Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1915 — J. J. Montgomery Learns That Trouble Comes Fast. [ARTICLE]

J. J. Montgomery Learns That Trouble Comes Fast.

J. J. Montgomery learned during about twenty-four hours that trouble does not come single-handed. Monday about noon he received a telegram from Des Moines, lowa, stating that his sister had fallen downstairs and received quite severe injuries. That evening he saw in the Chicago News that his old home town, Oneida, 111., was 'being destroyed by fire. Then he received a message from his brother-in-law in Chicago that his wife’s father, Eugene Wemple, of Rockford, 111., was dying, and his wife was spending the day in Chicago. He informed her brother there and he found her on the train ready to start home, but she at once left with her brother for Rockford. Jack has a sister living at Oneida who is in the news business and received a telegram from her stating that their .home was not burned but that the property loss in that city would reach $30,000.