Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-03
,.,e Odd Stories.

-, roc owned by Tucker Gibson
M TT. t-own Louisiana huntsman, has
- nervous prostration" and is
.sr.ous condition, according TO its
- Who recently brought the hog
- from Louisiana to train for the
.-.-', According to Mr.. Glib
after the field trials in which he
-. ,ssur.r his porcine phenomenon
.,.,4 make good in competition with
s-r. entered, he had inten led ex-
I'm, he hog in vaudeville, and with
~F IN view he had secured a
,..-1-r # birds TO be employed in the
Mr. Gibson left home for sever
-, 4,,, leaving the birds in cage.
-, his return ne found the porker had
ro.,.st the birds and had been point
;-," Them continuously for three days
- -.rrts The intense mental strain
.,-s,h.r with the fact that the hog
b,4 m, eaten during that time. he said,
,,onph, on general collapse"
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Roanoke. Va, Feb. l7.-One SIM
r,y cannot keep good pullet down,
a,,orj,nr TO Frank Moses, merchant of
his civ. Moses says he has pullet
which several days ago ate rat poison
and was about to die, whereupon he ad-
rinjsrered an anesthetic, opened the
bo3y with a razor, took out the craw
oreneI and cleaned it, sewed it up, put
il hack and sewed up the opening made
in the body of the fowl.
The pullet is apparently we'll" he
said this morning, land think wants
to lay
CornVen. Vermont, Feb. l7.-Or-
n biologists are endeavoring to deter
mine what species Of a strange bird il
was that descended in the barnyard Of
Mrs. +. D. Manchester, wooed Ply
mouth Rock hen and was slain in
duel with a jealous rooster.
The intruder was grey, about the
size uf a duck, had a long red beak
and such short legs that it waddled
with difficulty. It's feet were web
bel and in fighting it used is bill like
a rarier Superior ability won for the
rooster
Champaign, ILL.,, Feb. 17.-"Yow,
Yowie" shouted Capt. Roscoe Flatt
suddenly There he is, boys, by
thai old haystack-big, blue-gray dew
il; come on, everybody"
Heter-Sketer the hunters plunged
forward. with Gen William Vest lead
ing them on. Their faces were bathed
in pcrSpiration, their breath was short
enei down to a gasp as they brand
ishei their murderous clubs.
Grant Pitcher, champion barehand-
ed wolf catcher of Champaign county.
dived into a clump of underbrush firing
ing the Sangamon River. A prairie
wolf, Snarling malcvolently, leaped
ahead into the open. His teeth flash
ed in the sunlight. The brute was
larger than a full-grown Airedale.
The young farmer threw wagon
spoke. 1t caught the outlaw on the
left flank and sent him sprawling.
Pitcher leaped forward. threw himself
on the wolf and strangled him with his
great hands Then he swung the beast
over his head and sent him with
crash IA the earth. The wolf quiv-
cred and lay still, his back broken.
"ShuckS, that was nothing" painted
Pitcher 1--WE picked up grown up
raiiIcsnaNeS by the tail and snapped
their heads off like you would whip"
More than 600 Champaign county
farmers, with scattering of towns
PeoTIe from Champaign and Urbana
and University of Illinois students,
eeIe6Ta Cd the Lincoln holiday with an
o!a-faShoned wolf hunt five miles north
oi mere Yesterday. 1t was the first
VOL Killed in 30 years, according to
od-tmlrS. Firearms and dogs were
FORBIDDEN. The farmers just carried
SuOS, I'tChfOrkS or wagon smokes