Lawrence (KS) Daily Tribune, July 14, 1867, p. 2. A MINISTER KILLED-Rev. J. J. Near of Jeffersonville, Ind., was killed in a shocking manner at the Louisville water works on last Friday. He, in company with several ladies, visited the waterworks and commenced a tour of examination. While the party was in the upper store of the building inspecting the machinery connected with the huge force pump, Mr. Near, in order to observe the action of the machinery went to the rim or bannister of the pump enclosure and leaned upon it. He unwitting stood immediately under the force pump lunge. While in this position, the beam with its lug of many hundred pounds weight descended upon his head and crushed it into an indescribable mass. The unfortunate man was seen to make an effort to withdraw his head as the fatal weight pressed down, but the effort was made too late.