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Quarrel Over Ducks Is Fatal.

Elgin Man Dies from Blow Received in Fight with a Neighbor.

     Fred Harchen is dead in St. Joseph’s hospital, Elgin, as the result of a blow on the head inflicked by Charles Clarkson in a dispute over some ducks which had wandered from the land of the latter upon that owned by the former. The coroner’s jury found that death resulted from a blow with a club or pick-ax wielded by Clarkson, whose whereabouts are not known.

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