Charles Mote
December 4, 1896
Manning Monitor

DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN.
Died, at Hansen & Frahm's restaurant in Manning on Wednesday, December 2, Charles Mote, aged twenty-six years. He came to this city from Ida Grove last June to do the baking for the restaurant. His always pleasant countenance and happy temperament won for Charlie Mote many good friends here who, today, deeply regret that he has so unexpectedly been called away. While about his duties at the bake shop on last Saturday morning Charlie made a misstep and fell in such a manner as to sustain internal injuries, and it was these that resulted in his death. He suffered great agony from the time of the accident until early Wednesday morning, when the pain subsided, mortification having set in. Dr. Williams, the attending physician, realizing that the patient would surely die if relief was not had at once, he resolved to try the last remedy, and at 9:30 on Wednesday morning, Williams in conjunction with Dr. A.L. Wright, who came down from Carroll on the morning train, proceeded to perform an operation. But the patient died at twelve o'clock. The father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Mote, and brother, Austin, of the deceased, arrived in the city Wednesday morning from Ida Grove, their home town, and to which place the remains were shipped for interment, which took place this afternoon.