Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — A BUFFALO "JAG." [ARTICLE]

A BUFFALO "JAG."

Wednesday night, April 5, John Driscoll, of Buffalo, N. Y., while intoxicated, crawled into an empty freight car in the yards and secreted himself, intending to sleep off Ms jag in its shelter. In thenight the car was locked and pnt into a train bound for Pittsburg. On awakening Driscoll was unable to attract attention, and after intense suffering for several days lost consciousness. Tuesday morning, April 11, muffled moans were heard coming from a freight car in the yards at Pittsburg. The car was opened and Driscoll was rescued in an unconscious condition. Fortunately Driscoll had a brother residing in Pittsburg, to whose home he was taken on regaining consciousness. Driscoll’s condition is serious, but he will likely recover. One of the century plants to which the late F. P. Randall, of Ft. Wayne, gave such care, is shooting up a plant preparatory to blooming. The plant blooms only after it becomes eighty years old and then dies. One of the plants bloomed while Mr. Randall was still living, and it was the first plant to grow and blossom In the upper part of the Mississippi valley. Wilkinson was revisited by a tornado, Wednesday evening. Seven barns, five houses and a school house were torn to atoms. The track of the storm was about one-fourth of a mile south of the track of the cyclone of May 12, 1886. No person was killed or seriously injared but from former experience the people become unduly excited.