Fisherman Drowns When Line Breaks.

Fisherman Drowns When Line Breaks.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20 – When John Scott, in a boat in the Wabash River, was drawing in a trout line he called to his son on the bank that he had caught "a big fish" and the son saw him straining to haul it in. Then he saw his father fall backward from the boat into the water when the line broke. Scott was drowned. The body was recovered.



First Anti-aircraft Guns.

Fifty years ago, during the Franco-Prussian war, the first anti-aircraft guns were made by the Krupps to enable the Germans to shoot down the balloons leaving Paris.



Gets Hot Tobacco in Sleeve

Sparks Set Shirt Ablaze and Smoker's Arm Is Blistered.

MAPLE BAY, N. Y., May 20. – When Ben Gabble left his home to go to the post office he was smoking his pipe. When in front of Donian's blacksmith shop he paused to knock his pipe bowl against a tree. A strong wind was blowing at the time and it carried hot tobacco ashes into the left sleeve of his coat, setting fire to the sleeve of his flannel shirt.

He ran into the hotel, removed his coat and the bartender extinguished the fire – with a siphon bottle containing seltzer water.

Mr. Gabble's arm was blistered from wrist to elbow, but no serious results are anticipated.

--All from The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 7.