Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Itlegripblc Reports From Many Ports of tho Country. SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MAN IS CRUSHED TO DEATH Engineer With Threshing Outfit Loses Life in Accident. ’ August Han, age fifty-one, an engineer employed on a threshing outfit, was killed Thursday afternoon at the Alva Thomas farm west of Monon, by being crushed between the traction engine of the threshing outfit and a separator, which he was attempting to couple up to the engine. He was standing on the platform of the engine and in some way lost control of the engine. Charles Garwood, his employer, was holding the tongue of the separator at the time, but jum]>ed aside and saved his life. Han is survived by the widow and several children. »