Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1906 — Got What Was Coining. [ARTICLE]

Got What Was Coining.

According to u press dispatch from LaPoite. iu today's j>aj*ers, Edward Apperson, the well known automobile manufacturer. of Kokomo, had a narrow escajie from death, near LaPorte. Wednesday night. While he was running sixty miles an hour in a 90 horse power racing car that he j was taking to Sew York for the ; Vanderbilt cup race, a tire burst, ! throwing the machine into a] ditch rendering Apperson unconscious. It is said he would recover. A man who will run an automo bile over any road in this state, ex cejit iu a life and death emergency, aud contrary to the laws ol the state aud regardless of whose lives aud limbs he endangers, at 60 miles an hour only gets about what is coming to him. wheu he gets hurt j or killed himself.