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Show ADAMSVILLE ACCIDENT On Saturday the 4th, friends of Mrs. -.3 Joseph's family were .. at the news of the misfortune which .efell her son Ruben. He and , his brother Louis, rode ovfer to Chase Murdock's, Greenville ranch to feed the stock there. In driving the cattle cat-tle over, an' icy place, Ruben's horse slipped and fell with almost the identical iden-tical results sustained by Mr. Murdock Mur-dock there last summer. Young Joseph' Jos-eph' had his ankel badly twisted and the leg broken below the knee; the bone protruding through the flesh, 'making a doubly bad wound. They contrived to get him on his horse, but he could not bear the pain to go forward. for-ward. Louis had to leave him and hurried home. He secured the help of David Pearce and others who went back with the mother and son. ' Dr. Shepperd was called aul reached Adamsville by the time they gut thert with Ruben. The break was set and the sprain reduced. While the boy was very restless and suffered greatly great-ly the first few days, he and the family fam-ily were thankful that he was alive. It was a wonder he wrasn't killed. With the ever ready kindliness of their' good neighbors, and the fact .'hat Mrs. Joseph, herself, is a fine nurse, the patient will he sure to get along nicely. |