Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — A Broken Arin. [ARTICLE]

A Broken Arin.

«• Jay Dfriggins bas.bejm helping make hay in his futher’s field, north of t«-wn, lor some time, end, yest.-reay. alter dinner, proceeded to Refresh him.std;'. with a fimmday snooze, under a waaon ’ load Ol hay, Jav is, presumably, not a very active partner in the hay pi.ehing business anyhow, and his. absence was not noticed oy the other men, and when they got ready to resume work for the afternoon, they hitched the horses to the wagon, beneath which the peaceful Jay was so sweetly dreaming, aud drove off. A series of yelks, not I unmixed with objurgations, soon called ' attention to Jay's whereabouts, and an investigation soon showed that the wagon wheel had passed over ids left arm, tire elbow, and fractured one of the bones. Theie wee also a slight cut in Ids head. He at once came down to laffigiiridge & Ritter’s office, where the broken bone was set and the scalp wound dressed# The breas is not a v<y v bad i'*>’C, but sufficient to cause '.he arm to be carried in ailing.for some week-. Jav is full <f j •‘sand’’, and took the afl’.dr with t e ccolttess of a veteran.