Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — THIS GUY DIDN’T LIKE FROGS; DUMPED THEM AT LEE. [ARTICLE]

THIS GUY DIDN’T LIKE FROGS; DUMPED THEM AT LEE.

Monon News: “A. B. Lewis has a claim pending against the American Express Co. for a consignment of 400 dozen frogs, destined for the Chicago market, but dumped, from the express car in the suburbs of Lee. It is explained by the express messenger that the frogs which were “still alive and kicking,” became unbearably offensive and in self defense and for the protection of other material in transit, he threw the frogs from the car not far from where they were loaded. Being amphibious in nature, the home fire department was' called out, it is said, to save the cargo, by a liberal dousing of water. Thus were the frogs given a new lease of life and an opportunity to take chances with their kind for immunity from recapture. The shipper, on the other hand, as we learn, will back his claim for damage by evidence that the express company accepted the frogs for shipment in the usual condition and will show conclusively that the rash and ruthless disposition of the same was prompted solely by the vain imagining of the imagination of the overheated official of the express company* " . “Later —Since the foregoing was in type it is learned through Marshal Irons that the claim of Mir. Lewis has been settled by the company paying him $92.”