Coon Hunter Kills Big Eagle

1915

Bird Shot Measures Seven Feet From Wing Tip to Tip

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 16. — An eagle, measuring seven feet from tip to tip of its wings, was shot by Eugene Gertges, when the latter was coon hunting in the vicinity of Friedens' Church, six miles west of St. Charles. The eagle was perched in a tree and the hunter mistook it for a hawk.



Man Operated On 131 Times

Patient at St. Louis Hospital Is Cheerful at All Times

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 16. — Harry Smyth, 42 years old, is one of the most cheerful patients at the city hospital here, despite the fact that 131 surgical operations have been performed on him. Tuberculosis of the bones have made these operations necessary. Since childhood Smyth has passed most of his time in hospitals.

To occupy his time Smyth took up sewing and crocheting and he is now an expert with the needle. He is always good-natured.

Poison in His Coffee

1914

Neighbor Runs Four Miles to Save Man From Wife's Mistake

Passaic, N. J., Jan. 23. — Stanley Ferra, of Lodi, ran four miles from Lodi to a silk mill at Dundee Lake to save the life of Fred Godolen, an employee of the silk company. He succeeded.

Mrs. Godolen in preparing her husband's luncheon, poured his coffee in a bottle that contained poison. When she discovered her mistake she ran to the house of Ferra, next door, and asked him to go to the mill and warn her husband.

Ferra would not rely on the telephone, so he ran all the way. There was enough poison in the bottle, Mrs. Godolen said, to kill ten persons.