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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1880
Page
7
Deputy Auditor H M Randel explains the discrepancy in the Treasurer's records. He states the Auditor's books captured all funds and that December settlements properly reported school and congressional interest, with deposits and payments traced to Hillis and Farrow. He argues no criminality is evident.
A man plowing in Jackson County finds a buried box opened by the effort revealing decayed paper bills of 100 dollars each and an inscription reading August 23 1864 18000. Local Civil War recollections tie the find to Quantrell raids and bank loot near Lawrence. Witness accounts recount executions and a strange revival tale of Anthony Murphy. A reward is offered for a missing red milk cow in Madison township.
An elderly Long Island woman reportedly blocks both fate and the tax collector by staying indoors and defending her home with a shotgun. The tax man left without entering, deterred by the armed resistance.
Lizzie Carroll aged eighteen residing between Fourth and Fifth streets below Adams was bitten on the lip by a black spider. Her lip and face swelled, she was removed to Troy Hospital, and three doctors pronounced her case hopeless. The item also notes various brief notices and advertisements from the era.
An Indian Government keeper explains that elephants use the trunk mainly for food and water, sensing danger, and guiding their movements. They avoid rough work, drag logs with a rope between teeth, and balance loads with the trunk while kneeling or bending. A trunk injury would force drinking by immersion.
Mr Hawthorne from New England visits Broadway and watches chickens at Haggerty's. A hen swallows his $600 diamond after tugging it from a dress pin. to recover it, the owner agrees to kill the chickens and pay 25 cents a dozen. The diamond is found inside the 858th bird after 72 dozen are killed. Hawthorne pays $18 for killing and $10 to the finder.
A Rockland man tried a prank on his dog and was chased by the dog tearing cloth from his clothes. The scene drew a crowd as the man fled in panic, a dog calmly chewing scraps of fabric. Nearby, details about large Minnesota farms and their wheat harvests are sketched in.
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