The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday March 31, 1899 George HOWARD, who resided east of LaCygne, died very suddenly Thursday of last week. He worked in the coal mines east of town and on Wednesday was at work the same as ususal. It will be remembered that this is the same man who fell a distance of eighty feet at the Boicourt coal shaft three years ago. It was from the effects of this fall that he died, having sustained internal injury. He was an Englishman by birth and a painter by trade, was 36 years of age and leaves a wife and one child.