Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Groundhog Fights Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Groundhog Fights Snakes.

A groundhog on the McGrow farm, near Irwin, fought five Immense black snakes at the same time, killing two of them, and was In a fair way to slay the other two when McGrew and a farmhand went to the rescue of the little rodent. The groundhog bad burrowed beneath the barn, and the snakes endeavored to claim the hole. When McGrew and the farmhand appeared the groundhog was on his haunches nipping at the two remaining snakes. McGrew killed the two snakes and captured the groundhog.—Philadelphia Record. Prof. George P. Merrill, head of the department of geology of the United States national museum, has gone to Uutte. Mout, to bp present at a number of deep borings to be made in Canyon Dlabolo crater, the cause of which has been a puzile to geologists ever since It was brought to their, attention. some men of science believe'the depression to be an extinct volcano and others to lbs the record of the Impact Of s hags meteor which struck the earth centuries ago.