Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — INJURIES PROVE TO BE FATAL [ARTICLE]

INJURIES PROVE TO BE FATAL

AUGUSTUS KANNE DIED SUNDAY FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN ACCIDENT. Augustus Kanne, 41 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kanne, of this city, passed away at a Streator, 111., hospital at 5:30 a. m. Sunday, death having been due to injuries received in an automobile accident near Campus, 111., on the night of July 3. Mr. Kanne had that day driven to Campus in his automobile from his farm near that city, and while in that place received word from his wife at home that some of his relatives from Rensselaer had come to spend the Fourth. He started for home at once. When about a mile from home, according to information received, one of the front wheels of his car struck a rock and broke down. The car turned completely over. Some time later Mr. Kanne was found lying several feet from the wrecked machine. He was unconscious when found and was removed to his home and later to the hospital, where he died Sunday. Mr. Kanne left Rensselaer about seventeen years ago with his family, locating on a farm near Campus. He was a man of absolute integrity, a usfeul citizen and was recognized as one of the most successful farmers of the vicinity in which he lived. Deceased leaves to mourn his loss, his wife and two children, his parents, eight brothers, as follows: Joseph, Frank, George, Tone, Edward, Alfred and Arthur, of Jasper county, and John, of Campus, Hl.; ’two sisters, Mrs. Stephen Kohley and Mrs. G. J. McFarland, of Rensselaer. The remains will arrive in Rensselae rthis Monday evening on the milk train and the funeral will be held at the St. Augustine’s Catholic church at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. Burial will be made in Mt. Calvary cemetery.