Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Near* by Cities and Towns—Matter* of Minor Mention from Many Places. Another Newton County Auto Victim. Alalon Straube, residing south and west of Morris Chapel church in Newton county, was killed the evening of November 15 near the west corporation, line of Brook. Straube, with his twelve-year*old son, was coming to Brook when he met Win. Coon, a Brook liveryman, who was driving liis auto over to Ade to meet a train on the C. I. & S. Although Coon had his lamps burning, Straube did not get far enough out of the road or did not see the auto, and neither did Coon see the rig until too close to avoid a collision, and the buggy was smashed to kindling wood and the occupants hurled out onto the ground. Straube’s skull was fractured and he died about four hours later. The hoy was unhurt. The Newton county coronor exonerated Coon from all blame.