Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 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. RECOVERS FROM HIS INJURIES Edward Jessup, Burned at Goodland by Electric Wire, Leaves Lafayette Hospital. Edward Jessup, 9 years old, who was seriously burned at Goodland on August 11, when he with hla brother, David Jessup, 12 years old, came in contact with a high tension electric wire on the roof of the elevator power house, was sufficiently recovered Sunday to be taken to his home in Brazil. He has been a patient at St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, since the accident and his condition was very serious. David, the older of the two boys, was fatally burned and died at the hospital on August 12. Edward is still under the impression that his brother Is being cared for in another part of the hospital and will not be told of his brother’s death until he gets considerably stronger. When the accident occurred the family resided in Goodland, but have since moved to Brazil. The two boys were on the roof of the power house shooting sparrows with an air rifle.