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In Green River Eats Horses. The Owensboro Messenger is re ponsible for the following: Recently the Messenger published an article, quoting a prominent farmer of the Wright’s ferry neigh borhood, to the effect that a mon ster of huge dimensions had been seen several times in Green river. The following story was received from the Messenger’s . Rumsey cor respondent yesterday : “There is a great deal of excite ment about the river monster that has been seen several times below Rumsey. It recently devoured half a horse near Wrightsburg. “The monster was seen crossing the river at Rumsey Monday night. Its size is estimated all the way from the size of a horse to the size of a house. Some declare it to be about two hundred feet long.”’ The correspondent fails to relate in what condition the horse was when it was devoured by the mon ster. The theory is being advanced by the residents of the Rumsey neighborhood that the monster is a a sea-horse, which has escaped from a circus.
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Earlington Bee
Earlington, Kentucky, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1904
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