Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — COULD NOT VERIFY REPORTED ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

COULD NOT VERIFY REPORTED ACCIDENT

Message From Monticello Inquires About I." W. Monahan, Contractor, Said to Have Been Hurt. A telephone message received here this Thursday morning from Monticello asked for details of an injury reported! to have befallen I. W. Monahan, who was the contractor for the stone road built in ranging Grove’ 1 township last year. The information rthat had reached Monticbllo was that Monahan had been struck by a train at MeCoysburg and suffered severe injuries. Inquiry at MeCoysburg disclosed that Mr. Monahan had not been injured at that place but a report had reached there that he had been hurt at Francesville, and a telephone inquiry there resulted in the information that there had been no accident there. Monahan is a man about 30 years of djfe and his father after hearing the report at Monticello, hastened to MeCoysburg in an automobile. He does not know where his son is at this time. How the rumor started seems a mystery.

"Shoot Villa on sight” is the latest order from Carranza. It might do to. suggest that if you carry a gun openly it would 'be a good idea to be farsighted., . .....•:.._.. ... . " Z.