Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — ANOTHER DEATH AT HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER DEATH AT HOSPITAL

< John Soreoberger, an aged German who has been about Rensselaer for a number of years and has worked for various farmers hereabouts during that time, died at the county hospital at 9:30 Wednesday night. Brief services were held and burial made at Mt. Calvary cemetery yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. Sorenberger had but recently gone up to Thayer near which place he was employed by John Junglas. He was taken sick there and was brought to the hospital Sunday. So far as The Democrat is able to learn he had no near relatives in this country. We were also unable to learn bHs age.

In the Pittsburgh steel works powdered coal is handled in a new way. Instead of using screw conveyors or air blasts the works supply coal to the furnaces through 1,500 feet of four-inch pipe. The powdered coal contains only 1 per cent of moisture, and under forty 'pounds of pressure to the square inch it acts like a fluid.