Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Al Ringling of Circus Fame in Auto Accident. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 17. Al Ringling, one of the owners of the Ringling circus, is confined to his room in the Fowler hotel here, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident ten miles north ot this city. He and a party of friends were enroute from his home in Baraboo, Wis., to Lafayette to witness the Purdue-Wisconsin football game and the machine went into the ditch north of here. The crank shaft broke on the machine and caused the accident. The wife of the famous circus man is on her way here to attend her husband.