Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Killed at Cedar Lake. A young man by the name of Shots was killed at Cedar Lake Monday night. He in company with his brother boarded the train at Hammond and when they got on the train it was moving. They were unable to get inside the coach and were riding outside the car; when the train was near Cedar Lake the young man fell from the train and was instantly killed. His 'body was horribly mangled. His brother came on to Lowell on the train. The mangled body was found by the section men Tuesday morning. The coroner was notified. Undertaker John Castle went to the lake and brought the remains to Lowell. The brother feaid their parents lived in Chicago and they thought they were boarding a train for Chicago. The men were playing cards in a saloon in Hammond and it is thought they were under the influence of liquor when the accident happened;; . An undertaker came down from Chicago Tuesday evening and took the body to Chicago where funeral services were held yesterday.—Lowell Tribfine.