Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

□ A small bunch of keys, found in front of Long’s drug store, await an owner at this office. Public school pupils, admitted to Dr. Willet’s lecture, next Wednesday evening, for 10 cents. In gallery only. A 9 pound boy made its appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L N. Lehman, of Underwood, lowa, Jan. 5, 1896. The management of the Rensselaer Lecture Club has, on request, decided to open the galleries for school pupils for*Dr. Wi!let,a lecture, for the nominal charge of 10 cents. Judge S. Healy is having his shoe shop fitted up preparatory to carrying a slock of ready-made shoes, in addition to custom and repair work. An elderly man named Jacob Carr, who lived near Lafayette bnt was visiting relatives in the we3t end of Jordan tp., was found dead in his bed, Tuesday morning. His age was 67 y&rs, and the cause of his death, heart disease* The remains wers lent back to his home for interment.

s?hat is described as the narrowest escape on record, occured at the mantrap, a dangerous crossing of the Monon, just below Lafayette, one day last week. Two men, both very drank, driving a single horse rig, were run into by a Monon train. The road and the railroad run together for quite a distance at this place, and when the tram struck the rig the men were driving right down the track, and the engine struck the rear end of the wagon. The wagon was thrown to one side, the horse tom to shreds; and when the train was stopped both men were found on the pilot of the engine not dead but dead-drunk. One man’s head was cut a little and the other was not hurt in the least.