Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Paris of the Country. SHDRT BITS DF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Citleu and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. WOMAN DIES OF INJURIES Lafayette, March 5. —Mrs. M. M. Reed, age thirty-nine, of Chicago, who was seriously injured February 18, when a Big Four passenger train ran into a taxicab at Raub in which she was riding with Guy Hawkins of Oxford, a garage proprietor, killing Mr. Hawkins and crushing Mrs. Reed about the head and body, died today in a local hospital. She was engaged in selling stock for a united grocery store corporation. Her husband, a Chicago business man, arrived today and the body will be taken to Omaha, Nebraska, for burial.