Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, March 5, 1897, p. 1. A REMARKABLE FEAT Of a Dog That Follows a Shanty Boat by Swimming Sixty Miles There arrived at the foot of Towhead Island yesterday afternoon a shanty boat, the occupants being Bush Anderson and wife of Jeffersonville. Anderson, for more than a year, has been trapping among the cliffs of the Kentucky River in the vicinity of High Bridge and is enroute to Green River where he expects to follow his vocation. While at High Bridge, Anderson purchased a beagle hound named "Lillie" paying for her a good price, and the dog is possessed of more than ordinary intelligence and will do almost anything her master tells her. Sunday afternoon Anderson, his wife and the family dog, together with the shanty boat, pulled out from High Bridge and floated to Carrollton where they landed to purchase provisions enough to supply the table until their destination was reached. While at Carrollton, the dog in some way became separated from his master and Anderson lost several hours in the hope of finding Lillie but in vain. He gave the dog up as lost and decided to leave without her. At three o'clock yesterday morning the shanty boat with its occupants, minus the dog, left Carrollton and floated down the big river until Towhead was reached when the boat was made fast to the bank, the Andersons coming to Jeffersonville in their skiff to visit relatives. Reaching the foot of Wall Street, Anderson espied in the middle of the stream a distant object two-thirds under water with its head pointed for the Indiana shore. Another look at the object convinced Anderson that it was his dog and when the animal reached the shore the meeting between dog and master was a happy one. By the dog turning up, it developed that when she became separated from her master in Carrollton she saw the shanty boat in the river and decided to follow by swimming down the stream in the hope of overtaking it. Aside from being chilled to the marrow, the beagle hound suffered no inconvenience after having been in the water twelve hours and performing the remarkable feat of swimming from Carrollton to Jeffersonville, a distance of sixty miles. Anderson is remembered as the champion trick skater in this section and has been received with an ovation everywhere here he has exhibited.