Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — FARMER KILLED BY HOGS. [ARTICLE]

FARMER KILLED BY HOGS.

Man Who Had Quarreled with His Wife Loses His Life. Benton Coleman, who owned a large farm near Darlington, left home several days ago, after a bitter quarrel with his wife, with the avowed intention of drinking himself to death. Later his body was found in the woods. Empty whisky bottles were at his side, and the supposition is that while helplessly drunk hogs had killed him. Coleman had several hundred dollars in bills, which were trampled in the mud about his body.