Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MAX MOVING TO REMINGTON Killed Wednesday Evening at Reynolds By Car Door, 1 Jesse Payne, of South Boston, Washington county, was killed almost instantly at Reynolds yesterday evening. He was in transit with a freight carload of his household goods and farming implements from the southern part of the state to Remington. His car had been shunted in on the “Y” for transfer to the Pennsylvania lines. The door of the car was open and he was standing in it looking out. The local freight crew was busy making up their train and backed in on the “Y,” making a running switch and, in so doing, they struck a blow hard enough to cause the car door to shove shut, catching Mr. Payne and crushing his head and bruising his body. He lived only a short while. Coroner Gable was called at once and after ibis inquest t’ e body was prepared for shipment to his father, S. N. Payne, of Remington. The blow, struck was so hard that it (lented in the case of a gold watch, which Mr. Payne had in his pocket. Mr. Payne was at one time a teacher and had been a student In the Danville Normal. Of late he h... ’ been farming in Washington county. —Thursday’s Monticello Journal