----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 03/30/1893

Barton, Josephine ( - 26 APR 1893)

Mrs. Antone Barton died on Thursday afternoon, April 26th, 1893, at the age of (couldn't read), and a few months, in Minneapolis, where she went on Monday to have an operation performed for some female trouble from which she was suffering and while under the influence of anesthetics. She regained consciousness enough before her death to speak of her husband and children.

A telegram was sent to Mr. Baton informing him of his wife's sudden death, which on account of the lateness of the hour did not reach here, and was sent over by a messenger from the junction. Mr. Barton accompanied the messenger back by horse and buggy, and arrive just in time to catch the 2 o'clock trine, arriving in Minneapolis at 7 o'clock Friday morning. He returned here with his wife's remains on Saturday morning.

The funeral was conducted from the Catholic Church on Monday at 9 a.m., and the body was interred in the Catholic Cemetery.

Mrs. Barton, to all appearances was a healthy, robust woman, and pronounced by all to be one of the kindest, pleasantest and prettiest women in this city (Neillsville, Clark County). She leaves a husband and five children to mourn her absence, the youngest child four years old, and the oldest eighteen.

Her death was a surprise to all, and no doubt would not have occurred as it did, were it not the fact that physicians are allowed too many privileges, especially while using dangerous drugs, etc. When a death occurs under their hands, a rigid investigation should be held, and if found in the least careless or negligent, or incapable to the task they have undertaken, should be punished for manslaughter, just as much as a criminal, who unintentionally kills a man. As a rule, there is too much experimenting practiced, and very little common sense used by physicians of today. A human body is not constructed like a machine with interchangeable parts, and when a physician cuts off a finger, arm or leg, it is cut off and no replacing it. A more rigid law should be created to govern the practice of medicine, and in its compounding and dishing out.