Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Farmers of Newton county are fearing an epidemic of hog cholera. Sickness among the hogs is reported from various sections of the county, and the death rate is increasing. Some pronounce the ailment cholera, while others hold to the belief that the sickness is caused by overfeeding of green corn.—Kentland Enterprise. Mrs; Vesta Foster of Brooksotn, 31 years old, was burned to death at her home there at 5:20 o’clock Thursday evening as the result of an explosion \yhich resulted when she poured kerosene upon live coals in a heating stove. The clothing was burned from her body and her hair and eyebrows disappeared in a flash of flame as the human pillar of fire rushed in maddened agony through the rooms of the modest home on First street in the northeast part of town. She was dead when neighbors reached the scene. A husband and three children survive her. ■ John M. Shanks, who resides on the C. J. McGreevy farm in the north part of Carroll county, made a ghastly discovery Thursday morning about 7:30 o'clock when he went into a corn held at his home to shuck corn. The body of an unknown man decomposed beyond recognition was found by him in the center of the field. All the flesh on the head, face and left hand of the man had rotted off the bones, and a set of upper false teeth had dropped from their position and was lodged in his mouth about to fall out. On account of the man wearing false teeth and from his general appearance, it is believed he was middle aged. A revolver of 3 2 calibre with five shells intact and one exploded gives evidence that the man committed suicide.-. .