Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1913 — Al Daugherty Lost Valuable Mare in Open Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Al Daugherty Lost Valuable Mare in Open Ditch.

A'draft mare that the owner, Al Daugherty, would not have taken S2OO for, was drowned Thursday in xan open ditch on the Daugherty farm south of town. The mare had apparently slipped into the ditch, the bottom of which had been spaded out about 3 feet in width. She fell on her side and was unable to get out. Her head was up stream and ? her body entirely dammed up the stream and the water raised until she was drowned. Some men who were going along the road saw her in the ditch and Informed Mr. Daugherty, but the mare was dead before he reached her. The stream was so completely dammed that when Al got a rail and pried the mare up her body floated on the water.