Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — 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. S' . ■ SCHOOL GIRL HIT BY TRAIN Thrown From Hack When Crossing White County Railroad Tracks. Mcmticello, January 12.—-Nettie Scroggs, age 17, was injured seri.ously today at Idaville, six miles east of here. She fell from the back of a school hack dashing across the Pennsylvania tracks and was struck by a train. The driver of the school wagon attempted to cross the track ahead of the train, and when the horses lunged ahead the girl fell from her sent in front of the engine;- She was injured about the head and several ribs were broken.