Death of Dr. Ferdinand Weitze who was chief physician of the 44th Illinois Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War and did valiant service in the battles of Pea Ridge and Perryville, later on becoming a highly popular physician on the Chicago Westside.

Dr. Weitze, born in Aschersleben in Prussia, participated in the revolution of 1849, saved himself by swimming through a river, into France and had built himself a practice in Alsatia when a decree of Napoleon III forced him once more to emigrate.