Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1914 — GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ANU 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. Farmer Killed by Train. Delphi, Ind., Dec. 12. —Jacob Bowman, 80 years old, a prominent farmer of Carroll county, \v4s killed by a fast Wabash train at Rockfield, east of this city, this afternoon. He was walking across the track and did not hear the train’s approach His body was not mangled, but was thrown 100 feet. He lived five minutes. He leaves a widow and seven children.