DEATH OF FRED BOHNSACK.
Mr. Fred Bohnsack, aged 51 years, died at his late home, four miles north of Manning in Washington Township, on Friday, July 14, 1899, of consumption. The funeral was held from the home on Saturday at eleven o'clock a.m., the Rev. William Martens officiating. The procession that followed the remains to the grave was one of the largest ever witnessed in the country around Manning, seventy-eight conveyances being in line. A day or two before his death, Mr. Bohnsack made the request that his remains be borne to the grave in the old wagon that had so long been in his possession, and such request was complied with.

Frederick Bohnsack was born in Holstein, Germany, in the year 1848, coming to America thirty years later. He was a soldier in the German army and served during the Franco-Prussian war in the 1871.

Mr. Bohnsack was an honorable man and many are the people hereabouts who were his friends. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his departure.