PROF. MINCKWITZ IS DEAD.
Was Teacher of Latin in Central for
Ten Years -- Dies in New York.
Word has been received here that Professor Richard Minckwitz, who was for ten years professor of Latin in the Central high school, died last week of tuberculosis at his home in New York city. Professor Minckwitz was one of the most widely known educators in Missouri while he taught here, and his textbooks on Latin are used extensively throughout the West. He left in 1901 to accept a profesorship in Latin in a New York high school. He had no children. His wife is living in New York.
Miss Annie C. Wilder, a sister-in-law and a teacher in the Westport high school, is at present very ill in the Kansas university hospital in Rosedale. Mrs. Kate Cross of Emporia, her sister, is in the city and assists in caring for her. Miss Wilder has not been told that Professor Minckwitz is dead.
