Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — FRIDAY AN UNLUCKY DAY. [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY AN UNLUCKY DAY.

□lt will be useless for any ono to try and 'convince farmer Boone,—erf "Cross Forks* Pa., that Friday is not an unlucky day, after his experience of last Friday. Early Friday morning a bear entered farmer Boone’s pig pen and killed two of his fat test Berkshire pigs. Later in the clay a hawk pounced down upon a prize-Wv * andotte hen belonging to the farmer and carried it away. Bobby fell into a cistern and was nearly drowned beforo he could be rescued therefrom. And in the afternoon farmer Boone’s team ran away as tho hired man was coming down a stoop lilt! with them. One of tho horses was killed and the hired man’s log was brokenFollowing this calamity Mrs. Boone came homo from town, where sho bad been trading, and discovered that s’iie had 1 os a ten dollar bill. To cap the climax of this day of disaster on tho Boone farm, tho roof of tlio old building in which the farmer had shut up his sheep fell iu and crushed six of tho sheep to death.