Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — Victims of the Fourth. [ARTICLE]

Victims of the Fourth.

Springfield, 111., July 6.—Lloyd Puckett, aged nine, of Hillsboro, and Roseoe Sawyer, aged nine, of Taylorville, died at Taylorville Tuesday of injuries received by tbe accidental explosion of a ten-pound can of blasting powder, while they were playing with fireworks Monday.