Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — A Painful Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Painful Accident.

Simon Leopold met with a pretty painful accident Tuesday, while driving home from Francesville, where he and Will Porter are getting their new furnishing store In running order. The neckyoke came down or broke and Simon got out to repair the trouble, when bis horses made a start and in 6ome way, some part of the buggy struck Simon on the back and upper part of one of his legs. It was a hard blow, sufficiently so to rapture some of the large blood vessels and to cause a large and very painful swelling. It will keep him in bed forjjsome days, and may possibly develope into an abscess, which would be a slow and. painful process to heal. This however is not much feared by the physician, but a recovery in a few days is considered more probable: