Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, April 18, 1913, p. 1. Eli Zaring, a well known newspaper man, died at Indianapolis last Wednesday after an operation for appendicitis. He was a son of William M. Zaring, formerly a Methodist minister in this city, and who is now 84 years of age. Mrs. Zaring is buried here, and the body of her son was brought from Indianapolis Friday morning.