BEDFORD MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1901 Brownstown, Ind., Dec. 2. – Mortimer Goss, commissioner of the First district of Jackson County, died at his home, five miles west of here, at 2 o'clock this morning of typhoid fever. He was a farmer, owning about five hundred acres of river bottom land. He was about forty three years old, and left a widow and four children.