Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — A Bad Break. [ARTICLE]

A Bad Break.

August Makus, of Union tp., obtained a decree of divorce, in the Jasper circuit court, about a year ago, from hie wife Amelia, who is still a resident of ttje Kaiser’s dominions, across the big waters. The decree has never |been issued however, because whenever August gets money enough ahead to pay the eourt costs in the ease; he gets on a general drunk and blows it all in. He was on one of these old time drunks, at one of the saloons, last Saturday night, and must have kept it up until far after midnight, as at about 2 o’clock Sunday morning, two men managed to get him around to Daddy Cotton’s place, on Cullen street, where he was put to bed; in an upstairs room too drunk to know whether he was a man or a beer keg. Not long after he felt a call to go out doors, and, thinking he was on the first floor of the house, he opened the window and jumped out. Striking upon the hard ground, many feet below, he broke both bones of one leg, in two places, below the knee. He managed to drag himself through the snow, around to the back door of the house, and finally, after an hour or two succeeded in waking one of the boarders, who secured other help, and he was carried into the house. His experience must have been very severe-, as, while laying out in the snow, in addition to the pain of the accident he had to endure a temperature of below zero, and in a nearly half naked condition. Drs. Loughndge A Bitters were called and set the broken bones, and heie now doing fairly well, considering the circumstances, although there are said to 'be some indications of internal injuries, which if such be the case, may result in a very serious ending. ’ - V > ’

It is proper to state here that Mr. Cotton’s people, very naturally, objected to taking the whiskey sodden man into their house, but the two individuals (we can’t call them men) who took him there, left him bn the porch and said the Cottons could take him in or let him freeze to death, as they thought best

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