| Samuel Slater's Death Relatives in This City Discredit Reports of Accident as the Cause No particulars have as yet been received by the relatives of Samuel Slater whose death at the Soldiers' home in Togus, Me. was announced in a telegram received Tuesday morning, at 11 o'clock which red: "Samuel Slater dead. Will we embalm the body and ship it home?" Mrs. John T. Bliss, a daughter of the deceased, living in Boston, immediately went to Tugus to take charge of the body and no word has been received from her yet. A report has been circulated that Mr. Slater was killed, having met with an accident, but all statements to that effect are not credited by his children. The body will arrive here very soon now and then something definite may be learned. Mr. Slater is survived by three daughters and one son, Mrs. George W. Moses and Mrs. John B. Shattuck of Fitchburg, Mrs. John T. Bliss of Boston and Samuel F. Slater now thought to be in San Francisco. Mr. Slater has long been a sufferer with asthma and bronchitis and Mrs. Moses thinks her father died from these diseases. |