Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

Remington Items A most distressing accident occured near this place last Saturday evening. Two men were coming into town on a load of hay and owing to the icy condition ofthe their foothold, the wagon slipped and struck the end of the ’high bridge out in the neighborhood of the sand pit with such force that one of the men, a Hr. Ryan, living in the west part of town, was thrown from the top of the load of bay and almost instantly killed. It is said that he fell a distance of forty feet, striking the ice in the creek with force enough to break it, although it was six inches thick. He leaves a wife aud several s mall children in destitute circumstances, but tbe good people of Remington will see that they are made comfortable. The funeral took place from the home of the family on Monday afternoon

Rev. A. H. Long officiating. The grammar department of our good public schools is preparing to give an entertainment in Durand Hall on Friday evening of next week. Mrs. Jar ley’s Wax Works will be the principal feature ofthe evening’s entertainment, interspersed with music, vocal and instrumental. Miss Lottie Coover of Wilson, Kansas, is visiting relatives and friends in this place and vicinity. Dr. J. P. Ramsey’s family now consists of himself, wife and son. The latter will be one week old on Wednesday of .this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thomas now occupy part of the G. B. Clark mansion, pending the erection of their own cottage on the lots east of M. J. Phelps’ property. Collins Griffith is slowly getting better of the injuries received from a fractious colt during the holidays.