cemetery. His death was the result of being stabbed in an altercation with the man with whom he was boarding, but the exact particulars we could not learn. Deceased was a son of Mrs. America Bale. He left here about eight years ago, and since that time has worked at the printing business in Chicago, until about two or three years ago, when he went to Iowa. Before leaving Chicago, the typographical union dropped him from their order for non-payment of dues, and as he was in straitened circumstances when he went to Oskaloosa, he adopted the name "James Raymond" in order that he might again join the union and secure a position on a paper in that city. There was, nor has there ever been, as far as his friends know, any cause save the one explained above, for the changing of his name. While here he was generally respected - at one time being city clerk and at another time he made a strong race for mayor of the city. His sudden death is sadly mourned by his numerous friends here. [Petersburg Observer Oct. 1, 1898 ]
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