Wesley Hopper’s Death– We copy from the LaHarpe Home News the following respecting Mr. Hopper’s disease and death:

Mr. Hopper was taken violently ill with an obstinate obstruction of the bowels and his attending physicians after making every effort to remove the obstruction decided that in their opinion a surgical operation was necessary. Consequently the assistance of Prof. J.C. Hughs, President of the Iowa Medical College, was obtained and an operation performed by making an opening into the cavity of the abdomen through the linen alba. Upon an examination of the bowels, an opening was found in the mesentery, through which the bowels had passed and strangulated; making what the doctors called a mesenteric hernia. Several feet of the bowels was found to be in a gangrenous condition and from the enormous distention of the bowel with retained contents, it was found to be perforated through the entire coat. The decision was that he could not recover and he died twelve hours thereafter in full possession of his mental faculties to within a few moments of his last.