Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — Murderous Assault on an Aged Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Murderous Assault on an Aged Farmer.

Uncle Jimmie Boyle, a farmer over eighty years old, living in Pulaski county, near Winamac, was made the victim of a murderous plot Saturday. Not long ago John Low, a tenant living on one of Boyle’s farms, had some trouble with him, aud sought out Michael Conner, a youth sixteen years of age, who has made his home with the Boyles since he was four years old, to carry out his plot Saturday the old gentleman saddled- his horse for a journey to Winamac. Low and Conner being aware of toe fact, a shotgun loaded with buckshot was placed in the hands of young Conner, who laid in ambush until Uncle Jimmy had passed him, when lie slipped up behind him an< fired the gun. The entire load passed into the right shoulder and through the body. Low has confessed and both he and Conner are now in jail.

We note the following from a Covington, Inil. paper: - “Dr. J. H. Honan, assisted by Dr. A. G. Cox, of Carlisle, I nd., performed what might be termed a ffne piece of surgery last week, on a two year old colt belonging to George Nebeker. It was the work of removing what is known to the .profession as a Denti* gereus Cyst, which is a bony accummulatiou in the nostril of horses and its successful removal is considered a delicate and hazardous operation in surgery. Tbe operation by Dr. Honan was, to say tbe least successful and goes to prove to our horsemen that we have in Covington a-surgeon Who is master of his profession.” I>r. Honan is a brother of E. P. Honna, the Boot and .Shoe dealer, of this JAaoe. —' ■ ■ - r