People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Killed by an Insane Man. [ARTICLE]

Killed by an Insane Man.

Bloomington, HL, Aug. B.—Section Foreman Edward Studz, in charge of the tracks of the Alton road from Bloomington to Normal, was shot and killed yesterday by Jacob Alexander Sproyer, a member of his section gang. The shooting occurred about 6 o’clock, at the Bloomington House. It is believed that the assassin was insane, as no cause can be assigned for the deed.