Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A boy named Ziba Lake, about 11 years of age, captured and killed an eagle on the farm of C. F. Heydecker, Esq. in Newport, a few days since. The circumstances were about as follows: The lad noticed the eagle resting upon the back of a sheep, but never having an eagle in that locality he supposed it to be a hen-hawk. Armed with a club he cautiously advanced and struck his bird, partially, or entirely stunning it, he then grabbed it by one wing and dragged it to the house, where, after keeping it a prisoner for a day or two, then dispatched it. The wonder of the neighborhood is that the eagle did not have the boy for dinner. The bird measured six feet and nine inches from tip to tip of wings and has a powerful beak and talons.