Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1915 — GEORGE MINNICUS MET TRAGIC DEATH [ARTICLE]

GEORGE MINNICUS MET TRAGIC DEATH

Former Resident of This City Killed By Train at Chicago Heights Saturday Night. George Minnicus, aged about 46 years, and for some years a resident of Chicago Heights, was killed Saturday night at about midnight as he was gong to hsi home in that city. He was a plasterer and contractor but for some years at odd times and generally on Saturday nights he had clerked in the cigar store and sporting goods house of Charles Copmyer. He had been there Saturday evening and was going to his home across the, C. & E. I. tracks, over which he had gone for some fifteen years. Just how the accident occurred no one here knows, but word about his death was communicated to his sister, Mrs. John Kohler, here Sunday and some cf the family came here in an automobile and Mr. and Mrs. Kohler and son, Leonard, went there. No word has been received since then, and it is not known whether the body will be returned here for burial or be buried ffiere. ' He is survived by his wJffe and two daughters, one, Mias Blanche, is about 18 years old, and the other a baby only about a year old.