Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Fractures Skull BY Fall. [ARTICLE]

Fractures Skull BY Fall.

Columbus, July 19.—Thomas J. Kobbe, seventy years old. a wealthy German farmer and Republican politician, is dead from a fractured skull, sustained while unloading hay at hia home near here. His feet and legs became entangled in the trip rope, when he was drawn up by the hay loader and dropped a distance of fifteen leet to a cement floor, the back of his head striking on the cement.