Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1910 — Prominent Newton County Man Victim of Accident. [ARTICLE]

Prominent Newton County Man Victim of Accident.

Kentland Enterprise. Christian L. Brandt, one of the best known men of Lake township, died Sunday morning from injuries sustained the evening before. He was helping thresh, and in backing the team to the separator, he in some manner fell backward off the wagon seat, striking the ground on his head and shoulders. Mr. Brandt was a large man and the fall resulted in breaking his neck, or upper vertebra of the spinal column. He never rallied from the shock, remaining unconscious until Sunday morning, when death relived his suffering. ViolatioiiS of the game law are said to have been frequent in Indiana this year by professional hunters who kill chickens and quail and ship them to Chicago. They are said to hunt on any person’s land and to practically defy the law. If some well balanced game wardens could come in here, procure evidence against these men, and arrest them, the court would be justified in saddling a heavy fine on them. While the Republican is opposed to petty prosecutions, it do-s favor the breaking up of the practice that spoils hunting for legitimate sportsmen and tends to exterminatT these game birds, which it is the pur pose of the law to protect. Several prosecutions were effectively made in Keener township, but it is said tie warning has not kept others from violating the same section of the law

Said the groceryman to the buthcherman: “It is really a sin that you buy your salt on the wholesale plan and don’t give me a chance to handle the tin.” Then hied him back to the grocery store and quickly an order sent for a few choice hams for the family use and a box of fish for Lent., Said the clothing man to the hardware man: “You certainly don’t do right when you get a suit of an eastern house, with my big stock in sight.” But the clothier wanted a new steel range, and it came, as his neighbors know, in a box that he tried to hide in the barn and marked “Gee Hawbuck & Co.” The business men then called a meeting to see where the trouble lay, and they all agreed ’twas the editor man and not the devil to pay. Why don’t he roast the city stores and fakirs, they said, and stand by them who patronize him and give him his daily bread? So they drew up a contract long and strong for the editor to pursue, and waited on him with aspect grim, as he solemnly dug for news, but the editor laughed a big horse laugh, till the gang all took to the woods, for ’twas written on axle grease letter heads that came with a bill of goods.

The Kentland Enterprise gives a full account of the accident that resulted in burning to death of the liltte child, Dorothy Fry, near there last Sunday morning. The mother of the child was only 19 years old and beside Dorothy, who would have been two on Sept. 12th, had a bay with her 7 months old. Will Egan, who drove the car that was wrecked and burned up, seems to have made an effort to put out the flames that enveloped the child, although the mother, who was on fire herself, stated that she did not, as she Was busy with the flames that had started in her own clothing. Egan had on a pair of gloves and as the testimony shows that the child did not catch fire until after it had been extricated from beneath the overturned car, it seems that he might have been able to extinguish the flames had he tried hard to do it. A strange feature of the accident is that while it occurred almost directly in front of the farm residence of Clinton Shenberger, Egan and the mother did not wake up the Shenbergers, but walked a distance of about a mile to the home of John McGraw, leaving the dead child lying in the weeds by the roadside. From the McGraw residence they called for doctors. The body of the child was terribly burned, especially the face, hands and trunk. Part of the clothing was on the child and part burned or torn off. The body was taken to Goodland and buried. Mrs. Fry and Egan left Kentland together Monday evening following the coroner’s inquest, taking the 6:15 train west.

After having swallowed a piece of screen wire and a pin, Martha Louise, the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell, of Ellettsville, Ind., is dying. The child swallowed the wire and pin several days ago and when an examination was made yesterday It was found that its internal organs were perforated in many places. ~ ~