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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1909
Page
2
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The report recounts a brutal bar fight injuring a worker, a strange predator bird, and a Mexican cactus nicknamed Catcass that allegedly clings to travelers. It mentions a guard’s injuries, a wounded bird, and travelers describing a spiny plant that bites and holds onto skin.
In Paris France a workman’s buried savings of 185 dollars were found in a grave after twelve years. A Benton Maine tale explains a ghost smoker’s pipe kept alight by chimney drafts. San Diego reports two watersprouts off Point Loma towering a quarter mile high after a severe hail and rain storm.
The report details a woman accused of multiple murders amid public outrage. It notes jail confinement, a mob seeking to burn her, and claims of large-scale killings tied to a supposed husband-hunting scheme. The piece cites other notorious cases and mentions a Philadelphia execution and an Australian murder case linked to deceitful marriages.
In Redding California Daniel McKenzie a farmer near Lamoine was killed by a train at the same spot and in the same manner four years after his brother's death. He lay on the track and dozed as Train No 228 approached, striking him and ending his life. The engineer saw him too late to stop.
On Peter Byrne's Albany area farm three miles from Halsey a pure white China pheasant was captured last fall. It is believed to be the only albino China pheasant in existence and possesses all other characteristics of a China pheasant except its white feathers.
John Dellizzi was held on $300 bail by Magistrate Steinert in Yorkville Police Court for cruelty to animals after a live chicken head protruded from a paper bag. Agent Barrett of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals witnessed the incident as Dellizzi left a market.
Ronald L. Bronson a Guilford farmer in Winsted Conn shot and killed a hawk after alleging unfair trading with his poultry the hawk allegedly brought partridges or quail in exchange for his best hen Eggs at 55 cents a dozen contextualizes the ongoing poultry market tension and farmer grievances.
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