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Show HUSBAND AND WIFE HAVEJGG BATTLE WHEN FIGHT CEA8E8 THE TIRED COMBATANTS LOOK LIKE ITALIAN SUN8ET. Uvansvllle. Itid. Judge Winfrey found It nccessnry to Imposo a lino of $00 and n Jail sentenco of CO days on Fred Oebhnrdt, a grocer residing on Virginia street, who had been arraigned ar-raigned before him. A bottle or whiskey, whis-key, n caso of eggs, Fred Oebhardt and Ills good wife got badly mixed. Patrolman Hughes round tho mixture In deblinrdt's grocery. Ho says It lookod and smelled llko an enormous rum omelette. The first ingredients In the egg hodgepodge were tho whisky nnd Gobhnrdt. The mixing was superintended superin-tended by Qebhnrdt hlmsolf. At this The Eggs Flew Thick and Fait. stage or tho gnme tho Iden or nn omelette ome-lette hnd not occurred to Gcbhardt. It wns later, when heated ' by good whisky and tnunts from his good wire, that tho beautiful scheme with tho shanghai borrles occurred to him. When tho conception came to hlni he hastened, llko n truo artist, to put it Into concreto form. Mrs. Oebhnrdt wns stnndlng behind the counter uf the giocery store. She noticed that her husband's movements move-ments were slow nnd Innccurnto. Sho told him ho was "soused." It wns then that tho poetical Idea of a human omeletto entered Gob-hardt'8 Gob-hardt'8 brain. Ho turned to n ense of eggs and began hurling them at Mrs. Gobhnrdt. Mrs. Gebhardt retaliated with hen fruit from another case, and In less than a mlnuto counters, gliiBB cases, walls, windows nnd floor woro covered cov-ered with frothy whites and streaky yellows. Mr. and Mrs. Gebhardt wero unrccognlznblu under their coatings of poultry product. Some of the eggs wero not fresll, and tho smell accompanying accom-panying them was nkln to a packing house odor. The light ended with n 12-Inch shell In (ho shape of a watermelon. water-melon. Mrs. Gebhardt ran from tho store. The battle sends Celrtiardt to Jail ror 00 days. For his board tho peo-plo peo-plo or F.vauBvlllo pay $24. |