Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — A Jasper county Man’s Valuable Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Jasper county Man’s Valuable Invention.

4, Title- Girl Burned to D.athJß A correspondent In Barkley townbip furnishes tbe following par lieu* On the second inst., about 6 o’clock n. the evening, at the residence of S. •I. Quick, of Barkley township, a fatal ccident occured, by the burning to teath of has ten year old daughter. Vhile Mr, and. Mrs. Quick were feedig the stock and milking the cows, the irl was left in 'the house. She took he broom and fanned the fire, in the ook stove.; while thus engaged her lothes caught fire. There being no. »ne present to help her, she ran for he barn, some sixty yards from the ouse, where her father was unharnessing the horses. Willie Quick, his on, being in the mow of the barn, at his time, seeing his sister coming, all n fire, said “fire”, and his father

joking up to where Willie was in the now, seeing the light from the burn. ag girl shining through the cracks of he barn thought the barn was on fire. Stepping to 'the door of the barn he •aw his child leaning forward, as she an for the barn, enveloped in flames, mr head was the only, part of her body dsible, owing to her leaning posture he flames shooting six feet high. Mr. £uick went to her rescue and with uperhuman effort soon tore away the emainder of-clothes that the fire had est, but she was very badly burned. Jr. Washburn, of .Rensselaer, was drought and did all he could, but she lied on the :3rd inst., at 10 o’clock in he morning.

Mr. A. H. ArnoldpMi ingenious /oung man of Barkley township, iaa lately takeout aJpatent on an invention wfliich; promises to bring iim in a fino-anm ofmoney. It is i simple bratingeniusean tri vance o prevent telegraph vires from interlocking, and inter.'upting communications, during he prevalence dfwindaaud heavy storms, a source of annoyance and loss to telegraph and telephone cotxqpanies. >We understand that Mr. Arnold has been offered <ls*ooo forb is patent, ind telegraph eaperts estimate its value, anywhere .from tthe above sum way up infertile ihnndreds of thousands.