People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

BY TOPSY. Plenty rain. News scarce. The leading question is, “How many plovers did you get today'? C. T. Denham, C. W. Harner, Bernie Graham, Wm. Broadie and Gem Spangler, went to Wolcott, Sunday, to hear an I. 0. O. F. sermon preached. George Kelley living a few miles south of town, started home Friday night in a cart, when a mile or two out of town he w r as by some means thrown under the horses heels and was badly kicked about the head and face and was picked up unconscious and brought to town where his wounds were dressed and he is doing as well as could be expected. The sixteen year-old son of Moses Stevens living southwest of town was .out in the field plowing one day last week and had a 32 caliber revolver in his pocket and taking it out was oiling the cylinder without removing the cartridge when the weapon was discharged the ball entering the stomach and also penetrating the liver and finally lodged in the back bone. He w’alked about 100 rods to the house and lived about 24 hours.