Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1913 — “PETE” BRENNER FOUND DEAD AT GARY [ARTICLE]

“PETE” BRENNER FOUND DEAD AT GARY

Druggist and Brother of Bert and Jinks Dies Suddenly—Funeral to Be at Mt. Ayr. Clermont Brenner, letter known here by the nickname of "Pete,” was found dead in his bed at his rooming house in Gary Monday evening at about 6 o’clock. Lawson Meyer, also a former Rensselaer citizen, telephoned here to A. F. Long, who immediately Informed Bert Brenner, a brother of the dead man, at Valparaiso. This Tuesday morning Scott Brenner, another brother, of Mt. Ayr, went to Gary, as did Bert, from Valparaiso, add A. J., another brother, now of Winchester, Mr. Long was later notified that the body would be shipped to Rensselaer and would here on the 'milk-' train this' Tuesday evening. The funeral will probably take place at Mt. Ayr, and burial be made in the North Star cemetery, where other members of the family are buried. No particulars of his death could be procured, but it is presumed to have been caused by heart trouble. “Pete” was about 36 years of age and clerked in a drug/ store at Gary, being a fine pharmacist. Besides the brothers mentioned above, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Ira Sayler, at Mt. Ayr, and a half-brother, Ensign James E. Brenner, of the U. S. Navy.-

John Stephenson, a farmer, Saturday found a white robin-on the A. B. Hurd farm, near El Paso, 111. The blrl Is snowy white, with pink eyes. Although not unknown to science, it is a great rarity. Mr. Hurd expects to place the bird in one of the Chicago parks. Roy Miller, age 25, a Lake Shore brakeman, was cut to pieces on the tracks west of Laporte Friday night when flagging for an extra freight. Four or five trains passed while he was there and it is not known what train struck him. Miller had been married only three weeks and lived in Elkhart. Accidental death was the verdict of the coroner. Eugene N. Foss, three times elected governor of Massachusetts as a democrat, and a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency last year, Saturday, declared himself a republican, but remained indefinite regarding his reported candidacy for the republican nomination for re-election. Dissatisfaction with the present national administration is the cause of the change of parties.

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