The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-13
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
a Mother Dies of Trichiniasis. and Three
Children Are Likely to Follow Her.
4 Man Hangs Himself Rather Than Stand
Prosecution for a Crime-New Thing in
the Ghost Line-Notes and Gleanings.
NDIANA.

Shocking Result of Eating Diseased Pork
Mother Dead and Three Children H.
Special TO the INDIANAPOLIS JournaL
RICHMOND, April 12-News reached this city
today Of John Green and his whole family Of
Bsyen persons being sickencd with trichiniasis.
1t Ridgeviile They have been sick for over
week. but only with fever for the fret few days,
and when the sickness progressed to the fullness
of its serribls character it was not known to be
the result Of trichine. It was only accounted
FOR yesterday. after the death Of Mrs Green,
which occurred on Tuesday. Then small
piece OF the one ham left Of the hog they had
eaten. since killing and sailing il themselves in
tha fall was found full Of the deadly worms.
Doctors are focking there to-day, ana the gen
eral reporE is that three more of the family,
girls, will die, bat that Green and his two sons
will pull through.
a Ghost that Takes the shape of q CalG
Special to the Indianapolis Jouru@L
PLAINFIELD. April a. Taylor Reagan, a
prominent business man cf this place. is not .
believer in ghosts. but one night recently, while
returning from the town Of Mooresville. six
miles southeast OF this place. in company with
his wife. the two Witnessed something that to
this day remains mystery to BOTH The strange
tale, as related to the Journal correspondent By
Mr.. Reagan himself, is as follows:
Ny wife and myself had been spending the
Say with friends At Mooresyille and 1t was
after dark before We started 10 drive home. Il
was very cloudy night aud the moon did not
give the least bit of light The horse, how
ever, was gentle and we'll acquainted with
the road. ami / let him pick his way
along. We had reached point about two miles
south of here just where the farm of the Safe
Reform School begins, when noticed, about ten
yards ont in feld from the fence the opposite
side Of tine road, white object Of the exact size
and shape of q two ear-oEd calf Had the night
not been so very dark | should have thought it
WIS calf. and not gwen the subject any
thought. buS felt sure that obiesE could be
seen at so great a distance this calf spparent-
IL was. When I IooEed at tbs thing closely
saw that it's legs were not moving. but that the
creature was gliding along without moving
muscle. and kept on an even pace with our
horse. / thought the strange vision was certain
az c0Djured out OF my imagination. and for fear of
ceinR laughed az By my wife did not mention
Fesing the thing until she called my attention
80 IL by saying she had been observing the object
for some time and that it appeared TO her ike 1t
got along without using its legs, as ordinary
calves do / thought 1T was now time for an
investigation, stopping the horse, got out of
the buggy. and keeping the calf, whieh had now
become stationary, In view proceeded toward it.
As Ireached the fence and was on the point of
climbing over. the object suddenly disappeared
from my sight / told nay wife the thing had
disappeared and she replied that il
the buggy, and she Insisted that
return to the buggy and let her get ont, and
ehe "oulo ma out Wnhs 10 was But sne sue
ceeded no better than /. for although the
creature went from her sight when the fence
was resched, could. from my pest in the buggy,
still see il plainly We then drove on, and
thought to out-run the mysterious animal but
when the horse trotted, galloped. it made
no difference, the white calf over in the field
kept the same pace. Over fences and bitches
the thing moved with ease and we only got rid
of 1t just at the edge of town, whore it dlsap-
peared rs suddenly as it came. The next day.
IN order to satisfy myself. and if
possible dispel from my mind the unweIcome
Idea that IL was ghost we had seen the prev-
night l visited the owners of the farm
through whose fields the object had passed, TO
discover if there were any cattle in any of them,
and was informed that there not, nor had
there been for several years. do not desire to
eomment on the strange, and, what seems to
be, unreasonable tale" concluded Mr.. Rea-
gan, but merely narrate what my wife and
myself actually witnessed"