Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cities and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. - AFATAL AUTO ACCIDENT SUNDAY At Lafayette When Big Limousine Is Struck by Another Car. Mrs. George Lucas, aged 27, wife of a Columbus, Ind., furniture manufacturer, was • killed in Lafayette Sunday afternoon at Ninth and South streets when the limousine in which she and her husband and some other people were riding was struck squarely in the center by a car driven by Samuel O. Linsay, principal of the Oakland high school of Lafayette. The latter was driving quite fast. It Is said, and struck the limousine a terrific blow, throwing Mrs. Lucas through one of ( the glass windows and the car then toppled over, pinning her head between the top and the asphalt pavement. Her neck and lower jaw were broken and her skull fractured. s She died a few moments after being picked up. The other occupants of the limousine escaped with severe bruises. The limousine was owned by J. M. Hamilton, a Shelbyville manufacturer, who had the Lucas' as his guests, and with his wife,, Mrs. Katharine Armstrong of Chicago, had driven to Lafayette Saturday to attend the Purdue-Indiana football game, his chauffeur, Elmer P. MeNay, driving the car. They had remained over night in Lafayette and were starting home when the accident occurred.