No date or source noted, from an unidentified scrapbook of clippings titled COLLECTION OF LOCAL MONROE COUNTY OBITS donated to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. STRANGE MALADY CAUSES DEATH OF LOCAL WOMAN AT INDIANAPOLIS Mrs. James Kelly, Formerly Miss Louise Massey, Succumbs to Disease that Puzzles Local Doctors A few days ago apparently in the best of health, Mrs. James Kelly, age 30, West 2nd Street, formerly Miss Louise Massy (consider Massey a spelling variant), died early this morning at Indianapolis of a strange malady-a malady that puzzled both local physicians and Indianapolis specialists. Last Friday Mrs. Kelly noticed a numbness in her two thumbs and this numbness gradually crept over her body and at the last (was) accompanied by foaming at the mouth until death came at 6:40 o'clock this morning at the home of a relative, Mrs. L. M. Nichols, 2204 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis. Last night at the bedside the attending Indianapolis specialists agreed that the malady would not prove fatal but their diagnosis of the case did not prove out. .Yesterday the husband, James Kelly, employed at the Bowman & King Stone Mill, was called to Indianapolis to the bedside, and he was accompanied by Rev. Joseph Campbell and son, Steven, who have been rooming at the Kelly home. The physicians in attendance last night gave as their opinion that there was no danger of death of the patient.Rev. Campbell and son, acting on this information came home last night and were startled early this morning to get the death message. Mr. Kelly remained with his wife and was at the bedside when death came. The death finds Mrs. Kelly's mother, Mrs. Maude Massy, and brother, Thomas Massy, at Colorado Springs, Col., where they went for his health. Mrs. Massy and son left Bloomington only a few days ago and the first letter from them at Colorado Springs was received this morning. A wire was sent to them this morning announcing the death that will be the first intimation they have that Mrs. Kelly was even sick. Mrs. Kelly's body was brought to Bloomington early this afternoon by Allen & Allen and late this afternoon will be taken to the home on West 2nd Street. The funeral arrangements will not be definitely made until the mother is heard from. Mrs. Kelly was about 30 years of age and well known as she lived all her life in Bloomington and was educated in the Bloomington schools. Besides the husband, one son, William, age 10, also survives, also the mother and two brothers, Tom at Colorado Springs for this health and Ralph, North Grant Street.