Private John Burns
Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, 18 December 1903, page
FT THOMAS-The funeral of Private John Burns, whose mysterious death
occurred Wednesday, will take place this afternoon with military honors. His
parents who were supposed to live at Chester, Penn. could not be located. It has
developed that Burns drank a quantity of wood alcohol as a beverage and died in
great agony.
The remains will be interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 19 December 1903, page 5
The funeral of Private Burns Regimental Band, took place Friday afternoon from the post chapel. The entire command was paraded, Col. Haskell, Adjt. Sample and the noncommissioned staff of the regiment, the band being needed to furnish the music for the military ceremony.