Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — Whisky and Cold Weather kill a White County Man. [ARTICLE]

Whisky and Cold Weather kill a White County Man.

I'.iookston Itcporter. Op Friday last, Mr. Cell lloudabush, living ten miles west of Brookston droye toOtlorbein in a wagon to take iiis wife to the train to g o on a visit. After her departure, ho embibed freely of spirituous liquors. He started home and alter;, driving about-two miles', concluded he would stop at Mrs. Laud’s and stay all njgbt. *Sre could not keep him, so he turned around and was driving back toward town. Oft the way back the wagon upset iuto a ditch into the deep snow, where he laid until frozen stiff the team going on some distance turned into a fence corner where it was found the next morning , nearly frozen. He was found cold in death in the snow drift the next morning. He was a good citizen, save the one fault of diunkenness. He leaves a wife and two children and was worth about $6,C00. Mr. A. 11. Arnold, thb Barkley township man whose valuable in-, yention, braces for telegraph mid telephone lines, Was lately mentioned in IlErujiLiCAN. is a sort of reduced copy, on no very small scale, of Thomas Edison, tlie unapproachable inventor. In addition to flic invention above mentioned, Mr. Amold’ hasalready taken out quite, a number of patcuts, and has one now pending in the Patent Oi'iiee. lie has also fifteen or twenty inventions, in different stages of perfection, upon which he has, at yet, mode ug. attempt to secure, .patents. At present lie is much interesting in electrical inventions, and is working out an important improvement upon the electric telephone. In regard to the telegraph and telephone braces, he is quite confident that lie will sooii negotiate the sale of the patent, at a price which will put him in good shape, financially.