Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — 137-POUND CATFISH IN NET [ARTICLE]

137-POUND CATFISH IN NET

Indiana Men Have Desperate Encounter With Big Catch in Ohlb River. Lawrenceburg, Ind.—Samuel H. Bowman and Richard D. Grimsley caught a catfish weighing 137 founds in a net in the Ohio river near the mouth of the Great Miami river. J was the largest fish ever caught In the river in this vicinity. Their lives were endangered before Grimsley shot the fish and landed it Bowman was hurled ten feet by the big fish in Its struggle for liberty and fell into about . twenty feet of water. However, hgwas able to swim back to the