Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Tho sudden drop in the grain market last week is said to havo caught several of our local speculators and one wealthy farmer is said to havo dropped about $35,000 on oats. —Benton Review. Mrs. Ross Duncan of Rochester, Indiana, was killed in Chicago Saturday afternoon as tho result of an auto accident just a few momenta before she was to take the train homo to spend Christmas. She leaves two small children. Mrs. Iva M. Barnes, who shot her husband, James R. Barnes, a traveling salesman, down in cold blood a few months ago, was acquitted by a Chicago jury Friday afternoon. She is the nineteenth woman acquitted of murder in Chicago since 1907. ■ . I No newspapers were Issued inOmaha, Nebraska, on Christmas day. This was the first time the morning papers have missed an issue since their establishment, In making the announcement they gavo as their reason a desire to conserve the paper supply. , . . S ; i West Jackson item in Kentland Democrat: Jay Makcever would like to meet that South Dakota Indian prophet who promised us a mild winter, with flowers blooming by tho wayside. Jay had lots of plowing to do and he got ready to do it—swore that an Indian prophet urns never known to fall down on the matter of forecasting tho weather; and then came tho cold snap. If Jay could corner that Indian prophet out, back of the calf shed, in tho gloaming—but what’s the use to talk. Andrew Grandstaff, 52, was instantly killed Saturday afternoon when he was struck by a Monon passenger train north of Delphi. He had been hunting and was returning home, walking on the railroad right-of-way. Grandstaff was partly deaf and did not hear the shrill whistle of the engineer. His * body, which was badly mutilated, was picked up by tho train crew and taken to that city. Grandstaff was a resident of Pittsburg, Carroll county, and is survived by a widow and five children.

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