Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — CHRIS ARNOLD KILLED IN RUNAWAY [ARTICLE]

CHRIS ARNOLD KILLED IN RUNAWAY

Former Jasper County Man Meets An r Accidental Death In Cuba. pvEli Arnold of Barkley township received a letter Wednesday from Omaja, Cuba, stating that his brother Chris, who went to Cuba some three or four years ago, was killed there just a week before, Nov. 24, by a runaway mule. The letter wa3 very brief, and was written by a man who lived with Chris and was his cook. K Eli has written for further particulars and will likely hear from there some time next week. He knows nothing of the matter now except the brief information contained in the letter. Chris was a former resident of Barkley tp., this county, and was well known to most people in Rensselaer and this section of the county. He had purchased land there, he wrote The Democrat, soon after going to Cuba, and seemed much impressed with the future of that country. He was located at or near Omaja, at least that was the postoffice where he received his Democrat, though he might have" been back several mfles from the town. He was about 50 years of age.