Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1909 — HAT STOPS A FAST TRAIN [ARTICLE]

HAT STOPS A FAST TRAIN

Minister's Headpiece Goes Out Window but Trainmen Recover It. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 23.—A fast train was stopped between Fort Branch, Ind., and Owensville, Ind., because the Rev. John Bradbury lost his high silk hat from a window. The train crew, after a search with lanterns, found the hat. Put Tar In Antagonist's Eye. Petersburg, Ind.* Feb. 23. —Albert Smith, ten years old, quarreled with A. Reeves, a boy about the same age, and the Reeves boy, who was near a barrel of tar, piled his hands with the stuff and smeared it on young Smith’s face. Some of the tar got into Smith’s left eye and it is feared he may lose the sight. Had Been Married Sixty-Four Years. South Bend, Ind., Feb. 23. —Joseph Miller, aged eight-six years, and a resident of South Bend for eighty years, is dead. He recently observed his sixty* fourth wedding anniversary.