Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1908 — Horse Broke Leg and Was Killed. [ARTICLE]

Horse Broke Leg and Was Killed.

Sherman Renicker lost a valuable driving horse in a peculiar manner Tuesday. He was coming from Levi Sanders sale and was driving a team gray ponies, vbich were shod with neverslip shoes. Just below Arthur Trussels place one of the horses stnmbled and broke its hind leg up in the thigh. He was forced to unhitch it and drag it over in a field and shoot it. This is the second horse that Sheiman has lo9t since returning from Dakota, the other one being injured in transporting it from Minot aDd died later. Etch horse was worth over a hundred dollars.