Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — A Sad Suicide. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Suicide.

James Jessen, of Julian, Newton county, an old settler and a ra r >'-t estimable man, committed suicide’ on Thursday nigh", of last wee , by cutting his throat with a razjr. He had gone out in the evening ostensibly to visit a neighbor; but he failed to return, ami the next morning his body was found in his own field. The razor was his own and he had undoubtedly secreted it about his person, some time during the previous day, for the purpose of using it in the manner he finally did. He had for some time past shown a moody aud brooding disposition, and there is probably no doubt but that his mind, in some particularshad teen affi cted. He was the father of John Jessen, of Rensselaer, and himself well known to many of our citizens, especially among the old settlers. His age was about 55 years. —Republic in.

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A bad freight train wreck occurr< d on the L., N. A. & 0. JKaiiroad early Sunday morning, at Woodyard Station, 4 miles north of Bloomington, which resulted in the deatli of Engineer Daniel Heaphey. His train, number 34, north bound, broke in two about two miles south of the station, and in endeavoring to keep out of the way of the rear portion he ran into the station at a lively speed, and iuu into the rear section of train number 33, which was getting on lo the switch. Heaphey jumped <ff his engine just before the smash, and in doing so struck a switch and was thrown back under tiie cars and both legs cat off, and otherwise terribly m ogled. He resided nt Lafayette, where he leaves a wife and three children, — 411,