Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — Stone Kills Prize Cockerel. [ARTICLE]

Stone Kills Prize Cockerel.

Washington.—“ Champion,” a prizewinning Golden Wyandotte cockerel, la dead from eating a diamond. A brilliant stone In a ring on its owner’s hand attracting attention, it pecked off the stone and swallowed it before Hunt cotild snatdh Ms hand away. An operation, and effects of chloroform caused the bird’s death.